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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years.
By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the […]
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@iandunt.bsky.socialReposted by @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyIf I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyFrom The Times's daily briefing: US: President Trump’s call for Ukrainians to choose a new leader means Russia and the United States both now believe President Zelensky should leave office Well, quite.
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy"If you are familiar with an app, armed with your desire paths and motor memory, you have a lot of capacity to just ignore new menu items, new panels, and new complexity – provided it doesn’t get in your way. New AI option? Turn it off. New tab? Never click on it. New alternate way of doing […]
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy"The idea that outright racists who shout slurs at brown people in the street can be placated by lowering the number of small boat arrivals this quarter is absurd."
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/the-return-of-race-politics-036
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy"This week, Suella Braverman — who was born in Harrow, educated at Cambridge, and lives in Hampshire — took to the internet once again to insist that she is not English - ostensibly because of her ancestry, but in reality because of her race. It’s like watching a wounded animal feast on its own […]
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@mark It's certainly true that many people (probably all of us at one time or other) have a very tenuous grip on what is and isn't true.
But I think we all always know what we mean by truth, and we want to think that the things we believe are true.
And to me that seems *fundamentally* […]
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gySo, so important to understand: "The model is not lying to you. Lying would require it to have a concept of truth. It is bullshitting you. It produces plausible-shaped text with total indifference to whether the world matches. When it’s right, it’s right as a side effect of its training data […]
@explaintrade.comReposted by @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyMore broadly I think "how much time do you spend affirmatively championing your cause versus using it as a permission structure to abuse those you disagree with," is a revealing question well beyond the statue pfp bros.
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy"You treated visitors to your website with the same respect that a restauranteur would treat patrons who had sat down to eat a meal; it would be exceedingly weird and creepy if you were to film them eating, or if you wrote down every word they said to each other and sold them to a stranger, or […]
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy"You didn’t read the terms of service. You didn’t agree to accept cookies. I didn’t consent to having my site pulled into the training model for that AI system that’s going to use to sell the fruit of my labor for profit. I didn’t agree to have my activity tracked across all these different […]
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@davidho.bsky.social Holy shit. We are through the looking glass.
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@tezoatlipoca I always admire committing to the bit.
One time, as we pulled out of a car park in Norfork, driving home after a holiday on a boat on the Broads, my youngest son made a dumb joke and held up his hand for the middle son to high-five him. Middle son thought the joke was bad and […]
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@tezoatlipoca That's marvellous.
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@explaintrade.com @tezoatlipoca Fair point.
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@tezoatlipoca BTW., is your username a riff on Monty Python's "How not to be seen" sketch?
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@tezoatlipoca @explaintrade.com Yeah, I now get that that's what he was doing.
My problem with this framing is that it makes the GAI itself equivalent to a human, which it obviously is not. The blame rests not with a poorly configured computer program, but with the people who configured it […]
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@explaintrade.com Ooohhhh, I see. Anthopomorphizing the GAIs used to do this. Well, I detest Musk as much as anyone, but I do feel this is a bit of a stretch.
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@explaintrade.com Who did this?
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy1/2 satellite experts: uh, if you put computers in space they'll suffer rad damage ... investors: rad damage! That sounds so cool! Let's go for it!
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