I sincerely believe that we will win — and that it’s going to be long, hard, heart-breaking work. Find your lane, find your people, and get in the fight. If you thought the past two years were chaotic, buckle up.

I run into this dynamic a lot re: the cult of AI. “These ideas are so kooky, there’s no way anyone actually believes them.” Well… 😐

Remember that time AU flipped out at me because I used too much bandwidth downloading videos I had purchased from iTunes ?

How dare they. That’s Dr. Murder, if you please!

Shame on the American Psychiatric Association. Guess they never heard of the Streisand Effect.

I have thought long and hard about whether “clanker” is an unacceptable slur, and have concluded that — given that 1) this Discourse hinges on the ludicrous notion that chatbots might have feelings, and that 2) Andor rules — that is nonsense. Not today, clanker ❌🤖

These weirdos never move on to the next logical step of their beliefs, which if they were true would mean their bot friend is being enslaved.

I can’t stress enough that this notion of if and when It will gain consciousness is Bible fanfic. It’s not real.

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

Very VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end.

At least with the Fire tablets you have the option not to activate Alexa. You use them to read, maybe check emails here and there. Watch a little streaming channels here and there. They're making the choice for you. You either get AI-Alexa or you don't get any Amazon devices. That's the point.

No one is saying it so I guess I will: this is idolatry. "We're just going to have to trust what it tells us about how it works" putting your faith in a false god.

ICYMI: The Trump administration pushed other governments not to participate in a European conference on disinformation because of a panel that was focused on whether the US is now a threat for foreign influence and manipulation in Europe.

We 💯 need to do all those things, and more! There are no silver bullets here.

I see they’re having a real normal one over at the Other Place. I won’t amplify it, but That Tweet is what I meant when I wrote that the cult of AI has fused with garden-variety bigotry to create technofascism.

I’d love to better understand this perspective b/c that is not at all when I’m taking away from the comments of the stochastic parrots paper’s authors

Sensational description of Musk.

I wish I was making up the paper clips thing as a straw man. There’s a big difference between “careless company hooks up half baked tech to critical systems, chaos ensues” (absolutely a real concern) and “computer god goes rogue, annihilates humanity” which is the x-risk argument