Paris Marx
“There are industry observers talking about the need for AIs to have a sense of ethics … I find these suggestions ironic given that we as a society have failed to teach corporations a sense of ethics.” — Ted Chiang in 2017
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway
Paris Marx
it’s always a bit intimidating when linkedin tells you how many people looked you up in the past week. not only do you not know why they’re looking at your profile, but linkedin wants you to pay just to see where all those people work 🫠
Paris Marx
Fascinating article about what it takes to keep Gaza online during the Israeli bombardment.
PalTel buries its cables 8m/26ft deep (standard is 60cm/2ft), uses generators, solar panels, and batteries for redundancy, and has 750 employees braving bombs to do fixes. Even still, Israel can cut them off at any time.
Paris Marx
Argentina has elected an extreme anarcho-capitalist as their next president. He’s fueled by far-right conspiracy theories and a hatred of the left. Plus, he seems to hear voices in his head.
No surprise, Elon Musk is thrilled.
Paris Marx
When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
Paris Marx
Friday afternoon shocker: Sam Altman is out as CEO of OpenAI for deceiving the company board.
Is there a scandal about the drop that they’re trying to get ahead of?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965982/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired
Paris Marx
It’s hard to watch the horrific scenes coming from Gaza and the escalating death toll, which includes such a high number of children.
I was happy to speak with @marwasf about the information war on social media, internet shutdowns enforced by Israel, and what people can do to support Palestinian rights in this moment.
Listen to the episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/194_the_information_war_in_gaza_w_marwa_fatafta
Paris Marx
One out of every 200 people in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli army — and the bombing still hasn’t stopped.
Let that sink in for a moment, then remember how Israeli authorities are trying to make Western publics believe they aren’t targeting civilians. This is a massacre.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/gaza-rising-death-toll-civilians/
Paris Marx
Elon Musk is an evil and immoral man. He tells everyone to have a ton of kids, then treats their mothers like shit.
Grimes is suing him for custody because he’s keeping three-year-old X from her. Her lawyers have tried to serve him papers in 12 places.
Paris Marx
The threat we face from AI isn’t being turned into paperclips by intelligent machines. It’s tech companies using those fictional stories to justify remaking the world to power and cool massive data centers so they can try to fulfill their AI fantasies and keep investors happy.
https://www.ft.com/content/f01529ad-88ca-456e-ad41-d6b7d449a409
Paris Marx
The Washington Post Editorial Board has come out in favor of regulating crypto out of existence. Better late than never, but it would have been much more impactful two years ago — not after the biggest crypto fraudster has been found guilty.
Paris Marx
Over and over we’ve been told self-driving cars would solve our transport problems only for them not to deliver.
In 2023, Waymo and Cruise promised us their services had finally cracked the code — but a new scandal in San Francisco shows they deceived us once again. We need to stop falling for their fantasies and take real action to fix our transport system.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/self-driving-cars-still-arent-the
Paris Marx
Over the past two decades, Elon Musk convinced us his vision was one we should adopt as our collective plan for the future. But it was always a self-serving effort that wasn’t designed to address the real challenges humanity faces.
In the final episode of ELON MUSK UNMASKED, I lay out the problems with the future Musk sold us and why his empire is on shakier ground than we might expect.
Listen here: https://techwontsave.us/episode/192_elon_musk_unmasked_shaping_the_future_part_4
Paris Marx
In 1983, Time Magazine named the computer its “Machine of the Year.” A few months later, radical Detroit newspaper Fifth Estate responded by naming the sledgehammer its Tool of the Year.
“Today the computer promises utopia, reassures us that it will usher in freedom and dreams,” they wrote. “Tomorrow we will be chained to it.”
Paris Marx
visited the museum of communism in prague and it was fun to see all the anti-communist tropes in one place, like how bad it was that the state built a lot of housing
Paris Marx
After spreading “white genocide” myths and demonizing migrants, there’s no denying it: Elon Musk is a racist.
But he’s been pushing racist ideas in a less overt way for years. He dismissed racist abuse in his factories or pushed eugenic ideas about population levels. We need to reckon with why so may were unwilling to call it out sooner.
Paris Marx
He’s literally standing around in his backwards hat looking at a bunch of migrants who’ve been rounded up and cheering the efforts of the border guards. Absolutely vile human being.
Paris Marx
Richest man in the world wants to jail democratic socialist councillor who doesn’t serve his personal interests.
There needs to be a full-scale assault on the power of billionaires. Otherwise, democracy’s days are numbered.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/elon-musk-calls-for-jailing-of-san-francisco-supervisor/
Paris Marx
Yesterday Justin Trudeau revealed that agents of the Indian government murdered a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil. When Canadian Sikhs went to post about it on Facebook, the platform removed their posts as a violation of Indian law.
Paris Marx
Critical reporting on the tech industry is essential, but for far too long tech media and large publications were far too happy to parrot company press releases. Thankfully, that’s changing.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @jasonkoebler and Samantha Cole about launching a new publication called 404 Media that will focus on ground-up reporting instead of cultivating access to executives.
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