Notices by Sergia (She/Her) ☮️??️‍???? (sergia@dair-community.social)

Their advertising video: a diverse team talks and discusses something out of a sci-fi movie - how AI helps society, etc, kind robots, and the picture of Turing on the background. Calm music, we're mesmerized https://openai.com/

Reality: Altmann says we're all stochastic parrots (f society kind of), rips off artist's data, oversells a text generator as "intelligence that will revolutionise society and stuff", themselves they are unsure if they want diversity around them.

I feel conned

It shows a version of compsci that doesn't exist - a fairy tale. The field itself became something that needs to be retouched and marketed.

Like, in their version of "good CS", the deep learning gentlemen didn't fuck over one of their own, and other directions in the field. In this fairy tale version, they did it for science, not the money.

In this fantasy version tech helps society, and Cambridge Analytica never happened

I want to work in that version of openai, but it just doesn't exist.

This is just sad - using a picture of Turing on the background as marketing. Can they not do that?

Turing spent a lot of time inventing machines to protect his country from the Nazis. Today's tech... Mmm hmm, let's not go into details on that

I feel I did a degree not in CS but in some "cons and grifts involving computers". I feel I internalised that "tech first and society later" attitude. There was one Prof who was like "meaning first, tech later". So grateful that I learned from him.

@lxo yeah, I haven't even thought about this. There's so much to people's consent - each person has their own "consent preferences", what they want to see, how, when, etc - I feel the "tech solution" to this (if there is ever one) is that each person can customize their feed to their needs (consciously!), and not forget about a bit of exploration of different views

Wondering what @timnitGebru feels about all this - I feel I hijacked her post and give the stage back to her now.

@tlalexander Thank you for your reply! It looks so refreshing to me!!! I am thinking about it but scared because I'm trans :( The sunshine in winter is also important for me, so I do consider it :)

Do you sponsor visas? I am Russian.

Thank you

I am looking for a job in tech that is slow and purposeful and is good for us.

How can I find one?

Before I did ML engineering&research, backend, frontend, AR, robotics, escape rooms.

Interned at Google and Berkeley, have a Swiss MSc degree.

Co-founded 1 non-profit and 1 software project

Currently sad about tech :(

Portfolio: https://sergia.ch
CV: https://sergia.ch/SergiaCV.pdf/

#getfedihired

@lxo I see. Thank you for the feedback! I am thinking if it's compatible and integrated consensually with mastodon, it would be a great plus: otherwise, fediverse will have the same issue as corp networks: disconnected platforms where people don't know about each other, contributing to polarization

@lxo I don't really know :) just feel like we can consensually be here, and trying to figure that out.

I guess the feature I'm looking for is being able to
1) have a human-friendly interface for muting/unmuting things. Say, I swipe left on the post, the topic goes to mute for an hour (or I say for how much, or the author etc). There's a separate feed for *some* muted posts (say, politics, activism, news etc). I swipe right and it appears on the main feed
2) "safe space" mode 1/

@lxo in this safe space mode, I don't see emotionally charged complicated sad posts. I want to actually do something about those things. When I'm ready (rested, ate, happy etc) I can do that - donate, write some response that is good etc. When I'm not ready (hungry, angry, sad, etc) it will probably make me more sad, or I'll write some overly negative thing. Of course, ideally I could do that myself, just not read it, what's not good for me now, but as we all know, it's not easy.2/

@lxo 3) features for sharing that @timnitGebru was talking about - for activism I believe there could be some additional features, like being able to send the post to a feed of, say, a right winger, if they consent. Some of them are not so horrible - like, there are lbgtq people who say "let's eradicate cis people",but it's not the whole of LGBTQ. Some white people want to learn.some cis straight white men want to learn.*If* they consent, they would see that (say, 1 post per day)3/

@lxo @timnitGebru initially "right wing" was for "small government", and some people are still there. I've had decent convos with them and realized I need them: I imagine something with a government social aid, they say "it's gonna be corrupt" and that's totally correct: USSR is an example of that...

All of that to say that there's a lot of consent missing - people who *want* to discover and discuss certain topics don't see them, and people who don't get bombarded with them 4/

@lxo @timnitGebru I get to some extent that it's frustrating for @timnitGebru : it's very frustrating for me that Russians didn't want to talk about politics when Putin was preparing for his war and doing it (I'm Russian). Before I was into that, I remember that I didn't want to talk about it because I was just too tired and busy, and it all was just too sad, not because I didn't support the opposition per se.

On the other hand, I get the frustration of too much sadness 5/

@lxo @timnitGebru I am now sitting and processing emotionally what happened during all those years. I'd love to look at posts about good things. But I've already subscribed to activism.Of course, like before, one can say "use your willpower to do what's right for you".As before, I answer "it's not that easy"

Activism and non-activism are connected, and it would be foolish for me to deny that. So when I see something political, I am of course interested, even though I'm not ready6/

@lxo @timnitGebru wondering what everyone thinks. These are just some brief ideas, which are probably flawed in many ways. Deep inside, I don't know. All I want is to have less crises and to be less lonely at the moment, and to find a job that is good for me and everyone. Maybe I'm subconsciously finding a "tech solution" to this, bc I want to do it... What do you think and feel about this?

@timnitGebru @malcircuit what if we just fork Mastodon and do a backward-compatible platform for activism specifically?