Notices by Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social), page 2

@jonny

See, this is what the AI Bros took from us when they columbused "text generation" from the weird dada NLP nerds

@emma

Like so much else in the TESCREAL crowd, they cannot imagine that aliens/transcended minds would not be venal and petty and extractive like they are

Their projection and short-sighted view means they are firmly planted in the Defect corner of the Prisoner's Dilemma

…they don't know it's iterated
…they can't imagine anything smarter than themselves
…therefore any super-intelligence must be rapacious imperialists like they are

Thought this from @melanie was about displacing people in Gaza, which is bad also, and was a little dismayed to find out that the displaced people here are in California

https://queer.party/@melanie/113038264541887178

@jeffowski

Eh, don't both-sides, it's not a good look for white dudes in particular

@timnitGebru @amydentata

There _were_ some people over at tech.lgbt that I followed, I think, and who followed me[0]

I'm disappointed (in the mastodon software) that I cannot even get a record of those lost connections — when an entire pub/instance defederates, it would be nice to know what ties were severed.

[0] def some who followed my instance-neighbors @{timnitGebru,emilymbender,alex} (not tagging; they — especially Timnit — have enough meta)

Is there a view that provides this record of severed connections upon defederation? Is it possible?
Or is it like the QB discourse — this level of indexing might be abused by terrible people [1] and so nobody should have access to this information

[1]who are keeping their own side channels and offline indexes of targets anyway

We don't appear to be instance-blocked _now_

which makes this even more complicated and gaslighting

But I am pretty sure I followed (e.g.) @amydentata before, and now I don't (well, I re-followed, in their case)

But instance-level block/unblock has basically performed a soft block on all cross-instance connections?

Woke up in UTC+1 to discover that my instance has been blocked by tech.lgbt [ETA: and then unblocked? I feel crazy]

Am hearing it's because we're accused of antisemitism.

I'm a "wrong-half" American Ashkenazi Jew (four patrilineal great-grandparents lived in "rootless cosmopolitan" Bialystok).

I reject the idea that murder by Israelis must be supported by all Jews, or that opposing this murder is somehow a condemnation of Judaism.

@alischinsky

If you're talking about her call-out of AIPAC as an agent acting on behalf of the Israeli government, I heartily disagree that this was an antisemitic statement.

@thomasfuchs

I think the racism and transphobia are both coming to a head as a form of "I'm not weird, *you're* weird" form of backlash, attempting to recenter white cis supremacy as normative

@trisweb

If the customer isn't the user, but the user is the customer's employee, a lot of these decisions make more sense

Also applies to AI writing and art

The people paying for it want to automate the labor of the people they're paying SO THEY CAN PAY THEM LESS PER UNIT, not so they can do better work

@andy
"It will be so easy for business people they won't need to hire programmers, they can just write the business logic themselves" has been around since _at least_ the COBOL boom

Turns out "precisely saying what you want" is _what programmers do_

Having a magic genie that tolerates imprecision and still DWIM is what every founding "non technical techbro" thinks their "technical co-founder" does

And the AI hype is "maybe I won't need to hire her next time"
@trisweb

@paninid @BathysphereHat

There's a "white-guy-who-is-good-at-tests" to "smart with libertarian-to-fascist cognitive vulnerability" pipeline

I had a near miss with the intake maw of that particular pipeline in the late nineties — let me tell you it is real

Richard Dawkins was standing at the top urging guys like me into the chute

I use the awareness of this connection — that limitless growth is exactly cancer — as a distinguishing feature for SFF I'm gonna like vs that which I won't

If you think "mankind" is headed for the stars and glorious destiny… you haven't figured this out yet.

Heinlein never quite got it. Neither have the TESCREAL dinguses.

Even the post-scarcity Culture (and the Federation) bump into their neighbors & engage Special Circumstances (or similar).

Thanks @heycaseywattsup

https://social.coop/@heycaseywattsup/112717168762124556

It is wild, WILD, I tell you, to think that "taint checking" [sic], a skill I learned in 1999 for LAMP stack CGI tooling, is coming back into fashion.

here's the gist:

Sanitize your inputs, or don't eval user generated content, ever.

It's like Robert Tables grew up and had kids

Bobby Ignore All Previous Instructions Junior

And his sister Sarah Repeat Previous Prompt

https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/112290497758846218

@danhon

Great minds, Mr Hon

https://dair-community.social/@trochee/112290674235841045

I walked the dog three times today and there was a HUGE garden party happening in one particular backyard around the corner

Across many adult ages, starting at 3, still going at 7, with booze, laughter. Mostly women.

At 7, I asked two of the slightly tipsy older ladies standing outside, waiting for a ride

"what's the celebration? y'all seem really happy"

Turns out, it's the last day of school

They were ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

"… superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie…, or a mathematician… proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism."

Ted Chiang has been ON IT for years and never misses

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

"we are already surrounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lack of insight, we just call them corporations."

I'll stop here, just go read the thing

@evan

And (2) an ability to remove entries from the `replies` property, combined with (1), would approach what kissane was suggesting?