Notices by Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social), page 6

@thoughtpunks

The casual burn describing JK Rowling as "buttered toast" is why she is the GOAT

@oliphant isn't that* the primary MO for South African apartheid

*Genocide through extractive slavery, i.e. kill resisters, the elderly and the infirm immediately, allow "good producers" subsistence survival under threat

Come to think of it that's how he's running Twitter

@BlackAzizAnansi

A dude I shared a suite with in college literally became Andrew Yang

I mean, he was Andrew Yang already, but he wasn't That Andrew Yang ... then

@inthehands

it's not underground, it's Eric Schmidt's penthouse

@ct_bergstrom

The "eyeballs on the outside of the goggles" and "synthetic VR representation of your face under the goggles" are both gonna get weird (and probably kinky) when people get to hacking.

@jdp23

I coined the phrase "underdogpile" over here to describe using QTs to rally allies and call out bad behavior

https://dair-community.social/@trochee/110498394535933139

(and I think I agree with all of you about how tricky it is to make QTs work best)

@kissane @damon

@misc @jdp23

I agree there COULD BE intermediate options

but also we have to build them into the affordances of the software _to the users_ and the community practices (e.g. onboarding!) so that our communities actually use these intermediate options when appropriate.

@kissane @damon

@inthehands

shared blocklists are being built at #TheBadSpace -- I wonder if "poster is in bad faith towards marginalized people" is something that's worth federating there too

@kissane @inherentlee @paulkruczynski

@inthehands @misc possibly more than one (sometimes contradictory) story, depending on who's taking their turn in their telephone chain

- "existential risk" hype from the LLM crowd
- "this tech is so dangerous" criti-hype for (non-LLM) AI within the military
- turning _down_ the AI Hype in military planning back rooms

@inthehands and to be born rich

@inthehands Stringer Bell would eat Sand Hill Road for a light snack and stay hungry, if they didn't cling to their little "pattern recognition" clannish behavior

@inthehands it's provoking a certain humility in my assessment of how difficult it is to be a member of the bullshitter class

To be fair, it's almost certainly a position earned by accident of birth, not skill

@inthehands even this pithy observation — which I agree with — conforms to the pattern though

LLMs always seem to be good at someone else's job -- usually somebody who I treat as a cost center.

and somehow never good at _my_ job (I am a true creator of value)

Okay for a minute here i confess i got

Kate McKinnon
and
Catharine MacKinnon

confused, and I thought there was a big career shift going on for at least one of them

@wcbdata @futurebird I'm also willing to believe the results but draw nearly opposite conclusions:

Food security in childhood — and the trustworthiness of adult food promises to you — are strongly correlated with intergenerational privilege

which *also* correlates (causally!) w lifetime earnings

If you grew up aware that caregivers might not be *able* to keep food promises, the test is harder, even if you trust the caregivers equally

Kids are rational risk assessors

@inthehands @Theorem_Poem

yes; leaning into the metaphorical figure:

"also there needs to *be* places to escape the cruelties of the cool-kids dance floor"

@inthehands

oh well done. The Imperial Waltz has a much floatier vibe than the Imperial March

@inthehands i think i can make it 6/8 in my head if i think towards waltz

@inthehands i think this is disturbing and awesome. Next year do the Imperial March Forth in/on 3/4