Notices by Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social), page 7

A brutal bracketing has Zuck v Thiel in the FIRST ROUND
https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/111573354472305126

This anti-LLM Haskell hacking is somehow lawful good and chaotic neutral in superposition

I present: lawful good chaos programming

https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/111449477435095002

@MisuseCase

I find "searching for malware" to be a plausible use case for some of these "transformer" neural architecture

But I don't really see how in this use case there's a need for massive pretraining/extractive-data-processing on most of the Internet's text and images, which is what's been dubbed "AI" in the popular mind.

The threat modeling tool... maybe I don't understand its users, but I'm having a hard time imagining how using AI there would make the tool more effective

@mhoye

"Why did you sting me?" said the frog to the scorpion. "Now we will both drown."

"I'm a scorpion," responded the scorpion. "It's what I do. And you knew I was a scorpion when you offered me a ride."

I'm actually kinda mad that LLMs and art generating AIs aren't the domain of goofball computational creativity projects any more

Get those b-school squares out of my arthouse indie scene man, they're spoiling the vibe

https://mastodon.social/@CrustaceanSingles/111123832263160914

See also my old project using early generation tensorflow to do bonkers text rewriting cut and paste poetry, Dada-style https://trochee.net/samyro

@edendestroyer

As an aside — imagine being on the admissions committee for Banner's fifth and sixth PhDs

At what point do the faculty say "is he fucking serious?! Why doesn't he just publish across disciplines, I mean at least one of his PhDs is in physics and physicists do this all the time"

https://xkcd.com/793/

@edendestroyer as a card carrying member of said community I can confirm

@edendestroyer

Though in the MCU,

Banner apparently has eight PhDs, which suggests a certain dilettantism (or masochism) that doesn't exactly match "sell my labor to survive"

@alfa_vuk
I think you need to read the article again (or maybe for the first time)

Cat is not calling corporate pride a distraction
@Catvalente

@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