these things are like lossy image zip archives with inexact addressing, the model architecture doesn't even attempt to make them not be - as an NN the lossiness is regression to the mean instead of blurriness, but with enough capacity or smaller datasets it'd memorize even more
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The link between effective altruism and SBF is that if you were an effective altruist, you were okay with him stealing billions of dollars, because you figured it had greater utility in his hands (as a genius EA philosopher) than in the hands of the people he stole from.
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Around fifteen researchers and critics have annotated 's thinly-veiled cryptocurrency advertisement that ran in the last Sunday. We try to provide the editorial scrutiny and critical perspectives that the piece so irresponsibly lacked.
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I’d phrase it as this: “Ponzi schemes have an unbridled urge to expand, and eventually the expansion of the fake books is so large that it should produce a visible change outside those books, but does not. This fact is often noticed casually by someone uninterested in scheme.”
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Them: “Here’s my perpetual motion machine!”
Me: “It doesn’t work. You have to put more energy in than you get out.”
T: “If you’re so smart, where’s YOUR perpetual motion machine?”
M: “I don’t think it’s possible to make one.”
T: “So you’re against free energy then. Got it.”
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periodic reminder. wishlist norco for gnostic ditch ceremonies, sentient swamps, fugitive cosmic androids, antebellum petroleum labyrinths, psychoactive urinal crust, etc. it's a zine written in C# to reconstruct a forgotten memory of the flooded american south.
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It's not immediately obvious, but the sudden push around metaverse / NFTs / web3 also plays into this ideological push. The goal is to dispossess us of ownership over everything except virtual assets. We will rent all the physical goods and digital services, but own bored apes.
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Apart from a few notable exceptions media crypto coverage mostly fails to follow this journalism tenet:
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consensus is primarily about getting systems to agree about state, according to a set of rules designed to guarantee they *agree* and *can keep running*. they don't prove anything about the relation between the agreed state and any external system, at all
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if your organization is actually worried about "the implications of facial recognition on marginalized communities" or "ecological considerations of proof of work" listen, i'm sorry, you don't want an artist experiment or a new API that 'discusses these issues', you want a law
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you have spent your life in service of a false god. your babbling heresy holds no power here
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Today, so many brilliant people are working on blockchain systems that they can't exactly point to compelling use cases for. They exist, and they work well. Just not for you. They exist as offshore strategies for the wealthy who know that the demand for capital controls is rising
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Innovation is when you put a gun to the planet’s head and say “we’re gonna keep exponentially burning energy so you better figure a way out of this because we’re not stopping.” twitter.com/FEhrsam/status
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do you think elon musk fans ever wonder why so many automated scam accounts are designed to target them
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The NFT transaction making waves is straightforward tape painting, and institutions who should have at least one person on staff watching for that are falling for it hook, line, and sucker.
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Really am thankful I studied foreign policy before reporting on tech because it really is the same exact bullshit. The same propaganda, the same legitimation narratives, the same attempts to seduce & placate reporters, the same core delusion that THIS is how you advance history
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And like, it's fine? The world takes all kinds of people. Not everyone needs to be good at everything. But lordy it makes me crazy the prosperity gospel of silicon valley that equates good at making money with good at thinking about all kinds of things
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every state's new lockdown plan is "don't be indoors with other people unless you're spending money, in which case it's fine"
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If you need something to read instead of endlessly refreshing the TL today, I wrote some words on the blog about living in a town where the outcome of every election you can vote in is already decided
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here at the dole banana company, we’re not interested in politics. we’re just interested in growing great bananas.
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I've always enjoyed 's videos, but as a child who grew up in an apocalyptic millennialist cult. this video really exposed to me how people wind up so far down those rabbit holes. I got out early, but not everyone does.
youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44
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It's a blasphemy to question the efficacy of iconic protest tactics like hunger strikes and marches because they've worked in the past but everyone has to get on the same page about this: the reasons they worked depended on mass news consumption habits that no longer apply.
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i am sick of all of the thought pieces on work culture.
it's capitalism.
it's capital seeking to extend a system that perpetuates capital. it's not about you.
that's what's making you upset.
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teacher gets a kick out of it and awards us a perfect score for a poster that can't be displayed sensibly
next presenter, inspired by my creative slacking off to add some flair to his own presentation, throws his index cards at the class and immediately hits someone in the face.
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high school philosophy class. i convince the members in the group project that we should present a *blank* poster, and have our presenter tape stuff to it and be by interrupted by each of us taping over it and contradicting them.
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What’s your most on brand story from school that explains a lot about who you are today?
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a *lot* of what passes as "AI" is actually exploited labor rendered invisible. here's one source on the popular kiwibot (seen around berkeley) -- the sf chronicle (linked in the article) reported on how they pay folks in colombia to drive the robots.
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interesting fact: while most people think these robots are self-driving / fully automated, the reality is that they're often always driven through exploited labor by actual people in india, the philippines, and colombia. twitter.com/mnolangray/sta
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Datasets (particularly benchmarks) are infrastructure: a foundation for other tools & tech, tending to seep into the background, shaped by specific aims, seeming natural from one perspective but jarring from another
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I used to think large scale facial recognition AI stuff wasn’t unethical, it was just a waste of money, because haha, that will never work.
Nowadays I understand the unethical part is people will use it *even though* it doesn’t work. twitter.com/Chicken3gg/sta
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Cops killed an 18 year old and then broke all the nearby cameras twitter.com/el_tragon_de_L
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The #Juneteenth march from the Port of #Oakland shutdown stretches for miiiiles down Adeline.
No end to the march in sight. Thousands taking to the streets today.
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NEW: Major corporations are bankrolling police foundations across the U.S., helping them to buy surveillance tech, body armor and weaponry.
news.littlesis.org/2020/06/18/cor
#BillionairesBackTheBlue
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the cop who shot Charles Kinsey was sentenced to writing a 2,500 word essay on why shooting people is bad and no I am not making that up it's actually what he was sentenced to after getting charged with a misdemeanor. twitter.com/herosnvrdie69/
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Replace COPS with NSFW, a show about OSHA enforcement I just came up with in my head
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I made a new density map on vigilante incidents over the last two weeks based on the most recent data. It only reinforces the previous one. I also added a Getis Ord-Gi* hotspot analysis using ArcGIS. The red spots are counties with a high statistical probability of clustering.
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