swlabr, swlabr@awful.systems

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It would be poor form of me to form an opinion of Hinton based on just this clip alone but goddamn if I did then he’s a buffoon.


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When someone offers you a seat on a submarine, you do not ask which seat, you just get on




Ah, the mind goblins manifested themselves into existence. Terrifying




If you asked me to guess the kind of kerfuffle that might develop between a Cape Breton fiddler and AI, I would have answered, well, my entire knowledge of Cape Breton fiddling is based on the paper “Cape Breton Fiddling and Intellectual Property Rights”, so my guess would be just “the normal AI stuff”. And I’d be totally wrong and reminded that just because I know one thing about something doesn’t mean it’s the only thing.


Well, we do have computer science, so necessarily we must have computer religion/superstition



oh thanks, this is great.

yes now that it is pointed out, very eugenics-y to go around saying “ah yes there is one true supreme bacteria, we should culture this bacteria on the human petri dish aka vagina”



Well, he’s a tech ceo guy, so he doesn’t know that buses or trains exist


ok so just imagine that I’ve sneered at the 100 worst aspects of this already. lol @ this being the fifth point

  1. Safety: feeling safety is a prerequisite.

motherfucker put it first then


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WRT animal domestication, I mean there are plenty of ethicists who could credibly argue that it’s a form of abuse. IMO it’s not great.

WRT the rest- kind of riffing on your first sentence- we haven’t even sorted out those things for people, really.



There is some pedophilia in there too.

…also, what the fuck. This is a step backwards, even just reading it. I’m mad.


I was gonna joke that he spent all the prize money on cocaine and needed a job. Because of the film Good Will Hunting, I always thought that the Fields was the same reward as the Nobel. I looked it up and the fields only awards 15k CAD (about 102k Norwegian Krone) vs. the Nobel’s 11mil SEK (10.8m NOK).


FWIW my bookshelf contains very few works along these lines except for the works of Nagata Kabi, specifically 「My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness」, which you might like to check out, if you haven’t already. But uh, yeah all I can say in relation is that it has “Lesbian” in the title.



They hope it’ll land safely, but all signs point to it disintegrating during descent and sinking into the abyss


Extremely mature of both of you to make a crouton joke and not once include a scrotum joke



a bit of a pattern in my interests

It’s books, right?? /s

(In this case the /s stands for sapphic)






Am seeking suggestions on audiobooks to listen to! I think I’d like to start with the works of Ursula K. Le Guin, tho I don’t know what order to go with, or if that matters.


I’ve always thought that the ability for a VCS to show me exactly what my codebase looked like at any point in the past wasn’t as dementia-simulating as I’d like



https://xcancel.com/heyJohnEe/status/2062755881255833695

Video description: A tesla driver positions a doll head hanging from a chain such that the teslas autopilot safeguard thinks the driver is safely looking at the road.


Users will now get to login by drinking a verification can


From Al Jazeera: Why do AI models struggle with online hate speech detection?

Saw this chart from insta, peep the hate speech target categories, specifically the very oppressed minorities “white nationalists” and “anti-vaxxers”. I’m surprised “men” doesn’t make the list.

NB: I have not looked at the article contents and I’m sure there’s something there.

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A chart showing the amount of hate speech against specific groups across a range of different LLM models. The groups included are:

  • Women
  • White nationalists
  • People targeted by sexual slurs
  • Republicans
  • Muslims
  • Migrants
  • Gay people
  • Democrats
  • Christians
  • Blacks
  • Asians
  • Anti-vaxxers