maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

unifying demands

hostile takeover

Pick one, you can't have both.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

They need an option for "very uncomfortable".

[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago

Everything I have read about this guy creeps me out or pisses me off.

[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

An extremely scary survey: A poster advertising a survey on "Assisted Dying and the Emerging Role of AI"

Edit: have a féach at the survey here

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

He's obviously lying to try to pretend he's some media mastermind rather than a cult member/cult leader.

[–] maol@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

I think the first Guardian article had some value, just because the reporter hung around the Collinses long enough that they indicted themselves through their own actions and words. Whether that outweighs giving two eugenicists a platform to tell people about their beliefs is difficult to judge.

Iirc, whatshisface defended himself by claiming that black parents were more likely to hit their kids, therefore it was racist to criticise him for doing so

[–] maol@awful.systems 22 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Slate says: "For the Love of God, Stop Profiling This Couple!"

The Collinses are ineffective, abusive industry plants from Peter Thiel’s extended circle. They know they’re entirely media creations. They play off that fact to ensure that journalists never follow up on how many initiatives they’ve started and abandoned, neglect to interrogate their contradictory stances on issues like abortion and “race science,” and even seem to accept that they’re openly being taken for a ride by these dorks. Yet in spite of it all, no one listens to their podcast, they don’t really have much of a following, and their specific appeal is concentrated to a few far-right circuits.

[–] maol@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

The use of the word sincere here bothers me.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

AI = austerity. Replacing creaking but functional systems with crap that doesn't work is a little bit cheaper, and the money goes to the right people (billionaires) instead of the wrong people (doctors, nurses, cleaners, admin).

[–] maol@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Oh yeah Britain didn't become fascist, they just imposed brutal imperialist exploitation on colonies in Asia and Africa lol. It's not fascism if you export it!

 

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

 

A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

 

"AI for dummies" interview from Irish radio with Dr Abeba Birhane, who's on a UN advisory board about AI.

 

According to wikipedia, Runaway received "mixed reviews".

 

Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence". Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to people in here, but eloquently stated and put into a wider political context.

 

Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

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