maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It's term time again and I'm back in college. One professor has laid out his AI policy: you should not use an AI (presumably Chat GPT) to write your assignment, but you can use an AI to proofread your assignment. This must be mentioned in the acknowledgements. He said in class that in his experience AI does not produce good results and that when asked to write about his particular field it produces work with a lot of mistakes.

Me, I'm just wondering how you can tell the difference between material generated by AI then edited by a human, and material written by a human then edited by an AI.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While googling around for stuff about them I found this article about a sting Hope Not Hate did on them. They produced a slideshow of doom for a fictional wealthy investor, imagining a proposed eugenicist city state on the Isle of Man.

What is it with these people and islands? Bankman-Fried wanted to buy Nauru. I assume none of them realize the inherent economic and planning disadvantages of building your empire on a tiny island....

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"pro-LGBT rights" here means "pro Peter Thiel". He gives them a lot of money.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

They don't want to make a population level impact on demographics, they want their kids to be the new aristocracy

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

If nothing else, they'll be able to start a great punk band.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yikes !

Their attitude to kids, based on that nightmarish Guardian interview, is extremely fucked. Hopefully their children will break the cycle.

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I am very sure that the only reason they talk about positive eugenics is because negative eugenics, literally forcing some people to not have kids, is taboo. Then again they are pretty stupid and arrogant so maybe they really believe they're breeding superbabies....

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

The people of Muskogee will have their revenge on Jack Dorsey

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A shame. Seems like they were clearly inspired by it .... I guess you can't copyright a vibe.

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I hope Toni Basil and the Ting Tings get big royalty cheques.

 

"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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