antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fuuuuuuck. Thanks for the info but i hate it ):

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Im very very happy on Fastmail. They are sensible people who offer mainly email (and calendar stuff) with no overpromises. Their servers are hosted in the USA tho, so that may affect your choice.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Oh don’t worry, in the second Dyson sphere datacenter they’ll just heat up a metal heat sink per request and then eject that into the sun. Perfect for reclamation of energy.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

That’s how you know a human wrote it

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In lighter news, this anti-LLM rhyme made me chuckle:

I will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop

I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox

I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.

I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

It can be done (friends and I have tried around 2007, and saw minor success until the company ran headfirst into the financial crisis and our inflexibility regarding user privacy and choice), but it’s not easy if you don’t already have money and connections.

If you do have those connections, nobody will stop you from building the stupid company of your dreams tbh.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, one is tempted to search for a historical throughline here, an axis if you will

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago

It’s only real fascism if the dev runs around the streets of Rome carrying a bundle of sticks, come on.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

So they made an AI restaurant! It has a manifesto!

It’s… a printer for QR codes. That a guy who is reallly not equipped for sticking QR codes to bowls has to peel and stick onto bowls. And then they get filled by hilariously imprecise cereal dispensers.

They’re building an empire, yall.

(Via Jonty)

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

 

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

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