MAINE - you can choose to vote for Democratic candidate David Costello instead in the PRIMARY. Platner is taking your votes for granted. Vote for David Costello on June 9th.

Mensa Reddit is amazing

This may be my favourite argument ever advanced by a politician:

I guess I'm glad this is out there, but also I am infuriated that people have to spend their time doing this. OF COURSE synthetic text extruding machines are going to output something that *looks like* but is not an analysis. >>

Hello this is me!! It’s so disheartening when I see otherwise credible academics use it. Just feels like it’s rotting them out from the inside

Meet the academics refusing to eat shards of glass

Like i just fundamentally don't understand why people keep trying to shift to other water use discussions instead of saying ”Holy shit how we handle water is REALLY BAD, and we definitely shouldn't be adding data centers into that if we can help it."

This is what we mean when we say that "AI safety" is a eugenicist project. They fear an ultra-powerful AGI that may kill us all. Meanwhile, this Colossus 1 data center is already killing Black people in Memphis.

I wonder if Andy Masley will have Gemini update his graphic for him now that Claude is about to be running through the exact same air polluting data centre as he was criticising Grok for here. So far, he does not seem to have said anything about it!

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

The "more ethical" so-called "AI safety" company everybody👇🏽

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Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

When i say that opposition to data centers and "generative AI" can be a winning issue for Democrats, i mean it. You tie it to resource theft and billionaires doing whatever the hell they want to whoever they want, and people will lock tf *in*. Because they're already there.

If we’re gonna do AI education in school, the only appropriate thing to talk about is how damaging it is to our critical thinking abilities. How its answers are wrong or flat out imagined. We should teach the concepts of probability and correlation. And a militant focus on literacy in general.

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

This is so infuriating @agu.org.

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

this bill would give the incoming director of the NSF power to award funding that would advance "AI literacy" for kids. guess how they define literacy? using it:

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TIL that not believing in mech interp is "applying humanities standards to empirical math". First of all, what a gross STEMlord attitude. But I imagine this will come as a surprise to some of the computer scientists here who do not believe in mech interp.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

What I have found quite interesting is the way that other LLM users have been far more hostile to me for not agreeing with their insistence that LLMs possess cognition, than any AI refuser has been to me for using them.

"'One video of me was very modified from its original form—it was something I had uploaded to Canvas a long time ago. And then I saw many other videos of other faculty members … and I contacted them all. Not one of them told me that they had been consulted about this. They never heard of Atomic.’"

Exhibit 1M of when we tell you about people in the TESCREAL bundle and you attack us, one by one they've been shown to be worse than whatever we said. “According to my understanding, the girls you were involved with were old enough to know what they were doing, www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

The thing that TESCREAL's paid reply guy Andy Masley gets wrong about generative AI water use is this. No, people messing around with chatbots is not boiling lakes. But if LLMs are adopted at the scale that the industry desires, the water use will absolutely be problematic.

Most people who think they know what an LLM is, just, do not. They'll talk about tokens, vectors, embeddings, attention heads, "circuits", context windows etc, and remain completely unaware that they are describing synthetic text extrusion, not a process of understanding or cognition.

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

The publication of this article has managed to get all the white men academics on X really really angry--even if they do not actually do qualitative research and are not qualified to comment. Once again, why are the AIbros so ANGRY when we refuse? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

'Drop the LLM is "doing mathematics" nonsense" I am a mathematician and I endorse this message.

honestly my whole month istg

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

It is really this easy. Take any *cognitive capacity* X. For instance, X = reasoning, learning, communicating, summarizing, reading, writing, etc. If any one asks: Can an LLM do X? You can answer: “No, LLMs cannot do X, because X is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none” LLMs are decoys.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Academia needs to stop taking a nice moderate position towards this predatory technology. Its presence is not inevitable. You do not need it. The people who want to sell you it do not respect you and are not your friends. They need your credibility, but you do not need their bullshit.

tbh I don't think the dude who called a Claude use case non-generative (a basic misunderstanding about what the 'generative' in 'generative AI' refers to) should be building any strawmen of misunderstanding Claude to dunk on

Its always so interesting how "Anti-AI extremists" are always "hysterical" and "loud" but AI "enthusiasts" are always just hopeful and optimistic (maybe hyping at best) and nothing else

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown on figurative use of 'load-bearing' until we can figure out what is going on.

Look, Gwen, I know you might not trust the advice of a nonvegan like myself, but if you want to be a dragon, you don't need to build a Dyson sphere, you can just build a fursuit.

something tells me they don't make changes with artists in mind...

Singularitarians talk about the Erdős problems as if the entire field of mathematics is just devoted to them. When you hear that GPT solved an Erdős problem that has gone "unsolved for 30 years," consider that perhaps the reason is that nobody was actually trying to solve it.

Techfreaks, about a big snake they made up in their heads to get scared about offending in the future: I will never betray u, future robot guys from like the Matrix Techfreaks, about the many human people around them who are just sick of their shit: You are spam to me, I simply choose not to see u

The worst thing about being blocked by @why.bsky.team via the AI Haters blocklist is that I don't get to be blocked by him personally for calling him a credulous asshole.

Claude, when @why.bsky.team asked you to hide those images I don't think this is what he meant