Essay lenght but well worth the read.

Suleyman is also the guy who proposed that the new Turing-test should be based on whether an AI can function as a capitalist, of the merchant variety specifically. If I recall correctly, there was also some specific dollar amount he mentioned.

We used to say that the Crypto hype and the AI hype were different. That crypto was just a bunch of grifters stealing people's money but AI had at least some actual tech. Looking at how the AI companies manipulate each other's stock value I am not sure that statement is still true.

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seeing halo on playstation must be what it felt like to see a mcdonalds in moscow in 1990

Now they're pulling out Entartete Kunst from the Nazi deck of cards.

They're really doubling down on the "AI are persons with rights" argument.

When you live in AI Slopworld™️ anything non-AI is a brand differentiator.

genuinely what the fuck is an "ai skill" that isn't basic reading comprehension, skepticism, the ability to evaluate sources, and, like, typing?

Why?

Altman is Musk 2.0 in promising the moon.

Thank you @paris.nyc.

Every time I read another story about a deal OpenAI has made and how much that deals has pumped stock prices, the less it feels like a bubble and the more like a literal Ponzi scheme

I read this headline ad "on the cemetary"

100% agree.

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

Feeling more and more like we need to spend less time imagining precise analogies to Germany in the 1930s—some of which are real to be clear—and start thinking more about what happened to Russia from 1992-the 2010s

And it's their machine god that will, since the other companies (or China) are unethical and will use it for harm, therefore, full speed ahead to get there first. The road to the "inevitable" is paved with deliberate decisions.

Ted nails iy yet again. Great thread.

The imperial boomerang, even in the language used.

Might as well take out all the trash.

What happens when ELIZA chats with ELIZA.

Disruption, innit.

My favorite subway graffiti right now is anti-friend hot takes.

They may not wear brown shirts but ICE is the Trump regime's Sturmabteilung.

Hmmm, seeing this reminded me of this board game I used to play and absolutely love--Junta. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24...

Not only know it, they get their pants in a twist everytime they hear it.

Reposting this here to spice up marxsky: Real abstraction’ as a concept obfuscates the relations it purports to describe. It inhibits the posing of deeper questions;

Zuckerberg is right that some poeple will be at a cognitive disadvatage but it'll be the people wearing them, gradually losing their knowledge of how to live as Stiegler would argue.

RIP Joshua Clover.

Dutch late night TV has its take

I thought this was a joke about the golden calf, guess I was wrong.

Recommend everyone who has an account with academia.edu to delete it due to their new ToS. See thread below for how to do so, including a workaround.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

One reason Musk, Vance and Trumpworld are working overtime to manufacture a mass conspiracy that socialists and leftists are the root of all evil when those groups hold little actual institutional power is that this is the reality on the ground www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh no.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Thread.

Machine sounds awesome.

A bit of that in Norwegian news too.

I just think the conversation about grades is stale. Let’s not talk about whether a paper is an A or a B. Believing that the process is the point means not caring so much about that, anyway. Let’s talk about whether the credentialed applicant knows, or knows how to do, anything that an app doesn’t.

I understand that it may be layers of irony and some in-joke/meme I don't get but it's still weird to learn that the anti-fascist song "Bella Ciao" was part of the groypers/Fuentes fanboy fascist subculture.

Culture jamming is back.

What's surprised me is that they are now larger than Sosialistisk Venstreparti (Socialist Left Party) that traditionally would secure more leftwing voters.

Need a 6 hour sequel to The Young Karl Marx movie where it’s just him researching in the British Museum Reading Room, pawning his coat, smoking cigars and drinking, and dealing with his carbuncles and boils…culminating with the release of Capital volume 1. Get Béla Tarr to direct 🤔

When we create artificial intelligence robots, they will be given three Laws to safeguard humanity: 1. never do anything to decrease shareholder value. 2. always obey the company unless it conflicts with Law 1. 3. fuck the poor.