Earlier this year people were complaining about how they were only letting other big organizations access mythos first. Well, they did it this way so major security issues could be properly addressed. I'd rather security experts find issues first than a hacker. Safeguards also needed to be developed

I’m reading the Pope’s 83-page manifesto on AI. Notes/quotes 🧵 “Technology should not be considered, in itself, as a force antagonistic to humanity. On the contrary, it has formed part of our history since the beginning as ‘a profoundly human reality, linked to the autonomy & freedom of man.’” 🔥

Great news if true. Seasonal Influenza kills hundreds of thousands of people per year and is generally a week or so of misery for millions more.

Same, the situation was much more pessimistic back when I was 16-18 years old. Renewable energy uses, at least the scalable kind like solar and wind only made up a tiny fraction of energy use. There was far more skepticism about whether this can actually play a major role in carbon neutrality.

Back In The Day, we were going to die of, let's see... Nuclear War, Acid Rain, Smog, Population Bomb, Famine, Plague, and High Crime. *That* was dogma from the 1970s or so.

Well said. It's also worth pointing out that even if we do miss the 2c target, hitting 2.1 is still better than 2.3. Climate tipping points are not all or nothing, there are multiple tipping points at different temperatures.

Social media is bad! Hundreds of thousands of people will say things like "the earth is dying" and none of them will go to ClimateTracker and see that, actually, we got a real good shot at beating 2C

I would go as far and say that transhumanism, biohacking, etc is like the 180 degree opposite of 20th century eugenics. 20 cen eugenics treats characteristics at birth as immutable. Biohacking/transhumanism says you can and should be permitted to modify them.

We’re in the early stages of a biomedical revolution that will make the time before it look like the era without vaccines or antiseptics

China investing in underwater data centres. www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEL...

A Chinese company wants to use generative ai in a manner that is actually novel and unique - An Ai dynamic evolution ecosystem game. What I want to see come out of gen ai art is not just making the same stuff but faster, but creating something that would otherwise be impractical without it.

Critiques of how data centres are set up is good. Baseless accusations are not. No, data centers did not cause this. "A Six Flags spokesperson said the area experienced an “internal technical issue” with electrical equipment that caused the interruption in power." see article below for details.

@grow-sf.bsky.social GrowSF is a good guide for SF voters. With the exception of the endorsement of Matt Mahan, I'd follow their voter guide. Read growsf.org/voter-guide/ Matt Mahan ok, but he has no chance of being a frontrunner if we are to keep the Republicans out, I'd vote for Tom Steyer.

There should be no tolerance for hate in the Democrat party. Maureen is unfit for any leadership position.

Definitely, alignment is a tricky topic. There are certain aspects that we are in agreement, for example - it must include valuing human lives. But beyond that it can get tricky. Different groups of Humans do not really align with each other.

The idea that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans is catastrophically false, verging on delusional. This is what people on this site mean when we talk about populism killing the future. People just believe shit which is not remotely true, because it makes them feel better?

I simply do not think this woman should hold elected office

A good start, but far from over.

Louder for the “left” NIMBYs in the back “This shift is driven by a surge in supply. More inventory is still on the way, with peak units expected to deliver by the end of (the second quarter).”

David Shapiro speaks at a university on Post Labor Economics, UBI and advanced artificial intelligence (ai). AI will keep getting better, if it can do most work, how will most people get money to get by? Universal basic income and universal basic services. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhAX...

Why so called "luxury prisons" are a good idea. Human dignity being involuable is a good thing. Norway prison, Prison reform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGP...

It seems he is suggesting a type of UBI comparable to the Alaska oil fund, but with AI instead. Payout can grow as the industry around AI grows.

Advice for using Claude Code or Codex: don’t switch models mid-workflow. A model switch is like handing the task to a new engineer with the same laptop, files, terminal history, and notes; but none of the previous engineer’s mental flow. Anything not written down clearly is effectively gone.

We should all be talking about UBI this election

Worth a read, its deeply unfair to those who live near such buildouts, but its actually a complex problem.

We need a better AI technology that actually fulfills its promise and isn't tied to the whims of giant corporations. Open source models on individual PCs that are user controlled and privacy respecting need to get powerful enough for it not to depend on VC subsidy & billionaire permission.

I am nolonger fan of Musk, but I do like SpaceX and the thousands of employees that made this possible. Hopefully it suceeds. www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

Yes, we can find the tech neat, while taking anything Musk and Altman say with a large grain of salt.

Furthermore, being a techno optimist does not mean we have to ignore the downsides either. In the aggregate, I expect technology to do more benefits than harm to humanity. And if we are serious about ending factory farming, we will need more technology and science, not less.

been a rough couple of years for technoprogressivism but personally I'm still riding the high of the success of the mRNA vaccine, a triumph of advanced science which reduced a devastating global pandemic to a memory and would be impossible to have created at all without computers and high tech

A bit old, but there was some poll taking on use of generative AI in Godot. forms.office.com/Pages/Analys... thispro.notion.site/The-results-...

The "AI water" issue is the most overhyped topic this year. Are there valid concerns with the increase in electrical costs and noise in some settings? yes, but water is not one of them. Check out this post by Andy Masley, it is a very long read but well worth it. blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-wat...

Tamper resistant safeguards could play a role in the future for openweight LLMs. One one hand, I love the idea of opensource, on the other, it's easier for bad actors to exploit open source LLMs. Maybe a way to get the best of both worlds? arxiv.org/abs/2408.00761

Man he is just a weak poster now, the real AI brainrot is the way that it's turning its haters into frustrated cranks

the arXiv stuff is a such a perfect litmus test sorry, antis, people should be able to use AI to help with research sorry, bros, people should be held accountable for the quality of their work I don't understand how any of this is controversial

Yeah, it's crazy. No, billionaires are not trying to kill us. There are absolutely valid reasons to criticize the widening income and wealth inequality, or how data centres are built. But pushing conspiracy theorists that "billionaires want to kill almost all of humanity with AI" is unfounded.

The sooner local LLMs or local AI catch up to those frontier models, the better. The top players are all 100% closed source despite being trained on all our data. This technology should be owned by all of us, not just a handful of elites.

Degrowth absolutely would cause regular people to have a lower standard of living Typical American lifestyles aren’t sustainable at scale without a LOT of changes: total decarbonization, lab grown meat, better mass transit, etc.

Data centres can rely on closed loop liquid cooling so far less water is used. The main concern to be had with current data centre expansion is 1) noise if its too close to where people live 2)reliance on fossil fuels.

Cellular agriculture, follow for updates about what is happening in in the industry. Factory farming is an undeniable evil that should not exist. This horrendous practice should be put to an end, a combined focus of ever more regulation as well as Cellag research is the answer. www.cell.ag

Transhumanism is essentially going beyond the limits imposed by nature and done in a way to improve quality of life. It started with penicillin, and it includes modern GAC. Most transhumanists are left to extreme left, but there are a baffling minority that seem in favor of everything EXCEPT GAC.

Hyper-majories across the board absolutely find this deplorable. What we need is two things 1) tough regulations that criminalize such abuse towards farm animals 2)strong investment in cellular agriculture research.

It won't happen soon, but eventually it will at some point in the distant future. Which is why we need to start thinking about how UBI could be implemented.

Discussions have taken place ahead of President Trump’s state visit to China to explore reviving talks on an emergency channel for AI matters between Washington and Beijing www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

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Thanks. 🙏 Just unistalled ChatGPT and installed Le Chat by Mistral AI. It seems quite good for my use of AI and furthermore we help European tech to grow.

GMO is cool Geo-engineering is cool Space exploration is cool Vaccines are cool Nuclear power is cool Degrowths suck.

AI is cool Robots are cool Self-driving cars are cool Lab grown meat is cool mRNA tech is cool I’m sorry change is scary

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Aubrey De Grey's interview. The war on Aging with Aubrey De Grey. #reverseaging #lifeextension www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm9R...