One regulation I both badly want and fully anticipate coming to pass: algorithmic transparency right now TikTok is showing everyone six week old content they’ve already seen and the speculation on why is rampant and in a free society a media organ that scale shouldn’t be able to keep that secret

On one hand, these guys know all the ways that Ro Khanna could be vulnerable to attack because their influence played a role in many of his weirdest positions On the other hand, they can’t use those attacks because that would require punching from the left and they need a “moderate” candidate.

Would Mr. Serena Williams like to get in the game

lol, there are tens of thousands of ICs, Engineering Managers, and VPEs who live in that district who will crawl over broken glass to vote for anyone who promises to give Sacks a swirly. They could fucking sell tickets.

It’s the most powerful online sexual harassment tool ever invented and it’s driving people insane with parasocial relationships but the most prominent critics lie about water use.

Checking in on W, how did this go for us as a country

How far we’ve come

asserting that AI is inherently eugenicist really blunts being able to criticize elon musk specifically for using his ai to promote eugenics

AI usage being high is not inconsistent with AI backlash. People love to use AI for tasks directed at other people. People dislike it when other people use AI *at them*. Nobody wants to read other people's slop. This doesn't paint AI positively, but also does not predict it will "go away"

Tech history has been a Special Interest basically since I was in elementary school and I forget this is a completely minority position so much of the seething takes today about any given technology make way more sense when I remember people don’t even remember the game as it was 15 years ago

I’m sorry but that comment about streaming and Uber is driving me crazy. “Forcibly replaced”? Reed Hastings didn’t show up at my house with a pistol and make me watch Stranger Things at gunpoint.

One thing that has driven me insane about Covid is that lab leak believers should logically have been MORE willing to mask, limit gatherings etc But they were very very much not that

Every poster who is all in on AI being a supply-driven fad should be made to explain how ChatGPT is about to hit a billion weekly active users. I worked on 3DTV at Discovery. I followed VR very closely for several years. I know a supply-driven phenomenon when I see one. This ain’t that.

The idea that a billion people are using an app against their will simply does not pass the smell test. Also love the aside about ride sharing and streaming as if pre-smartphone yellow cab dispatches and cable companies were paragons of virtue and hospitality.

Dennis Villanueva: "In my film Don't Use The False Sense of Companionship App , I created the false sense of companionship app as a warning. Also the replicants are a metaphor for the Quebecois..."

it's only called a grift if it comes from the grift region of france otherwise it's a sparkling swindle

Lmao

… uh… wow, that’s… what the hell

I think a major driver of this thinking is that 100+ years of American antitrust law developed to break up monopolies that controlled supply and distribution of physical products. One law review article by Lina Khan is not enough to shift the popular understanding of how companies accrue power.

Avatar: Fire and Ash vs. Evil Dead

This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery" archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

Halt and Catch Fire and Ash

Seeing this op-ed get dismissed. Yeah, the proposed remedy is self-serving and laughably small. But it is very fair to ask what might happen to a nation of 112 million people (and is in active territorial disputes with China) if 10 percent of GDP disappears within 5 years

a technological paradigm shift of this magnitude has truly socially disruptive effects, and seriously corrosive ones if left unchecked and “what about the status quo for the professor??” is just nowhere near the top of my concern queue (with much love to the academics in my life)

I have been on the Kill Homework bandwagon for decades

I come back to the conviction that if a computer develops the ability to do class assignments in a way that’s this universally disruptive it says more about “school” than computing

Not for nothing, the smartest person I know is the best listener I know

Yeah the anti AI crew (who I agree with on a ton) need to realize that much of this stuff is out in the wild and can be run on consumer level hardware so while we should focus on how large companies use it with regulations, some (most?) of the work will have to be on the societal norms front

Lmao

The problem with this stance is that students are actively choosing to use these products and very good versions can now be distributed freely over the internet and run locally. You cannot, in fact, cut off the supply. You *might* be able to “tax” it or stochastically punish the use of it.

Dude would have been an S-tier poster youtu.be/45tpBq_xHYU?...

There is still time for the Jets to make a run… to the liquor store

Halt and Catch Fire and Ash

Re: OpenAI being uniquely poorly run, on cue with this day late/dollar short bullshit: www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is...

My big theme for next year is relearning to take control and ownership of our lives (NOT YOU, CRYPTOCURRENCY)

Today on Bluesky: Type of guy who is pro-cryptocurrency but anti-generative AI

I have a lot of reason to suspect that Anthropic inference is unit profitable, so if you have some reason I should think otherwise, I sincerely invite you to say so.

what being on bluesky does to an LLM

Every poster who is all in on AI being a supply-driven fad should be made to explain how ChatGPT is about to hit a billion weekly active users. I worked on 3DTV at Discovery. I followed VR very closely for several years. I know a supply-driven phenomenon when I see one. This ain’t that.

Absolutely insane fact I learned this week: Before he wrote every thriller in the airport bookstore, James Patterson was the copywriter who wrote the “I want to be a Toys R Us kid” jingle youtu.be/LMd8qmBmTkg?...

That whispered command? You guessed it:

This is taking food out of the mouths of digital artists who would like to receive visits from the Secret Service

Hey did Kevin Spacey do one of those bizarre fireplace chats this year

I BELIEVE IN NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM

It’s even in the god-damn name: the Immigration *and Naturalization* **Service** vs Immigration *and Customs* **Enforcement** The central aims here were well-reflected in what we called the organizations themselves.

Get Rekt

Let’s simplify things with 68±1

“the true champs of safe drunk driving” AaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

I think we have to retire this meme now