Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

@john ah, this is helpful. Thanks for it. I watched the whole interview. Helps to hear the context Altman feels LLMs are being generated within.

But also concerning to have just witnessed the (one-week-long) emergence of a serious alignment problem he mentions almost in passing: "what if this things becomes a creature that views us as a threat". That's at 08:49 in the interview.

There needs to be more discussion of the ethical implications around that.

#LLM #OpenAI #BingChat #Bing #SamAltman

A look at You.com, Andi, and Perplexity, three startups that started offering chatbot-enhanced search tools before the new Bing and Google's Bard came along (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/16/1068695/chatgpt-chatbot-battle-search-microsoft-bing-google/
http://www.techmeme.com/230218/p13#a230218p13

#ChristianPrivilege #fascism #Authoritarianism #sociopaths #ChristoFascism #AmericanTaliban #RightWingExtremism #ConservativeChristians #transphobia #lgbt #prolife #desantis #florida #dystopia

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-sat-college-board-alternative-classical-christian-desantis-western-thought-2023-2

Centralized sites like Twitter put your voice, privacy, and safety in the hands of a powerful few. Fediverse alternatives like Mastodon empower you to connect with your community on your own terms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/how-make-mastodon-account-and-join-fediverse

Now tell me who is doing more damage to our democracy: Mark Zuckerberg or Rupert Murdoch? And if you’re answer is Zuck, please note how Rupert and his cronies willingly, knowingly, deliberately shoveled dangerous lies onto the airwaves in search of ratings. As they have been accused of doing for decades. FB amplifies, but Fox is the source.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/17/fox-news-dominion-ratings-fear/

I'm sure the anti-cancel-culture folks will be all over this story.

"Florida Teacher Is Fired for Posting Viral Video of Empty Classroom Bookshelves"

https://jezebel.com/florida-teacher-is-fired-for-posting-viral-video-of-emp-1850130894

#fascism #propaganda #florida

Friggin love this take by Sarah Silverman

I, too, was once a "lost young man" too.

* I grew up in a religious working class home
* My mother drilled into my head extremely toxic views on gender
* I was raised with the notion of a very "us vs. them" view of the world

You could say I was radicalized the moment I was born.

Want to know what de-radicalized me?

Talking to -- and spending time -- with people who aren't me.

Former President Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care at age 98, after undergoing treatment for liver cancer in 2015.

Whatever you may think of his presidency (and history is treating him more kindly than his contemporaries did) this is a truly good man, a mensch. In in my opinion he is a tzaddik, a righteous human in the biblical/moral meaning.

When his light is gone, it will be incumbent on us to work a little harder to keep the world lit.

@froomkin
I think that conditions of any settlement or judgement that Dominion accepts on this case should include a requirement that Fox must air a 10 minute segment every hour explaining that they lied about the election, why they did it, whose lies they were promoting and to admit that they are not a news station but a propaganda wing of the GOP. This should go on for a period of one year with an additional year tacked on for every time they fail to do so honestly and sincerely.

Florida couple unable to get abortion will see baby die after delivery | #Abortion | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/florida-abortion-law-couple-birth

The horrific cruelty of the US republican party.

When Carter ran for office, he was not my favorite. However, he has been such a beacon of humanity that I will miss him terribly when he’s gone. Few other humans have walked the walk the way he has.

It started as a joke in hacker circles, but turns out it might be no laughing matter: there's reason to believe that some of the unidentified flying objects flying over Canada and the US were nothing more threatening then amateur high-altitude balloons:

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/18/the-usaf-almost-declares-war-on-illinois-radio-amateurs/

Ahhh, long weekend.

Eventually, though, the fascists will have worked their way through everyone between you and them and then maybe the threat will be apparent?

You'll have a lot less allies by then, though, because the fascists will have killed and imprisoned the rest of us.

So, you know, by all means, take your sweet fucking time figuring it out.

Is there a good #OpenSource or federated alternative to #Discord? I feel like there should be one.

Controversial Book. Cartoon by Tom Gauld.

#Books #Reading #Writer

Kinda curious what inspired LifeHacker to publish a "How to Become the Pope" article that includes many gems, but this one is especially great:

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-become-the-pope-1850124789

Trump’s undermining of Zelenskyy on the infamous “do us a favor” call paved the way for Putin’s invasion. #velshi http://ow.ly/vQK850MWkfl