Omg ~~we are haemorrhaging money~~ AI is so scawwie powerful intelligent and ~~nobody will lend us any more~~ becoming self aware. We need to slow down the frontier to ~~do regulatory capture and juice our numbers for ipo~~ protect civilization
It sounds like many of these math proofs that AI is managing are simply scooped from users' chat histories anyway!
If you work there and you genuinely believe you will destroy civilization you're either full of shit or experiencing AI psychosis. This tech is simply not that good. go outside and touch some fricking grass.
zoMG. aI Is gOnNa KiLL uS All sOonnnn!!!!11!
The bad stuff happening now is worth it so that humanity can benefit in the future... Now where have I heard that before,
Betteridge's law at work here
Oh for sure and I am definitely strong Manning Drew's post to the max here. If it turns out he just generally means that resilient infra is bad with no nuance then I agree with your original point.
The "censorship resistance" being criticised here is in support of free speech absolutism: posting propaganda, misinformation and brigading and trolling people with no recourse. This is bad and has real and meaningful consequences for people like Jason Arday who was recently driven-to-suicide for being black and successful amid false plagiarism allegations and a media witch hunt.
I agree that left leaning causes also need resilient comms infra to allow for organisation. Unfortunately these issues are two sides of the same coin. I think it is completely fair to criticise people like Dorsey who left bluesky in 2024 because of their moderation approach which is hardly heavy handed - especially if you are a far right hater of trans people . We can condemn this behaviour and also hold the belief that we need resilient infra that the government can't easily seize.
I am personally deeply offended that an independent vegan restaurant in my town recently banned meat eaters from bringing in their burgers from next door and passively aggressively eating them in the restaurant whilst making eye contact with the other customers. Whilst I appreciate that there are a huge number of burger joints that cater to meat eaters, I am troubled by the idea that a young fledgling meat eater who accidentally stumbled into the vegan restaurant with a double quarter pounder and bacon meal under his arm could be berated and asked to leave. That might upset him and put him off eating burgers which would be a terrible outcome. I don't think I'm being unreasonable here. I'm no carnivore. I don't work for the beef industry. In fact, I am an omnivore and I have a friend who sometimes eats salads. I'm just saying that if little Timmy wants to enjoy a burger in the middle of a private space owned by people that hate burgers, that should be his god-given right.
*This post is about indie code forges banning slop
Screenshot of x posted on linkedin (since The internet is just 5 sites, each consisting of screenshots of the other 4)
AI shills: buh-buh-buh LLMs aren't stochastic parrots. They are so smart!
Of course the agent in question didn't actually take the weekend off it just learned from reinforcement learning across many millions of stolen slack chats that this is something people are likely to say in stand ups and repeated it...
Also the frontier "labs" are rapidly running out of money and having to raise more and more insane investment rounds. This is a great way to save face and back away from burning $$$$ on training runs that push the frontier of can a model rearrange some arbitrary coloured squares by 10% next they just need to solve the problem of how to make their customers pay cost+ on inference when they've been giving it away at steep discounts for nearly 4 years... Easy!