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Great news for @TheStranger and the news media in Seattle! Eli is an exceptional journalist and person. Congratulations @elijsanders!
Eli Sanders, a journalist-turned-lawyer who won the paper's first and only Pulitzer Prize, hopes to use his legal training to better inform The Stranger's journalism. seattletimes.com/entertainme…
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The inability of the left to distinguish between an imperfect ally and an enemy is the height of privilege and will be our downfall
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I'll make this simple.
It is irrelevant whether AI is conscious (it isn't).
It is irrelevant whether being mean to the AI means you're a bad person (it doesn't).
It is irrelevant whether being mean to the AI is bad for the society (it's not).
It is irrelevant whether someone thinks that someone else being mean to the AI is a bad thing.
Don't fall into debating any of these fake "arguments". They are there only to confuse you from noticing the real problem which is that Anthropic (and OpenAI, and EA in general, etc) are scheming to institutionalize themselves as moral arbiters of truth and set limits on what constitutes acceptable speech. What, you thought this was just about Anthropic and bullying the AI? Just you wait.
Reject this cancerous growth from our society.
Can’t be said often enough. @nic_carter says the most important part here:
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There are many secular critics who are writing admirably about AI. But it's been apparent to me for a while that religious—particularly catholic—critics are speaking to the public's moral disquiet in a way that secular thinkers, reliant on utilitarian claims about harm, are not.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
So very much of this; for any of us who have been lifelong educators who screamed into the ether about this for two decades, only to be trampled, it’s more than disturbing to see that almost everything we feared has come true:
How public schools in the U.S. have effectively surrendered much of their pedagogy, curricula, and operating systems to a handful of trillion-dollar technology companies.
newyorker.com/culture/progre…
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At the Bernie-Bannon AI hysteria conference, they allowed a heretical voice on stage—who happens to be one of the smartest & most accomplished technologists on Earth.
Jaron Lanier explained the origins of the problem—Minsky et al. anthropomorphizing AI because it sold well.
The problem begins with calling it artificial *intelligence* far before you could plausibly argue that it was.
Jaron calmly explains how the industry is now essentially a religion focused on building a machine god instead of tools for humans.
For example, he says “agents” used to mean agents of humans—but now the industry switched it to “agentic AI” which makes loops of prompts sound like they have motivation or sentience.
This is really worth watching. Jaron is a legitimate genius.
The “fuck your feelings” crowd might want to re-read the modern Prometheus, aka Frankenstein. Not sure that approaching models with a certitude about what “being” means is the pro-human-future take we need.
This is the central human question about what is at stake:👇🏼
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Here's @davidrkadler with a terrifying story about how tech oligarchs are trying to create their own start-up city-states, including in Latin America, and how far they are willing to go to protect these private fiefdoms. Honduras is Exhibit A.
If you’re in NYC and want a unique, and especially meaningful day at work: try Wayo, co-working that’s developing real community! @wayojason is doing something fresh and new.
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you cannot claim to be serious about rebalancing our tax code and then pitch another sales tax in the city with one of the highest sales taxes in the country. shortsighted, unfair, no challenge to the status quo
Not so helpful as a frame. For those of us either a bit older or more arthritic, an e-bike might even be slower than a traditional bike. Dividing line should be speed, pedaling and size. It’s an unfair fight in the bike lane with throttle scooters over 15mph with wide cargo coming at you. @CitiBikeNYC e-bikes pedaled 15mph are a great commuter special!
E-bike is not a bike
2 men killed in scooter-bike collision on Queensboro Bridge, NYPD says - Gothamist gothamist.com/news/2-men-kil…
A painful reality of modern city transit life is that the loss of “the public bench” delivers a real blow to the elderly, disabled and many tired travelers. @NYCMayor @GrandCentralNYC and @MoynihanTrains are prime examples and a great place to start turning it around!
Wonderful essay about public benches:
“Public benches signify a commitment to public life. They’re a small article of faith in an ideal.”
placesjournal.org/article/th…
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An annual reminder: don’t spray spring dandelions with Roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and those chemicals can kill them all. 🌻
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MN Democratic Senator Tina Smith spoke for nearly 5 hours on the Senate floor to protect the Biden-era moratorium safeguarding America’s most-visited wilderness area. “I know there are so many people...who are wondering whether anybody in this building cares."
washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Chaco Canyon is sacred. As the Trump Administration rushes to push through oil and gas leasing in the greater Chaco Landscape—they announced yesterday that they will give only ONE WEEK for public comment on removing protections for this sacred place. Make your voice heard! NO to drilling in Chaco Canyon! ⬇️
eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Ho…
Or you can purchase your spices from the brilliant and delicious @PenzeysSpices ! Best product and company to source all of your spicey needs.
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America needs a Bell Labs right now and a government that stops slashing R&D funding.
wsj.com/tech/bell-labs-resea…
