wild article about content scraping nonprofit common crawl
tl;dr they've been faking deleting data upon request (in ways that I find very funny) and their head is noxious even for a tech bro
also is it just me or does SV have a particular gift for perverting the nonprofit concept
He said that Common Crawl is “making an earnest effort” to remove content but that the file format in which Common Crawl stores its archives is meant “to be immutable. You can’t delete anything from it.”
makes me wonder if it's some crypto hangover
In 2023, he sent a letter urging the U.S. Copyright Office not “to hinder the development of intelligent machines” and included two illustrations of robots reading books.
cheerleaders for creepiest weirdos in sv try to deflect criticism by becoming impossible to parody
sv does have for some time a peculiar understanding of this and also some other terms, like "consent", "ownership", "privacy", "safety",
More flaming dog poop appeared on my doorstep, in the form of this article published in VentureBeat. VB appears to be an online magazine for publishing silicon valley propaganda, focused on boosting startups, so it's no surprise that they'd publish this drivel sent in by some guy trying to parlay prompting into writing.
Point:
Apple argues that LRMs must not be able to think; instead, they just perform pattern-matching. The evidence they provided is that LRMs with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning are unable to carry on the calculation using a predefined algorithm as the p,roblem grows.
Counterpoint, by the author:
This is a fundamentally flawed argument. If you ask a human who already knows the algorithm for solving the Tower-of-Hanoi problem to solve a Tower-of-Hanoi problem with twenty discs, for instance, he or she would almost certainly fail to do so. By that logic, we must conclude that humans cannot think either.
As someone who already knows the algorithm for solving the ToH problem, I wouldn't "fail" at solving the one with twenty discs so much as I'd know that the algorithm is exponential in the number of discs and you'd need 2^20 - 1 (1048575) steps to do it, and refuse to indulge your shit reasoning.
However, this argument only points to the idea that there is no evidence that LRMs cannot think.
Argument proven stupid, so we're back to square one on this, buddy.
This alone certainly does not mean that LRMs can think — just that we cannot be sure they don’t.
Ah yes, some of my favorite GOP turns of phrases, "no unknown unknowns" + "big if true".
This is a fundamentally flawed argument. If you ask a human who already knows the algorithm for solving the Tower-of-Hanoi problem to solve a Tower-of-Hanoi problem with twenty discs, for instance, he or she would almost certainly fail to do so. By that logic, we must conclude that humans cannot think either.
"I don't understand recursion" energy
We regret to inform you that one of Google's "AI leader"s is a transphobe:
https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social/post/3m52bffg2222x (screenshot of relevant section)
Hey it's the character.ai guy, a.k.a. first confirmed AI assisted kid suicide guy.
I do not believe G-d puts people in the wrong bodies.
Shazeer also said people who criticized the removal of the AI Principles were anti-Semitic.
Kind of feel the transphobia is barely scratching the surface of all the things wrong with this person.
Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches:
https://newatlas.com/wearables/casio-g-shock-nano-watch-ring/
This is a joke, right?
E: my enshittified brain thought that this was some kind of AI enabled smart ring that also told the time. This is kinda fun actually, tho I would never get one
Casio and their target market are my kind of nerds. Taking a silly idea and an iconic design and pushing the engineering to its limits entirely for the bit is absolutely unhinged and I'm so happy they did it.
Google is space data-center curious, too:
https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/
Sam Altman got subpoena’d live on stage.
https://bsky.app/profile/walkingtaako.bsky.social/post/3m52utxcmls26
"An investigator from the San Francisco Public Defender's Office lawfully served a subpoena on Mr. Altman because he is a potential witness in a pending criminal case," spokesperson Valerie Ibarra said in a statement to SFGATE.
In a post on X, the group wrote that one of their public defenders had managed to serve Sam Altman with a subpoena, requiring him to testify at their upcoming trial. They explained that the case involves their previous non-violent demonstrations, including blocking the entrance and the road in front of OpenAI's offices on multiple occasions.
"All of our non-violent actions against OpenAI were an attempt to slow OpenAI down in their attempted murder of everyone and every living thing on earth."
So it's not because he's being prosecuted.
Oh yeah, it’s not the particular kind of good news we’d all like, but it is still entertaining.
Also, it is worth noting that this isn’t the normal way people get served. It’s a right hassle compared to just visiting someone at home or at the office or whatever. This sort of action is taken when the person being subpoenaed was actively evading it, but is also an egotistical idiot who is incapable of keeping a low profile.
Like a complete fucking idiot, I paid for two years of protonmail right before discovering they are fascists. I would like to move to another provider. I have until August. I have been considering Forward Email. Anyone have thoughts on this provider or recommendations?
I like mailbox.org so far with their servers in Germany
I am using posteo.de. They are good but I dislike that they have no option for using your own domain which makes switching provider really annoying. If I had to choose a provider again I would probably go with mailbox.org.
Found a high quality sneer of OpenAI from Los Angeles Review of Books: Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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