People who are pro-capitalism aren't swayed by the suffering of others. So how about a big thread on a bunch of "1st world" ways capitalism has fucked you!
Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 42
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HelloMiakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 16:08:56 JST HelloMiakoda -
HelloMiakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 16:08:52 JST HelloMiakoda Gamer? Games used to be as finished as they could, and they tried to catch bugs, because there was no way to update your cartridge. Capitalism has convinced you to pay $70+ for half finished shit. And now they can take it away! Oh, you have the disc? Enjoy the unfinished version when they take the full one away IF the disc isnt just a downloader. You know Sonic the Hedgehog on cartridge still plays just the same on Genesis as it did in the 90s.
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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 13:35:24 JST Adrian Cochrane No issues with those final tests, so now my work is committed to: https://git.argonaut-constellation.org/~alcinnz/CatTrap
It's always good to have more tests, but I've got other stuff I'm rearing to do...
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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 13:27:27 JST Adrian Cochrane Took a bit to fix auto-sizing, had CatTrap issues both with looking up which cells to size to & in the formula for the final size. But now my unit tests pass!
Now to write a few final tests...
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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 08:52:23 JST Adrian Cochrane @BlackAzizAnansi I don't know Twitter, but...
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 08:32:06 JST phryk 🏴 @emilymbender After reading both Altmans text and your thread, I gotta say you pretty much nailed it.
One additional thing I noticed tho is that Altman, especially given how much of a given he seems to think AGI is, does not say a single word about AGI rights, but talks about them as "products" and about "pulling them from production".
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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 06:44:38 JST Adrian Cochrane @jwildeboer I've got a Maddy email server up & running! That was easy for a dev who doesn't consider themselves much of a sysadmin!
That's an email address for my "Argonaut" projects, I might follow up with a home-hosted personal email address when I know which old machine I'll reuse.
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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 06:40:42 JST Adrian Cochrane Percentage calculation for tables wasn't as difficult as difficult to fix as I feared... I had some faulty clamping logic!
I'll be aiming to finish a basic testsuite today!
CatTrap dev #ArgonautStack
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 06:32:50 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: Get your own domain name! Run your own e-mail server! Run your own website! Yes, it needs a bit of work but it gives you freedom from the Megacorps. If we don't stand up and take the internet back, we will lose so much. Take your time, but make it a goal to learn this stuff! Not all of you, I get it. But every new e-mail server helps :)
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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 06:12:17 JST Adrian Cochrane @lightweight Does Christchurch have a group like The Nelson Tasman Climate Forum? Every city should!
Government can help, but we need to show them we'll transition with or without them to put their societal transformation fears at ease.
At the same time there's people in our Forum who don't see how to create effective change without going through government. As a former protester I strongly disagree!
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:43:38 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) No, they don't want to address actual problems in the actual world (which would require ceding power). They want to believe themselves gods who can not only create a "superintelligence" but have the beneficence to do so in a way that is "aligned" with humanity.
/fin
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:42:48 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) And, more to the point: There are harms NOW. Harms to privacy, theft of creative output, harms to our information ecosystems, and harms from the scaled reproduction of biases. An organization that cared about "benefiting humanity" wouldn't be developing and disseminating tech that does those things.
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:42:12 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) "Continuum of intelligence" is gross, not least for the suggestions of ableism, eugenics, transhumanism etc. But also "rate of progress [of] the past decade"-? Progress towards what? Ever larger carbon footprints? More plausible fake text?
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:42:13 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) Here's a bunch of promises about future oversight by unnamed independent auditors and also "major world governments" (who counts as major? who decides?). Also, how about just DOCUMENTING YOUR DAMN DATA for everyone to see?
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:39:38 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) What's needed is regulation about: how data can be collected and used, transparency of datasets, models and the deployment of text/image generation systems, recourse and contestability of any automated decision making, etc.
Talking about text synthesis machines as if they were "AI" muddies the waters and hampers effective discussions about data rights, transparency, protection from automated decision systems, surveillance, and all the rest of the pressing issues.
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:39:11 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) Okay, back to Altman. "As our systems get closer to AGI" -- here's a false presupposition again. Your system isn't AGI, it isn't a step towards AGI, and yet you're dropping that in as if the reader is just supposed to nod along.
Oh, and did you all catch that shout out to xrisk? Weirdo longertermist fantasy indeed.
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:37:41 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) Then a series of principles for how to ensure that AGI is "beneficial". This includes "governance of AGI" as something that is "widely and fairly shared", but I've seen exactly nothing from OpenAI about or advocating for building shared governance structures.
Meanwhile, "continuously learn and adapt by deploying less powerful versions of the technology" suggests that they think that the various GPTs are "less powerful versions of AGI".
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:37:42 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) What's in fn1? A massive presupposition failure: The GPTs are learning information about word distributions in lots and lots of text + what word patterns are associated with higher scores (from human raters). That's it.
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:36:34 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her) Then Altman invites the reader to imagine that AGI ("if successfully created") is literally magic. Also, What does "turbocharging the economy" mean, if there is already abundance? More $$$ for the super rich, has to be.
Also, note the rhetorical sleight of hand there. Paragraph 1 has AGI as a hypothetical ("if successfully created") but by para 2 it already is something that "has potential".
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World Wide Web Consortium (w3c@w3c.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 05:14:15 JST World Wide Web Consortium "W3C invites public feedback on a beta release of the W3C website redesign. The new site features a cleaner and more modern look, a simplified information architecture, improved accessibility, and more integration throughout the site" by @koalie
Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/02/w3c-launches-beta-of-its-new-website/