Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

It's amusing to me that star trek imagined a world where an AI faces social rejection because he's rational, fact based, literal, fiercely/dogmatically moral, and struggles with social nuance. But here in reality we invented AIs that have no concept of truth, give zero fucks about accuracy, have no rationality, and can't do math, but match vibes and tone nearly perfectly.

The first artificial person will not be an autistic science officer. It'll be an extremely allistic salesbro or politician.

Seeing the CEO of TikTok testifying to congress was interesting. But just wait till you see John Mastodon called to testify.

Ikea's modular sofa designer is Game of the Year

People keep saying that people will adapt to AI like we did to other tech revolutions.

But the scale and the speed of progress in AI will dwarf anything we’ve ever experienced before.

The technology will have impact far faster than our ability to adapt our societies.

This is an amazing chart from the International Monetary Fund. If we stopped subsidizing fossil fuels, we would come very close to meeting our international climate targets. You can support capitalism or the fossil industry, but not both.

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The SEC going after Justin Sun and TRX for market manipulation is just *chef kiss*. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-59

Researchers monitoring the Twitter bot space noted, correctly, that TRON-themed bots were unbelievably, unimaginably prolific from 2018 onwards. We spent a massive amount of time building detections to shut it down — and it would just keep coming back. Major portions of all spam globally on Twitter, for months at a time, was just dedicated to hyping Sun and TRX.

#Valve Officially Announces #CounterStrike2

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Counter-Strike-2

Introducing #MozillaAI: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and #OpenSource AI ecosystem.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai/

It is funny to see some very large accounts that have been consistently anti-crypto, move seamlessly into fudding ChatGPT.

Clearly there is a spectrum of human responses in terms of openness to novelty.

The same ofc applies to us. We are more open than average to new ideas.

how it feels to talk about #activitypub and how #fedi implements it

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”