Howard Sperm

ethereum cofounder

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@provisionalidea that was pretty freaking insightful in 2023 hats off to you man

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@BlockEnthusiast exactly poisoning wikipedia and stackoverflow with slop is (in this dark vision) not accidental

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it occurred to me the other day that “AI” is fundamentally our era’s Acts of Enclosure: claiming the intellectual commons as private property, now metered and resold to those who formerly benefited from it as a common human resource

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

there is an argument (which I've made privately until now) that one of the principal innovations of the large language model labs is a *legal* innovation, not a technical one

by building a system that hoovers up mind-bogglingly large volumes of human information and feeds it into a recombinatorial association machine, the companies have bulldozed the existing IP regime and made the contents of ~all human IP (including the most mundane) searchable, reconfigurable, and usable while also obscuring any trace of origin and eliminating a need to provide credit or attribution. much of the perceived benefit is therefore access and exposure to IP people would not otherwise have had access to, presented behind a system that abstracts the IP from its context and history and presents it as net-new information.

I imagine we would have seen ~similar productivity outcomes had Google actually been allowed to make productive use of the Google Books database over a decade ago.

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people that play candy crush on trains are lowkey kinda performative

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People that read books on the train are lowkey kinda performative 😭

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@brianonhere extremely good tweet

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@cartoonitunes van de *sande

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pretty dark i know i’m sorry

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we should anticipate a consequent intellectual proletarianization, a new mass class with nothing to sell but themselves, cut off forever from what was formerly “wisdom,” “intuition,” and common knowledge

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@DanRosiak hey help me help you help me seem less Scary ahahahaha

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protect pope leo at all costs

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear friends, during some recent medical examinations, the doctors found a small, localized nodule in my lung. It was detected at a very early stage and is well-localized. The doctors believe that it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to remove it. The operation is already scheduled to take place in the coming days. I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers.

[official AI optimist account @gasnerpants]

incidentally I was reading in Rosmarie Waldrop’s amazing book on Edmond Jabès that he would go to the beach and collect pebbles that looked like faces and give them to his friends, which imo is a pretty good candidate for the acme of human life

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@davidzmorris this last tweet gets to the heart of it. It’s weaponized nerd-sniping

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@sevensixfive “faustian?”

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@sevensixfive @tenobrus correct response, anyone who considers this repetitive banal garbage “good writing” is internet poisoned to an advanced degree

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@___frye banger

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@mage_ofaquarius womp womp

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@loopholekid banger

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@yuzu_4ever many, many, many such cases

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this characteristic does not, for instance, make you good at farming, dancing, lovemaking, cooking, teaching, or playing music

perhaps why certain people on this app propose a future in which these things are done by machines

[༺ 𐂂 ༻ @touchmoonflower]

a lot of you are intellectually deformed by having been convinced, when young, that a certain characteristic which you possess — a kind of arrogant obstinacy, useful for test-taking, computer code, and almost nothing else — is called “intelligence”