Jimmy Wales

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[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

My Book, The Seven Rules of Trust, is out in English language markets as well as in German.

https://t.co/qQaEN3nuOP

[Dr Orit Kopel @OritKopel]

A Georgia officer used Flock's licence plate camera network to track his former partner and a man whose car kept appearing near hers. The system worked exactly as designed. Surveillance tools are only as ethical as the person holding the login https://t.co/LEI7qvHBWE

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

100% right. This is why I complain about parkour videos being ruined by AI.

[Olivia Solon @oliviasolon]

Surely the only reason a clip like this would be cool is if it were real? It’s the celebration of human achievement we want to see… Am I losing my mind?

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

@shroganaw @EdLudlow This is 100% not true.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

✊Young people are speaking up AGAINST a social media ban

Over 150 youth organisations and young people in Scotland have told @andyburnham to rethink the ban

A social media ban will fail to keep children safe - instead, it would introduce digital ID via the backdoor.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

France's highest court just killed the under-15 social media ban.

The problem was never the kids. It was that to prove a user isn't 15, every adult in France has to prove they aren't. The Constitutional Council called that a disproportionate hit to free expression with no safeguards for private life.

It was blocked three weeks before it took effect. Macron has already ordered a rewrite.

https://t.co/U6ZgvQDpfT

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

@PaulHsieh MIstyped one word: "Sometimes I am learning and practicing coding - gym" is what I meant. Doesn't matter much. :)

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

He's made a great distinction and analogy: work versus gym. If moving heavy things around as work, then use a machine to help if it's available. If moving heavy things around to get stronger, obviously do it yourself at the gym.

I was thinking about how I have these modes when I'm coding. Sometimes I just want something to be made - work. Sometimes I am learning and practicing coding - skill.

And I'll add a little twist - I often use AI when I am learning and practicing coding - here the AI is like my personal trainer, checking my form, giving me tips, explaining best practices.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

I just spent 20 minutes talking to Google (not even a high level gemini, just the free search result chatbot whatever that is) about the layout of my home ethernet and which switch I should buy. It was helpful. I didn't need a genius, it was plenty smart enough and knowledgeable enough to help me work through my reasoning.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

If a world class genius mathematician, chemist, historian, etc showed up at most people's door they wouldn't really have a task for them to do that requires all that genius.

If an eager and knowledgeable intern who is pretty decent a coding shows up, there's a lot of useful work to do.

Obviously the genius could do what the intern could do, but if the genius costs a fortune, and the intern is cheap? Fable vs Qwen 3.8-27B.

[Ara Kharazian @arakharazian]

NEW from Ramp AI Index: disappointing adoption of Fable 5

We've heard several reasons from businesses...mainly Fable 5 is just too expensive.

A model so powerful it was briefly banned, and yet businesses don't think it's worth the price.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

To be fair (to NASA) it looks like it's exactly the same as google maps. I.e. there's a line, but not the same kind of line, at both the north edge of Crimea but also at the bridge to Russia. I'm sure many people aren't satisfied with the solution but I think it's a good faith attempt (by google maps anyway) to convey the reality on the ground (it's occupied) as well as the correct borders in international law. I'm not supporting or criticizing it just looking at what it probably is.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

This is particularly true if we realize that "median employee spending" is only one aspect of it, i.e. spending for a chatbot to help with work is only one use case. When we think about things like drug discovery, AI-based improvements to ad serving (whether that's good or bad will depend on how you feel about it I guess but it's economically working), etc. then chatbot spending is only a slice of the revenue. 2/2

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

Not taking sides here because among other things I don't know where those numbers came from nor what they mean. But if the amount people are spending on AI is increasing (dramatically if we believe the graph) and if it's already $12/mo x 12 months etc, then annual revenue at 1/60th of AI capex to date is not a slam dunk argument that there's overspending. 1/

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

A special (targeted) tax break is welfare. I didn’t invent this truth, and neither did Bernie Sanders. This is a basic economic concept that libertarian economists from Bastiat and Mises to Hayek and Hazlitt have long recognized.

I have long pushed for lower taxes for everyone, not special breaks. Mathematically, a special break functions precisely like a subsidy. What matters are the results, not the method for benefiting one person at the expense of others.

When people like me say, “Don’t pick winners and losers,” we specifically mean that doing so is a form of corporate welfare.

[craig newmark @craignewmark]

@Wikipedia is where facts go to live

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

https://t.co/PfK8xkEEBP is interesting in this regard.

What's interesting is that it is very unlikely that AI chatbots are giving out vaccine misinformation so the effect isn't about that. "Pseudoscientific-belief-targeting messages were ineffective and, in some cases, backfired, reinforcing negative attitudes among individuals with strong pseudoscientific beliefs."

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

@honorablepicnic @LyraInTheFlesh @AnthropicAI I think a lot of people will.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

@72degrees3 Generally speaking, yes it's very bad.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

Generative AI text watermarking is surprisingly interesting as a technique. For a long text it would be easy enough to encode not just the AI model that was used, but also a code to identify the specific user.

This is likely to be yet one more factor driving the adoption of freely licensed models and software which can be used locally without any sort of account.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

@Biketommy And a disaster if done badly!

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

@philiprosedale That's very kind of you to say!

I think AI is fascinating and incredibly useful, despite the possibility of negative uses that you mention.

I'm a big fan of local and open source AI which is improving rapidly.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

I don't think those are the median use cases though... Obviously those are happening but so is: coding, researching things people are interested in, shopping, making silly pictures for family sharing, etc. 99% of people aren't having digital boyfriends or girlfriends for example, nor perpetrating financial scams.