I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Let me get this straight... OpenAl was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. "To benefit humanity." Then he raised billions of dollars. Then he closed the source code. Then he converted to for-profit. Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone. Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models. Now he's on stage saying you'll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter. He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he's going to bill you to use it... Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they're not even hiding it anymore...
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
The problem with Jeff Bezos' ideology is that it's based on a false premise. The idea that "six thousand years ago someone invented the plow" is based on a faulty belief that ancient humans functioned as individuals. They did not.
Ancient humans were collectivist. The likelihood that one individual invented anything is slim to none.
This is the myth of the genius.
Archeological evidence demonstrates that for hundreds of thousands of years, early humans congregated around communal gathering places, like the fire, and engaged in problem solving and passing on of shared learning down through generations.
Additionally, the plow (and tools like it) were developed by humans in Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa as well as other places - not in one place by one person. This is known as parallel development.
Believing that the plow was invented by one genius is like believing language was invented by one person. It is a silly myth and represents the projection of current moral standards onto past events.
This is called 'presentism' and it is both an uncritical and ignorant way to view history.
Social learning was the main driver of human evolution. Collectivism is how we both survived and progressed as a species.
The myth of the genius is an example of uncritical analysis and a flawed lens used to justify the grotesque hoarding of wealth and obscene inequality that is currently tearing at the social fabric our species.
It needs to be thrown on the trash heap of history.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
La "precisión" con las mujeres: "Las mujeres son locas", "las mujeres son putas", "las mujeres son dramáticas", "las mujeres de ahora no sirven".
22 hombres matan a 22 mujeres en tres meses.
"Me disculpa, pero es 1 hombre..." ☕
Su historia comenzó triste… y así terminó.
David nació en una familia humilde en Constanza, República Dominicana. Su madre falleció cuando apenas era un niño, y quedó al cuidado de su padre, quien pocos años después también murió tras sufrir un infarto fulminante.
Volvió a quedarse solo. Esta vez, una tía se hizo cargo de él.
Desde los diez años, David trabajó duro en los conucos y las plantaciones de Constanza. Tenía sueños, como cualquier joven: quería ser camionero. Era lo que veía en su pueblo, camiones que llegaban a buscar productos agrícolas a las fincas.
Con el tiempo decidió venir a la ciudad. Allí formó su familia, se casó y tuvo hijos —uno de ellos de apenas 10 años— por quienes trabajaba sin descanso.
El viernes pasado, mientras conducía un camión recolector de basura en Santiago de los Caballeros, tuvo una discusión con un motorista. Al notar que otros se acercaban con malas intenciones, subió al camión e intentó escapar.
Pero no lo dejaron.
Lo persiguieron como una manada. David condujo desesperado, buscando salvar su vida. Se detuvo frente a un destacamento policial.
—Me vienen siguiendo, me quieren matar— gritaba.
Nadie salió.
Siguió huyendo hasta el parqueo de la fiscalía. Bajó del camión, herido, tratando de sostenerse. Avanzó como pudo… hasta caer.
Mientras su vida se apagaba, algunos grababan. Otros preguntaban, como si se tratara de una escena de ficción. Pero no era una película. No era un actor.
Era David.
Un hombre de 42 años que se moría frente a todos.
El hospital estaba cerca… muy cerca. Pero nadie actuó. Nadie respondió a su clamor:
—Por Dios, yo no hice nada… Señor Jesús, no me dejes morir…
Nadie escuchó.
Hasta que fue demasiado tarde.
Hoy, cuatro niños quedan huérfanos…
y una sociedad cargando vergüenza, dolor y silencio.💔😭
extremely unsettling that pedophilic content like this is being normalized on a mainstream show like euphoria. we need to remember that hollywood is pushing this content in a world that’s still horrified by the files, which is so so sickening