Kingstoler

amateur astronomer, atheist, secular humanist

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

Texas has decided public schools should teach Noah's Ark, the Burning Bush, Adam & Eve, and more as required reading.

It's terrible news for religious freedom.

It's also terrible news for Christianity itself.

https://t.co/a8ORWclPsa

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

We are at a point in human history where we have access to the best available information at our fingertips, and yet it doesn’t lead to better-informed health decisions because that information is drowned out by a rival proliferation of emotionally charged fake science news, conspiracies, alternative facts, and social media echo chambers.

[Kingstoler @Kingstoler_]

@simonmaechling That's right. Just use Bing.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

AI is brain smoothing tech.

[Kingstoler @Kingstoler_]

@AmazonMGMStudio Stargate. Fishing with Jack O'Neill and Teal'c.

[Kingstoler @Kingstoler_]

Burned through the investor money yet? 🚀

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

AI is becoming a real problem. These new data centers will create perfect propaganda, perfect fake evidence, and perfect targeting for every side, plus mass surveillance. Algorithms are already AI that decide what billions see, and soon nobody will know what’s real.

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

Many alternative medicine treatments are rooted in vitalism: the belief in a magical energy force that cannot be scientifically measured.

Energy healing: biofield
Homeopathy: vital force
Acupuncture: Qi
Ayurveda: prana
Thought field therapy: fields
Chiropractic: innate

Etc.

[Kingstoler @Kingstoler_]

@JoshuaW4145 @neiltyson Too bad Christianity is stupid

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

"You'll get left behind if you don't use AI"

My guy...your brain is going to get left behind for letting AI do all the thinking for you.

[🔱TheeLastQueen🔱🦋 @TheeOnlyKi65942]

A Christian feminist vehemently defending a religion whose God created her as a derisory afterthought and ordained her subjugation to men is the 21st century's most elegant case study in sadomasochism. It is intellectual self-flagellation dressed up as piety. It's disgusting.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Scraping websites and having AI summarize them, so that no one visits the websites, is theft.

Training AI on videos, so that it can make new videos that compete with them, is theft.

We are witnessing the largest theft of creative work in history.

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

No particular point here, just some general thoughts about AI surveillance in a real-world application:

Tannen (on the camera) and I recently went to a Target while traveling to buy some stuff for our trip. After buying stuff, we walked out and the door sensors went off because a clerk didn't remove a tag properly. We went back in and they told us to just walk out and that it was fine, since human cashiers already verified our purchase. I asked them to please locate the tag and remove it before we leave. The cashier said it was fine and not to worry about it. My concern was that, through some automated or AI system, we would be catalogued as thieves if we walked out and the 'AI' system thought the item was stolen.

Target has one of the world's most advanced camera-based loss prevention systems and, as I understand it, it logs shoplifting silently for people it has identified (seemingly partly with 'AI') until those people exceed a felonious amount of theft. My understanding is that Target waits to intervene with police until this point, so as to pin stiffer charges on people. It makes sense.

We ended up hunting for the tags on our own. I don't blame the cashier for handwaving it since she had literally just scanned our items, but we were both paranoid about the system erroneously flagging us for something we paid for. We searched for the tags ourselves instead and the door alarm didn't go off the next time. I had thought maybe I was operating on too high of a level of paranoia (as I often do out of safety), but just this morning, I read an article that people are having to prove themselves innocent after AI shoplifting detection systems are falsely flagging them and accusing them of theft after legitimately purchasing items.

That's it. There's no big point or anything. I think it makes sense for stores to have loss prevention, but I'm worried about if no one ever reviews the "AI" version of that before it logs faces as thieves. In our case, we weren't accused of anything -- but I do wonder if that first exit alarm trip logged my face in some system somewhere. Probably.

[Kingstoler @Kingstoler_]

@SitDownStar @JayzTwoCents Cringe

[🔱TheeLastQueen🔱🦋 @TheeOnlyKi65942]

Christians have been threatening atheists with a hell they can't prove, to a god they can't demonstrate, using a book they haven't read, written by men they know nothing about. And they genuinely cannot understand why nobody is scared.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

LLMs have normalized feeding people summaries.

Nobody is given the full, raw expression or source anymore, only bullet points or a summary.

The dumbification of society.

[DarkMatter2525 @DarkMatter2525]

@FFRF What is it about religious people that fills them with the insatiable need to use their accomplishments to shit on other people?

[DarkMatter2525 @DarkMatter2525]

@farzyness Posts like these are always the same. "God did this for me...God did that for me". They're all rooted in pure selfishness, usually regarding problems that are ultimately trivial. Never mind the suffering other children face, suffering you've never fathomed. You got yours.

[Jay �� @TREHAWKlNS]

Christianity has done more harm than good to our society.

[Kingstoler @Kingstoler_]

@burkeblack Flying cars