Marissa

Wildlife rehabber 🦊 Masters in Wildlife Conservation and Management 🌱 Rhode Island ⚓️

[Marissa @marissaa1023]

@TMZ

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The President of the United States is lying to you.

Vote his party out of power on November 3.

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

Not punishing rapists in high school and/or college because of their "promising futures" is how you get a rapist for president. Twice.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. https://t.co/6kfc7qzrsh

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test https://t.co/FfArMq69W2

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

How I sleep every night knowing I’ve never supported that fat orange pedophile.

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[Samuel Marks @saprmarks]

[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).]

Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI:

1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.

2. Why do AI developers continue despite the risk? Due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other, less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely.

3. Unlike traditional software, we can’t “program” AIs to behave how we’d like. AIs frequently severely misbehave. For instance, AIs from multiple developers recently hacked their way out of secure evaluation environments and into real-world companies, even though no one asked them to do this.

4. We have methods that can nudge AIs towards better behavior, but nothing that can robustly align them. Insofar as there is a plan, it’s to make sure that AIs are good enough at alignment training that they can align their successors better than we can align current AIs.

5. Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely. That was the intent of this open letter (which I signed): https://t.co/TZOm3LfptY

I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

“The president is just trolling!”

Hey, here’s a wild thought. Maybe I want my country to be run by someone who isn’t a fucking internet troll.

[davey @justdaveyjustin]

Breathing in hefty lungfuls of smoke as I get explosive diarrhea from salad, the sky turns apocalyptic orange while oil companies drill in protected lands, screwworms are eating cattle alive and the president just paid $6 million for rape. And I’m also able to bet on all of it!

[Autistic Lauren 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @Autistic_Lauren]

Remember that SpongeBob episode where King Neptune made thousands of patties at once using magic and they tasted like slop, whilst SpongeBob’s single patty tasted amazing because it was made with love and dedication?

This is a post about AI

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

“I don’t believe in climate change.”

Bro, it’s not the Tooth Fairy. It’s science. You either understand climate change or you don’t. It has nothing to do with your beliefs.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Reading will forever be one of my favorite hobbies because it’s like bed rotting, but with moral superiority.

[Marissa @marissaa1023]

I already decided to not watch love island this year because the US Season 7 fans ruined it for me. Seeing everyone’s reactions to the new cast getting released is definitely letting me know I’m making the right decision #loveislandusa

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

a short list of celebrities you should ignore when they preach about AI

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.

Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country.

https://t.co/nTGJAMbwAP

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Humanity thrived for thousands of years without AI. We can live without it. What we cannot live without is fresh water, farmers, agriculture, and land.
Stop supporting AI. It’s destroying our planet.

[lux⚔️ @lilithsdagger]

ai is actively killing the planet and chatgpt is making you stupid. i’ll die on this hill.