Workman

Just a dude. Free Palestine.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Once you dig into the “AI industry” it becomes clearer & clearer what it really is.

It is an extraction project.

It has already extracted the ENTIRE DIGITIZABLE OUTPUT OF HUMANITY. Our ideas. Our art. Our science. Our math.

Through a clever algorithm discovered in 2017, Jensen Huang and Peter Thiel’s protege Sam Altman figured out how to accelerate existing “generative AI” technology with GPUs. This was NOT an innovation in accuracy or “intelligence,” it was a way to process an old algorithm in parallel.

OpenAI was staffed in large part by “Effective Altruists”—a cult started based on the doomer science fiction of Eliezer Yudkowsky on the website LessWrong.

Peter Thiel was the initial funding for OpenAI, EA, and Yudkowsky.

OpenAI successfully convinced the market, and themselves in many cases, that they had birthed some new form of life. They just needed to make it BIGGER and it was destined to become “superintelligent.”

Based on Yudkowsky’s goofy ideas, AI was gradually anthropomorphized and deified—despite the fact that it was just software regurgitating the exhaust of human beings. The entire “alignment” movement is based on the presumption that chatbots deserve “moral standing.” It’s exhaustingly ignorant.

Eventually OpenAI employee Dario Amodei, a dedicated EA adherent, became concerned that OpenAI was not RELIGIOUS ENOUGH about AI being sentient, so he broke off to form Anthropic and named his chatbot after a person.

This false premise, that an algorithm was somehow producing “intelligence” was further amplified by training the output to sound as human, and addictive, as possible.

The combination of a kind of religious fervor inside, a deceptive product, and a flood of influence operations on the outside fueled a wild flow of speculative investment in both OpenAI and Anthropic—and especially into NVIDIA.

This eventually poisoned the entire technology sector which came to believe that the “race for AGI” was existential, so they committed TRILLIONS to achieving it. The data centers are all a function of a misunderstanding of what they are building.

Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are NEVER going to be intelligent, much less conscious. All they do is take our stolen stuff and sell it back to us. They do not experience. They do not do anything—unless you send a string of text for them to process.

Nevertheless, the entire financial industry, and now the federal government is pushing this dead-end project to engulf the nation in data centers and swallow the economy with “AI factories.”

It’s downright insanity. All of that capital expenditure is already junk. It can physically never make money. It’s built for GPUs which are the wrong substrate for AI.

Large language models are useful search engines for stuff we’ve already done. They are the compressed, digitized exhaust of humans with a clever language interface. That’s it.

There is no moat. There is no real innovation. There is just an accelerationist delusion and no adults in sight. Chatbots are a software feature, a commodity, that has metastasized into a cult digging a $10 TRILLION DITCH.

The reason this has gone so far is that rather than compete in a democratic capitalist system for the best technology product, this cabal of lunatics created an “internet alternate reality” that could “unilaterally change the world.”

The current AI industry is the largest extraction project in history. It is strip mining humanity and selling it back to us as slop.

“If you’re evil, you’re not bad, and maybe that means you’re kind of good.”
—Peter Thiel

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

@ulfhammarstrom @BenjaminNorton Regulation capture provides many incentives.

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

@IzzyPaxton_ Ah for sure, speaking from experience yes that is a valid concern for us night owls.

[☆ @starsandtigers]

Robbed

[soul khan, msw @soulkhan]

not to be all "i just got my social work masters degree so i know everything" but like our collective sense of what promotes child well-being is so far out of sync with both settled and developing research about what keeps kids safe and healthy

[Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare]

Reminder: Dockworkers in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, and Italy are calling for strikes on October 30 “against war and militarization” and to protest “the genocide of the Palestinian people.” https://t.co/8Iy2KvO9fU

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

@IzzyPaxton_ the price you pay for not paying

[Brooke Lin @Brooke_Lin1]

this is literally the clearest sign we could ever have

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

we are cattle and this is how we get led around

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

Nothing has been defeated. Every day people in Minnesota and many other states are still being grabbed by ICE. They aren't shooting or killing as many people now so it isn't getting national attention, but the "assertion of an actual police state" is very much still in progress.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

100 years from now Minneapolis will be remembered as a defining moment in American history, and I do not say that lightly. That was supposed to be the mask off moment of American fascism, the assertion of an actual police state, and it was defeated by a group of ordinary people.

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

@RahmEmanuel The only lie detected in this post is this one:

"The great thing about America is that everyone is entitled to their opinions and free to express them, however dumb or immoral."

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

The only lie detected in this post is this one:

"The great thing about America is that everyone is entitled to their opinions and free to express them, however dumb or immoral."

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Now that he won’t stop talking, the folks who told us Hasan Piker is a serious voice who should be listened to ought to let us know which of these positions we’re supposed to take seriously:

1. That “pound for pound,” America is worse than al-Qaeda - a ridiculous statement on a normal day, but particularly vile the same week we’re reflecting on the loss of 3,000 Americans on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

2. That Communist China’s repressive regime is the “model” for America.

3. That Mao was “a great man of history” while the collapse of the Soviet Union was "one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century."

The great thing about America is that everyone is entitled to their opinions and free to express them, however dumb or immoral. That includes ‘Comrade’ Piker. The rest of us are just as free - obligated even - to call out this vile, hateful speech that only divides America.

https://t.co/NDtnwubTK4

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

Fuck these so-called "secondary distributors" (lol), please let the door hit you on the way out scalper twats.

[camol @camolNFT]

Insane things are happening in the Pokémon scalping discords.

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

@Fantasyeconomic @YoungerPope Sooo either you didn't play it or just completely misunderstood it, and the same is likely true of any other game Remedy has developed, in order to generate such a shit take.

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

@infinite_jaz https://t.co/zOokyUKSYG

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

This kind of irrational loathing can only mean one thing: a deep, unrequited love for Hasan.

At any mention her brain just turns off. She reverts to a feral creature, desperately lashing out for attention and relevance in his life.

If she cannot have him, she must destroy him.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Here is a phenomenon that is rarely addressed in the climate discourse. The disruption of energy flows by anti-imperialist forces implies a denial of cheap energy to the world’s largest consumers of hydrocarbons: the imperialist centers. This not only has the potential to dramatically reduce emissions. By facilitating the redirection of energy flows, it also eventually gives states that have been denied their sovereignty the ability to recycle energy production into national development. And that ultimately diminishes the imperialist ruling class’s ability to buy the consent of its own working class for imperial violence. That is why anti-imperialism remains the only viable climate strategy.

[Workman @whataboutworkmn]

#Lanterns goes hard every week, but this scene from last night's episode has been in my head all day. Aaron Pierre has made a huge fan here over the past few weeks.

[Uncle Scam @markaprovost]

People taking AI CEOs at their word amidst a blatantly transparent PR ploy to parlay public fears into incumbent-friendly regulation for an industry with zero financial viability on the eve of their record shattering IPOs is the reason why bubbles exist in the first place

[Matteo Pellegrini @matteopelleg]

How to kill open source models in 3 simple steps:

- Create panic about frontier models.
- Have the biggest AI companies help write the “safety” rules. ← WE’RE HERE
- Make those rules so burdensome that open source can’t compete.

Art of the deal.