I've committed to leaving Twitter, but haven't yet decided whether to reside here or BlueSky. @pluralistic makes a strong case for Here, but I find Bluesky so much easier to use and find people.

@grammargirl in short, I believe the current wave of AI is engaging in extremely reckless behavior in ways I believe need to be thought about carefully. This isn’t some huge mystery. We can predict many of these problems. That is, perhaps, why google and Microsoft and Facebook all fired their AI ethics teams. If we don’t know about the ethical problems, our foreknowledge isn’t admissible in court.

@grammargirl I believe that OpenAI should be 100% liable for consequential damages and for all court costs necessary for plaintiffs to collect. Possibly establish a large (multibillion dollar) fund to guarantee these claims move swiftly. Personal liability for OpenAI officers. Similar for copyright violations. I do not believe that just because automation makes it easy to scrape licensed content at gigantic scale, that it suddenly becomes OK. Ditto for misinformation widely distributed.

@grammargirl I might add this applies to google not having a mechanism for taking down misinformation links. I know someone who was the target of harassment and fake accusations that got posted on a web site by their ex. That’s what came up first in googling their name, and there was no way to get google to remove it.

@grammargirl you can guess what my modest, humble recommendation might be for how to deal with this.

Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same.

This is actually false, New York Times. Ex-presidents have never been “shielded from indictment.” There is no “taboo.”

Ex-presidents have always been subject to prosecution for their crimes. Vice-presidents, state governors, and congressmen have all been indicted and even imprisoned.

Only one thing is new here: an incorrigible career criminal became president.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/politics/trump-indictment-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=TyR2nPdw64cv07eIzC7yxLxDsARzmm2yCdealUwCCBXjQXEk9N6LqJdynlb717HiF6GCa5s2uiT-rPRL7d_xOeF2yimTCLIrkbzWU_Ch5jcDouarKvN0pihm00fyECbfNHXdPtbHNZqJr7rTIYay2zA6sboZSX6oPIhTxPSwnRwAIQC-ydjPHj45n2lyaAPEvz7ZzT1FBR8ZWUvvFGmJgxOc2n_P-6EHTZfmgKUDb9aPZ6bU1k3rBDXLGBGShbODt2TrWJzMk0hQa9XU-do6Xaq5uix5NVPZTVq35oiJ5Bxgw_xEgPbCdO1kx07LY6yDoRZwB6QkWadseQ5a2Rn49nBbAbA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

@dankennedy_nu Why is “they could just buy our data anyway” a bad argument? Is it factually false, or is there some other underlying logic I’m missing?

@33ARSH @augieray also use good ventilation and air filtration indoors. We set up window fans and Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to keep things moving when we have others in the house.

@CarolineLucas We need to stop framing this as “our children and grandchildren’s problem.” It’s ours. Today. Now. We’ve already had serious drought, floods, and tornadoes in places we never used to. Lake Mead at historic lows. I hope to live another 30-40 years. Even a linear extrapolation — much less geometric — from the last 30-40 years leads well into dire consequences territory.

@augieray In a sane world, this would be good news. But since we allocate the productivity improvements entirely to 1% or less of the population -- and NEVER the ones who do the work -- this is bad news instead.

@winstanley Industrialization has been the greatest unlocker of productive capacity ever. But we still use an economic system that allocates all that excess strictly to those who own the machines. We need a better way to distribute wealth that is also fair (we need to define "fair"), etc.

RT @bullshitjobs
Dear @smeredith19, @CNBC, #climatechange is being caused by 3-4 billion non-contributing #bullshitjobs and the corresponding traffic, CO2, energy demand and heat. Economies need to maximize their resource and energy efficiency. Not the number of jobs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/ipcc-report-on-climate-un-scientists-call-for-course-correction.html

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@elfin @juliewebgirl Steven Tyler and I used to frequent the same frozen yogurt shop. They had his picture taped to the counter. We were never there at the same time, however. I'm sure he regrets that, to this very day.

@juliewebgirl @stever So we all kind of kicked it. A good time was had by all.

It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity
It was extremely popular among companies to switch to open offices in spite of this.

So, it shouldn’t have come as a suprise to see productivity deteriorate when people are forced to return to the office

@zaratustra @brandonscript @danhon AIs can be trained. Microsoft is not an unbiased source. Their programmers are not unbiased. Their management is not unbiased. Their safety filters are not unbiased (never mind unintended consequences). We're in for an ... interesting ... time.

@aweiss Really? If you don't understand the difference between the organization that puts on the event and the participants, then it's probably going to be fruitful for either of us to continue this discussion.