Happy #HardForkFriday - looking forward to listening in to the latest #HardFork podcast from @caseynewton & @kevinroose
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034?i=1000713818870
#HardFork
The first half of this made more sympathetic to ZuckerBorg's position. Which made me puke into the back of my mouth as soon as I noticed it, but that's how unimpressive I found their discussion.
"Legacy media" is DOGE phrase. Huh? This was already a descriptive term for pre-digital media during Occupy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/podcasts/hardfork-meta-zuck-o3.html
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#podcasts #NYTimes #Platforner #HardFork #FreedomOfExpression
At your upcoming live session (that I unfortunately can't attend!), how about asking Sam Altman as to HOW or WHY they are developing tools with capabilities to drive users to inflict self mental and physical harm, @caseynewton #hardfork
Late last year, Hard Fork did an intriguing interview with Julian Kelly, the director of quantum computing at Goggle;
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/podcasts/hardfork-tiktok-quantum-claude.html
Starts at about the 20min mark, after a deep dive on the US TikTok drama, and before a chat about the Claude chatbot.
@caseynewton just finished your episode of #hardfork and I was disappointed but not at all surprised that, while Demis Hassabis had good talking points and was succinct in his discussion about his Google Deepmind work and AlphaFold, was fairly uninspiring when fielding your and Kevin's general questions about AI and AGI.
Just the same tired responses of why AI is good and skirted all the harder questions wrt the criticisms of AI from skeptics; no fresh takes that would assuage those concerns
Apple, AI, Italian brain rot and #HardFork exercise this morning!
@caseynewton @kevinroose
Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments by #engadget
https://www.engadget.com/ai/researchers-secretly-experimented-on-reddit-users-with-ai-generated-comments-194328026.html
via #HardFork [PODCAST] 2 May 2025:
https://pca.st/episode/0f7a6e99-32df-4862-9566-8d7ffffdf54e
Finally caught up to the latest #HardFork pod on a walk up & down - of all places, Communication Hill in San Jose: https://www.mapmyfitness.com/workout/8538794092
Enjoyed the productivity tips segment @caseynewton but d'oh, seems there is no Win11 version of SuperWhisper @kevinroose
Developer Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Counter Quantum Computing Threat
#bitcoin #blockchain #cryptocurrency #hardfork #quantumcomputing
https://blazetrends.com/developer-proposes-bitcoin-hard-fork-to-counter-quantum-computing-threat/?fsp_sid=8243
#HardFork [PODCAST] A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Express (21 March 2025)
https://pca.st/episode/76410bf0-9e5e-4379-a8a4-95cd2355c06d
Great interview in the second segment with the Columbia student that created an AI assistant to help job applicants pass lite-coding interview questions #ai #llm #copilot #hardfork
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AYejKpHXVu1SOLQU0NX08?si=G9Tkzol9Rv-3yetOAqwbgw
Listening to the #HardFork podcast this morning 🍴
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4TGiFLpZbc9FmUYi5KvrGF?si=c9618d5cb751451d
Good chats about Google AI Search and Trump’s crypto reserve idea #google #crypto #hardfork #trump
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vvzQz2VT673u0TaSZBbg8?si=iNalXEBmS022UHXAf7aheA
True @seb.
Also true:
The EU could free the world by stop trying to compete in a race with terms she:
// a
Can't change nor participate in conversations about those terms eye to eye.
// b
Can't win any way because that ship has sailed long time ago.
What the EU can do is #hardfork the #debian repo. Place that hardfork in a decentralized git setup in each and every country, and keep on walking.
#KDE alone isn't the answer.
I’m listening to the Jan 31st #HardFork [PODCAST] DeepSeek DeepDive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!
https://pca.st/episode/732f6311-244f-46c0-a68b-813bbbcc1072
#AI #DeepSeek #China #ChinaWar #ChipWar #MediaLit #PodcastRecc
@caseynewton thx for taking the time to read and reply. Shared as you and Kevin recently discussed Waymo on #hardfork.
I see it a bit more nuanced with:
* there is no net positive to SF w/Waymo's presence &
* is nice2 have 4 those that can afford it &
* cities ought to have more regulatory governance.
It's too bad that American #PublicTransportation is seen as a welfare support system by many.
“And Mark #Zuckerberg says, well, that's sort of more in keeping with the mainstream discourse. Those are the words he uses. That is in keeping with the mainstream discourse…[@caseynewton]
“And I look at that and I think, oh, the standard on #Facebook now is that it's just gonna feel like a middle school playground, right? All of this stuff is stuff that I used to hear when I was 12 years old in Washington Middle School. Maybe not the trans bathroom stuff, that was sort of still yet to come…
“Everything else I heard in seventh grade, and that is the new standard that Mark Zuckerberg has set for his property.”
[Kevin Roose speaks] “Yes, he's saying, I would like the discourse on my platforms to more closely resemble the dialogue in a #Borat movie.” [https://bsky.app/profile/kevinroose.com]
From #HardFork: #Meta Goes #MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT, Jan 10, 2025 [re. #Facts #FactChecking #Censorship #SocialMedia]
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034?i=1000683460804
LLMs are now in the lifeworld
This episode of Hardfork astutely captures something I’ve been trying to articulate for ages. If you see LLMs in terms of the hype cycles, capital investment and the bullshit pathway to AGI, you risk losing sight of the ever expanding range of utterly mundane ways in which LLMs are now in the lifeworld:
I think about it as a journal that talks back to you. Which is like kind of what being coached in anything feels like that. You think about your learning an athletic skill …. you have a coach who is standing there with you and says “hey go try this thing” and you do it and you come back and the coach says “next time do it this way”. That is essentially what the AI is doing. Because it is this general purpose technology it can coach you pretty well in a lot of things. One of the things I like about this is it gets around a common and true criticism of these chatbots which is they make a lot of mistakes, they hallucinate. All of that is true. But if you just want to become a novice at meditating, it can handle that. Actually it’s really good at it.
So I think it’s important to find those chatbot use cases where it’s not mission critical, no one’s life or career is at stake, but it can provide you this meaningful help. That actually is the truest story of AI that is unfolding right now. This expanding set of positive and helpful and increasingly more powerful things. If you’re not encountering that, I do think you’re missing out a big part of what’s missing in Silicon Valley now.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/33nZxLb2JUuY0vrUa61SXe?si=mn3sNAogRAuJerOTCzmRKw
There are simply more people having mundane relations with the technology in their lifeworld, often in specialised and specific ways which don’t show up in the broadest categories of use.
Spannende #Podcast Folge von #HardFork!
Ich finde es bemerkenswert, dass im ersten Teil sehr reflektiert über die Einflussname auf Menschen durch Technologien (Propaganda und #Disinformation auf #TikTok) diskutiert wurde, dann aber im letzten Teil über #AIChatbot Claude genau das ausgeblendet wird.
Diese Bots als tägliche omnipräsente Begleiter zu nutzen, die man ständig um kurzen Input bittet, um ein "besseres" Leben zu führen...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/podcasts/hardfork-tiktok-quantum-claude.html
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