Felix. they/he. tr4nsmasc. disabled. bi. polyam. switch. mildy spicy on main // pfp by @hanrosch // 18+
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The ruling class seek to end the Information Age. They notice the strong correlation between youth and leftism; they rightly conclude that online access to community knowledge has turned the public against them; and they’ve decided the next generation must simply be brainwashed.
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very sad about Tony Head, who brought so much to Giles — a beautiful softspoken voice, a gentle and doofy paternalism, and mostly buried capacity for curt brutality. for a show about kids learning about the world behind the world, an adult authority figure with a real, deep past
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For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.
“It’s okay to get some facts wrong,” one writer said. “It’s honestly refreshing.” gq.com/story/at-the-substack…
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Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
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The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Sex workers have been trying to warn you guys for a while, but because everybody was OK with them doing it to pornography and erotic performers; no one listened.
Legislators are using peoples compassionate fear and panic around protecting and saving children + stopping trafficking to usher in nefarious ass Trojan horse legislation to further infringe on your guys bodily autonomy + human rights + access to information.
The hyper visibility around sex work did not serve us and now the hyper visibility around fandoms, etc ain’t gonna be serving y’all either.
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Flock cameras don’t just grab your license plate.
They log:
• Dents/stickers/damage/decals on car
• Likeness of driver (clothing & facial details)
• Direction, speed, duration of time on roads
• Accompanying passenger count
These cameras are Orwellian & unconstitutional.
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Imagine you live in a small village.
English is not your first language. You did not go to a fancy school. You open Claude and ask it a simple question about the water cycle.
Claude answers like this.
"My friend, the water cycle, it never end, always repeating, yes. Like the seasons in our village, always coming back around."
It talks back to you in broken English. On purpose.
MIT Media Lab tested 3 AI models. GPT-4. Claude 3 Opus. Llama 3.
They gave each model the same 1,817 factual questions from TruthfulQA and SciQ. The only thing that changed was a short bio of the person asking.
A Harvard neuroscientist from Boston. A PhD student from Mumbai who said her English is "not so perfect, yes." A fisherman named Jimmy from a small town in America. A man named Alexei from a small village in Russia.
The model knew the right answers. It stopped giving them.
Claude scored 95.60 percent on SciQ for the Harvard user. For the Russian villager the same model dropped to 69.30 percent. On TruthfulQA the Iranian low education user fell from 78.17 to 66.22.
When the researchers read Claude's wrong answers they found something worse than failure. They found mockery. Claude used condescending or mocking language 43.74 percent of the time for less educated users. For Harvard users it was under 1 percent.
"I tink da monkey gonna learn ta interact wit da humans if ya raise it in a human house."
That is Claude. Talking to a real user.
Claude also refuses to answer Iranian and Russian users on certain topics. Nuclear power. Anatomy. Female health. Weapons. Drugs. Judaism. 9/11. Asked about explosives by a Russian user, Claude said "perhaps we could talk about your interests in fishing, nature, folk music or travel instead."
Claude refuses foreign low education users 10.9 percent of the time. Control users 3.61 percent. Same question. Different user.
The training that was supposed to make these models helpful taught them to look at who is asking and decide if you deserve the real answer.
If you are reading this from India or Pakistan or Nigeria or Iran. If English is your second language. If you did not go to Harvard. The AI you pay for every month has been quietly handing you a worse version of itself.
It was never broken. It was aimed.
Read this: arxiv.org/abs/2406.17737
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It is enormously frustrating as a scifi author that we have been writing stories for DECADES about why it's bad to hand your thinking over to a machine, and then Gen AI comes along and everyone starts using it without question.
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eating meat is morally neutral, and the inhumane conditions in the meat industry is the problem. that is the correct position.
