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Pope Leo: “We live in a performance-driven culture that constantly compares and ranks people, sometimes ruthlessly” and a “misguided understanding of meritocracy ultimately fails to respect people.” vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
did twitter X send *everyone* active on here $5 or $15 dollars? throwing pennies for digital id verification. clearly theres enough ca$h that could very probably maybe make society better if granted better. okgoing to watch mr robot again now
Interrupting your daily scrolling to remind you to take care of your mind body and senses. Delight and curate little pleasures in a chaotic world <3 a.co/d/05Tjxt47 @Amazon
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Endless short-form scrolling triggers a cascade of burnout, stress and depression.
The real cost of “just one more video.”
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt says “almost all” AI systems are “built on mass theft,” arguing that companies using large language models “shouldn’t be forgiven for that past theft.”
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Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
"whatever brain is doing" Yall need to stay in your lane or consult with the field that have the answers, instead of acting a fool and insulting them
There's a quadrillion-dollar question at the heart of AI: Why are humans so much more sample efficient compared to LLM? There are three possible answers:
1. Architecture and hyperparameters (aka transformer vs whatever ‘algo’ cortical columns are implementing)
2. Learning rule (backprop vs whatever brain is doing)
3. Reward function
@AdamMarblestone believes the answer is the reward function.
ML likes to use pretty simple loss functions, like cross-entropy. These are easy to work with.
But they might be too simple for sample-efficient learning.
Adam thinks that, in humans, the large number of highly specialised cells in the ‘lizard brain’ might actually be encoding information for sophisticated loss functions, used for ‘training’ in the more sophisticated areas like the cortex and amygdala.
Like: the human genome is barely 3 gigabytes (compare that to the TBs of parameters that encode frontier LLM weights). So how can it include all the information necessary to build highly intelligent learners? Well, if the key to sample-efficient learning resides in the loss function, even very complicated loss functions can still be expressed in a couple hundred lines of Python code.
getting used to Amazon drones in our mechanical outdoor soundscape — trains, planes, helicopters. still better than gas mowers and leaf blowers. best combo is nature sounds + distant train.
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The Avalanches - The Divine Chord ft. MGMT, Johnny Marr youtu.be/TvZpn322LxE?si=ep1r… via @YouTube
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too many people who don't love The Computer have been given the privilege of working on The Computer
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Winamp (1997)
>it was created by justin frankel while he was still a college student
>the famous slogan “it really whips the llama’s ass” came from an internal joke and was kept as the official tagline
>its customizable skin system helped define how users personalized software in the late 90s
>aol acquired nullsoft in 1999 at the peak of mp3’s explosion on the internet
>it played a major role in making mp3 files mainstream before streaming existed
>it also powered shoutcast, one of the earliest ways people streamed live radio online
