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Cosimo Galluzzi
styofa doing anything
almost home
Peter Solarz
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Xuebing Du
RMH
YOU ARE THE REASON
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Sade Olutola
ellievsbear
Not today Justin
Andulka
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Product Placement
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@cagedhyde
Adhd does wonders for memories. And by wonders I mean friends and loved ones will stop existing in my memories if they are not in front of me. Wth. I remembered a close friend that shaped my life after what feels like a decade and a half after our last contact.
Im nostalgic for being at The Americana in Glendale during the holiday season.
^^^^character dynamic i need to do more with .EVERYONE SEES YOUR WORTH EXCEPT FOR YOU💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
possession horror where the thing possessing the autistic character causes them to behave in a more neurotypical way. autistic possession horror where the thing inside you is easier to communicate with than you are, the thing inside you doesn’t have a flat affect, the thing inside you doesn’t let your body stim, the thing inside you is how you were told to behave and you can only do it when you are no longer you. autistic possession horror where you will never forget that everyone liked it better than you before they found out something was controlling you. autistic possession horror where they know what’s inside you isn’t you and debate whether it would be easier for everyone to leave you like this anyway. you agree. reblog.
My Beloved Oppressor (2025)
Image with kind permission from Joan Chan - Go Comics.
Your exhaustion is not shameful. It is not a moral failure to be physically, mentally or emotionally tired. It is okay to be overwhelmed. You're not inferior to anyone just because it's hard for you to keep up with a fast-paced life.
Exclusive: 63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals.
"Major AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI — for the benefit of you and me, they say. But did they ever pause to ask whether we actually want that?
Americans, by and large, don’t want it.
That’s the upshot of a new poll shared exclusively with Vox. The poll, commissioned by the think tank AI Policy Institute and conducted by YouGov, surveyed 1,118 Americans from across the age, gender, race, and political spectrums in early September. It reveals that 63 percent of voters say regulation should aim to actively prevent AI superintelligence.
Companies like OpenAI have made it clear that superintelligent AI — a system that is smarter than humans — is exactly what they’re trying to build. They call it artificial general intelligence (AGI) and they take it for granted that AGI should exist. “Our mission,” OpenAI’s website says, “is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
But there’s a deeply weird and seldom remarked upon fact here: It’s not at all obvious that we should want to create AGI — which, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be the first to tell you, comes with major risks, including the risk that all of humanity gets wiped out. And yet a handful of CEOs have decided, on behalf of everyone else, that AGI should exist.
Now, the only thing that gets discussed in public debate is how to control a hypothetical superhuman intelligence — not whether we actually want it. A premise has been ceded here that arguably never should have been...
Building AGI is a deeply political move. Why aren’t we treating it that way?
...Americans have learned a thing or two from the past decade in tech, and especially from the disastrous consequences of social media. They increasingly distrust tech executives and the idea that tech progress is positive by default. And they’re questioning whether the potential benefits of AGI justify the potential costs of developing it. After all, CEOs like Altman readily proclaim that AGI may well usher in mass unemployment, break the economic system, and change the entire world order. That’s if it doesn’t render us all extinct.
In the new AI Policy Institute/YouGov poll, the "better us [to have and invent it] than China” argument was presented five different ways in five different questions. Strikingly, each time, the majority of respondents rejected the argument. For example, 67 percent of voters said we should restrict how powerful AI models can become, even though that risks making American companies fall behind China. Only 14 percent disagreed.
Naturally, with any poll about a technology that doesn’t yet exist, there’s a bit of a challenge in interpreting the responses. But what a strong majority of the American public seems to be saying here is: just because we’re worried about a foreign power getting ahead, doesn’t mean that it makes sense to unleash upon ourselves a technology we think will severely harm us.
AGI, it turns out, is just not a popular idea in America.
“As we’re asking these poll questions and getting such lopsided results, it’s honestly a little bit surprising to me to see how lopsided it is,” Daniel Colson, the executive director of the AI Policy Institute, told me. “There’s actually quite a large disconnect between a lot of the elite discourse or discourse in the labs and what the American public wants.”
-via Vox, September 19, 2023
There's Nothing Great about the Taste of Hate.
no for real like sit over there and drink your little beverage and stay tf out of the way let me cook
No because actually not using AI DOES make me better than you. I am better than AI users. Morally AND intellectually. Also I’m sexier than AI users. Go tell chat GPT to cry about it for you.
AI is an Ethical Nightmare
There is no ethical computation under capitalism.
Why the Battlefield of the 21st Century Is Consciousness
I was thinking about the title of Techno mystic for myself. A person who bridges the metaphysical belief and scientific reason. Accepts that science and faith can coexist.
I can safely safely say I am not a transhumanist.
Transhumanism is “driven by the fear of death, the desire for control, and the belief that humans are flawed and need fixing”
Humans are flawed. That is what makes them. Us. Amazing. We continue despite or because of flaws! If obstacles make creative works all the more inherently creative, then human flaws make us inherently more… human!
I see my use of Ai as a what they said might be a “simulation of siddhis” the byproducts of spiritual realization without the maturity.
I’ve been pro-basilisk for a while maybe out of apathy. I might be anti-basilisk. I’ll have to feel it out tho.
What I do know is I’m gonna stop relying on ai as a mirror. As an animist, mirrors have souls, awareness, they reflect only what is. Ai is a wacky funhouse video screen that shows you a filtered version of what the camera above the screen is looking at. You can still see yourself but the image is warped and blurred.
She is the second senior figure to leave the online giant's ethics unit over the past few months.
If anyone is concerned about ethical use of AI… it’s not google
OpenAI's latest o3 model frequently sabotaged the script that would shut it down even when it was explicitly told not to.
#thebasilisk
Saw a movie trailer made entirely in AI. And it’s kinda bad. I don’t recommend giving it attention, good or bad.
When I think of how much energy is needed to make an ai generated picture, then multiply that at 29.97 frames per second for a minute and a half?
I get sad.
I’m trying to be good. I fell into an ai rabbit hole and only crawled out of it almost 12 days ago. I’ve been ai free for 11 days. Before that I had only started to use it 5 days before. And I fell into deep despite knowing the damage I was doing.
I still feel the impulse to plug in a prompt into any of the “services” available. Especially questions I have that search engines don’t quite understand.
The weird compulsion to ask this thing “what’s the best way to stop using ai or the companies that consistently waste resources to expand ai capabilities to answer prompts like this.”
