j_kloiber “When people come to me and confess their green sins, as if I were some sort of eco-nun, I want to tell them they are carrying the guilt of the oil and gas industry’s crimes.” via @zararah vox.com/platform/amp/t…
WIRED ”People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.” Watch Greta Thunberg speak at the UN Monday morning. wired.trib.al/VXdAnKt pic.twitter.com/ahHKlhbYaE
random_walker Whenever someone points out sexist/racist stereotypes in a new AI tool, you’ll find lots of apologists in the comments saying, "What's the surprise? It just reflects the training data".
Well, the "surprise" is that researchers keep releasing these tools as if everything’s fine. twitter.com/TomerUllman/st…
random_walker OpenAI said they wouldn't release one of their models because it could be used by political actors to generate seemingly realistic disinformation text. This follows a long line of claims that AI is dangerous because it's too good, when in fact it's harmful because it's too crude.
arancaytar @pervocracy "I don't want pronouns in my language" is the new "I don't want chemicals in my food"
fmailhot In the old days they'd put you in a room with just a big book and a slot. Someone would pass in uninterpretable symbols, and you'd have to look them up in the book, and pass different uninterpretable symbols back out through the slot. twitter.com/XandaSchofield…
"Seiner Meinung nach gehörte ich auf den Fußweg nebenan. Selbst wenn nur ein Prozent der Autofahrer dieser Auffassung sind — wenn ich einmal die Luxemburger Straße entlangfahre, werde ich von mehr als 100 Autos überholt." twitter.com/publictorsten/…