"There appears to be no limit to the evil a group can do if they can convince themselves it is for the greater good."

"[..] E.T.A. Hoffmann’s classic horror story The Sandman, published in 1816. In it, a young man named Nathanael falls in love with a woman, Olimpia. When she turns out to be a robot, Nathanael goes mad. That could be our fate too, but only to the extent that we anthropomorphize our new technology, ascribing morality, feelings, humor and the like to our large-language models, instead of realizing that those are merely recognizing all those qualities as patterns that we have created and then playing them back to us." #LLM

"The end of the connected world 🌐 was not caused by AI or a nuclear fallout. There used to be a programming language very easy to learn that powered many Web servers on the Internet..." #PHPgeddon

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What Bitcoin Did • Why AI Needs Bitcoin to Survive | Dhruv Bansal • Watch on Fountain

“Bitcoin feels alive, but not intelligent. And AI feels intelligent, but not alive.” Dhruv Bansal joins to discuss why AI may need Bitcoin t...

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"I know you are hearing voices. If you didn't hear them, what would be the right thing to do?" #TIL

I enjoyed seeing "The Social Reckoning". #TheSocialReckoning

A sign of maturity is accepting that you won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and that not everyone will like you. Once you make peace with that, it becomes easier to move on with your life. Sometimes, people simply don’t get along, and that’s nobody’s fault.

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Note to self: when you give a false date of birth for a service, remember to say the same date if they ask again. 😆

The change of season 🍂 has helped me focus. Still many different potential projects but I'm managing at prioritising the most important ones first. #planning

I didn't find green beans in the grocery store for my chicken biryani. I used broccoli 🥦 instead... 🤔 #improvising

Im excited for a whiteboard that's being delivered today. Simple things please simple minds... 😆

#amethyst auto translation feature surprised me (and still does) by how seamless it is. Once you've seen and used it, it makes you wonder why other (all?) apps don't have something similar.

"There's a universal way to see who you are, if you have the courage. You are reflected in your friends. If you have no friends, or all your friends are asses, it's you. You're the ass. Hate to be the one to tell you. If, on the other hand, you look at your friends and feel humble that people so cool are willing to spend time with you, in that case you are doing well. Just don't get smug. " #books #friends #quotes #qotd

Unpopular opinion: big tech wants to "slow down" pace of AI Frontier models for a restricted set of actors to gain an advantage finding flaws in others' software.

"The European Union makes buildings, chocolate, cheese, and regulations. That's what they're good at." (heard on a podcast)

"I do not trust billionaires to ever be altruistic."

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"With the lizard and the monkey both fearing change, it can take an extreme act of human will to do the right thing."

I blame on Nostr for making me stay up so late.