I'm gonna repeat my comment.
Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
I recorded an audio version of the essay "I am an AI Hater" by @anthonymoser.com - it's been on my to-do list and I really wanted to share his message today.
If you have 5.5 minutes, give it a listen!
(Note: the word shit appears twice, overall pretty tame language given the subject matter LOL)
USA like a car in winter, needs to be de-ICEd.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
I got this email:
"Rich,
Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever>
Claude Haiku 4.5"
Thanks AI!:
For our season finale, we're joined by the one and only Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant.bsky.social) to discuss how we can take lessons and inspiration from the original Luddites and apply them to resistance against AI and Big Tech more generally today.
politechs.dev/episodes/ai-...
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
We are so excited to announce that
@nubank.com.br
is sponsoring Apropos Cast this year!! We are wrapping up our summer break and will return to your youtube feeds on September 30th :)
As always, if you have a guest request or some code you want us to spiff up live onscreen, you can send us a DM!
As we work on the season finale, we'd like to share an interview we did for another podcast that made us realise that Season 1 of Politechs had to be about AI. Social scientist and researcher Anna Colom joins us to talk about the real risks of AI.
politechs.dev/episodes/ai-...
Why do so many people buy into the narrative that AI is inevitable so we might as well get on board (or throw up our hands in despair)? We get to the bottom of this, realise that Skynet might happen after all, and channel the great Lina Khan. Check out Episode 5:
politechs.dev/episodes/ai-...
Carter Burke - the executive from the movie Aliens Burke that had been assigned by his superiors with securing live Xenomorph specimens to bring back to Earth so that the creatures could be utilized as bio-weapons
Sam Altman the CEO of OpenAI
It turns out that Aliens was a documentary on the corrupting power of AI and we have the same actor playing the executive roles.
Υοս саո't ѕреⅼⅼ ⅿеtаѕtаѕіѕе ԝіthоսt ΑΙ
#саոсеr
#ᏞᏞΜ
If you would like to share our critical understanding of AI please listen along
I'm gonna build one of these but here's one for now that can be used for all your social media needs obfuscator.uo1.net
👂👂Šοftԝаrе Սոѕсrірtеḋ ԝіtḣ @steveklabnik.com оո tḣе frսѕtrаtіոģ ոаtսrе οf АǏ tооⅼѕ ḋіѕсսѕѕіοո. Ťḣеу ԝаոt tο рⅼау ԝіtḣ tḣе tоуѕ аոḋ аrе ոοt fаոѕ оf аոу ḃаrrіеrѕ. І'ⅿ սѕսаⅼⅼу ǑᏦ ԝіtḣ tḣе сḣарѕ аոḋ tḣеу аrе rіģḣt tḣаt tḣе АÎ ḋіѕсоսrѕе ḣіtѕ ḋіffеrеոt. Βսсkⅼе սр, tḣе сοոⅴеrѕаtіоո іѕ јսѕt ģеttіոǵ ѕtаrtеḋ.
Glyph cares more than you and is a better writer. The fact that you linked to his work rescued me from an otherwise total waste of time.
Υоս саո’t ѕреⅼⅼ tḣе ԝοrḋ ⅴіtսреrаtіⅴе ԝіtḣоսt аі tḣοսǵḣ սѕіոģ аі саո ḋеfіոіtеⅼу ģеոеrаtе tḣе ḋеѕіrе
Nice veneer of civilization you got there. Be a shame were it all illusory
Autumn leaves with a tree over a pond
Green and brown leaves
Trees with green leaves and brown leaves on the ground
Autumn colours
Autumn leaves on water
Autumn colours
Temenos sculpture in Middlesbrough
In my home town this week
Pipes on hotel’s roof
Ghent hotel - joined the space program?
So India and the USA (state and oligarchs) are aligned in not giving one single fuck about people’s suffering, instead are putting huge amounts into space adventures. The USA did in the 60s to show superiority over Soviets. Not a great motivation but at least it was clear. What’s the point in 2023?
Stairs and shadows of rails
Channelling my inner #ernstHaas
Vegan Ice-cream made with liquid nitrogen
Dumpling Dealer
Vegan Dumplings
I took a few photos at the Belgian Summer Vegan Fest yesterday
#vegan #summerfest
