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My general account for everything on the Fediverse - from programming to design to philosophy and social stuff to politics and making a better world. I want to network and learn stuff!
Also sci-fi, speculative fiction and writing, poking at worldbuilding with a bend towards coming from real science to inspire new scenarios not written about before.
"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. ‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.
But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/the-cult-that-wants-to-give-human-rights-to-robots/
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116098129762953036
The framing of this episode is extremely silly ("Is she a prophet... or is she just wrong?"): That is the oddest dichotomy I've encountered in a while. I'm a scholar, carefully observing what's going on now through the lens of my expertise, and sharing what I see.
I do my best to get things right, though no one can hope to be 100% correct and on top of that I'm working in a field where a lot of the claims I am debunking are based on non-disclosed datasets, etc.
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Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@egghat/116029477424043847
Wenn eine Metrik zum Ziel wird, wird sie nutzlos.
Meta weiß damit nicht mehr, ob ihre "KI" systeme wirklich irgendwelchen Mehrwert bringen, weil jeder einfach irgendwelche Modelle mit Bullshit tasks beschäftigt (und dabei Strom usw verbraucht), damit man genug "KI" nutzt
One thing that the discussions I’m seeing on security, encryption, and backdoors is that it reminds me so much of what resilience and safety engineering went through a few decades ago
“Zero incidents” doesn’t work as a mindset in resilience *or* security. So the question for me is what are the arguments we can make and what are the tools we can build that enable this mindset. Rather than saying “no, it doesn’t work like that. go away” can we say “no, it doesn’t work like that, but here’s what *does*”?
Jonty Wareing
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Hawksquill
Glyph
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
tante
Hazel Weakly
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