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Intellectually I know it's Monday, but we're in the week after Christmas, which means that time has no real meaning and today might was well be called Glunday or Mirtday or Quangday, so, happy Nuufday, everybody

Just like human kids can learn to hate or be biased by growing up in a biased world, AIs can learn to be biased or hateful too by growing up in a biased training set.

And since AIs need vast quantities of data to learn from, they have a tendency to learn from datasets that can't be sanitized away from encoding human biases.

So be careful delegating too much to them in critical decisions affecting humans. Often they are a mirror to society; and can reflect both its best and worst.

Notable that Marc Andreessen backed Elon’s Twitter takeover and is now also backing Post.news, Twitter’s main competitor outside Mastodon. Once again, you think you’re given a choice but the rich get richer either path you take!
#technology #tech #twitter #elon #musk #twittermigration
"I can quit. I can quit anytime I want" - a visibly agitated vim user.
This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.
vibe check: do we like https://ipfs.tech?
IPFS Powers the Distributed Web

The InterPlanetary File System is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.

“Just remember: this isn’t a startup that’s obsessively pursuing growth, and you’re not a consumer. This is a series of communities, and you’re someone thinking of joining one. You can’t approach it, or think about it, the way you would a commercial venture, as hard as that can be to comprehend this late into capitalism.” How to Get Started on Mastodon by Justin Pots https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/
How to Get Started on Mastodon

Interested in trying the social network everyone's flocking to? Here's what you need to know to find your way around and build community.

WIRED
Hello everyone! 👋 I'm Su Hang, a hackNY '16 fellow. I interned at Chartbeat, and returned after graduation as a data scientist. These days, I'm an ML engineer at Swayable. #introduction
@ryw welcome riley!! 😀 one good way to find everyone else on the instance is to look at who's tooting on the "local" timeline.