The Who's Who of AI

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

“Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politic…”

“We wrote a statement when they were on the press circuit doing this a few years ago but then who has time to do that every single damn time. dair-institute.org/blog/letter-...”

“Tegmark thought there should be an "alliance" to stop the oh so super intelligent devil kind of "AI" from coming to fruition. Who is in this alliance you say? Well none other than Steve Bannon. Any alliance with him has to be "pro human" right? www.theverge…”

“But do you really know what longtermism is? The stuff Tegmark talks about in his Life 3.0 book? Do you know what transhumanism is? Well we did the work for you in our TESCREAL paper: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...”

“But you can get the gist here too. One of those people here is Jaan Taallinn, another founder of Tegmark's Future of Life Institute, one of the biggest funders of Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind etc, and of course, a longtermist and effective altruist. www.curr…”

“@1xaipe Adam Becker's book has even more nonsense about these people. https://t.co/C4vysgNBl8”

“"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettc…”

“"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's got…”

“One of our DAIR pillars is to put forward our vision for a positive technological future rather than watching on the sidelines as the broligrachy gets to implement their dystopian dreams. So @adiod.bsky.social edits a series we call The Possible Futures Ser…”

“Yes you have to choose who you want to order from on the site. I would suggest Book Shop personally :) bookshop.org/p/books/deep...”