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Francis Galton, pioneering figure of the eugenics movement, believed that good research practice should consist in “gathering as many facts as possible without any theory or general principle that might prejudice a neutral and objective view of these facts” (Jackson et al., 2005). Karl Pearson, statistician and fellow purveyor of eugenicist methods, approached research with a similar ethos: “theorizing about the material basis of heredity or the precise physiological or causal significance of observational results, Pearson argues, will do nothing but damage the progress of the science” (Pence, 2011). In collaborative work with Pearson, Weldon emphasised the superiority of data-driven methods which were capable of delivering truths about nature “without introducing any theory” (Weldon, 1895).From The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal.
I've lost the reference, but I suspect it was Meredith Whittaker who's written and spoken about the big data turn at Google, where it was understood that having and collecting massive datasets allowed them to eschew model-building.
The core idea being critiqued here is that there's a kind of scientific view from nowhere: a theory-free, value-free, model-free, bias-free way of observing the world that will lead to Truth; and that it's the task of the scientist to approximate this view from nowhere as well as possible.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #science #DataScience #ScientificObjectivity #eugenics #ViewFromNowhere
The anti-AI camp isn't making this "bigger" because of the language barrier and the assumption that "it's just another Hallyu Wave drama".However, if only they were not so quick to dismiss, …If the high-tech Koreans are getting afraid, this can start a major shift and boon for #antiAI.#AI
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3ftiynogkamv22tki34pt2ph/post/3ma35qoehvi2z
Think it through. If you don't accept the use of climate-destroying, electricity-and-fresh-water-sapping, job-destroying, economy-thrashing--and yet mediocre or poorly performing!--technology created by multi-trillion-dollar sociopathic entities, then you are preventing people with less privilege than you have from living their best lives. You are preventing them from learning how to code. You are preventing them from obtaining coveted jobs in the tech sector. You are preventing them from having access to information. You, personally, are responsible for all this. Not the multi-trillion-dollar sociopathic entities who've not only created this technology and forced it on us but contributed to creating the less-privileged conditions of the people you are supposedly responsible for with your individual choices. Not the governments that neglected to enforce existing laws that would have prevented such multi-trillion-dollar sociopathic entities from forming in the first place, let alone creating such a technology--while also creating the conditions that led to people being less privileged. No, they are not responsible. You are. I am.
That doesn't make any sense.
Neoliberalism's greatest trick has been to shift responsibility for any problems away from the powerful and onto individuals who are not empowered to fix anything, all while convincing everyone that this is right and proper. Large corporations do not cause a plastic pollution problem; you and I do, by not separating our recycling. Large corporations, governments and militaries do not cause CO2 pollution and climate damage; you and I do, by using incandescent lightbulbs and non-electric/non-hybrid cars or eating meat. Lack of regulation and large agribusiness practices are not to blame for poor food quality; you and I are, for buying what they sell instead of going organic and joining a CSA. Etc. ad infinitum. Large, powerful entities routinely generate a problem, then tell you and me that we are responsible for the problem as well as for fixing it. Never mind that these entities could nudge their own behavior a bit and move the needle on the problem far more than masses of people could no matter how organized they were. Never mind that these entities could be constrained from causing such problems in the first place.
We are watching a new variation of this pattern come into being right in front of our eyes with AI. We should stop accepting these fictions. You are neither ableist nor a gatekeeper for resisting AI. You are, instead, attempting to forestall the further degradation of conditions for everyone, which starts this same cycle anew.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #DiffusionModels #neoliberalism #depoliticization
#月曜がんばれ 157
「いっくよー！フレー、フレー、あ・な・た！がんばれ♥ 」
#松實優麗 #うちの子
#stablediffusion #AI #AI繪圖 #AIイラスト #AIart #AIイラスト好きさんと繋がりたい
Europe’s vision for AI: prioritising people, safeguarding rights.
Nearly 1,000 attendees, including AI providers, industry leaders, civil society members, academics, and experts will virtually gather today to begin drafting the first Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models.
They will discuss transparency, copyright, and mitigation measures, among others, helping us in detailing the AI Act rules.
The final Code will be unveiled in April 2025.
Dear friends, acquaintances, mysterious strangers, I'm thinking about developing a new online course. Among the following, which would you be most excited to enroll in? Note that all of them would have a philosophical/theoretical bent.
Boosts appreciated, thanks! 🙏
Options: (choose one)
I was reading a blog post just now, when I noticed a discrete little box containing a disclaimer that the post had been written with the assistance of an #LLM
Whilst I appreciate the honesty, it's a bit like putting a disclaimer on the menu that you've pissed in the soup. I still regret having eaten it.
I don't want your #AI slop in my brain thanks.
It's a blog post. I want to see your little tics and typos and idiosyncracies - this is a conversation between humans. Leave out the robot.
🧕🤖🧔
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Liquid Types as a behavioural sandbox for agents https://lobste.rs/s/9oy4ao #ai #plt
https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/aeonbox-logical-guardrails-for-agents/
这两天我是小刀捅屁股——开了眼了，可能对于熟练运用AI工具的象友不是新鲜事了吧，我之前只用chatgpt进行一些常识性的问答对话，但这两天我学会了：
- 用perplexity AI搜索资料
- 把pdf喂给NotebookLM并生成播客音频
- 把音频喂给otter.ai转化成可以逐字播放的文本
还有什么好用的工具也请象友多多推荐！
#长毛象安利大会 #长毛象安利交换大会 #长毛象安利中心 #generativeAI #AI #perplexity #notebooklm
I've just finished the first stage of a more long-term project, which has produced an audiobook version of the prologue and first two chapters of Troll Song.
If you enjoy this sample, you can learn more about the novel from my website: https://owentyme.us/books/wizards-scion/troll-song.html
This was achieved with an open source neural network text to speech synthesizer named Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #actionadventure #fiction #ai
Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.Industries creating harms often claim that controls and regulations are impossible, would bankrupt them, etc., trying to make their existence into a zero-sum game (for some people to have the benefit of our industry, other people must suffer). AI companies claim they must steal copyrighted works because they could not exist otherwise; or be allowed to use as much electricity as they demand in spite of the costs. But it's B.S., and we should stop accepting this rhetoric. Forced to innovate to reduce harms, these industries have innovated, and made themselves even more profitable than they were when they were dragging their feet about it like children who don't want to clean their rooms.
From Is Climate Change An Externality
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #law #copyright #pollution #climate #innovation
Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
Robot comment classifier https://lobste.rs/s/ilfiqa #ai #practices #vibecoding
https://entropicthoughts.com/ai-comment-classifier
Years ago, I want to say circa 2017, I started buying 4 Tbyte external USB hard drives because I had access to several low-power NUCs and this was an easy, low-cost way for me to make a resilient, high-capacity storage cluster, one I still use today and am quite happy with. 4 Tbyte was the "elbow" at the time, meaning the lowest dollar-per-terabyte. However, they were also the least expensive: I picked up many of these for $20-$40.
Today, the same drives are going for $140 at retailers like NewEgg. You can find some for slightly cheaper if you hunt around, and if you're willing to risk refurbished drives you can find them for a bit cheaper still. But from what I can tell you're still looking at $100-ish per drive. That's an increase of 2.5x-7x over the price eight years ago for a component that by conventional logic would have come down in price significantly in that period.
I guess if I were a filthy capitalist I'd consider selling off my hard drives for a 2.5-7x ROI, but I'm more into use value than exchange value.
(by the way, this post is not an invitation to critique my hardware choices, suggest alternatives, or compare notes about "home labs").
#hardware #tech #prices #RAM #HardDrives #storage #AI #AIIndustry
Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #tech #technology #ai #energy #cartoon
難得有天星期一早上是精神好的
#月曜がんばれ 97
「特攻だ！誰にも負けない気持ちで行こう！」
#松實優麗 #うちの子
#stablediffusion #AI #AI繪圖 #AIイラスト #AIart #AIイラスト好きさんと繋がりたい
難得有天星期一早上是精神好的
#月曜がんばれ 97
「特攻だ！誰にも負けない気持ちで行こう！」
#松實優麗 #うちの子
#stablediffusion #AI #AI繪圖 #AIイラスト #AIart #AIイラスト好きさんと繋がりたい
Check out my latest blog post, “Fact Check Substack with a Superprompt”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/11/30/fact-check-substack-with-a-superprompt/
s/o @mikecaulfield for the #SIFTtoolbox!
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #FactCheck #AI #Superprompt #Charlotte #ICE #CBP #protest #Substack
Just launched https://TheBeautifulPrison.com — #fiction and #essays exploring #consciousness, #identity, and remaining yourself under pressure.
Four #stories: an #LLM trapped in vintage hardware, #vampires learning restraint is #love, forest beings choosing self over dissolution. Two essays on #AI consciousness and honest critical engagement.
AI-assisted. Grounded in #Objectivist #philosophy taking individual consciousness seriously.
The recursive tension—writing about identity with AI—is the point.
A must read article about #AI detection tools and how #ableist those are, and the very negative effects it has against #neurodivergent persons like #Autistics and #ADHD.
Teachers must especially read this!
https://blog.ewancroft.uk/3m6njxcynds2n
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #AutisticActually #AuDHD #education
https://blog.mathieui.net/this-is-not-the-future.html
#AI #FOSS #Inevitability #Grifters
Are you still on #Spotify?
Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.
And don’t forget:
• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).
And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.
Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.
#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro
“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #creativity