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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/05/2023

Trying to regulate AI is going to end up like trying to regulate encryption. The genie is alreasy out of the bottle and so preventing regular people from using it won’t stop bad actors from using. The knowledge is already out there. The research papers have been online for years.

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Rev. A. l'Uecipher @revaluecipher.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

there's a particular style of grievanceposting where absolutely no interaction that isn't utterly submissive agreement is acceptable; even when i agree in principle with the grievance, it's immensely offputting because i know participation is neither expected nor welcome.

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

Some nice paragraphs on motivating exterior algebra from the master's thesis I never finished:

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

One thing I’ve long argued is that privacy advocates talk about the harm of targeted ads but can’t actually prove any harm outside of saying it gives them the ick. Now a court of law has said the same to the FTC. 😬 www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/business…

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Judge Dismisses F.T.C. Lawsuit Against a Location Data Broker

The ruling was a blow to the commission’s intensifying efforts to crack down on the sale and use of sensitive personal information.

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henry @hdevalence.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

many people don't want this though. they want another alternative to elon, because having an authority figure means they can short-circuit grappling with the complexity of reality into "why didn't the ceo fix this already"

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

Staring at my reflection, shouting, increasingly agitated, "No, YOU'RE the mirror image!"

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

@pfrazee.com idk i think you guys are probably alread aware of this one but i'm getting a lot of newlines deleted

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Lina Khan’s obsession with big tech continues to be an embarrassing blind spot. Weird to write an editorial framing AI regulation as a big tech problem when what happened is a scrappy startup, OpenAI, disrupted the industry while Google self regulated itself into being a has been.

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Opinion | Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How.

Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, on the agency’s oversight of the A.I. revolution.

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

seriously complex analysis would be so much easier if i could just... visualize 4 dimensions

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Loopy @strangestloop.io · 01/05/2023

Let's do a sheesh chain. That's a single reply chain where each reply has a sheesh with exactly one more e than the sheesh above it, all the way to the fabled 300-character sheesh. The timeline couldn't do it, can the skyline? I'll start: sheesh

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

Definitely going to try to onboard more math people onto here #mathsky

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

So much of the difficulty of complex analysis would be ameliorated by an ability to visualize 4 spatial dimensions...

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

An excellent post from the bird site

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

"Hello everyone, and welcome to CS121 Intro to Programming in C. I'm your professor and this is my TA, or as I like to call him, the preprofessor"

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 12/04/2023

BLEET MAXIMALISTS RISE UP, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO BLEET HISTORY

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

I have an idea. Let's call them "bleets"

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

need to start posting more math content on this app

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johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 01/05/2023

i bet you're not actually going to become the joker anon

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guille @lmao.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

you wouldn't poast from Julia

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Jon Skeet @jonskeet.uk · 01/05/2023

@scott.hanselman.com did exactly that. Now to see if I actually use it...

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

so what exactly does bluesky do that's different from mastodon?

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 01/05/2023

yes. there’s other ways to deal with even the worst actors. ignore, shun, humorously dismiss, refute. but “bullying” escalates cycles of confrontation that bring out the worst in people. i think bad actors sometimes thrive off the negativity too.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 01/05/2023

you will all be able to run your own servers soon, and set your own moderation policies at the server as well as the community level. but i need it to be calm enough for long enough that we can build out the rest of the system to give people more direct controls.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 01/05/2023

i do and i have but i’m sure there will be cases where it looks like they’re engaging in good faith and i won’t know what to do, and everyone will start yelling at me. the moderation policies here are not going to be “ban whoever the loudest group hates”

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Joshua Silva @silvascientist.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

I usually avoid touching discourse with a ten foot pole, but since people seem so eager to set norms on here I'll just say that it makes everything worse when you act viciously towards people you don't like, including for you, yes you.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 01/05/2023

can i just step in here to ask, in a moment of relative chill before whatever next week brings, that we - not make death threats - block more, bully less

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