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David Högberg@davido1975@mas.to
Symmathecist in the medium of software. Nonconformist. Embracing the mildly disturbing. Sympathetic sceptic.
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- Nov 12, 2022
I just watched the most brilliant TED Talk by Carole Cadwalladr "This is what a digital coup looks like"
: https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
It's filled with memorable, superb quotes about the broligarchy. A must see, to be shared widely.
But then I looked up Cadwalladr's online activity. She uses Bluesky for social and Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary TED talk.
Honestly, it made me sad. One place is owned by crypto bros, the other is funded by A16Z...
“These are not the same”
https://tante.cc/2025/04/15/these-are-not-the-same/
> But AI models age like milk. Think of a coding assistant trained only up to right now, April 15th, 2025. Anything invented after this date, any breaking library update is not part of the training data and will lead to bad and false predictions by the model.
Imagine a system that rewards ruthlessness, punishes cooperation, and optimizes for short-term gain.
Now imagine asking it to fix climate change.
Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @emilymbender)
It's out for release on May 13, 2025!
Taking a moment to reflect on our Possible Futures event and looking through the zine submissions, and they're giving me goosebumps. Truly so excited to share them out, and honored to receive everyone's work.
In the meantime, here's a screenshot from a warm-up exercise:
I'd like to see a graph of people's faith in LLMs plotted against their comprehension of the output.
I would love it if my birthday meant that Ajay and his family got some extra money to spend! So if you want, you can contact me directly and I will make sure that the money reaches them.
Thanks in advance!
/David
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A few years ago he got married and his wife Anita is also paralyzed in her legs due to polio. We have paid for both of her births by caesarean section. They have two children, a son and a daughter. We send them some money every month to cover the children's school fees, clothes and food.
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When Natalia and I were in India in 2007, we met a young guy named Ajay. He had polio as a child and was paralyzed in his legs. We became friends and we have kept in touch ever since.
Over the years, we, together with friends and family, have helped him and his family in various ways, for example, we have bought them a cow and financed the construction of a toilet and paid for his English lessons.
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Hello everyone!
On May the 9th I will turn 50!
Here is how I would like to celebrate:
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I have been tasked to help a developer test something that has been developed using Claude.
It is a frakking mess.
“Capitalism is just voluntary trade,” explained the cop sent by the state to evict you from your home on behalf of the bank because you missed a payment because you lost your job because that same bank made vast profits selling predatory subprime mortgages through collateralized debt obligations but then blew up the global financial system when those risky gambles failed.
The markets "soared" today according to the press.
I guess "soared" in the same way when I accidentally threw my wallet in the trash and dug it out, I "found" a bunch of cash inside.
Using an LLM is not a technical choice, it's a moral choice.
Using an LLM is choosing 1) to take from people who did not give, and 2) to further ruin our ecology, and 3) to aim as your highest goal for mediocrity, and 4) to fund extractive capitalist billionaires, and 5) to believe that ends justify means.
When I see someone using an LLM, for work, for play, for curiosity, I let them go.
Take the pledge: I don't use LLMs and I don't kiss boys who do.
Wikipedia editors aren't paid. People edit the wikipedia because they take pride in the quality of the information. Having a lot of edits to your name it's a brag-worthy thing. Not getting reverted all the time is a matter of pride. It means you have a big-brain and know things. That's the reward.
If AI could help them make better articles with less work they'd use it. But, the results aren't good. Forget the environmental impact and the copyright issues. AI just isn't delivering results.
A group of Wikipedia editors have formed a group to address AI-generated content infiltrating the site.
(And I think Gillian makes a great point. What does it say exactly about the ... "value" of this new technology)
(Also she used the wrong "their" and I corrected it, because it was driving me nuts, that's why the word "they're" is in red.)
Now it is six months left before Trump will be forced out of office. It won't be pretty.