ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
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Joined Nov 2022
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Israelis in Tel Aviv demanding a ceasefire and denouncing war crimes
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If you think that violence started on October 7th, this report, written by 18 Israeli human rights organizations just 3 months ago, may help clarify.
Here is the executive summary. It's a quick read and a great overview of the harms of occupation:
https://www.yesh-din.org/en/state-of-the-occupation-year-56-a-joint-situation-report-june-2023/
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #HumanRights
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I am launching a new blog on Zionism, Israel & Palestine. I will be sharing my experience as someone who grew up Zionist, lived in Israel, and still has plenty of Zionist friends and relatives, and my thoughts on why Zionism is *inherently* incompatible with a just solution to the conflict.
The blog is called One Small Detail, in references to this quote by Yitzhak Epstein, who settled in Palestine in 1907.
Please check it out and subscribe at https://OneSmallDetail.org
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Some of my work:
- Washington Post op-ed on why only external pressure can end Israeli apartheid: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/20/israel-gaza-war-zionism-apartheid-injustice-pressure/
- Newsweek op-ed on what police abolition could look like: https://www.newsweek.com/defund-police-not-extreme-better-solutions-safer-1509713
- Horizontal, the tech & human rights org I founded: https://wearehorizontal.org
- Tella, our app to hide and encrypt files on your phone: https://tella-app.org
- CCLA, a collective I co-founded to paint crosswalks where the city of LA wouldn't: https://crosswalksla.org
I had the wildest dream... https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/11/19/i-had-the-wildest-dream/
(Also a mention of the #nanowrimo status!)
(I should note that I actually made this suggestion, when some GPT was out but I hadn't yet used it in the first person: https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/can-haz-agi/
On the other hand, it wasn't entirely a serious suggestion on my part; more meant to be provocative, on the theory that people would pretty much universally disagree!)
Here's a thought that just came up while talking with friend Steve:
It could well be that billions of dollars of investment in the world have been redirected simply because someone decided that LLMs released to the public should speak in the first person.
I don't recall that anyone seriously suggested that AI Dungeon or NovelAI were going to be AGI. But talking to something in the first person has a *big* psychological impact, perhaps enough to overcome ordinary rationality (see for instance ELIZA).
Oh, I can find my reply! But I can't find the rest of the thread, preceding the one that I was replying to, whose author has now blocked me; my reply looks purely standalone now.
On the birdsite, in the same situation, my reply would still be linked to the thread: depending on day of the week, it would either show as a reply to a post that was now not visible to me, or it would show (often confusingly) as a reply to some random prior tweet.
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Time to start pentesting your AI models, because there are a bunch of issues
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #awareness
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/time-to-start-pentesting-your-ai-models-because-there-are-a-bunch-of-issues-s-o-o-k-k/gD2P6Ple2L
And for that I get blocked and called a "terrorism apologist"? Seriously? By that standard, aren't you an illegal belligerent occupation apologist? I mean, c'mon!
The inability to have an actual discussion is all too familiar from the former Bird Site; sad to see it here.
And then Likud could proceed in peace with its plan to push all the Palestinians into the sea and take their land, peacefully and without any upsetting fuss?
If we're talking about crimes, you might want to look up "illegal belligerent occupation" sometime. Just a thought.
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Then, enter the anger when it is an appropriate anger, something that expects a better world that exists for the thriving of, and cares for the needs of, everyone.
But always refuse to enter the rage.
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Rage is punitive.
It has no answer to abuse but more abuse. It has no answer to violence but violence. It looks at a system that exists to consume people, notes that the system is consuming them, and then demands an even more predatory system, one that consumes somebody else first and worst.
Rage’s response to harm is to demand more harm. It's response to punishment is more punishment. Its response to a manufactured lack is to demand more lack.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
