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.
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
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If you need space to scream today, please do so here. This is the designated screaming zone.
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This was meant to be for #WhiskersWednesday #Ketzeleh #Cats #CatsOfMastodon
WHAT THE FOX SAY?
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If you've been noticing an uptick in laws proposed and often passed, that are criminalizing nearly all forms of protest, it's because the oil companies are paying politicians to make the peaceful fight against climate change impossible. #environment
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/study-fossil-fuel-industry-lobbying-anti-protest-bills/
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This was the end of tonight’s sunset.
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New Yorkers are lining up at 83rd and 2nd to buy chicken over rice to support Mohamed Hussein, the street vendor who was harassed by Islamaphobic former US State Department official Stuart Seldowitz. You gotta love this city ❤️
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Every year I invite people who are celebrating the colonial holiday to do something in support of Native people. Amid an overdose crisis and high rates of poverty and illness, our organizers are doing amazing work to reduce harm and help our peoples thrive. If you want to support, here are some options: https://open.substack.com/pub/mskellymhayes/p/support-indigenous-people-this-weekend?r=af4cl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Paging the Log Cabin Republicans...
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To get this straight, we CAN’T afford:
- universal healthcare
- affordable housing
- student loan forgiveness
- or anything else to help working people struggling to get by.
But the Pentagon can take $3.8 trillion and not be able to say what they did with it. Okay. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-11-15/pentagon-failed-audit-shutdown-funding-12064619.html
Doxastic Voluntarism
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No reason to chew the scenery, no one said that. But an all-male board is definitely missing some perspective.
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Read up on the value of having a variety of perspectives in a team.
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Altman is back in at openAI, and the board has a new composition— which is to say an old composition. The board used to be 2 men, 2 women. Now it's 4 men.
When openAI started back in 2015, i and others publicly excoriated them for their team being all white men. So they've regressed to a startling degree here.
This is not a serious company, and neither it nor its human components should be invested with so much power and influence.
I get it, too; but it seems like an unalloyed bad thing that perhaps we've (unfortunately) normalized.
"the board is better matched with what OpenAI has become"
Well, perhaps! But if, say, "a force for injustice and increasing inequality" is what it's become, then that's not a good thing...
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But it hasn't expanded the board, has it? I get the impression it's maybe even smaller than it was before. Unless the old board members are all still members? But I don't think that's the case.
I also don't really understand how the board was replaced. Isn't the board in charge of the company? Did the board approve its own replacement? If not, how could it be legal? Maybe so much pressure was brought to bear that the board actually did approve it?
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
