Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

“Ultimately, I’ve seen completely unhelpful views on both sides,” Jayasena said. “There’s an overly affirming view of let’s just do everything. This results in what I’d call bro-science. We’re getting that disconnect between evidence and assumed knowledge because the internet is an echo chamber. Then there’s the other side of things – a more rightwing, moralistic view. Unfortunately, some members of the medical community are immersed in these views.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/this-isnt-how-good-scientific-debate-happens-academics-on-culture-of-fear-in-gender-medicine-research

This article says we should expect even more "I am an LLM and didn't understand your request" in comments across social media.
QT: https://mastodon.social/@axios/112256151525573175

@benzinazero un po' confuso

@freemo @avlcharlie the problem is that environmental cost are not part of the final price. Instead they are internalised by those with weaker negotiation power.

Examples:
- miners from poor countries pay with their lives to extract resources that unaccountable mine owners then can sell at competitive prices
- wildlife gets pushed away from investment-grade land

I can go on with Amazonian rainforest, Russian taiga, Australian Coral reefs, African rhinos, l Mediterranean fish, orangutans, polar bears,...

@freemo @avlcharlie maximisers would invest for profitability and not for sustainability. Clearly this conversation is way too abstract and way too generalising, but rich people investing in cheap resources is a real problem in times of pressing change.

Optimising is by definition deprived of vision, ask effective altruists ;)

@bojacobs don't worry about this one. The GenAI hype will burst way too fast to allow for the signing of contracts.

Yet, crypto seems to hold. Probably because plenty of cryptobros actually got rich enough to sustain the hype. No such democratisation with GenAI

https://futurism.com/the-byte/stability-ai-is-falling-apart

@freemo @avlcharlie well, unless people attempt to develop some level of sophistication, efficiency turns into greed, because thoughtless accumulation is the easiest thing to do. This is reinforced by a social environment where chronic accumulators are considered successful by chronically accumulating media.

@smach @simon How do you do validation on the produced data? How many tests did you run? What's the error rate?

@Yoshi @TheConversationUS yes, Stalin's solution has been tested for centuries

@donwatkins certainly they insist on selling, but struggle to find applications beyond "generate a lesson plan on the Martian War of 2076"

@amydiehl corresponds very closely with a more exhaustive study about motivation to engage with playing games http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/pdf/3-2.pdf