@cfiesler
Honestly, my conclusion is that the popular view of Sam in tech circles (the ones we are sadly forced to rely on for information in this case) is very much like Elon was a few years ago: just outright identity defining idolatry is very common, to the point that mounting a defence is the only thing that matters, coherence is entirely optional.
"Exempel på brister som skulle kunna leda till utvisning är bristande regelefterlevnad, som bidragsfusk och skulder. Det kan också handla om association eller samröre med kriminella nätverk och våldsbejakande organisationer. Även missbruk och vissa uttalanden kan komma att räknas till sådana brister, enligt regeringen."
https://omni.se/fler-utlanningar-ska-utvisas-for-bristande-levnadssatt/a/3EaoJq
Elva nazister vid bordet, som sagt.
@ZachWeinersmith
would you consider getting a doctorate or is your time better spent nagging your wife to get a second one if the goal is to bring the spousal average up to one?
@carnage4life
Did Sam Altman had AI experience when OpenAI was founded, or is the concern about such experience just moving goalposts? I checked Wikipedia but all it said in terms of technical experiencec is that Altman dropped out of STEM collage after a year
@philipncohen
Surprised by how hotels apparently don't see any "public" mass murders, nor has that happened for cars... but there's been some felony mass murders in cars?
Coding in criminology is always so confusing whenever you look closely :(
This is not a fully formed thought, but I have a visceral reaction to seeing coverage of Altman’s firing treated as a top-left news headline. It feels part of the hagiography of these dudes, that we cover them like kings and we cover their companies like nations, but somehow we don’t cover what their tech is going to do to real people.
@philipncohen
What is the difference between felony and public?
@flexghost
Sadly, saying that the unions are owning Tesla is very premature: there is uneven union membership in the shops themselves and Tesla is taking in scabs (which was basically taboo in Sweden) to the point that they have been able to keep things going so far.
In particular the dockworkers strike is mostly bypassed by Tesla having cars transported by truck from outside Sweden (via ferries or bridge) using foreign truckers.
You can get more details from the union newspaper at da.se (you'll have to translate from Swedish though)
femicide in italian news
According to all reports, he was triggered by the fear that, exactly after her graduation, she would definitely leave the city and move abroad, or to another city.
In this sense, getting such an important University result appeared to the guy as a level of independence and personal accomplishment too big to bear, and enough to make him a killer.
(there were other reports of him being "too possessive", but that was the final trigger)
femicide in italian news
Last week poor Giulia Cecchettin was ready to have the final discussion on her thesis in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Padova, but a few days before she disappeared, together with her former boyfriend. This weekend, she was found dead in the mountain at a hundred kilometers of distance, while a day later the boyfriend was arrested in germany, where he drove until he ran out of money and gasoline.
It’s curious that I haven’t seen anyone bring up the Sabra and Shatila massacre that Israel aided and abetted during their invasion of Beirut in 1982. The reason I’m surprised it doesn’t come up is that it was very close to Oct 7: attackers going door to door, torturing and butchering 1000-2000 civilians in their own homes in a “hands-on” fashion. Palestinian civilians in that case.
The point is absolutely NOT that the earlier horror somehow justifies the later one. It emphatically does not.
The point is that, unfortunately, what happened on Oct 7 was not “a new dimension” of horror, or a “uniquely” evil event. And when it happened before, Israeli voters later enthusiastically elected Ariel Sharon, regardless of the fact that Israel’s OWN inquiry at the time found him ultimately responsible for the massacre (at least he got a slap on the wrist and not a slap on the back). Memory is short, and double standards run high.
“In February 1983, an independent commission chaired by Irish diplomat Seán MacBride (the then-assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations) launched an inquiry into the violence and concluded that the IDF, as the erstwhile occupying power over Sabra and Shatila, bore responsibility for the militia's massacre. The commission also stated that the massacre was a form of genocide.”
EVERYONE: We gotta save salmon
US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS: Ok we'll build a giant fish vacuum
TRIBES: Why not just open up the dams
ARMY CORPS: We have to save the power companies!
POWER COMPANIES: No, you really don't
ARMY CORPS: FISH VACUUM
CONGRESS: Maybe u should look into shutting down the dams
ARMY CORPS: Our FISH VACUUM only costs $1.9 BILLION AND DOESN'T WORK LET'S GOOOOO
TRIBES: “Killing salmon to lose money deserves a deeper analysis.” (actual quote)
@franco_vazza
You have to scan a QR every time?! For the clusters I've used the scan was only needed to connect a 2fa app to my account, after that the app could generate 1 time codes independently.
I have a bank where I need to scan every time, but then the app that scan is also all I need to authenticate. Having to scan and then input a ssh password sounds very tedious...
@CosmicRami
In an example of very heavy handed irony, I don't have access to this article via my institution ...
@franco_vazza
What? I'm not sure I can guess what you tried to say...
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.