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Amazon says cloud infrastructure in Bahrain, UAE 'beyond saving'(thecradle.co)
4 points by slowin 19h ago|0 comments
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by slowin 4d ago
I couldn't disagree more. The frontier labs are already working with the military to kill people. What you're going to get (even more than we already have) is a two tier system where those with weapons and a proven desire to use t
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by slowin 4d ago
This would generally be considered non-competitive cartel behavior. I'd be hard pressed to name 3 people I trust less than Amodei, Musk and Altman.
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by slowin 4d ago
I do think we need solutions like UBI, universal housing and universal healthcare. I'm fortunate enough to have the skills and mindset that I feel comfortable in the direction we're going. Just like with all technology, those who
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by slowin 4d ago
I don't think so, I'm very good at using AI to produce things.
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by slowin 4d ago
That's not what he says. The geometric designs are influenced by weaving. The patterns that look like datura, an ayahuasca... are influenced by nature, and some of the patterns in Mexico are influenced by actually hallucinating (he c
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by slowin 5d ago
I’m a developer.
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by slowin 5d ago
He actually talks about that in the video and compares and contrasts the weaving based patterns, nature based patterns and hallucinogenic patterns. The datura pattern being nature based.
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by slowin 5d ago
It's thought that a lot of the geometric designs in Indigenous pottery and architecture are directly influenced by hallucinogenic plants like datura. There's a really great YouTube channel called Desert Lore and he covers this t
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by slowin 5d ago
From the article: > Understanding that this is policy is crucial for comprehending how Israeli soldiers are expected to dutifully erase entire villages without questioning orders. By saying “200 NAZA” rather than “200 non-combattants ki
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by slowin 5d ago
> The initial reaction, when some coding agent does a piece of work that would have taken you a week in an hour and does it well, is to be very disheartened by it. I think it depends on the person. I've been waiting for AI since I
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by slowin 6d ago
Israel should not exist because it's a state built by ethnic cleansing the Palestinians. I believe in the right of return and sovereignty for Palestine. I also don't think Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa should exist, and t
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by slowin 6d ago
I think you do have a point but, at least for me, I found it wasn't so cut and dry. Nothing I was working on related to the ethical issues I had. I did find other like-minded people in Microsoft and that felt like we were at least cr
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by slowin 6d ago
You don't have to believe me, but I made my account after I quit. I wanted to be able to talk about what happened without doxxing myself and my old account was tied to my actual work.
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by slowin 6d ago
I don't have FU money but I'm financially in a good spot, so definitely privileged compared to someone who would be out on the street with a few missed paychecks. Congrats on getting out of a toxic situation btw, that's hard
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by slowin 6d ago
I agree that these are good questions to be asking and I asked myself many of them. It's a slippery slope imho, and it's easy to convince yourself that what you're doing is ok. At the end of the day, I was getting physically
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by slowin 6d ago
I just want to say that I don't think I was brave at all. I actually feel a lot of shame because I knew that Microsoft wasn't compatible with my values when I joined. I didn't know the exact details that came out later, but I
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by slowin 6d ago
I was a 68 working on consumer products, but it was still too much for me. Especially the revelation that Satya worked with the IDF to capture all Palestinian phone conversations and host them on Azure. Every day I woke up to go to work a
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by slowin 6d ago
It's up to us, as tech workers to push back against this. I quit my job at Microsoft due to their complicity with Israeli war crimes and oppression (and certainly the US government was involved too). It's tough to leave a high pay
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by slowin 7d ago
Yeah, I think it's both.
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by slowin 7d ago
I think there are social downsides, which is why they want mass surveillance and to avoid being confronted by the people who don't agree that they are our "betters".
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by slowin 7d ago
I don't think they're oblivious, I think they're lying. Playing dumb/plausible deniability can give them enough wiggle room to execute plans that would otherwise be stopped before it's too late.
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by slowin 7d ago
This doesn't sound like something coming from Anthropic's platforms: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive tra
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by slowin 7d ago
That's not the only example discussed. Anthropic also partners with the Palantir-like Samdesk: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we
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by slowin 7d ago
> “I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Twitter last
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Lloyds Bank Denies Palestine Action Prisoner's Mum Mortgage over 'Adverse Media'(novaramedia.com)
4 points by slowin 7d ago|0 comments
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by slowin 8d ago
It's better. No content restrictions and more control.
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by slowin 8d ago
Much better than an Apple TV is a Linux machine running Kodi.
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by slowin 8d ago
The Ellisons already control way too many media outlets and have started instituting censorship on TikTok. They are aggressively Zionist and I think it's bad for our nation (and the world) to have a pro-Israel media empire feeding pr
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Washington Post says Piker used AI generated audio but admits it has no proof(twitter.com)
2 points by slowin 10d ago|0 comments

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