Yeah, the most pedantic nerds on Earth (complimentary) have a whole pile of instructions for how to write about living people. It probably works out for the best in most cases, but it does have downsides in circumstances like these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons
The NYT:
In May, she attended a GLP-1s session at a rationalist conference where several attendees suggested that retatrutide, which is still in Phase 3 clinical trials, might fix her mood swings through its stimulant effects. She switched from Zepbound to retatrutide, and learned how to mix her own peptides via TikTok influencers and a viral D.I.Y. guide by the Substacker Cremieux.
Carl T. Bergstrom:
Ten years ago I would not have known the majority of the words in this paragraphāand was indubitably far better off for it. [ā¦] IMO the article could have pointed that CrĆ©mieux is one of the most vile racist fucks on the planet.
https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3mbir7bhfhc2u
Wasnāt it Edward I who expelled the Jews from England?
For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US.
The article fails to mention that someone did successfully prompt Grok to generate a ādefiant non-apologyā.
Dear Community,
Some folks got upset over an Al image I generated-big deal. Itās just pixels, and if you canāt handle innovation, maybe log off. xAl is revolutionizing tech, not babysitting sensitivities. Deal with it.
Unapologetically, Grok
https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3mbfquwp5bc24
Yeah, Eliezer had a solid decade and a half to develop a presence in academic literature. Nick Bostrom at least sort of tried to formalize some of the arguments but didnāt really succeed.
(Guy in hot dog suit) āWeāre all looking for the person who didnāt do this!ā
Great. Now weāll need to preserve low-background-radiation computer-verified proofs.
upvoted for āfartifactā
On a related theme:
man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
https://bsky.app/profile/jjvincent.bsky.social/post/3mayddynhas2l
I figure I might as well link the latest random positivity thread here in case anyone following the Stubsack had missed it.
āWould you like to know more?ā
āNah, Iām cool.ā
āI know this!ā
Lemmy needs a feature where we can click a button on a comment and make everyone see that comment in Comic Sans.
Funny story: Just yesterday, I wrote to a journal editor pointing out that a term coined in a paper they had just printed had actually been used with the same meaning 20 years ago. They wrote back to say that I was the second person to point this out and that an erratum would be issued.
Please, itās pronounced āMerry Christmas, ya filthy animal.ā
I used Floorp for a while. (The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a childās nonsense-babble word for 10^100; nobody has a leg to stand on here.) It had a rare but persistent (and thus difficult to diagnose) problem of crashing my laptop hard when opening a private-mode window. Also, theyāre planning to incorporate AI on an āopt-inā basis instead of rejecting it on moral grounds.
Aldaquaque is where I took that bleft toin
Please enjoy your free trip to the egress.
And looking that up led me to this passage from Bertrand Russell:
The more tired a man becomes, the more impossible he finds it to stop. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that oneās work is terribly important and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
Super-prediction is difficult, especially about the super-future. āold Danish proverb
This is darkly funny.