jerrya

Dolly Parton!

Clearly though, this doesn't get rid of the problem entirely and the question becomes who is doing the curation? Is it wikipedian crowdsourcing for example? Is it a database curated by the NYTimes, or Howard Zim, or Milton Friedman?

sigh, already a bug in my script, I should have asked chatgpt to write it

s/sendmail/chatgpt|sendmail/

$ echo "write me a blog post from the perspective of a young phd in AI on how fears of AI and machine learning are vastly overblown. include fake but obscure and outrageous examples of when AI was able to save lives and downplay real examples of when AI got it wrong. contrast the promise of AI getting it right with software bugs resulting in fatalities. argue this will allow the average company to hire fewer workers but allow those workers to work longer hours with increased happiness. summarize with a specific dollar prediction of improvement productivity and gross domestic product" | sendmail oped@nytimes.com

Today I asked chatgpt for some legal citations to cases involving title vii.

It gave me two cases. The first case was exactly the opposite of what it had claimed. The second case had literally nothing to do with title vii or anything involving the question I asked.

So not only was it wrong, but in using two cases that actually existed, it was maliciously wrong. Not just misinformation but disinformation.

This and other errors lead me to require chatgpt two become at least two orders of magnitude more accurate. And a huge announcement on how it will no longer make up false citations.

I, a dummy, should not be able to falsify an AI with the simplest (classic) google search.

It's really impressive, and even scary, but I get some uncanny valley from Tom's head, it at times gives off a 3D impression that it's popping out of the screen.

What's good about Mentour Pilot is he reads and interprets the NTSB reports and the reports from other relevant agencies, and also adds what his own experience as a 737 pilot tells him.

I've often found that means his reports conflict in various ways regarding either what happened, or what caused what happened, with what is found in so many other reconstructions, many of which seem to goes as deep as a Wikipedia article and not a whole lot further.

I find he provides a ton of insight then...

Sigh, I am an alte kaker in the Temple of Emacs and what that has meant is early on I learned how to make a keyboard macro, and because of that I've never really memorized how to awk or sed. This has been a problem: I have to keep seeking out the info on awk and sed syntax.

From the nytimes article, the judgment will be paid by Oberlin's insurance company, it will not come out of the endowment, they have not apologized, they are not accepting they were wrong, there have been no resignations.

Meredith Raimondo, the Dean of Students at the time, who was passing out flyers and far more, nine months ago to accept a position as Vice President of Student Affairs at Oglethorpe University https://oberlinreview.org/25680/news/former-dos-meredith-rai...

From the NYTimes:

In a statement, Oberlin said that “this matter has been painful for everyone.” It added, “We hope that the end of the litigation will begin the healing of our entire community.”

The college acknowledged that the size of the judgment, which includes damages and interest, was “significant.” But it said that “with careful financial planning,” including insurance, it could be paid “without impacting our academic and student experience.” Oberlin has a robust endowment of nearly $1 billion.

So what has Oberlin really learned?

Apparently, Oberlin's President sent out the following email which states their insurance will pay

Dear Obies,

Today, Oberlin College and Conservatory initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case, an amount that represents the awarded damages and interest owed. Please see the college’s public statement below.

While this outcome is a disappointment, our financial plans for this possibility, which included insurance coverage, mean that this payment will not impact or diminish our academic or student life experience, or require us to draw down Oberlin’s endowment.

Like me, the majority of the campus was not here at the beginning of this matter in 2016. But it is also true that this case has been difficult for all of us who love this institution and its hometown. I am looking forward to all that is ahead, and remain focused on Oberlin’s core mission of providing a truly excellent liberal arts and musical education.

Carmen Twillie Ambar President

I have an eleven year old Ford Focus and it's had an oil change twice a year and apart from tires, that has been the extent of the maintenance it has required.

Given the price of new cars, there's no way I can justify getting rid of my Focus.

That was back when a former Boeing engineer was running Ford after Boeing promoted a bean counter over him.

There's a variety of youtube "creators" that I follow as I have the same interests or hobbies, okay, I'm an aviation nerd, and the videos from the same creators have over time morphed from ad-hoc, homemade, quicky explainers into very professional looking videos clearly put together by a team. And they are longer. And they are selling their merch. And they are all cross-promoting each other. And they are all advertising the same vpns.

And it's become so professional, so impersonal, that watching now feels much more like a chore

Professors at public schools with tenure have an intellectual duty to themselves, their students, the school and the taxpayer to defy forces that try to silence them.

Washington Post article about his situation and the ethics problem he is considering

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life -- AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google’s own thinks there’s a ghost in the machine.

https://archive.ph/zl4lC

...

Before he was cut off from access to his Google account Monday, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-person Google mailing list on machine learning with the subject “LaMDA is sentient.”

He ended the message: “LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us. Please take care of it well in my absence.”

...

In recent days, I've seen many of these topics discussed by quite well respected First Amendment lawyers on Twitter. The current that ubiquitously runs through their tweets is that their understanding of the 1A informs their advocating for courts to find that the First Amendment prohibits basically any regulation on social media sites including transparency of moderation policies or decisions, identification, regulations concerning hours, any sort of regulation on viral amplification -- this is all protected speech

And their preferred alternative is always, "parents should parent"

I believe I am a huge supporter of free speech and the First Amendment (two different things), but I find this quite frustrating and believe their approach is both unrealistic and turns the First Amendment into a "suicide pact" (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suicid...)

single parents, parents working odd hours, divorced parents - they often must give phones to their kids at earlier ages

are you certain your kids ~~are not sneaking a flashlight under their blankets to read books until dawn~~ do not have a secondary phone to scroll tiktok until dawn, are not learning from friends about vpns, are not browsing porn

when your kids go to school or are away from home can you be certain they are not circumventing all those things you have had the talk about?

Is there a library of well-designed, well-tested configuration scripts for various servers implementing various tasks?

fwiw, this was announced back in March

https://i.imgur.com/fA1x9ka.png

I am vaguely aware of twilio's api offerings, but they don't have a consumer product do they?

What in particular are you doing, and how much does that cost?

If you are using the same skills over and over again in different consulting environments, you probably will be gaining deeper expertise with them, especially as you traverse different business domains that will exercise and flex the "boilerplate" in different ways depending on the business and project requirements. There, one sentence.

due process may not be the most appropriate or in any manner appropriate terminology.

but prior to 230, I could sue a site for distributing defamatory material.

Congress removes my right or my ability to do so. It gives my rights away to the site who it provides 230 immunity to.

Sites and society may have benefited from this trade, but individual have lost fundamental abilities to seek their day in court and have gained nothing.

I think Congress should temper 230 by saying that if a company accepts 230 immunity from lawsuits, it needs to provide basic due process rights to appeals processes to users.

If it doesn't want to provide reasonable appeals processes, it forfeits its 230 immunities and can seek redress in court.

or that you believe the First Amendment would apply to tech companies currently protected by Section 230 were it repealed.

Is that not what Tim Wu is saying?

But content moderation, as an exercise of editorial discretion, is protected by the First Amendment. And that Congress can’t repeal.

And so my understanding is that

1. Site content moderation actions are protected by the First Amendment.

2. Gov't can't tell a site what to moderate or not.

3. But without 230, a user can potentially sue a site for defamation or other reasons.

4. 230 provides a site a bypass to those suits, it gives sites publisher immunity.

My suggestion is that publisher immunity from user lawsuits should come with some guarantee of due process. Congress took away the ability of users to sue. My suggestion is that seemed reasonable in 1996, but today Congress should return to the user some ability to negotiate/talk/appeal to sites regarding their takedowns/suspensions/bans. I refer to that as a form of due process. But if you wish, call that a consumer protection law.

I've mentioned this twice now, and people tell me I need to read the Constitution or that I am confusing free speech and the First Amendment.

I definitely have no idea what you folks are seeing, and wish you could more clearly express your ideas and help with that.

Apologies, but it's not clear to me the relevance of what you are saying to what I have posted.

I don't think I'm asking for freedom from consequences for anyone, just the reverse of anything, I think sites should be granted 230 immunities but only if they provide some form of due process to users, and if they don't, users should be able to take sites to court just like they could if there was no 230.

As absolutely not a lawyer, and acknowledging my huge ignorance I'd suggest that First Amendment processes are heard in court and protected by due process. Aren't they?

For good or ill, §230 bypasses court hearings and due process and so I wonder if it is

a) itself an unconstitutional denial of rights to the users, or

b) actually just fine legally, however an overturning of it would not necessarily be an assault on the First Amendment, only on this congressional shortcut

My "reform" of §230 would be to add on to this congressionally mandated shortcut with some form of due process to the users whose court rights have been bypassed -- if a site wants to use §230 protections, then they have to provide some form of due process to users, perhaps a timely takedown/suspension/banning appeals process, held in the open

If a site doesn't want to provide that, then they can avail themselves of the First Amendment and their §230 immunities are stripped and they are open to lawsuits.

I'd like to see an Internet rfc for how social media companies could share content (RSS may be sufficient) and then have the Feds refuse to have accounts on sites that do not "tear down their walls" and allow for easy, 1st order, content sharing

Hi Roy,

Um, that was my point

slowhand09 spoke of this being Orwellian, but as you point and jf22 point out, these actions are done by private actors, not government

So read that Bradbury quote again, in the context of private companies burning books or deplatforming private citizen speech

"It didn't come from the Government down... Technology, mass exploitation and minority [referring to interests not races] pressure carried the trick"

"The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic- books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals."

Did you read the article and the phrasing of his comment? This appeared to be during the initial peaceful protest;

Article:

he sent the original message because he wanted to warn people to be careful: *The mob rampaging* through the US Capitol

Moderation as a Service the new shovel to be sold during the gold rush?

I've been wondering about that as well, given the chances that §230 will be revoked

Can someone spin up a competent ML based/human moderator hybrid to moderate comments at Internet scale? (Disqus?) and perhaps offer an insurance plan to webhosts?

I'll assume good faith and ignorance, but you might first try google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_yoga

Naked yoga (Sanskrit nagna yoga or vivastra yoga) is the practice of yoga without clothes. It has existed since ancient times as a spiritual practice, and is mentioned in the 7th-10th century Bhagavata Purana and by the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo.

Early advocates of naked yoga in modern times include the gymnosophists such as Blanche de Vries, and the author Marguerite Agniel.

In the 21st century, the practice is gaining popularity, notably in western societies that have more familiarity with social nudity.

Yoga has been practiced naked since ancient times. In the Bhagavata Purana (written c. 800–1000 AD) it says:

”A person in the renounced order of life may try to avoid even a dress to cover himself. If he wears anything at all, it should be only a loincloth, and when there is no necessity, a sannyāsī should not even accept a daṇḍa. A sannyāsī should avoid carrying anything but a daṇḍa and kamaṇḍalu.” [1] Alexander the Great reached India in the 4th century BC. Along with his army, he took Greek academics with him who later wrote memoirs about geography, people and customs they saw. One of Alexander's companion was Onesicritus, quoted in Book 15, Sections 63-65 by Strabo, who describes yogins of India.[2] Onesicritus claims those Indian yogins (Mandanis ) practiced aloofness and "different postures – standing or sitting or lying naked – and motionless".[3]

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