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Removing race from kidney function algorithm helped more Black patients access transplants Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”

Tinkerbell effect I guess everyone clap your hands

Obviously humans are still actually responsible. But you can see how this is supposed to work. They are very obviously using a machine to absorb some part of the responsibility for a monstrous crime.

Maybe they relied on AI to pick targets. But they bombed the school twice, hitting it again 40 minutes after the initial strike, in order to kill survivors and first responders. The mere *existence* of AI means no one has to be held responsible for this crime against humanity

(They didn’t like that I was doing counter-extremism trust and safety work and then talking about it)

I got driven off of the fediverse due to people making up a false whisper campaign that I was a nazi, it’s a thing that happens over there when you get on the wrong people’s radar

Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.

I dislike how my post on the hyper-unreality of our current moment - and how it seems like people in power now seem to ONLY think The Online is real - keeps getting more relevant

There is no "escape hatch," no "offramp," no "social media migration" that will enable you to find a place free of sin. There will never be a "purely good" social media platform because we live in the WORST capitalist dystopia and our digital environments are continuous with that hellscape.

also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy

I just remember when the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris was on fire and how every Western leader became a cultural expert and lamented the damage and how everyone donated money to rebuild it.

I am having a hard time finding a single article in any European or American publication about this.

Or there’s a media campaign. But in this case, at least one company had a media campaign to try to get people to stop using ‘slop’

People Hate AI Even More Than They Hate ICE, Poll Finds The only things less popular than AI in the poll were Iran and the Democratic Party.

“The complicity of AI companies in widely unpopular government actions worldwide has also contributed to the bad reputation AI is building for itself.”

This makes it even better

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

BREAKING: Graber is out as CEO of Blueksy.

Full report here from @knibbs.bsky.social:

www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

No, I don’t think they’ll ever admit that they’re in a filter bubble because it would expose the lie of the “populist worldview” that top down billionaire funded propaganda filter bubble is supposed to represent

People both believe that this is going to cause massive social and political disruptions, *AND* that doing the social and political work to address that—and paying for it—is somebody else's problem

The best of advice I’ve gotten from AI boosters I’ve asked about it is “don’t get caught” and also “maybe the Supreme Court will rule in our favor”

Even if it agrees with your biases and values, satisficing using motivated reasoning built on pseudo-knowledge consulting slop isn’t the way to make a principled argument about the world—and kind of replicates the very same epistemic problem posed by LLMs in the first place…

exactly - I think another reason why AI enthusiasts piss a lot of people off is because they often excitedly speak about these technologies as if they exist in a context-free vacuum,

while for non-enthusiasts, the often-terrifying *context* in which AI exists is of way more importance and interest.

These reports then get laundered by journalists who don’t think critically about the source of white papers they read into generalized claims about the lack of productive effects of AI in business settings. However, this doesn’t make the converse automatically true either!

Every one of these articles that I’ve seen today (>1) had this nature to it. It wasn’t a social science study about AI being harmful, but a report by a business consulting group whose actual business is selling AI consulting services to businesses, using the hook “AI isn’t working for you”.

This keeps happening to such a degree that anytime I see an article about execs outsourcing their thinking to AI, AI developers getting AI brain fry, or anything that sounds like an obvious “AI is bad for leaders and workers” business article I have to check what the source of the original claim was

Something that makes the AI discourse more challenging is that there are a number of common knowledge complaints against the use of AI whose original sources appear to be shoddy reports by business consulting firms, wanting to sell more AI tools, laundered into fact by poor journalism

For sure. My comments are very much coming from the intersection of various personal challenges I’m having with sitting with the ongoing changes in the present moment. If I were currently employed instead of unemployed, my affective stance to the future situation would be incredibly different.

The richest man in the world is literally funding the global fascist revolution across the West in order to avoid this happening, lmao

Another one of my personal problems is reallllly not understanding when local (or non-SOTA) models are “good enough”, and how determining that seems to be a moving target determined by a ton of time invested in personal experimentation, which feels like being diverted into a secondary goal.

AI boosters will really be like "you believe in regulating technology? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, wishcasting the full societal rollout of UBI" and then not rolling out UBI

It's hard to internalize the fact that the administration really does believe the Iraq war was "woke" and that they would be able to easily defeat a substantially more powerful nation simply by being based chads

When devs says that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that THIS is what they're automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn't matter, all in an environment where rigour is completely absent

There is little to no downside to poor software quality and the upside of doing the job well is limited compared to tactics like lock-in, dishonest subscription models, and monopolies

Some corners of the software industry are less affected. Others, such as web dev, are more affected