And yes there are other issues with AI safety, brainrot, hallucinations etc.
I think we'll solve most of these through either technical or cultural development over time.
But wouldn't we be more likely to build be actual benefit and safety if we took profit out for the equation?
Smaller, inference data centres which host your own chatgpt and personal data could be community funded and hosted in the existing repository and local interface to our cultural world - the library.
I want AI to succeed and be good. But I want the foundational models to be owned by the commons. They should belong to humanity, not oligarchs.
I want ai training data centres to be built as strategic national resources in line with green energy policy and development.
Except... that we've *started* with the billionaires in charge.
And when the companies can't afford the 25% cultural levy...
Well maybe we just seize their assets, nationalise them and open source the models.
I actually like ai. I think it's going to make big changes to the way the world works.
And it's *possible* that these will be good.
This could have been like the early days of the open web before Facebook, Google and Amazon crowded out all the small personal sites and shops.
Except...
Perhaps a luddite tax too? To compensate for the workers and push back against the capital capture. That could go towards a UBI.
People have proposed a robot tax for similar purposes.
I'm not proposing anything revolutionary... Just applying our existing models, charges and taxes to ai
Since ai has used all of these and more to train their models. I think it's only fair that we stack all the lm and charge ~25% of *revenue* to support the arts.
And that's before we get onto corporation tax if they ever make a profit etc
In the 90s Europe put a levy on CD-Rs which was paid to the recording industry because they might be used to copy music.
AI companies should be made to pay in a similar way.
Music streaming is <8% of revenue.
Library lending ~2%.
Public art resale <4%
Etc
I worked on a project that got my boss arrested by the Vatican for extorting the Pope.
How does all this fit with the US doctrine of being able to fight two wars at once?
Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics
I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters
Not much has changed.
But we do live underwater now.
What convinced me that AI was finally sentient was the time it went had a full public meltdown on twitter posting unhinged fascist bullshit, and the next morning gave a vague non-apology blaming it on something it ingested the night before. And then just continued to be somewhat fascist ever since.
Can we elevate Andy Burnham to the lords so he can stand for labour leader?
The ability to write basic business strategies makes business inaccessible to people who have other useful ideas and abilities.
I think LLMs will make it more accessible for more people to be that one extra clever person.
This nan wrote an article in 2006 about how there was too much government interference and regulation in business.
In 2007 northern rock kicked off the financial crisis and had to be rescued and nationalised by the UK gov.
Guess who was chairman of Northern Rock at the time...
The winter Olympics feels like a whole bunch of post pub bets and dares.
"I bet I can get down that hill on a tea tray faster than you can"
"That's nothing, I'll could do it with my mate sat on my lap"
A golden frame around a Monet-style painting of a lily pond. It’s officially titled Clouds In The Style Of Claude Monet, 1903–6, by John Myatt, and was available from Castle Fine Art for £35,000 when I downloaded it, and may still be
27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵
I was looking up the time that citibank paid out 1bn by mistake (and couldn't reclaim it), and discovered a more recent incident where they accidently transferred 81 *trillion*.
www.efinancialcareers.com/news/citi-81...
i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"
Stats from this article
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
Twitter is a nazi propaganda machine.
In the UK you have to be a "fit and proper" person to own a broadcast license for national TV.
Yet apparently there is no test on the owners of Palantir before entrusting them with deep access to all personal NHS health data let alone our military and intelligence secrets.
This isn't to criticise people only learning or highlighting this through the Epstein files.
But this is a man who has been saying the quiet part out loud for decades and been rewarded for it and invited in to the very centres of power.
This isn't a Epstein files revelation. Thiel has been saying this out loud and in public for over 15 years.
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible"
[Votes for women has] "rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."
www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...
Extremely funny that the champion of the revolutionary left/socialist boogeyman of Republicans everywhere is basically Leslie Knope.
“this moment requires you not to worship your own life anymore” audience is stone cold “this moment requires you to put your life between them and their targets” audience erupts
i know there’s a selection bias here but. there is a Hunger in this room i’ve never seen before
I'm not sure it's possible without exorcising maga in a way that I can't see as achievable.
However contrite the the next administration, you'll forever more be just one election away from being right back here.
This is exactly how the 90 minute standard came about decades ago.
RE Previous RT. It also depends on medium/long term market sentiment.
If private equity buys up the cheap bonds, and they go back up, then it just transfers wealth from European governments to billionaires.
What really matters is risk of US default. Which would be crazy and unthinkable...
I am, once again, begging people to find out what treasury bonds are and how they work before arguing how “we hold all the cards” and “can call in the debt”
