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So, the other "godfather" of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align himself with the #TESCREAL bundle, writing a thing about "rogue AI" and prominently citing people like Nick Bostrom.

Take a good look at this text here. This is written by non other than Nick Bostrom, prominently featured by so many of these fathers and godfathers and sons and brothers and nephews of "AI" (given that its all men you know).

David Musick: I have always liked the uncompromisingly objective way of thinking and speaking: the more counterintuitive and repugnant a formulation, the more it appeals to me given that it is logically correct. Take for example the following sentence: Blacks are more stupid than whites. I like that sentence and think it is true. But recently I have begun to believe that I won't have much success with most people if I speak like that. They would think that I were a "racist": that I _disliked_ black people and thought that it is fair if blacks are treated badly. I don't. It's just that based on what I have read, I think it is probable that black people have a lower average IQ than mankind in general, and I think that IQ is highly correlated with what we normally mean by "smart" and stupid". I may be wrong about the facts, but that is what the sentence means for me. For most people, however, the sentence seems to be synonymous with: I hate those bloody niggers!!!! My point is that while speaking with the provocativness of unabashed objectivity would be appreciated by me and many other persons on this list, it may be a less effective strategy in communicating with some of the people "out there". I think it is laudable if you accustom people to the offensiveness of truth, but be prepared that you may suffer some personal damage. Niklas Bostrom n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
#TESCREAL

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

The entire foundation of this field is the most racist shit I've ever seen. The more I learn the more bizarre it gets. And your favorites, OpenAI + co. are most influenced by, you guessed it, Nick Bostrom. "Altman has written about the influence Nick Bostrom...the "father" of longtermist thought, has had on him and his work": lnkd.in/gsVwrpJM

Is OpenAI's Sam Altman building a tech dream or a sci-fi nightmare?

With the success of ChatGPT, Altman has turned into a household name. And he's just getting started.
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I want to introduce you to the Zuzanka application for recognizing product expiration dates.
It can be used to recognize the expiration date of medicines, food products, yoghurts, cold cuts or whatever else we want.
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Zuzanka - Apps on Google Play

Expiry date scanner
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New app added to our Accessible Apps directory: Zuzanka. Zuzanka is the world’s first expiry date scanner. The app makes it easy to locate expiration dates on food products, converts them to text format and allows export to other applications. If you're looking for an app to get to know the expiration date independently, this app is for you. Details can be found on the following link tinyurl.com/yc5ek9nb

Zuzanka - Accessible Android

Zuzanka is the world's first expiry date scanner. The app makes it easy to locate expiration dates on food products, converts them to text format and allows export to other applications.
Erişilebilir Android

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Last night I got to introduce Mai to #Jamulus, one of the singers I work with for the first time. She wants to rehearse with me but lives far away, and we found that for some reason, Jamulus's latency is lower than SonoBus so we're going to use that for the time being. Anyway, after a test run, I said 'come meet all the mad people I jam with on a regular basis' and this was the last jam of the evening for her, after about an hour of hanging out. It's ridiculous and we call it:
Good night, see you later.

#Jamulus

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Columna | "Una ciudad ni grande ni pequeña, al lado de Barcelona, una tarde de sol, después del trabajo. Tal vez lo que más impacta del vídeo sea precisamente eso, el chispazo de la violencia gratuita, de uniforme, a plena luz del día". Por Pablo Ordaz elpais.com/opinion/2023-05-24/…

Violencia policial

Escenas cotidianas de gran dureza, grabadas una tarde cualquiera, en una ciudad española
Pablo Ordaz (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)

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He estado analizando en qué se ha gastado Almeida los fondos europeos para obras en Madrid y en qué barrios.

El resultado es más descarado todavía de lo que nos podríamos imaginar. En @ElSaltoDiario elsaltodiario.com/ayuntamiento…


Almeida gasta casi 30 millones de fondos europeos en barrios del centro y 86.000 euros en Vallecas

El Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha invertido más de 20 millones de los fondos Next Generation en obras en Chamberí, Salamanca y Retiro.
www.elsaltodiario.com
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It's that time again. :)

This months #Reaper made easy Meet-up will happen on Saturday 27th May, 8PM UK, 3PM Eastern.
Join us for May's edition of "I'm Perplexed, What's Next", an open Q&A session where you can ask anything about REAPER, OSARA or #accessible recording. Questions big or small are welcome from anyone with any amount of experience. We'll be online for a couple of hours, helping as many people with as much as we can.
Details on this Q&A and other goodies can be found on reaperteacher.com
See you there. :)
Scott and JennyK

REAPER Teacher

Web site created using create-react-app
reaperteacher.com
#accessible #reaper

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Huge win for privacy: Record fine against #Facebook thanks to Max Schrems & @noybeu! 🥳

#Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU #privacy regulation #GDPR. 👌

Read more: 👇tutanota.com/blog/facebook-tra…

#Fight4Privacy


Huge win for privacy: Record fine against Facebook thanks to Max Schrems.

Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR.
Tutanota
#privacy #facebook #gdpr #meta #fight4privacy @noyb.eu
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Gerhard Hallstein

@Michael Vogel Wenn Du das auf den ersten Blick nicht siehst, habe ich wohl etwas falsch gemacht, denn geteilte Beiträge werden meines Wissens in der Regel sehr schnell geteilt und es wird angezeigt, dass sie geteilt wurden.

Kann es einen Zusammenhang geben, dass der nativ zu teilende Blogger-Account weder in den dortigen noch in den Kontakten des Oldie-Accounts angezeigt wird?

@Michael 🇺🇦

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Intel branch predictors fully reverse-engineered:

today.ucsd.edu/story/a-small-c…


Surprise: A Small Change Leads to Big Results for Computer Security

Researchers from UC San Diego and Purdue University have discovered a hidden feature of Intel processors that can be used to significantly increase security, including shutting down an entire class of Spectre attacks that can give an attacker secret …
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In an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had...
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American prohibitionist

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Tell me if you can relate to this:

When you were a kid, you were Smart. You grasped concepts, skills, and ideas right away, and were frequently praised for it. You did well in school and being Smart became part of your identity, to the point that when you weren’t immediately good at something, you tended to avoid it or give up on it. After awhile you stopped risking having the wrong answer to a question...

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Learning how to be bad at things

Tell me if you can relate to this: When you were a kid, you were Smart. You grasped concepts, skills, and ideas right away, and were frequently praised for it. You did well in school and being Smar…
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Matt Campbell

When I was a teenager and my voice dropped, I wasn't immediately good at singing high notes, so I figured I must just be a baritone. It wasn't until almost 20 years later, when I started singing karaoke, that I started to experiment more and found that I could actually hit high notes with some practice. But to get there, I think I had to be free to experiment in a low-stakes environment, particularly without the pressure to be the musical prodigy that I had been as a child.

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JW's cautioned against using AI tools

JW corporate location volunteer residents, including world headquarters residents, just received a letter, dated May 11, 2023, notifying them of rules surrounding the use of AI. Corporate location representatives have been asked not to use AI tools to write code that will be used in internal apps. AI is also not to be used to improve articles that are being written for JW literature.
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The letter is read about 13 minutes into the video.

Additionally, this article was recently posted on jw.org for the general public to read.
jw.org/en/library/series/more-…

Why do I care? I have family in this organization, including my parents. JW's are usually skeptical when it comes to utilizing new technologies, so the article is not a shock to me. I have no problem with JW leadership teaching their members how to use AI safely. However, I'm worried that the way they speak about AI will cause their members to fear AI tools or shy away from using those tools.

Thank you to my exjw allies on exjw Discord for bringing these items to my attention.


Artificial Intelligence—A Blessing or a Curse?—What Does the Bible Say?

The Bible shows why human efforts often create uncertainty and why we can look to the future with confidence.
JW.ORG
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Drew Mochak

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@miki OMG hahaha. "Years after Conan Doyle's death, Levi Edgar Young, a descendant of Brigham Young and a Mormon general authority, alleged that the author had privately apologised, saying that "He [Conan Doyle] said he had been misled by writings of the time about the Church"[6] and had "written a scurrilous book about the Mormons."[7]"

So much fragility! That is really telling. Do not believe for a second that this happened. Just LOL.

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Amanda Carson

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@objectinspace @miki I'm old enough to remember when JWs forbade the internet. They did this for an incredibly long time. Oh and that weird registry hack they did to enable accessibility in their library, which they refused to put online until relatively recently. Those were some interesting times. Note: Wasn't a JW myself, just new several.
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Amanda Carson

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@objectinspace @miki Yeah there used to be a key you'd have to add under local machine I think and then their application would be reasonably accessible. If you didn't do that, the text displayed pretty weirdly at least for screen readers. Then they added a toggle, but all it did was do the work to add that key for you.
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Rosalín Anne

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@arush @objectinspace @miki They have an iPhone app called JW Library now as well. Edits to publications have become commonplace, which is why they encourage their users to view the electronic copies of their literature. Re: oral sex edits. That's what you'd see in even my members only copy of the tool.
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Rosalín Anne

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@arush @objectinspace @miki Oh yeah. Back in the day, that was pretty much the only accessible access we had to their literature. And like, you need that literature to prepare for leading a bible study or participating in comment-based discussions. Without the literature, you can't participate and are basically seen as just filling a seat and not contributing.
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Amanda Carson

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@objectinspace @miki Yeah and apparently they penalize you for not contributing. That's why I got involved. Because my friend was being penalized by her congregation's elders along with family members. I did it for her but I swear that was the crepiest bit of accessibility related tech support I've done.
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Rosalín Anne

JW’s cautioned against using AI tools
@arush @objectinspace @miki Oh yeah. That's why I got it working too. So I don't blame you for helping. Of course, now there's an email list where this guy just emails out the study material each week. I'm still on that because me leaving would raise suspicion and cause more questions. It just goes into spam now.
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Mikołaj Hołysz

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@arush @objectinspace I’m mildly curious about what they do for other languages. I know they exist here as an organization, I’ve heard through the grapevine that they supposedly have excellent accessibility of their materials and even provide them in Braille, but I don’t even know anybody, or even of anybody, who would be a blind member outside the US.
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Die geplante Chatkontrolle untergrabe die Vertraulichkeit von Kommunikation, die IT-Sicherheit und widerspreche zudem geltendem EU-Recht. In einer Stellung­nahme geht der Deutsche Anwaltverein mit den Überwachungsplänen hart ins Gericht. netzpolitik.org/2023/deutscher…

Deutscher Anwaltverein: Chatkon­trolle ist ein „massiver Eingriff in die Freiheits­rechte“

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Ihr habt es geschafft!😍
Wer aufmerksam die Statusseite verfolgt, wird mitbekommen haben, dass wir das Fundingziel erreicht haben. Somit werden wir den internen Speicher der Standardausstattung von 128 GB auf 256 GB ohne Zusatzkosten für alle erhöhen.🙂

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #shiftphone8 #crowdfunding #community

#community #shifthappens #crowdfunding #shiftphone #shift #shiftphone8

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While I was having a drink on Retro at the weekend, I was approached by a despairing woman asking for support at a counter Posie Parker protest on Sunday 28th in Hyde Park. Apparently numbers last time were distressingly low.

I apologised that I wouldn't be able to make it what with being a visitor, but said I'd spread the word. London queer folks, please go if you can! posieisafascist.com/

NO NAZIS, NO TRANSPHOBES Join us for another event in the park to show visible resistance to the neo-nazis who flock to grifter posie parker meet: Sun 28 May, 11:30 at the 7th of July memorial, Hyde Park, moving to Reformer's Tree bring masks, bring comrades, bring water, bring signs! COME AND JOIN US SUN 28 MAY AND NEXT MONTH TOO

Posie Parker is a Fascist

Hear Posie Parker, in her own words, talk about herself, he views and her neo-nazi following.
posieisafascist.com

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Vas a recoger a tu madre con Alzheimer y dejas el coche mal aparcado. Tu madre está enferma y la única posibilidad de transportarla es en vehículo privado.

Ante eso, llega la policía, HÉROES QUE SE JUEGAN LA VIDA EN CADA SERVICIO, y te pegan una paliza.

OH POLICÍA, GRACIAS POR PROTEGERNOS!!!

PD: Os invito a ver como le dan su merecido a ese peligro señor de la camiseta azul, a todas luces un peligro público.

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