Dave Cake @strangedave

Digital rights and Internet governance, Security. ICANN activist, fan, geek. I'm on Team Freedom. @[email protected] Sunny Perth, Western Australia Joined February 2008

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@locdinwithzaza_ @CantEverDie That you are that gullible

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#ICANN announces Manal Ismail as the ICANN Community Excellence Award 2024 recipient! Recognized for her commitment to ICANN's multistakeholder model and ability to work with diverse communities. Congratulations, Manal! Read more: go.icann.org/3Tm8Ud4 #ICANN79

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@nice_byte @ID_AA_Carmack The current discussion isn’t really about theoretical AGI, it’s about LLMs and related Machine Learning techniques, which are not AGI. Depends if you think they will lead to AGI quickly (as some believe, and many do not).

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John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

2 years ago

“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry. Many times over the years I have thought about a great programmer I knew that loved assembly language to the point of not wanting to move to C. I have to fight some similar feelings of my own around using existing massive codebases and inefficient languages, but I push through. I had somewhat resigned myself to the fact that I might be missing out on the “final abstraction”, where you realize that managing people is more powerful than any personal tool. I just don’t like it, and I can live with the limitations that puts on me. I suspect that I will enjoy managing AIs more, even if they wind up being better programmers than I am.

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@tiredhottakes If they made Kim Williams, the old Perth muso who used to be in a band with Kim Salmon, and sells vinyl records on the street outside Diabolik books on the weekend, chair that would be pretty great.

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@MiddletownMoron @PoliticalSister @pinkheretic The Bible is literally self-contradictory at many points, containing multiple accounts of the same events, and multiple versions of the same mythological events. To believe it is literally true in every respect is not to have truly read or understood it.

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@jrrdrbb I know! And it’s funny how often people who think culture is really objective are often media obsessed!

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@jrrdrbb Yeah, you can reject a take because you think it’s based on bad info. Like you could only think this is original because you are unaware of all this preceding work, or something. But does that mean it’s a ‘wrong’ review? Might be just right for someone who is also unaware.

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@jrrdrbb But yeah, no accounting for taste. Do I think Ebert was crazy to give Rozencrantz and Guidenstern are dead 0 stars? Sure. But we also often expect reviewers to bring an opinionated perspective, can’t complain when we get it.

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Dave Cake @strangedave

2 years ago

@jrrdrbb Reviews are more than just good or bad, but can be based on a false premise, like mischaracterising or misunderstanding context. And we generally expect a good reviewer to get that context and provide it for us.

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CCC Updates @chaosupdates

3 years ago

An extreme example of a manufacturers’ arbitrary DRM being used to prevent independent repair of the device they made: Passenger trains 404media.co/polish-hackers… #37c3

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⚙️💖BubblegumOctopus🍭🦑 @BubblegumOctopu

3 years ago

Walmart is selling the instant death cable

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Dave Cake @strangedave

3 years ago

@angriest @shrydar I’ve recently had the Church of England described to me as like a low grade inoculation so you won’t catch dangerous religion

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The Marshall McLuhan LP @fireh9lly

3 years ago

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Dave Cake @strangedave

3 years ago

Sad to hear, one of the more interesting thinkers in the AI world

Adrian Chadd @erikarn

3 years ago

Oh wow, Doug Lenat just died. Damn :( Cyc was one of the things that got me super, super interested in computing as a teenager.

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Dave Cake @strangedave

3 years ago

This is great news.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile

3 years ago

🚨Australia announces it has abandoned a plan to mandate age-verification of adult sites, citing concerns about privacy, security and implementation, after nearly two years of study. It will instead focus on parental education around device level filters. theguardian.com/australia-news…

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Stephen Diehl @smdiehl

3 years ago

I like this trend. Nature is healing.

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Dave Cake @strangedave

3 years ago

@CelluloidWhisky Dear god

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Dave Cake @strangedave

3 years ago

@EliSennesh @anderssandberg @citizencyborg But you could eg actually read Torres, who is very clear about the reasons she treats these ideas together, and that it is not a conspiracy theory but an observation they form an evolving movement with significant overlap

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Dave Cake @strangedave

3 years ago

@EliSennesh @anderssandberg @citizencyborg But my point is that this is a clumsy stitch up. No one trying to genuinely discuss it would say that treating criticism of Yudkowsky and LessWrong ‘has to be understood in light of the postmodernist critique of rationality.’