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  • Why Technocratic Elites Aren’t Trusted (Sam Altman Edition)

    None of this is to say that technology hasn’t had vast benefits, but we’re using it also to reduce our option space: to damage the carrying capacity of the Earth in ways which will take tens of thousand of years to recover from, as a best case estimate (millions for some of the issues.) The…

  • Why you shouldn’t believe the AI extinction lie

  • Musk is Twittering Tesla

    He’s turning it into the same organizational trash fire that he created at Twitter… Firstly, Tesla states that it is “attempting” to connect with suppliers and that it may have sent multiple emails to some of them. This suggests that Tesla doesn’t have an established method of contact for all of its suppliers – either it…

  • We need to talk about the Rabbit’s name.

    From the “dammit! i should’ve made that connection” file: News flash: there’s already a gadget named the Rabbit and it is very well reviewed. If there were ever a case for diversifying leadership in the tech world, this is it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/24148260/we-need-to-talk-about-the-rabbits-name

  • ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

    Good. Fucking. Riddance. Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford, no longer…

  • It’s not the Newton and I think it’s worse than the Lisa

    I paid a lot of money for the privilege of getting an Apple Vision Pro brand-new in February. All-in, with optical inserts and taxes, I financed a little over $3,900 for the 256GB version of the headset. A day or so ago, I made a mistake that I’m sure many early adopters are familiar with: I looked…

  • AI STARTUPS ARE SUDDENLY IN HUGE TROUBLE

    From the makers of the image generator Stable Diffusion to Anthropoic, which was founded by OpenAI exiles, startups are staring down the barrel of their expenses — which in addition to the regular cost of running a tech startup also include the massively expensive compute power required to run large AI models. https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-startups-money-trouble

  • TESLA’S AUTOPILOT AND FSD LINKED TO HUNDREDS OF CRASHES, MANY FATAL

    Get thee off the road, murderbots! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that those making use of the EV maker’s misleadingly called “Full Self-Driving” software were lulled into a false sense of security and “were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task.” In short, the report found, the Elon Musk-led company’s tech “did not…

  • The Vision Pro is a big flop

    The Vision Pro and the Ai Pin are just the latest in a long line of tech failures, and they won’t be the last. We need to recognize that we have the collective power to challenge the industry, and no tech company or access journalist should be able to convince us otherwise. The only way…

  • The Man Who Killed Google Search

    This is the result of taking technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth. You’re not…