Arlington — Feb 3 · 15:00

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www.tobyord.com
Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially? — Toby Ord
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT…
Arlington — Feb 3 · 12:06

transmediale 2024 Marshall McLuhan Lecture: Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of the Internet

Arlington — Feb 3 · 11:49

I will also finally get off Google's email platform and office suite, and move fully to Proton Mail. I'm tempted to put Linux on my Lenovo Legion — with LLMs, maybe it's finally the year of the Linux desktop?

Arlington — Feb 3 · 11:46

I will move all of my software repositories to Codeberg. Adiós, GitHub.

Arlington — Feb 3 · 11:43


www.resistandunsubscribe.com
Resist and Unsubscribe
Arlington — Feb 3 · 11:29


leavex.eu
Leave X - Protect Democracy
Arlington — Feb 3 · 11:03

TikTok's new owners are censoring activists against Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing, and the destruction of the Palestinian ethnoreligious group. The solution? Yet another app to boycott. Use UpScrolled instead!

upscrolled.com
UpScrolled — your voice amplified!
Discover, connect, and share freely on a social media with transparent algorithms — no shadow bans, no silent suppression.
Arlington — Feb 2 · 23:46

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myanimelist.net
Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite
Twelve-year-old prodigy Rafal believes in living rationally, so as to earn praise and respect from society while not being led astray by his emotions. To this end, he publicly states his intention to study theology—the academic field held in highest regar…
Arlington — Feb 2 · 20:46

The boycott list:

  1. Meta
  2. Twitter/X/Tesla/xAI/SpaceX
  3. Google
  4. OpenAI
  5. LinkedIn
  6. Amazon (this one's the most difficult)
  7. Microsoft
  8. Oracle

It isn't a perfect boycott, but the goal is maximally to reduce my personal contributions to the revenues of any company that financially or politically has contributed to MAGA.

Arlington — Feb 2 · 20:25

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www.darioamodei.com
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI