[–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

It's not me, you're arguing with someone with a PhD in the area lol. The conversation only accepts articles from faculty or active PhD students.

You're also strawmanning the author's position, but if you're one of the P(doom) dorks you should be all about steelmanning.

There is no intelligence behind language models. They don't even have statefulness.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    The prime minister’s announcement focuses on “AI safety”, “AI security” and “frontier” AI models and companies. But Australians may remain unprotected from known AI harms that – though less spectacular – are already widespread and serious.

    Nearly half of the recommendations are about increasing Australia’s preparedness for AI-related cyber incidents.

    The recommendations make sense. The review is right to emphasise the role of building capacity, relationships, and cooperation. Effective and responsive AI regulation must go beyond the government simply issuing and enforcing rigid rules.

    Despite these strengths, the government seems to be taking a narrow view of what “AI safety” means.

    AI and algorithmic systems are increasingly integrated into important services such as healthcare, insurance, housing, finance, employment, education and social security.

    We’ve seen Robodebt harm hundreds of thousands of Australians. Sexist AI-enabled job recruitment tools, AI-enabled stadium security systems that let a gun into the Melbourne Cricket Ground, racist policing algorithms, and AI meal-planners that recommend poisonous recipes are just a few among thousands of examples of everyday AI harms and risks.

    As the Medicare incident showed, risks also emerge from interactions between software systems, organisations and real world contexts. It doesn’t make sense to just focus on powerful AI models out of context.

    Seems pretty clear to me. Stuff like robodebt killed people are severely injured who knows how many. Nothing about systems like that, or say facial rec injuring privacy and falsy accusing people is being covered.

    Instead it's about the stupid nerd rapture critihype stuff.

    The average person is more likely to be hurt by automated resume sorting discarding theirs because of their name or variations in how they write due to racism encoded in the training data than some "rogue" chatbot pwning email.

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    Unaccountable, unfair, poorly managed deployments of such everyday AI systems have the potential to cause enormous harm.

    We’ve seen Robodebt harm hundreds of thousands of Australians. Sexist AI-enabled job recruitment tools, AI-enabled stadium security systems that let a gun into the Melbourne Cricket Ground, racist policing algorithms, and AI meal-planners that recommend poisonous recipes are just a few among thousands of examples of everyday AI harms and risks.

    Sweet. I still play Homm3 but homm2, while a worse game in many ways, has a lot to recommend it. The more sombre art style, in some ways more evocative visual identity, simplified factions are fun.

    32167 baby.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    I mean Jewish eradication in ww2 was an extremely big deal, and on the largest targetted scale.

    But yes, it has sort of replaced all the other stuff. Intellectually disabled people were some of the first targets, and Roma. Queer people were targetted and the allies left them in the camps which is digusting.

    I think the important thing is that it is not who was targetted by whom but that the process by which we demote one kind of person relative to another is the actual evil. From that only horrors can follow. That is what has allowed all genocides and what allows Israel's current war. If it was wrong to view Jews as some subhuman class of people, a problem to be managed, then it is wrong to view Palestinians that way.

    That many Israeli do not feel this way (the war is extremely popular) is disgusting.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    The holocaust stuff bothers me as my family are Slavs and everyone knows the 6 million Jews but few here know how heavily Slavs were persecuted, and the intention to use us as farm animals to be worked to death :(

    Also poles were kept in concentration camps in england which is cool and good apparently. There's not really a line between good and bad states or something. Basically all liberal states held half their people on disenfranchised bondage while congratulating themselves on achieving democracy and violently crushing attempts for that half (women) to get rights.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    extrapolating that far from a graph is pretty unsound.

    Realistically the RBA has no idea when but probably never is realistic given that we are entering the exciting part of climate change.

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    Anti-government extremism is not one coherent ideology or organisation. It can encompass sovereign citizens, conspiracy theorists and others who come to see government institutions as fundamentally corrupt, illegitimate or actively working against ordinary citizens.

    (emphasis mine) shit cuz they're onto me :p

    Our research points towards an approach known as procedural justice. “Procedurally just” governance is about how governments exercise their authority. It means treating citizens with respect, making decisions fairly and without bias to prevent benefiting one special-interest group over another, being transparent about motives for legislation or new government processes. It also means giving people meaningful opportunities to have their voices heard.

    Importantly, our study found that when people perceived government as more procedurally just they reported lower levels of anger and were less likely to perceive the government as illegitimate.

    This relationship was evident among both conspiracy believers and non-believers. It means procedural justice shouldn’t be dismissed as merely good public relations. It potentially forms part of Australia’s strategy for preventing violent extremism.

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    Rather, governments need a two-track response. They need to identify and disrupt people moving towards violence. But they also need to reduce the conditions that can make that violence attractive in the first place. These include alienation, anger and a belief that public institutions exercise power without listening to people or treating them fairly and equally.

    I thought this was a good and thoughtful piece to have been put out so soon after what appears to be an attempted political assassination of a politician who, near as I can tell, wanted more government transparency and accountability.

    Not really a great sign of the times. With government building out some of the largest surveillance machines in the world I suspect we can conclude what the response will be. As the author highlights though, restoring trust and a sense of justice is more important to get back to a society where we feel our concerns can be dealt with non violently.

     

    If I make malware that attacks government services I get ASIO'd and can't even let my family or a lawyer know I've been held and interrogated.

    If clammy sammy does it the government buys the product and makes piracy for rich failsons legal.

    Someone make this make sense.

     

    He's a bit of a prick but he's not wrong. I wonder what Rudd would think were he not currently a diplomat.

    Both were pretty clear-eyed about the opportunities of working with China and the futility of standing against them given the insignificance of Australia as anything but a weapons platform for the imperial machine of the USA.

     

    Huge course reversal from Chris "I fucking love killing children" Minns.

    Still doing searches so they're gonna keep killing a few people just for fun but this is a massive win for reason.

    Ms Ross-King thanked the government for listening to the evidence and having the courage to act on it.

    "Young people take risks, that is the reality of life, but they do not deserve to die because of one decision," Ms Ross-King said.

    Yeah, I mean nobody deserves to die for getting high but kids are included in that. My gratitude to Ms Ross-King for her relentless campaigning and empathy, people will live that wouldn't have.

     

    I know how to program so I don't need that although numerical recipes are sometimes useful (Knuth's mean in one pass my beloved).

    I'm a solo hobbiest and not a formal education hater. There's so much you only learn by following a good teacher (or at least only learn in a timely manner), reinventing the wheel is for experimental archeologists.

    When you ask this the sort of people who have never read the art of computer programming (and it shows in their code believe me) tell you that you just need hands on the tools. Fingertip knowledge is essential sure, but hopefully there's some more formally educated people here willing to share what reference material they've found the most useful.

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