monk @monkwest

transguma / technology, biology, theology / peace, love, & wonder Joined February 2010

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monk @monkwest

3 weeks ago

any book worth reading is worth reading twice

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monk @monkwest

3 weeks ago

X is running headlines in the sidebar again it's ugly and depressing, like when a big box store makes everyone walk down a thirty foot corridor of junk food to get to the checkout

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what does it mean to be human? one answer, and not a bad one, is that humans are the only known beings in this universe that will stop everything they are doing to gather together and watch a sun get eclipsed by a moon

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monk @monkwest

a month ago

I don't envy sam the most powerful, brass-knucked people on earth are all going to want a private room where they can ride openAI's algos with the training wheels taken off

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monk @monkwest

a month ago

there are going to be some casualties in the Don't Die movement

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a month ago

thinkers need electrolytes just as much as athletes

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a month ago

neither money nor power can lift the burden of being told you have cancer

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a month ago

awe > optimism > pessimism > utopianism

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a month ago

endocrine disruptors are the lead pipes of the American empire

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a month ago

AI is our official intelligence

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a month ago

thunk driving

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monk @monkwest

a month ago

think responsibly

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monk @monkwest

a month ago

UBI is an on-ramp to forced labour "Surely comrades, we can't continue to pay you for doing nothing"

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monk @monkwest

a month ago

LLMs are search engines that return a mashup of all the results

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monk @monkwest

a month ago

It's not a lie if you believe it.

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monk @monkwest

2 months ago

hey Tim hey Mark you want to take those off Tim? yeah, let's take these off you didn't take yours off Mark yeah that's cause mine are just sunglasses . . . oh c'mon Tim, don't put yours back on

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monk @monkwest

2 months ago

There's a compulsion right now for everyone to keep expressing their techno optimism in greater and grander ways. Something similar happened with guilt and oppression in DEI circles. Be careful. It's a ritual that binds people together but can also untether them from reality.

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monk @monkwest

2 months ago

> i see you're building brother, you must be e/acc > nope > wait, you're a decel? > nope > well you've either got your foot on the gas or the brake, which is it? > neither. now hand me that screwdriver brother so we can attach the steering wheel

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monk @monkwest

2 months ago

if we were just willing to live 12 or 18 months behind the bleeding edge of AI we could have it all ... and have it be open source

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monk @monkwest

2 months ago

As we get closer to building The Party it will make sense to start being less free. The Freedom in freedomParty means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of The Party after it's built, but it's totally OK to not share the power