Wild how the most aggressive Christians in this country are insanely pro capitalism while the Bible literally says it’s functionally impossible for rich people to even get to heaven lmao

Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:

"But if there was one line in the speech today... that draw audible gasps from those present, it was this." ~ Laura Tingle #abc730 #censure #ScottMorrison #auspol

Hate to break it to you but when the richest people on Earth tell you the real problems are pronouns and wokeness they are trying to distract you from something

At 32 years old, I realized I was a child in an adult body. Here's how I worked on becoming more emotionally mature:

There is a basic core absurdity about this entire debate on gas caps Gas use in Australia *should* be predicted to fall. Supply for domestic uses *should also* be due to fall. If they are not, something much bigger and more consequential is going wrong abc.net.au/radionational/…

Your periodic reminder that charity will never solve what public policy was meant to address. The generosity of strangers is not a substitute for good public policy.

Sergey Brin: "Irate call from Steve Jobs" February 13, 2005

For those who don’t like 🧵:

Is it just me or is the infrastructure for existing without a smartphone just slowly disappearing?

Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control. Open ended chat in search might prove to be a bad idea at this time! Captured here as a reminder that there was a time when a major search engine showed this in its results.

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user" Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

I'm glad I'm an agi skeptic because if I were an agi credulist I would be scared shitless rn because entirely separate from how to align an ai in the first place we are building a corpus that demonstrates the first thing that happens to any new ai is public torture

Really great to see pre-deployment AI risk evals like this starting to happen

Holy shit. GPT-4, on it's own; was able to hire a human TaskRabbit worker to solve a CAPACHA for it and convinced the human to go along with it.

I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business? Follow along 👀

It is a telling sign of a fourth estate in decline that a plain spoken - even colourful - critic of a major gov policy shift is almost universally attacked for being too contrary, too newsworthy. When did it become journalists’ jobs to sell the policy & police the public debate?

It's the guns.

That we're still having any kind of "debate" is rather fucking galling isn't it. #Voice #VoteYes #Yes23 #FuckTheLibs