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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi@wolvendamien.bsky.social |
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Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Science, UNCC
Degrees in Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies
Thinking on Algorithms, 'A.I.,' Human Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Magic/Occult, Pop Culture
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Melissa Gira Grant
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If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Every single time I've been online this past week, there's been some significant number of interactions that are just shitty & wearying & outright fucking hostile for no goddamn reason & I know we're scared, & I know things are terrible, but get your shit together, fix your hearts, & work on helping
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Andy Craig
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LLMs are useless for lawyering and other tasks involving actual analysis and understanding not because the technology hasn't gotten there yet, but because that's fundamentally not what statistical word association is capable of doing. Not only can't it understand, it's not even trying to understand.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Wow. A judge making the right and just call. Feels like a unicorn
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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(it makes perfect sense that my birthday would be smack in the middle of this month, yes)
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Disability Pride AND Queer Wrath? And me without any pictures of Magneto and Professor X making out in the street
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Disability Pride AND Queer Wrath? And me without any pictures of Magneto and Professor X making out in the street
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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I mean, "willfully ignorant" is right there, and is honestly a much deeper, dual-layer drag.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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I mean, "willfully ignorant" is right there, and is honestly a much deeper, dual-layer drag.
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
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Chantal James
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The thing is, the disabled are a population of enraged people. The disabled are carrying a deep rage because not only is ableism embedded in nearly everything in our world, but people without our vulnerabilities are hostile to making anything better for us. Also society does not accept our rage.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Wow. A judge making the right and just call. Feels like a unicorn
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Ooop
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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The bravest thing the Good Place Committee could have done was stay & learn how to think differently & do better. The bravest thing they actually did was hand institutional power to people who wanted to think differently & do better. "…Considering what [they] could do… [They] could've done more."
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Ripperoni
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20% of the dataset being impersonation seems pretty bad, as does CSAM at around 4%
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Sara Luterman
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Extremely normal election we keep having, huh?
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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…Wut🫠
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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I just… wut?! 🫠🫠
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…Wut🫠
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David Forbes
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The first weapon of fascists is fear and, while they're dangerous, they rely on it to cover up their many weaknesses. If every election and ruling goes the worst way, there will still be ways to fight. They will not be unstoppable. Not now. Not ever. Surrendering to hopelessness is what they want.
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myownpetard הפטרדשלי
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Want to sign up to participate in the clinical trial for an intranasal COVID vaccine?
They're taking 60 volunteers who have had at least one dose of vaccine. They're recruiting both people who've had COVID & people who haven't.
Go here in for the details: www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT064...
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Mel Moorer🏳️🌈 she/they
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Biden, with his new unlimited powers thanks to SCOTUS, should do anything in his unlimited power to defend the press from these corrupt officials. Just saying.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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…militarism, hegemony, and white supremacy, & it has neither the inclination nor the capacity to meaningfully introspect and bracket those biases. In short, even if this form of "AI" *were* a person, it's for sure not a person i want influencing every single aspect of my daily life. Have a good one.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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You sit in a relational, interconnected, mutually sustaining matrix with other intentioned beings, and if "AI" were built in a completely different way, it might be able to be that on purpose, but it is *not* built that way, and every intention it currently has is an intention built from capitalism…
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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…militarism, hegemony, and white supremacy, & it has neither the inclination nor the capacity to meaningfully introspect and bracket those biases. In short, even if this form of "AI" *were* a person, it's for sure not a person i want influencing every single aspect of my daily life. Have a good one.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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You sit in a relational, interconnected, mutually sustaining matrix with other intentioned beings, and if "AI" were built in a completely different way, it might be able to be that on purpose, but it is *not* built that way, and every intention it currently has is an intention built from capitalism…
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Literally admits that "hallucinations" and bias are "limitations of GenAI systems themselves." My god 😂😭
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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I don't remember who first coined "spicy autocomplete" but they were right
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Yep.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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You're not. As long as they're based on GPT-type architectures, they will have problems of this type, because this is how the Generative Pretrained Transformer system "Works"
www.americanscientist.org/article/bias...
youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Just Like I Fucken Told You They Were
youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws
www.americanscientist.org/article/bias...
bsky.app/profile/wolv...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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You're not. As long as they're based on GPT-type architectures, they will have problems of this type, because this is how the Generative Pretrained Transformer system "Works"
www.americanscientist.org/article/bias...
youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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I warned 'em.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Just Like I Fucken Told You They Were
youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws
www.americanscientist.org/article/bias...
bsky.app/profile/wolv...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Oh I'm well aware
youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws
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Gavin Wilde
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Notice how the solution for "the liar's dividend" (much like it was for "disinformation" post-2016) is never "People should use our product less frequently, and never consider it a reliable source for anything that matters." Even though that is *the only valid conclusion to draw.*
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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I love all of y'all so this was a really nice treat for me in particular 😊
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Literally admits that "hallucinations" and bias are "limitations of GenAI systems themselves." My god 😂😭
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Politicians, educators, and all members of the public and private sector heed every researcher and otherwise expert who told you, asked you, BEGGED you to pull yourselves and the rest of us out of gravity well of technocrats' bullshit "AI" technosolutionism challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Oh wow, think of how much faster the systems running on these will be able to make up completely fact-independent bullshit! www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-predi...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Sam Altman failed ever philosophy class he ever took and decided to make that everyone else's problem. Not by making philosophy or any of the humanities "obsolete" or w/etf but by making our work just an unimaginable nightmare slog we just explode with rage. Just typical basic bitch troll bullshit
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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FB now utterly full up w/ people using GPT/LLM processes to throw together concatenations of bullshit & posting them like they're facts. Which is, y'know, exactly what we warned you was gonna happen if we didn't implement new critical thinking & values reevaluation strategies like, as a society
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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"They're not inevitable; they're not insurmountable. They didn't have to be like this. But in order to actually change them, the main thing we have to do is understand the facts of what they are, what they do, how they work, & to theorize what they Could Be Differently." From "On Bullshit Engines"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Since this has escaped containment, here's a note that "Cf." is an abbreviation that means "compare," also often used to mean "see also." So when I say 'Cf. "Bias Optimizers" … "On Bullshit Engines,"' i'm not just throwing out phrases; I'm directing you to compare what I said to two Specific things.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄
www.404media.co/google-ai-po...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄
www.404media.co/google-ai-po...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Two of my favourite current podcasts hyping each other up:
An episode of @heatherfreeman.bsky.social's Magic in the United States on Keisha McKenzie and Annanda Barclay's Moral Repair
pca.st/episode/b80a...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Two of my favourite current podcasts hyping each other up:
An episode of @heatherfreeman.bsky.social's Magic in the United States on Keisha McKenzie and Annanda Barclay's Moral Repair
pca.st/episode/b80a...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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So very much same
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