As the habitual tangenteer that I am, I'm left reacting to the phrase
"Musk's reality distortion field". Tangent aside, I do very much
appreciate Glen's take on this and found the multiple references (much
more on-topic than my tangential riff here) interesting and useful. I
too hope Stallman will weigh in and wonder what the next evolution of
EFF might look like or be replaced by in this new evolutionary landscape
at the intersection of tech and culture?
I'm hung up, the last few years, on Yuval Harari's Intersubjective
Reality
<https://medium.com/amalgamate/inter-subjective-realities-64b4f6716f72>
as derived from the social science Intersubjectivity
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersubjectivity>.
When I first heard Harari's usage/coinage I reacted to it somewhat the
way I did to Kellyanne Conway's Alternative Facts
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts>, but I now deeply
appreciate what they are all alluding to, some more disingenously than
others.
I don't disagree that Musk's every action and statement has the effect
of "distorting reality" but it is our /Intersubjective Reality/ that is
being distorted, not the reality that most of us were trained/steeped in
via the philosophical tradition of /Logical Positivism
<https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/>/. Others here
were (Social Sciences, Humanism) probably trained up and steeped more in
Phenomenology <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/> and
more comfortable with Intersubjective Reality.
I find the likes of Musk or Trump or Altman or ( * ), as the
/Personality/ in "Cult of Personality" in much the way star this
recently discovered in-sync planetary system
<https://mashable.com/article/nasa-exoplanets-orbit-star-sync> exists
(see below). With the planets' orbits finding pairwise (and more
generally n-wise) resonances, all (presumably) coupled exclusively by
gravity (and synced through internal dissipative tidal forces?).
Is chatGPT or OpenAI or AIAlliance ( or, or, or, . . . ) yet another
species of celestial body in an orbital dance?
Musk, of course, operates in a higher-dimensional field of forces with
Tweets (X's?), public appearances, financial transactions, and
launch/contract/release announcements as the "intermediate vector
particles" and the sturm and drang of individual drama trauma among the
companies, organizations and individuals who are effected by it all as
the internal dissipative forces.
Mashable article on in-sync planetary system
<https://mashable.com/article/nasa-exoplanets-orbit-star-sync>
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/tess/discovery-alert-watch-the-synchronized-dance-of-a-6-planet-system/
On 12/6/23 10:57 AM, Pietro Terna wrote:
Genius!
Il 06/12/23 15:11, glen ha scritto:
For those of us who refuse to contribute to Musk's reality distortion
field: https://thealliance.ai/
Yeah, it's interesting. 2 questions came to my mind: 1) Where is
Mozilla? Are they a part of it? And 2) "open" is not a simple
concept. Is it possible that so many organizations have a clear
understanding of what it means? If so, what do they mean? We've seen,
over and over again, a kind of exploitation of Utopian values,
especially in infrastructure-level software. (I'd love to get
Stallman's opinion.)
One way to clarify someone's position on their private conception of
"open" is to ask how they feel about limits to the exportation of
encryption software.
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/us-export-controls-and-published-encryption-source-code-explained>
Another tack is to ask how they feel about fake news, trust in
institutions, free speech, platforming, etc.
IDK. The AI Alliance smells, to me, kinda like more TESCREAL [1],
ripe for exploitation and *-washing [2] by the privileged. If a tech
is open and stays open, it'll most likely do so because individuals
commit to it, not because some meta-corp of mega-corps get together
as "allies". But I'm a bit cynical.
[1] Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singulatarianism, Cosmism,
Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism
[2] Green-washing (fossil fuel lobbyists at cop28), ethics-washing
("ai safety"), dei-washing (sensitivity training), etc.
On 12/5/23 23:47, Pietro Terna wrote:
Dear all,
what about the post below?
Star Wars?
Best from Italy, Pietro
Post of Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 6:16 PM dic 05, 2023:
IBM & Meta are launching the AI Alliance to advance *open* &
reliable AI.
The list of over 50 founding members from industry, government, and
academia include AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Hugging Face, the Linux
Foundation, NASA....
https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv <https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv>
(https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03
<https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03>)
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