James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
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founder. orgs. tech. cybernetics. ex-biotech. 🗣️ I have strong opinions; you will not agree with all of them. That’s a good thing. 📚 I share what I learn.
Toronto / New York City
Joined November 2014
(trying but nonetheless doing a very bad job of).
stepping back from this place. take care, y'all.
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I hesitate to validate Israeli claims of “AI-augmented warfare”, mostly because it (1) validates their (erroneous) marketing of being a technologically-sophisticated military, and (2) deliberately obscures that behind every machine is a person who should be held accountable.
A patient who has relatives in Gaza told me a chilling story today that I can't stop thinking about. His cousin's husband and son were missing for 2 days after going to one of those GHF food distribution points. Turns out they were hiding from marauding quadcopter drones among.
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RT @hannahgais: Worth noting, I think, that the organization behind Canary Mission is entirely based in Israel. Its staff is in Israel. Its….
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It’s profoundly disappointing that, despite over half a century of cybernetic homeostat designs and developments in control system theory, the best these compsci bros can come up with is “loop an LLM”.
It's kind of predictable that it would get defined down, but it's still wild that "AI Agent" went from meaning "AI that can act autonomously to achieve a goal by planning, executing and self-correcting when it makes mistakes" to "a wrapper that calls an LLM a bunch of times".
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Keep thinking about how, in just a few short years, we went from “Facebook for dogs” to “ethnic cleansing on the blockchain”.
it’s hard to see this as anything other than a pilot proposal for the techno-authoritarian future a set of powerful extremists desire
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the desperate attempt of people like @JTLonsdale to claw back to the Israeli wet dream that was American post-9/11 Islamophobia and excitement for Middle Eastern wars is as palpable as it is downright embarrassing for America.
The deranged crashout over Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic primary has been much more revealing than the actual election which to be honest I was not even that interested in. In this segment a prominent VC tries to draw a connection between Mamdani's victory and the war.
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in this wild new AI age, astroturfs can now spin up entire new personas of fake people with the ease of initiating a VM instance.
New Bathurst Instagram account features testimonials from neighbours that appear to be AI homunculi spawned to spew drivel at the behest of some anonymous puppet master. Props to Shawn for doing the leg work
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First, Ben Gvir handed out guns to settlers to facilitate their violent raids and land seizures. Now, he’s deputizing them.
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This is why takes like Natalie Wynn’s are so short-sighted: the Iron Wall was the blueprint for the US border wall Kamala praised in the 2024 election. Frontex surveillance drones, AI recognition, and the other systems tested in the Mediterranean and Gaza are coming for all of us.
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People don't directly perceive time. They have much better awareness of how much of their own energy and effort they spent than how much time they spent.
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The fact that people perceive themselves to be a lot more productive with computer-augmented work than they actually are is not new; it has happened three times now, and is called the Productivity Paradox. To the best of our knowledge, the resolution is systemic, not individual.
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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that predatory industries become growth markets during periods when people are most vulnerable is not particularly surprising, but they never used to present themselves as a social good.
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we’re in an age of growing wealth disparity and immense economic uncertainty. the paths to success for many are dwindling, and gambling, that age-old vice, has risen to profit off the anxiety. everywhere I look now, it’s ads for prediction markets, casinos, and sports betting.
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RT @JanMoleski: @David_Moscrop If Ottawa’s bringing in AI to cut staff, they’ll need new roles too: Algorithm Apologist, Prompt Whisperer,….
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RT @davidgross_man: Type of headline that would have the New York Times looking into your college applications if an American said it https….
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truly incredible that land theft and genocide gets overwhelming money and support, and opposing it gets sanctions.
Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt @IntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives. Albanese’s campaign of political and economic.
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RT @MazMHussain: "While Israel does not seek direct confrontation with Turkey nor intends to employ such capabilities imminently, it must e….
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RT @mehdirhasan: Wow 100s of Silicon Valley folks signed an open letter saying they support demonizing Muslims and Islamic culture. Masks o….
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If someone who didn’t share Shaun’s beliefs built a competing supersonic aircraft company and all else was equal, Boom would face market consequences for Blake’s comments.
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So the claim that the climate change economics guy thinks monopolies and billionaires are the greatest thing since sliced bread and a sign of a healthy market (which is what the AEI types love to repeat ad nauseum) is…uhhhh…not it.
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Everyone falls into the “freedom of speech” trap fighting these racists, and it’s profoundly disappointing. Yes, they can say what they want. No, this doesn’t insulate them from consequences and the market punishing their shitty behaviour. And those consequences get them fired.
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