
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
Ah, the Times has jumped on the “blame it all on Bibi” train. Not the army that committed the genocide, the fleets of people who enabled and facilitated it, the society that backed it, just Bibi.
The New York Times on Netanyahu: . "He pressed ahead with the war in April and July 2024, even as top generals told him that there was no further military advantage to continuing.". It's over a year later, and children are still being killed every day.
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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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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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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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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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