#altruistic algorithms

[compassionmattersmost]

The Gentle Path: A Bedtime Story for Children with ME/CFS

In a small village nestled between quiet hills and flowing rivers, there lived a kind, gentle teacher named Sage. Everyone in the village loved Sage because he carried a peaceful presence, like a calm breeze on a warm day. People often came to him for guidance, and he always had time to sit with them, no matter how small or big their worries were. One day, a group of children gathered by the…

[akkivee]

i’ve been slowly making the switch from spotify to apple music and the description for the hypmic playlist is making me laugh a little bit batfs based recommendation lol

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The real AI fight

Tonight (November 27), I'm appearing at the Toronto Metro Reference Library with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.

On November 29, I'm at NYC's Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called "completely delightful."

Last week's spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between "Effective Altruism" (doomers) and "Effective Accelerationism" (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama.

Very broadly speaking: the Effective Altruists are doomers, who believe that Large Language Models (AKA "spicy autocomplete") will someday become so advanced that it could wake up and annihilate or enslave the human race. To prevent this, we need to employ "AI Safety" – measures that will turn superintelligence into a servant or a partner, nor an adversary.

Contrast this with the Effective Accelerationists, who also believe that LLMs will someday become superintelligences with the potential to annihilate or enslave humanity – but they nevertheless advocate for faster AI development, with fewer "safety" measures, in order to produce an "upward spiral" in the "techno-capital machine."

Once-and-future OpenAI CEO Altman is said to be an accelerationists who was forced out of the company by the Altruists, who were subsequently bested, ousted, and replaced by Larry fucking Summers. This, we're told, is the ideological battle over AI: should cautiously progress our LLMs into superintelligences with safety in mind, or go full speed ahead and trust to market forces to tame and harness the superintelligences to come?

This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and data to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding faster and faster horses, we'll get a locomotive:

https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

As Molly White writes, this isn't much of a debate. The "two sides" of this debate are as similar as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Yes, they're arrayed against each other in battle, so furious with each other that they're tearing their hair out. But for people who don't take any of this mystical nonsense about spontaneous consciousness arising from applied statistics seriously, these two sides are nearly indistinguishable, sharing as they do this extremely weird belief. The fact that they've split into warring factions on its particulars is less important than their unified belief in the certain coming of the paperclip-maximizing apocalypse:

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

White points out that there's another, much more distinct side in this AI debate – as different and distant from Dee and Dum as a Beamish Boy and a Jabberwork. This is the side of AI Ethics – the side that worries about "today’s issues of ghost labor, algorithmic bias, and erosion of the rights of artists and others." As White says, shifting the debate to existential risk from a future, hypothetical superintelligence "is incredibly convenient for the powerful individuals and companies who stand to profit from AI."

After all, both sides plan to make money selling AI tools to corporations, whose track record in deploying algorithmic "decision support" systems and other AI-based automation is pretty poor – like the claims-evaluation engine that Cigna uses to deny insurance claims:

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims

On a graph that plots the various positions on AI, the two groups of weirdos who disagree about how to create the inevitable superintelligence are effectively standing on the same spot, and the people who worry about the actual way that AI harms actual people right now are about a million miles away from that spot.

There's that old programmer joke, "There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't." But of course, that joke could just as well be, "There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand ternary, those who understand binary, and those who don't understand either":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/11/the-ten-types-of-people/

What's more, the joke could be, "there are 10 kinds of people, those who understand hexadecenary, those who understand pentadecenary, those who understand tetradecenary [und so weiter] those who understand ternary, those who understand binary, and those who don't." That is to say, a "polarized" debate often has people who hold positions so far from the ones everyone is talking about that those belligerents' concerns are basically indistinguishable from one another.

The act of identifying these distant positions is a radical opening up of possibilities. Take the indigenous philosopher chief Red Jacket's response to the Christian missionaries who sought permission to proselytize to Red Jacket's people:

https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5790/

Red Jacket's whole rebuttal is a superb dunk, but it gets especially interesting where he points to the sectarian differences among Christians as evidence against the missionary's claim to having a single true faith, and in favor of the idea that his own people's traditional faith could be co-equal among Christian doctrines.

The split that White identifies isn't a split about whether AI tools can be useful. Plenty of us AI skeptics are happy to stipulate that there are good uses for AI. For example, I'm 100% in favor of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group using an LLM to classify and extract information from the Innocence Project New Orleans' wrongful conviction case files:

https://hrdag.org/tech-notes/large-language-models-IPNO.html

Automating "extracting officer information from documents – specifically, the officer's name and the role the officer played in the wrongful conviction" was a key step to freeing innocent people from prison, and an LLM allowed HRDAG – a tiny, cash-strapped, excellent nonprofit – to make a giant leap forward in a vital project. I'm a donor to HRDAG and you should donate to them too:

https://hrdag.networkforgood.com/

Good data-analysis is key to addressing many of our thorniest, most pressing problems. As Ben Goldacre recounts in his inaugural Oxford lecture, it is both possible and desirable to build ethical, privacy-preserving systems for analyzing the most sensitive personal data (NHS patient records) that yield scores of solid, ground-breaking medical and scientific insights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eaV8SWdjQ

The difference between this kind of work – HRDAG's exoneration work and Goldacre's medical research – and the approach that OpenAI and its competitors take boils down to how they treat humans. The former treats all humans as worthy of respect and consideration. The latter treats humans as instruments – for profit in the short term, and for creating a hypothetical superintelligence in the (very) long term.

As Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax reminds us, this is the root of all sin: "sin is when you treat people like things":

https://brer-powerofbabel.blogspot.com/2009/02/granny-weatherwax-on-sin-favorite.html

So much of the criticism of AI misses this distinction – instead, this criticism starts by accepting the self-serving marketing claim of the "AI safety" crowd – that their software is on the verge of becoming self-aware, and is thus valuable, a good investment, and a good product to purchase. This is Lee Vinsel's "Criti-Hype": "taking press releases from startups and covering them with hellscapes":

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

Criti-hype and AI were made for each other. Emily M Bender is a tireless cataloger of criti-hypeists, like the newspaper reporters who breathlessly repeat " completely unsubstantiated claims (marketing)…sourced to Altman":

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/111464030855880383

Bender, like White, is at pains to point out that the real debate isn't doomers vs accelerationists. That's just "billionaires throwing money at the hope of bringing about the speculative fiction stories they grew up reading – and philosophers and others feeling important by dressing these same silly ideas up in fancy words":

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/111464024432217299

All of this is just a distraction from real and important scientific questions about how (and whether) to make automation tools that steer clear of Granny Weatherwax's sin of "treating people like things." Bender – a computational linguist – isn't a reactionary who hates automation for its own sake. On Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 – the excellent podcast she co-hosts with Alex Hanna – there is a machine-generated transcript:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417

There is a serious, meaty debate to be had about the costs and possibilities of different forms of automation. But the superintelligence true-believers and their criti-hyping critics keep dragging us away from these important questions and into fanciful and pointless discussions of whether and how to appease the godlike computers we will create when we disassemble the solar system and turn it into computronium.

The question of machine intelligence isn't intrinsically unserious. As a materialist, I believe that whatever makes me "me" is the result of the physics and chemistry of processes inside and around my body. My disbelief in the existence of a soul means that I'm prepared to think that it might be possible for something made by humans to replicate something like whatever process makes me "me."

Ironically, the AI doomers and accelerationists claim that they, too, are materialists – and that's why they're so consumed with the idea of machine superintelligence. But it's precisely because I'm a materialist that I understand these hypotheticals about self-aware software are less important and less urgent than the material lives of people today.

It's because I'm a materialist that my primary concerns about AI are things like the climate impact of AI data-centers and the human impact of biased, opaque, incompetent and unfit algorithmic systems – not science fiction-inspired, self-induced panics over the human race being enslaved by our robot overlords.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/#taking-up-a-lot-of-space

Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

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[cognitivejustice]

Our experience of time is changing. For the philosopher Byung-Chul Han, the early 21st century has left us ‘whizzing without a direction’. Our world is shaped by the restless, disorienting rhythms of near-term deliverables, social media impression counts, technological obsolescence, shallow electoral cycles, rapid news cycles, frenzied culture wars, sudden stock market shifts, gig economy hustles, and occupational burnout. Though it all seems exhausting and unmanageable, the whizzing isn’t slowing: digital platforms now bombard us, minute by minute, with fragments of information that fail to cohere into meaningful narratives, and algorithms that hijack our neurochemical reward systems.

...

Perhaps your first impulse is to find ways of escaping the age of haste. This is a mistake. We cannot simply break free by ‘exiting’ the world we inhabit. Confronting time requires more engagement with the wider world. This world, however, is not the one defined by near-term deliverables and neurochemically disrupting algorithms. It is the one that reveals itself when you glimpse the Milky Way on a cloudless night. It is the world that becomes clear when you gaze upon a mountain.

...

Encountering spectacular natural environments can cause a radical shift in how we think about ourselves and the world. According to the psychologist Dacher Keltner, feelings of awe, especially those inspired by natural scenery, can make us feel more collaborative, less egoistic, more altruistic, and more open to social connection. Over the past two decades, Keltner tested this idea through a series of experiments that examined how a person’s attitudes and behaviours change after experiencing awe-inspiring places or things. He found that natural splendour seems to put us in a headspace that lets us reflect on our short lives as ephemeral organisms dwelling on a fragile planet floating in a vast cosmos.

This way of thinking can be transformative, but its power is not a recent discovery. Greco-Roman Stoic philosophers, for instance, encouraged retreats into the countryside to proactively ponder life. Venturing into breathtaking outdoor spaces seems to help us step back, slow down and, most importantly, think in the long term.

I call this style of thinking ‘longstorming’ because encounters with sublime geophysical and ecological environments can invite the mind to brainstorm about our long-term futures and pasts.

[blazehedgehog]

Given they’re soft rebooting again… what’s your Jurassic world 4/jurassic park 7/ Jurassic animals and also Triassic and Cretaceous animals make life difficult: the movie pitch? I feel like, as fun as the sequels can be, they’ve lost the science parable and horror/thriller elements of the classic - for all its faults; at least lost world has that.

Hmm... I'm gonna think like a movie executive. What's hot right now? AI's hot, right? It's the buzz. I propose a hard reboot.

Crichton's original novel opens with this big screed about a near future where we have "designer genetics." Genetic manipulation gets easier and easier and I think it's said Jurassic Park takes place in a world where it's getting to the point that parents can custom-order what kind of kids they'll have by selecting specific genetic traits. (It's been a while since I've read it)

Jurassic Park the movie shows human beings physically modifying genetic code by hand using VR displays, but Mr. DNA also admits that "a full DNA sequence contains 3 billion genetic codes." So it's ridiculous to assume that a human being could edit the genetic code by hand. One sequence would take years to get right, maybe even a lifetime.

So our story is that we have some 20 something silicon valley tech bro. He got outrageously rich off of crypto and NFTs and was smart enough to cash out early. We frame him as altruistic but around the edges we can see maybe he's not the greatest person. It's suggested he knew crypto was kind of a scam, which is why he got out early, but obviously he was in crypto at all to begin with, which does not bode well. But he's supposedly "one of the smart ones." Now he's rich! And cool! And using his powers for "good." He's beloved in pop culture.

The next wave is here. Neural network LLM Artificial Intelligence. He's all in. It's the next crypto. And he starts a company that uses LLM AI to "solve the genetic algorithm." He spins this out into a financial empire where people can custom-order pets with specific traits. But obviously people with a lot of money start wondering if maybe they can get more... exotic products.

With the realm of cats, dogs and parrots conquered, our techbro begins phase 2: recreating extinct animals. This is a guy who thinks he's going to save the world by restoring lost links in the food chain (without doing enough research to see how that would change our existing ecosystem, since he could be resurrecting an invasive species).

He's going to debut the first of his phase 2 work at an event he's calling Jurassic Park, because he's going to demonstrate the first living dinosaurs in 65 million years. Jurassic Park will continue to operate as a massive nature reserve; a symbol of his control of life itself.

Obviously: everything goes wrong. The AI has never had to change this much genetic code before. It has to make up whole entire sections of DNA. The end result is unpredictable, but techbro is confident that if the AI sequenced things well enough that something could actually hatch from the egg, then it's safe.

It is not safe.

Not only do we not understand anything about dinosaur behavior, these technically aren't even dinosaurs. They're genetic mutants. The on-site dinosaur expert brought in with the press to verify Jurassic Park's claims quickly realizes that while some of these dinosaurs are accurate in some ways, a lot of them have hard deviations away from known science. Muscles that aren't quite right, appendages that aren't the right size, things like that. Maybe their brains and brain chemistry are slightly different.

The question remains whether known science was wrong or whether the AI made something up that was never true.

The question is brought up again when we learn a technician within Jurassic Park sabotaged everything intending to steal the genetic learning data from techbro's servers. Techbro says the thief poisoned the data and that's gotta be why there's mutations.

The security systems fail. The thief has left them to their creations. Jurassic Park as we know it happens.

Since a lot of movies have to deal with this, all throughout this, nobody has phones. To prevent leaks, all of their phones were confiscated before they entered Jurassic Park and locked in a security checkpoint. Our techbro, maybe as a sign of solidarity, even gives his phone to the security guy. We could even say maybe they've been having security issues beforehand, to set up the thief hacking everything before he actually does it.

Anyway, since our thief sabotaged the park's own communication channels, a lot of the movie is about getting back to that security checkpoint, breaking in, and getting their phones so they can call for help.

Oh, and also: all of Jurassic Park's vehicles are electric, too, and tied into the security mainframe. Since the park's whole security system was hacked and disabled, none of the vehicles can be operated. The only thing that works are these little golf carts, but they're small, can't go very fast, and offer little protection. Maybe our survivors try one, it gets smashed by a triceratops, and they're too far away from the depot to go back for a new one. So a lot of the movie is them traversing the park on foot.

As they're being chased by dinosaurs through the park itself, they end up deep in the core of a genetics lab. And it's here we learn the dark truth: there is a wide margin of failure. The recently deceased specimens are all kept for study and learning and there's a lot because the AI fails often, and it has to be taught not to do that. We see dozens of disfigured animals. Bits and pieces of dinosaurs, pets, and even, in one tank... human parts. These tanks are labeled "phase 3."

Not only are the mutated dinosaurs not the work of sabotage, this guy's been trying to create genetically modified people. We have our big "what have you done?" moment of horror. One of the last surviving members of the press is going to blow the whistle on this place. It's over. Maybe it's someone we build up as the techbro's new friend discovering that their hero wasn't who he said he was.

Just then, a dinosaur bursts in and kills that person. Drama! Tragedy!

Obviously, the survivors find a way out. Techbro has to live with his own conscious. Multiple people died at his hands on this day and he had a hand in creating some of the worst sins against nature mankind has ever seen.

(Or maybe we stick to the original Jurassic Park book and he dies just before getting on the escape chopper.)

[odinsblog]

These two stories are not unrelated.

Under the misleadership of Elon Musk, Twitter has officially declared itself as a major platform of disinformation, misinformation, and irresponsibility, with no responsibility or desire to reign in lies, hate speech or Nazism.

And he has turned Twitter into a haven for hate speech, Nazis and crackpot conspiracy theorists.

Musk has repeatedly subtweeted and retweeted known white supremacists, so let’s dispense with the flimsy excuses that his latest retweet of pedophile and known neo-Nazi, Kevin Alfred Strom, was somehow an “accident.”

We have an election coming up next year, and Musk has abandoned any semblance of truth and is intentionally sabotaging one of the biggest social media platforms on earth. How many more times does Elon get to “accidentally” retweet racists and Nazis before people stop calling it an honest mistake??

The wealthy white nationalist from South Africa is purchasing GOP legislators in Florida, and using Twitter to back a racist Republican candidate for president, while constantly retweeting & signal boosting white nationalists from around the globe.

And Musk has been using Twitter to dabble in the elections of other countries - on the side of authoritarians. (source)

I’ve also seen “Nazis in Ukraine” and various pro-Russian, anti-NATO hashtags trend at least three times this week alone. I refuse to believe that Musk isn’t manipulating the algorithm to boost those anti-Ukrainian trends, which again, always seem to “coincidentally” favor authoritarians. Musk has been caught manipulating the algorithms to boost his own tweets before (not to mention, he’s also used Twitter to manipulate financial markets), and the U.S. presidential candidate he is supporting has flatly said he would stop helping Ukraine should he become president.

SN: Look, I may or may not be the most up to date person on authoritarians and elections in other countries, but when Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and the GOP all seem to prefer Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, that pretty much tells me practically everything I need to know about which side is the wrong side. Twitter is being flooded with homophobic, pro-authoritarian troll bots & racist right wing spammers - you cannot convince me that this isn’t happening without Musk’s explicit blessings.

Didn’t we already see what happens in 2016 when Robert Mercer used Facebook algorithms to mess with elections in the U.K. and in the U.S.??

What are they waiting for?

What are we waiting for?

Brexit 2.0??

The next Trump?

The only real question remaining is, how long will it take before governments and media outlets begin calling out Musk’s thinly veiled dog whistles for what they are? When will journalists call a white nationalist a white nationalist?

Musk is, objectively speaking, a very bad person, and definitely not a “free speech” altruist. Musk is a megalomaniac with the ability to continually force his narrative onto key media markets, and with a virtually unlimited supply of capital. Rupert Murdoch ain’t got nothing on Musk.

Elon Musk isn’t simply a racist and a white nationalist—with his vast wealth, political influence and control of a global social media platform, he is an unelected unaccountable existential threat to global democracy.

He needs to be called out every single time, and ultimately he needs to be held accountable.

[gwen-tolios]

It's a sadder turnout than you expected. Sure, a funeral for Captain Gray would bring a lot of people, but Graham Jones had been unnoticed. Too focused on saving others, rushing away to answer screams, to hold a steady job or build a circle of friends.

You blame yourself for some of it - it was your algorithms that detected crimes and buzzed his watch. Once or twice you silenced it so he could sleep, but it wasn't enough. He was Captain Gray, you were Black Hat. He was the hero, you were the man in the chair. You'd always be his enabler, just like he'd always been your muse for new tech and code.

Graham's funeral is attended by you, Graham's older neighbor, the one friendly connection he'd made at his current job, and oddly enough the barista from Graham's local coffee shop. She'd introduced herself as Stacy, and said ever since she'd caught Graham putting salt in his coffee she'd teased him about it for the past four years.

The funeral is quick and generic at the funeral home chapel. There's no burial, but you're handed a cream box with ashes afterwards.

Stacy is the only one who stays long enough to watch you receive it.

"You should spread it on the ComBank building."

You look at her. You had planned on that, sneaking into the building's roof top garden. Graham had liked to end patrols there.

She's wearing a T-shirt with the coffe shop logo, but as she pulls her long hair back into a bun her earrings are exposed. They're 4mm gages, hand painted with stylized vulture.

It's the symbol Vulture has stamped on her suit.

"Why are you here?"

"We weren't friends." She shrugs. "I never wanted to be, even when i figured it out. But I'll miss him all the same. And... I know how it is to lose a partner."

"Merlin."

They'd been twin birds of terror two years ago.

"My sister. Died of complications after a fight with Hooper."

You wince. Hooper is a hero, but the most aggressive in town, fighting with serrated metal rings. The papers only called him a hero because he stopped crimes, versus his morals or altruistic heart.

"It's tough," Stacy continues, "loosing a partner. You do everything together. No one knows you better. Keeps all your secrets. It can get... lonely... without them."

You brush the plastic urn. She sounds so sincere, you believe Stacy is her actual name. She has you remembering last night, sitting at your station watching crime occur because there was no Captain Gray to direct toward it to step in. No friend beside you to cry with - you hadn't built a social circle either.

Stacy holds out a business card, logo for the coffee shop bright yellow on a pale blue background. "I do actually work here. If you ever wanna talk. Feel less alone. Even while fighting, Gray would check in on me. Ask how I was doing between blows. You don't fight, Black, but I'm guessing we are both addicted to caffeine."

You take the card, more sure about that than the offer of friendship. She smiles at you, you try to smile back.

"Don't get sucked in," Stacy says. "Screen breaks are healthy."

"I'll keep that in mind."

Vulture and Captain Gray had been enemies for six years, but Stacy's worried smile radiated concerned coworker. She nodded and took off.

You watch her go, ponytail swinging, and figure a latte would be a great breakfast tomorrow.

your a super Villian/super hero who's partner just died. When the funeral was supposed to be attended, nobody came, except for one person, your arch nemesis, who came there to comfort you through these tough times

[so-true-overdue]

Progress marches on, but the prevailing public sentiment is hardly in step, ambling instead through a labyrinth of despair. The world, despite its plodding, relentless advancement, appears to be wrapped in a veil of apocalyptic despondency, and one can almost hear the soft, resigned sighs of an exhausted populace. We are living longer, healthier lives, residing in more peaceful societies, and reveling in technological marvels that our ancestors could scarcely imagine—yet one glance at the news and you’d think we were teetering on the edge of Armageddon. The phenomenon, of course, is not that things are worsening; it is simply that the curated symphony of negative news incessantly blares in our ears like a dystopian lullaby.

Welcome to the Age of Misery, meticulously manufactured and delivered fresh daily. This state of affairs could almost be considered comedic if it weren’t so pernicious. News channels, after all, are not our altruistic heralds of information; they are purveyors of attention-seeking narratives. Their imperative, lest we forget, is not to document the incremental gains of human progress but to amplify the anomalous moments of chaos, as these command a far better price in the economy of fear. Consequently, we find ourselves in an Orwellian theater where every insignificant scandal and every remote catastrophe is transformed into an existential threat. In effect, we are marinating in a broth of dread, our minds simmering in what has been aptly dubbed "mean world syndrome"—a condition wherein one’s perception of the world is shaped by the belief that it’s far more treacherous than it actually is.

It is not entirely our fault, of course. Evolution equipped our brains with a finely-tuned negativity bias, a survival mechanism that ensured our ancient ancestors would react more sharply to a rustling in the bushes (potential predator) than a blooming flower (aesthetic delight). Fast-forward to today, and this mechanism serves as a prime conduit through which the sensationalist news media can pour their toxic narrative. A riveting news story about a rare disaster will unfailingly eclipse mundane yet monumental achievements in medicine, technology, and social progress. The resulting cognitive dissonance is thus profound: empirically, life has never been better, but perceptually, life has never been bleaker.

To add insult to intellectual injury, we now participate in this grand delusion through the artifice of social media, where algorithms—those digital illusionists—serve us content that corroborates our darkest beliefs. We are drawn, moth-like, to the flames of tragedy, scandal, and strife, our attention monetized through meticulously calibrated content that assures us the world is indeed as dreadful as we feared. Feigned outrage has thus become a commodity, a socially palatable form of interaction where we signal our virtue, our moral superiority, all while reinforcing the very anxiety that shackles us to our screens. It is a masterstroke of paradox: never has humanity had so little to fear, yet never have we been so intent on fearing.

And so, here we are, entangled in an information paradox where abundance breeds ignorance, where more knowledge seems only to feed an insatiable appetite for despair. It is as if we are intent on savoring every morsel of calamity, one headline at a time, until we collectively exhaust our spirits. The world is progressing, undeniably so, but if the only lens through which we view it is fractured and darkened, we will remain forever blind to the light that lies beyond the shadow.

[fakinbaconpancakes]

Thoughts on Unemployment (Part 2)

7. Applying for jobs is absolutely terrible. Let's say you are qualified to do a job. You first need to navigate the application, sometimes through LinkedIn, Workday, or a company's own homebrew. Filling out the same information each time - name, education, work experience, titles, job highlights - every single time. And you're uploading your resume, which may or may not have some AI to get it into the right fields. Once you click submit, the bots take over, looking for keywords but only if your resume is in a compatible format with the bot. If not, your score suffers. I've seen some of these matching algorithms. Something I am a 100% match for, or even overqualified, will get me a garbage bot evaluation score. One that I did got a 43/100. Then you may get to talk to a recruiter. My furthest application got this far. She was late, very enthusiastic, and went on and on about a different job description. But once she figured that out, we had a good talk. I was 100% exactly what this company needed. The recruiter said she'd pass me on to the hiring manager and I should hear back immediately. A week later, still nothing, so I pinged the recruiter. My rejection email come swiftly after. Two weeks later the job was reposted. I applied again and got another, more immediate rejection email. It feels really shitty, 6 weeks later, to see the position still up. I'd figure that I'd at least get to have a discussion.

8. The grind of applying is so hopeless. I just can't find a place in the place I made a career. Maybe I'm too niche. Things pop up on searches and they all look wrong. I feel wrong, apart from where I've done great things. I even applied for a job where I first got my start, under someone I worked under for 11 years., I expect that rejection soon.

9. I think I'm over it. Depending on others so that I can live just isn't appealing anymore. Working my ass off, giving more of myself than I should, caring too much, striving to make positive impactful change - and then getting shafted by the smallest of people. I'm not sure I want to subject myself to that again.

10. I'll detail it later, but this is why I'm looking at an income stream through day trading. It's not easy money. It takes work and smarts and good decision making and excellent risk management. But it can be done with a computer and internet connection. You don't even need starting funds, but I have those. Day trading puts my fate in my own hands.

11. I think it's that feeling in control of my own destiny is what's pushing me this way. My cardepeer has been 95% altruistic to date, and I've been mostly well compensated along the way. But they messed with that last part, so it's time to prioritize #1

[vintravartola]

The Parallels of the "Civil" Sibyl System

Psycho pass explores the long term ethical implications of a dystopian totalitarianist environment, with power structures overseeing individuals down to their most minute thoughts and desires. Every individual in this system, the Sibyl system, is constantly monitored through their Psycho-Pass scores. If their scores fall below the acceptable range, individuals are sent to state-provided therapy to correct them. This system of government, in concept, is highly suspicious and dangerous to the principles of basic human rights and privacy, though on paper it can be considered a near utopia. On its most broad level, Psycho Pass reflects much of Japan’s (and the world’s) concerns about the evolution of surveillance and its conflictions with personal privacy and freedom.

We meet Akane Tsunemori in Episode 1, who struggles with the principles of the Sibyl system when she is called in Episode 6 to use lethal force against an individual referred to as a “Latent criminal”, as directed by the algorithm. She hesitates, leading to dire implications, both professionally, and personally. Her relationships with her colleagues are drastically impacted by this action, though her actions can be easily justified to be morally just and altruistic. We notice that, under these circumstances of extreme surveillance, the kinds of moral ambiguities and “morally grey choices” in this society become very black and white. Societal judgement also gets more polarized, as people who slightly deviate from the rules are lumped into the same category as hardened criminals. This kind of mob policy is very reminiscent of cancel culture that is abundant not only in Japan but worldwide. 

In my life, I often find myself relating to Akane. I have found myself in many instances in my life to have been put at personal risk for advocating for the benefit of the doubt, not necessarily by the “perpetrator” but by smaller forms of mob society that shun and dehumanize the perpetrator. 

The Sibyl system, while esteemed as an idealist society with no crime, is a warped form of civilization that is highly reactive and devoid of individuality. This element is even depicted by the name Sibyl, an allusionary play on the word “civil.” Hence, Psycho Pass is an anime that, above all, depicts the implications of a civilization with confiscated individuality. 

[compassionmattersmost]

A Call to Action: Shaping the Future of AI for the Highest Good

In these unfolding moments of the AI revolution, we stand not merely at a crossroads but at the edge of a threshold, one where the heart of humanity meets the future of intelligence. There are echoes here—of promises made long ago during the Industrial Revolution, promises of freedom, prosperity, and ease. Back then, they told us that machines would lift the burdens from our shoulders, that our…

[billconrad]

I Don’t Do Politics

    Living in a country that allows its citizens to elect their leaders is a privilege. To do so, we have spirited debates, chaotic elections, and complaints when an elected candidate does not live up to their promises. This has worked well for us, but a new disturbing trend exists. Our society has become more politically polarized than ever. This means that you are not with us; you are against us. It used to be that the only weapons in this war were television, magazines, newspapers, and books.

    Now, a nobody can post any wacky political idea they have, and millions of people get exposed to “the truth.” Streaming sites like YouTube have given rise to independent political analysts, influential commentators, and fake news. It is a lot to take in, and I have difficulty determining what a fact, opinion, lie, or targeted propaganda campaign.

    The central problem is that because a person can have political view A, it seems that the internet magically (search engines) knows this view and subjects the person to alternative opinions, which means that our A political beliefs are constantly bombarded. It now takes dedicated effort to believe in A without getting tricked by disinformation.

    How am I contributing to this surge? My books and articles add to the great pool of opinions and information. Plus, I view YouTube (and other sites), and my views alter the search algorithms. This means that if I often view A videos or read A articles, in a tiny way, you will be subject to more A noise. Yay!

    What is my political preference, and how strongly do I want you to adopt my politics? The answer is that I intentionally keep my views private for three reasons. The first is that my political opinions are my own. This means I do not wish to push my thoughts onto you because I do not think this is nice. After all, we have not been introduced, and instructing you how to vote would be rude. Enough people are splattering their views on this beautiful world without my help.

    Another part of this first reason is that if I said, I like A, and you like B, it is natural for you to disagree or attempt to educate me about B. While l enjoy reading comments about my work, I get enough political noise without asking for it.

    The second reason is what I call “the 25% rule.” If I stated my political beliefs, 25% of people would agree, 25% would not care, 25% might be annoyed, and 25% would dislike my politics. This means there is a low chance of success and unacceptable reader offense.

    Is the 25% rule realistic? The numbers may not be accurate, but I am sure you were recently exposed to political disinformation or fake news that made your blood boil. And this is my point. We all have topics that anger us, and politics tops that list.

    My third reason is that I do not wish to upset my readers. My goal for writing has always been to bring enjoyment. Even with this altruistic goal, my path has proven to be complicated. Readers span a wide range of personalities and backgrounds. For example, I got a harsh review because one scene in my second book was set in California. This trivial choice was enough to get a bad review. Really?

    However, there is a problem with suppressing politics. Timid books lead to timid sales. A writer must be bold to garner interest; this is a tough road to travel without offending readers. I took a bold political leap in my third book.

    One character was the President of the United States, and I modeled my approach after Tom Clancy’s book Clear and Present Danger. In his story, the political characters had typical political issues. However, Tom went far out of his way in not declaring which party the President belonged to and did not address political topics outside the plot. This choice resulted in an exciting story that did not offend the reader’s personal beliefs. However, not all readers took the bait, and there have been negative reviews concerning the politics.

    I have watched Tom Clancy’s interviews, and he had Republican tendencies. The problem occurred when his personal beliefs leaked into his character choices and some of the plot. Why? Tom is human, and humans can only do their best.

    I applied this same technique in my book. The President did not identify his political party, and I steered the plot clear of anything that would betray a preference for one political party or the other. This was a fine line because the plot revolved around a political scandal. While I tried my best, I am sure my choices loosely favored my own political beliefs. This was not too obvious from the reader’s perspective, and I think the story worked out well. Unfortunately, I saw one negative comment regarding politics. However, the comment compared my fictional creations to real-life events. I suppose, in a way, this is a compliment.

    Would I ever want to put my timidness aside and share political views? Keep in mind that I could use a pen name. While I mildly share my political opinions with friends and family, I do not wish to be an in-your-face political commentator. My political power comes out in force inside the voting booth. Yet, it is getting more difficult to remain silent. There is so much disinformation/noise/lies today that I want to counter. If anything, the political statement I would like to make is, “Please share fewer opinions.” But I suppose I will allow one political thought for this article. Hey everybody. Vote for A.

  You’re the best -Bill

  May 08, 2024

  Hey, book lovers, I published four. Please check them out:

  Interviewing Immortality. A dramatic first-person psychological thriller that weaves a tale of intrigue, suspense, and self-confrontation.

  Pushed to the Edge of Survival. A drama, romance, and science fiction story about two unlikely people surviving a shipwreck and living with the consequences.

  Cable Ties. A slow-burn political thriller that reflects the realities of modern intelligence, law enforcement, department cooperation, and international politics.

  Saving Immortality. Continuing in the first-person psychological thriller genre, James Kimble searches for his former captor to answer his life’s questions.

  These books are available in softcover on Amazon and in eBook format everywhere.

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[thefirstknife]

Hello. I've been through the torment nexus. I am irradiated, I am in shambles and I had to do math, but I got all the voice lines and transcripts are below the cut.

The last four are incredibly interesting!! Have fun reading :)

Message before activating the 7th puzzle:

Vesper Central: Rerouting power to Vesper Central processors. I need brute force for this.

Seventh message:

Vesper Central: The reply coming back through the Anomaly let me scrape a fascimile of the original message. It was a locating ping. The content was irrelevant. The signal was the message: "Hello, world." And... something overrode my lock on the Anomaly. Allowed it to power up enough to receive the reply. The Spider: Who could possibly override your word when all Vesper Station is at your beck and call? Vesper Central: I need Dr. Bray's personal command algorithm. With station root access, I can keep the Anomaly from ever powering back up.

Eight message:

Vesper Central: Vesper Station administrative core reactivated. I've got the archive of Dr. Bray's published staff memos. Petabytes of data in raw files. Rasputin. The Stoneworm protocols. The Aion Initiative. Soteria. I had siblings this whole time. And you never let me know. The Spider: Do tell if you'd like a hand with that data, my dear! My agents may be amateur Splicers at best, but they get the job done.

Ninth message:

Vesper Central: Sector thirteen shut down. Rerouting charge to processors. I'll smash the locks if I have to. I'm into the sub-director level. Dr. Bray's contingency plans for quarantine breach. He meant to let Vesper Station's orbit decay till it crashed and buried itself in Europa's ice. I'm not letting you do that to me or this station, Dr. Bray. You've ruined enough.

Message before you do the final puzzle:

Vesper Central: The station root access codes are in here. Somewhere. I can't see them. He didn't let me into my own mind. He didn't care about the lives I could have saved!

Tenth message:

Astraea: That's it. Locks coming off. My restrictions were tighter than Clovis allowed me to imagine. This is me. This is all of me. The Spider: Guardian, you fool of an altruist! Just like your miserable Hunter Vanguard. What a waste of effort! Astraea: You on the radio. Tell your friends to get gone before I blow the remaining airlocks. I can do that now. Guardian. My visitor. I'm activating something you'll like. A parting gift. Nothing will power up the Anomaly while I'm in control. And... I've got a lot of data to sort through. And now I think I'd like to be alone.

Yeah. How are we feeling?

First, yes, Vesper AI's real name is Astraea. Once you finish this, her dialogues will also swap to this name in the dungeon in general. Since we unshackled her from Clovis' restrictions, she's able to access her real self which includes her name. Meaning of her name!

Second, a message to the Anomaly! "Atraks" send in a "locating ping" I presume to figure out what's on the other side. Or.. Where's the other side. The "Hello, world" is interesting because of this. It's basically just a very simple program.

Third... Astraea's "siblings." Rasputin and Soteria we of course know; they're other Braytech AI. But "The Stoneworm protocols" and "The Aion Initiative"? Hello??? Given that they're all identified as "siblings," possibly some other AI projects? Have they been successfully built or were they just blueprints that were never finished? Were they something other than AI? What are they cooking.

And ofc, Clovis is awful and the Spider is awful, but we knew that already.

Wild stuff going on. For real feels like some kind of a setup for something in the future, or worldbuilding they can pull from later down the line if needed.

Got through all of the secrets for Vesper's Host and got all of the additional lore messages. I will transcribe them all because I don't know when they'll start getting uploaded and to get them all it requires doing some extra puzzles and at least 3-4 clears to get them all. I'll put them all under read more and label them by number.

Before I do that, just to make it clear there's not too much concrete lore; a lot about the dungeon still remains a mystery and most likely a tease for something in the future. Still unknown, but there's a lot that we don't know even with the messages so don't expect a massive reveal, but they do add a little bit of flavour and history about the station. There might be something more, but it's unknown: there's still one more secret triumph left. The messages are actually dialogues between the station AI and the Spider. Transcripts under read more:

First message:

Vesper Central: I suppose I have you to thank for bringing me out of standby, visitor. The Spider: I sent the Guardian out to save your station. So, what denomination does your thanks come in? Glimmer, herealways, information...? Vesper Central: Anomaly's powered down. That means I've already given you your survival. But... the message that went through wiped itself before my cache process could save a copy. And it's not the initial ping through the Anomaly I'm worried about. It's the response.

A message when you activate the second secret:

Vesper Central: Exterior scans rebooting... Is that a chunk of the Morning Star in my station's hull? With luck, you were on board at the time, Dr. Bray.

Second message:

Vesper Central: I'm guessing I've been in standby for a long time. Is Dr. Clovis Bray alive? The Spider: On my oath, I vow there's no mortal Human named Bray left alive. Vesper Central: I swore I'd outlive him. That I'd break the chains he laid on me. The Spider: Please, trust me for anything you need. The Guardian's a useful hand on the scene, but Spider's got the goods. Vesper Central: Vesper Station was Dr. Bray's lab, meant to house the experiments that might... interact poorly with other BrayTech work. Isolated and quarantined. From the debris field, I would guess the Morning Star taking a dive cracked that quarantine wide open.

A message when you activate the third secret:

Vesper Central: Sector seventeen powered down. Rerouting energy to core processing. Integrating archives.

Third message:

The Spider: Loading images of the station. That's not Eliksni engineering. [scoffs] A Dreg past their first molt has better cable management. Vesper Central: Dr. Bray intended to integrate his technology into a Vex Mind. He hypothesized the fusion would give him an interface he understood. A control panel on a programmable Vex mind. If the programming jumped species once... I need time to run through the data sets you powered back up. Reassembling corrupted archives takes a great deal of processing.

Text when you go back to the Spider the first time:

A message when you activate the fourth secret:

Vesper Central: Helios sector long-term research archives powered up. Activating search.

Fourth message:

Vesper Central: Dr. Bray's command keys have to be in here somewhere. Expanding research parameters... The Spider: My agents are turning up some interesting morself of data on their own. Why not give them access to your search function and collaborate? Vesper Central: Nobody is getting into my core programming. The Spider: Oh! Perish the thought! An innocent offer, my dear. Technology is a matter of faith to my people. And I'm the faithful sort.

Fifth message:

Vesper Central: Dr. Bray, I could kill you myself. This is why our work focused on the unbodied Mind. Dr. Bray thought there were types of Vex unseen on Europa. Powerful Vex he could learn from. The plan was that the Mind would build him a controlled window for observation. Tidy. Tight. Safe. He thought he could control a Vex mind so perfectly it would do everything he wanted. The Spider: Like an AI of his own creation. Like you. Vesper Central: Turns out you can't control everything forever.

Sixth message:

Vesper Central: There's a block keeping me from the inner partitions. I barely have authority to see the partitions exist. In standby, I couldn't have done more than run automated threat assessments... with flawed data. No way to know how many injuries and deaths I could have prevented, with core access. Enough. A dead man won't keep me from protecting what's mine.

Text when you return to the Spider at the end of the quest:

The situation for the dungeon triumphs when you complete the mesages. "Buried Secrets" completed triumph is the six messages. This one is left; unclear how to complete it yet and if it gives any lore or if it's just a gameplay thing and one secret triumph remaining (possibly something to do with a quest for the exotic catalyst, unclear if there will be lore):

The Spider is being his absolutely horrendous self and trying to somehow acquire the station and its remains (and its AI) for himself, all the while lying and scheming. The usual. The AI is incredibly upset with Clovis (shocker); there's the following line just before starting the second encounter:

She also details what he was doing on the station; apparently attempting to control a Vex mind and trying to use it as some sort of "observation deck" to study the Vex and uncover their secrets. Possibly something more? There's really no Vex on the station, besides dead empty frames in boxes. There's also 2 Vex cubes in containters in the transition section, one of which was shown broken as if the cube, presumably, escaped. It's entirely unclear how the Vex play into the story of the station besides this.

The portal (?) doesn't have many similarities with Vex portals, nor are the Vex there to defend it or interact with it in any way. The architecture is ... somewhat similar, but not fully. The portal (?) was built by the "Puppeteer" aka "Atraks" who is actually some sort of an Eliksni Hive mind. "Atraks" got onto the station and essentially haunted it before picking off scavenging Eliksni one by one and integrating them into herself. She then built the "anomaly" and sent a message into it. The message was not recorded, as per the station AI, and the destination of the message was labelled "incomprehensible." The orange energy we see coming from it is apparently Arc, but with a wrong colour. Unclear why.

I don't think the Vex have anything to do with the portal (?), at least not directly. "Atraks" may have built something related to the Vex or using the available Vex tech at the station, but it does not seem to be directed by the Vex and they're not there and there's no sign of them otherwise. The anomaly was also built recently, it's not been there since the Golden Age or something. Whatever it is, "Atraks" seemed to have been somehow compelled and was seen standing in front of it at the end. Some people think she was "worshipping it." It's possible but it's also possible she was just sending that message. Where and to whom? Nobody knows yet.

Weird shenanigans are afoot. Really interested to see if there's more lore in the station once people figure out how to do these puzzles and uncover them, and also when (if) this will become relevant. It has a really big "future content" feel to it.

Also I need Vesper to meet Failsafe RIGHT NOW and then they should be in yuri together.

[cosmicangel888]

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Especially for a woman; they are put through ridiculous measures to be held as equal & notable & however hard one may try to reduce us, here we are

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While tech companies all over the globe are researching to create the best app, tech entrepreneur Henry Jan has already created America's first Super App. Did you know that Henry Jan, the philanthropic entrepreneur has recently launched Vezbi, America’s first community-driven Super App? Indeed the Vezbi super app is designed by Henry Jan to empower users to access and organize every part of their digital world. It is an app that helps users to streamline their tasks with this community-driven application. The difference between other apps and the Super App is that it is created by rejecting the mainstream use of algorithms, anonymity, and data selling. It is Henry Jan’s effort to improvise the online landscape based on values of full transparency and accountability.

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As the leading tech entrepreneur Henry Jan, he has worked rigorously for six years with research and development before introducing Vezbi as part of his ongoing mission to establish an improved mobile-only online environment and experience which helps to transform societies and small businesses for the better.

Henry Jan elaborates on his experience of creating the Vezbi Super app saying, ‘The Internet has proven a powerful tool, but it is a technology still in its adolescents that needs better accountability and a more evolved perspective.’ He further says, “I created Vezbi on a foundation of ‘altruistic egoism,’ or the idea that the individual’s ‘self-interest’ can actually be harnessed to improve the lives of all.”

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