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OpenAI called, they said that they need to inspect your wallet. For important agentic wallet inspecting purposes. They said it's very urgent, if you don't let them do it their AI might go rogue

Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

Sir please hand over your wallet, we need to inspect it

"AI" is a PSYOP, distortion of language and the meaning of words (e.g. "compute" 😩) is part of it. • "the AI escaped containment" → "The system performed as programmed" • "the AI went rogue" → "the system performed as programmed" • "the AI hacked into X" → ""the system performed as programmed" 👇

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We love to see a robust backup strategy

Yeah and this comes with its own interesting information preservation issues! (digital collections can degrade too, what if the ownership of the publisher changes hands, all kinds of intellectual property hell etc etc)

Yep! Lots of academic books, research monographs etc. only get tiny print runs!

I mean, I agree with you mostly! I've destroyed truckloads of cheap paperbacks. You're correct that a lot of it is mass production. But not every book is The Pelican Brief and I worry about that

I'm not a book respecter, I'm a hater of these anti intellectual fools who will absolutely grind everything into fodder for the machine if you let them

First, extend this process to older and rarer books (which is what they're hunting for). I don't give a shit about tearing up some paperbacks (I've torn up many). But each volume that becomes rarer / is lost because of this and gets replaced by their lossy compression of it.. is lost information.

Thank you for explaining this to me, someone who has worked in bookselling and publishing for 20+ years. Anything else?

So they are destroying information. Cool, cool

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

"THE ODYSSEY is historically inaccurate" Oh word, did you notice that there is a Cyclops in it

It's a joke

And slavery, and killing off any disabled children that may not become great warriors, and in general a truly dreadful existence lol

Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!

it sucks that the web is so broken that we have resigned search and knowledge acquisition to (1) proprietary products (2) stochastic document encoders. I would like neither of these in my search results.