Jon Stokes
Author. Coder. θηριομάχης. CTO. Building: https://t.co/otXT4Wy6WR. Writing: https://t.co/dBPBtyCIHw. ⏩ https://t.co/Dkl5oGiMK6
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I have been on more than one secret lefty list going back to the 2010's, and I am now in more than one "new right" GC. And the caliber of the discussion on latter is so far above t...
Things are getting weird on here lol. I’ve kinda stopped having strong feels about any of the circus and am just watching it and waiting for the gyrations to stop like https://t.co...
@krazykudu So, I think "repeated talking points without realizing it" is kind of a canard. It's just not an accusation I take seriously. That's just repeating ideas & arguments tha...
This is a project that gives a little glimpse of the future: a Stable Diffusion model that's trained on exactly three art styles, & you can mix them & weight them to generate diffe...
This thread is an argument for essentially a publicly funded alternative to Twitter. Note the word "ethical" in here -- whose ethics? That's rhetorical tho b/c the answer is obviou...
My dad told me a joke that actually doesn't make any sense in the age of Instagram: Retiree to his peers: "I know it's rude to talk about expensive trips you went on, but fellas I...
In mid-November, @Meta launched an ML model they claimed could revolutionize science & the way humanity interacts with it. Galactica aimed to take the AI tools that have worked so...
This tweet is the kind of moral fork in the road this platform is so good putting in front of us & pressing us to choose a path. Even me copping to having a kind of “two buttons” t...
I’ve deleted this b/c I now think it’s a mistake to get too far out on this limb, which is pretty rickety. The core problem is it’s impossible to get firsthand evidence for — you...
The people who write these critiques won’t engage with any pushback. Not on here & not in any venue. They’ve been repeating the same points for years & ignoring/smearing their crit...
Again, for any of this to definitely be true, you need a model of "intelligent,"which Chollet does not have & which nobody has. How does he know that the brain is not "a record" to...
I've been tracking conflations & confusions in the #TwitterFiles2 fight, so here's another one: accounts that re algorithmically suppressed/deboosted (what some are calling "shadow...