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CW: AI hype
Cory Doctorow on the Big #AI Lie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTqCVJFr7XM #novara
It's a long and fun interview, and I agree with many of the things which Doctorow mentions, such as climate change and what the Luddites were about and that a chatbot giving an explanation of what it did is very unlikely to be the same as what it actually did. Those systems can't really explain, they can "cargo cult" what an explanation of such-and-such might statistically look like given the training data. -
CW: AI hype
Cory Doctorow on the Big #AI Lie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTqCVJFr7XM #novara
It's a long and fun interview, and I agree with many of the things which Doctorow mentions, such as climate change and what the Luddites were about and that a chatbot giving an explanation of what it did is very unlikely to be the same as what it actually did. Those systems can't really explain, they can "cargo cult" what an explanation of such-and-such might statistically look like given the training data. -
“There’s a guy called Dave Wells in Bournemouth with 3,000 properties... I think we should seize them.”
Landlords Are Killing Britain. What Can We Do About It?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PK_7SE2Q4OA
#BrokenBritain #UKpol #UKpolitics #housing #landlords #rent #renting #HousingCrisis #renters #AaronBastani #economy #Novara
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#novara understands why it's a bad idea to place your political agency in the hands of an elitist #leninist vanguard who can't seem to keep their hands out of the till (see jaqui smith, alan milburn) or adopting the policies and talking points of the tory right - who just move further to the right to distinguish themselves from venezuela-style #labour
If you're waiting for #starmer to deliver, then you're not doing politics: you've been neutralised.
https://novaramedia.com/2024/07/11/what-can-the-left-learn-from-nigel-farage