Justin Bayer
@usuallyuseless.bsky.social
Learning and autonomous systems.
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Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.
June 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.
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I brought my updated thoughts on AI and why I'm so bullish into a long-form post.
“Right now it’s messy and raw, but the path is clear: we are no longer just using machines, we are now working with them.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/cha...
“Right now it’s messy and raw, but the path is clear: we are no longer just using machines, we are now working with them.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/cha...
AI Changes Everything
From fear to optimism: why I am convinced AI is worth embracing.
lucumr.pocoo.org
June 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I brought my updated thoughts on AI and why I'm so bullish into a long-form post.
“Right now it’s messy and raw, but the path is clear: we are no longer just using machines, we are now working with them.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/cha...
“Right now it’s messy and raw, but the path is clear: we are no longer just using machines, we are now working with them.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/cha...
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I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...
I am disappointed in the AI discourse
steveklabnik.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...
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Interfaces in STAR WARS, 1977.
May 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Interfaces in STAR WARS, 1977.
Die einen sorgen sich dass unsere Geisteswissenschaftler wegen AI bald keinen klaren Gedanken mehr fassen können.
Die anderen dürfen bei der SZ ohne irgendeine Argumentation von 100 Mio. Arbeitslosen auf der Hauptseite im Fettgedruckten faseln.
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/ki-ar...
Die anderen dürfen bei der SZ ohne irgendeine Argumentation von 100 Mio. Arbeitslosen auf der Hauptseite im Fettgedruckten faseln.
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/ki-ar...
Künstliche Intelligenz wird Arbeit und Gesellschaft verändern: Macht euch bereit!
KI wird Millionen neuer Arbeitsplätze schaffen und Hunderte Millionen vernichten. Die Gesellschaft ist darauf nicht eingestellt.
www.sueddeutsche.de
May 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Die einen sorgen sich dass unsere Geisteswissenschaftler wegen AI bald keinen klaren Gedanken mehr fassen können.
Die anderen dürfen bei der SZ ohne irgendeine Argumentation von 100 Mio. Arbeitslosen auf der Hauptseite im Fettgedruckten faseln.
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/ki-ar...
Die anderen dürfen bei der SZ ohne irgendeine Argumentation von 100 Mio. Arbeitslosen auf der Hauptseite im Fettgedruckten faseln.
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/ki-ar...
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
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BBC: Why don't women use ChatGPT?
Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage
BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads
Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage
BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads
Bit of an odd story this one - the main analysis says women don't use AI because they lack STEM skills, confidence and value in the workplace. Yet the anecdotes suggest that women excel at communication, whether writing or interpersonal, and can spot ChatGPT's flaws
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
Why are fewer women using AI than men?
The use of artificial intelligence appears to have a significant gender imbalance.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2023 at 1:52 PM
BBC: Why don't women use ChatGPT?
Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage
BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads
Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage
BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads
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Many of the QTs and replies to this are completely inane.
Reflects badly on this site.
Reflects badly on this site.
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Many of the QTs and replies to this are completely inane.
Reflects badly on this site.
Reflects badly on this site.
The quote replies of this post are shocking.
What bothers me most is that people I'd have expected more from don't engage in the thread and have a civil discussion; they publicly shame and disrespect @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social big time, malevolently not trying to understand what he wrote.
What bothers me most is that people I'd have expected more from don't engage in the thread and have a civil discussion; they publicly shame and disrespect @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social big time, malevolently not trying to understand what he wrote.
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The quote replies of this post are shocking.
What bothers me most is that people I'd have expected more from don't engage in the thread and have a civil discussion; they publicly shame and disrespect @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social big time, malevolently not trying to understand what he wrote.
What bothers me most is that people I'd have expected more from don't engage in the thread and have a civil discussion; they publicly shame and disrespect @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social big time, malevolently not trying to understand what he wrote.
If you can simulate it, just PPO it.
April 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you can simulate it, just PPO it.
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What a rare and absolute honour. Sir Isaac Newton passed through today after no doubt doing some sciencey stuff abroad. Welcome home Sir.
March 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What a rare and absolute honour. Sir Isaac Newton passed through today after no doubt doing some sciencey stuff abroad. Welcome home Sir.
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
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A librarian that previously worked at the British Library created a relatively small dataset of bsky posts, hundreds of times smaller than previous researchers, to help folks create toxicity filters and stuff.
So people bullied him & posted death threats.
He took it down.
Nice one, folks.
So people bullied him & posted death threats.
He took it down.
Nice one, folks.
November 28, 2024 at 5:33 AM
A librarian that previously worked at the British Library created a relatively small dataset of bsky posts, hundreds of times smaller than previous researchers, to help folks create toxicity filters and stuff.
So people bullied him & posted death threats.
He took it down.
Nice one, folks.
So people bullied him & posted death threats.
He took it down.
Nice one, folks.
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Kind of a broken record here but proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
November 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Kind of a broken record here but proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
I was thinking about sth else at first, but, well, it's nice.
Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.
November 20, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I was thinking about sth else at first, but, well, it's nice.
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Several years ago, when things were bad, as they are now, I made a comic about art and community in the face of hate. Today feels like a time to reshare. 1/5
November 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Several years ago, when things were bad, as they are now, I made a comic about art and community in the face of hate. Today feels like a time to reshare. 1/5
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RJ Scaringe, the CEO of Rivian, on the transition to EVs at #EmTechMIT:
“A lot of noise gets generated around what’s going to happen this month, this quarter, the next year. But what’s very clear is the end state. The end state is that every vehicle on our planet will be powered electrically."
“A lot of noise gets generated around what’s going to happen this month, this quarter, the next year. But what’s very clear is the end state. The end state is that every vehicle on our planet will be powered electrically."
September 30, 2024 at 3:45 PM
RJ Scaringe, the CEO of Rivian, on the transition to EVs at #EmTechMIT:
“A lot of noise gets generated around what’s going to happen this month, this quarter, the next year. But what’s very clear is the end state. The end state is that every vehicle on our planet will be powered electrically."
“A lot of noise gets generated around what’s going to happen this month, this quarter, the next year. But what’s very clear is the end state. The end state is that every vehicle on our planet will be powered electrically."
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Remember, when Google glasses came out, users were asked to leave restaurants and other public venues, and otherwise bothered by people who didn't want to be filmed, so often that the product flopped massively and was shelved. We can do it again. I believe in our collective power to be annoying.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the precious iteration.
Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras
Meta really wants to put cameras on your face.
www.theverge.com
September 28, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Remember, when Google glasses came out, users were asked to leave restaurants and other public venues, and otherwise bothered by people who didn't want to be filmed, so often that the product flopped massively and was shelved. We can do it again. I believe in our collective power to be annoying.
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Angriff gegen die Verfassung der Bundesrepublik: Bei einem geheimen Treffen haben einflussreiche AfD-Politiker mit bekannten Rechtsextremisten und Unternehmern einen Plan. Sie wollen Millionen von Menschen aus Deutschland vertreiben. Was die Anwesenden nicht wussten: CORRECTIV war vor Ort...
Geheimplan gegen Deutschland
Hochrangige AfD-Politiker, Neonazis und finanzstarke Unternehmer planten die Vertreibung von Millionen von Menschen aus Deutschland.
correctiv.org
January 10, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Angriff gegen die Verfassung der Bundesrepublik: Bei einem geheimen Treffen haben einflussreiche AfD-Politiker mit bekannten Rechtsextremisten und Unternehmern einen Plan. Sie wollen Millionen von Menschen aus Deutschland vertreiben. Was die Anwesenden nicht wussten: CORRECTIV war vor Ort...
Teh kyebroad hsa been dirnkirng, no' me.
November 3, 2023 at 8:29 PM
Teh kyebroad hsa been dirnkirng, no' me.