If you go to secondary school in Germany for the last 2 years you have to pick a bunch of specializations, subjects you want to focus on to a degree. You spend more time on these subjects and your final grade is strongly influenced by your results in those courses. When I picked … | Continue reading
When I was a kid / teenager I wanted to play the guitar. Like many people that age. Got myself a guitar and everything but never really practiced at all in any meaningful way. I didn’t so much want to play the guitar but I wanted the reward I associated with the output, the cultu … | Continue reading
I think there are a lot of good points in Mozilla’s “Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness“. Yes, relying on proprietary vendors to provide security is not the right path and we should know this because we’ve had that debate decades ago about IT security and open source: Open … | Continue reading
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings fo … | Continue reading
I was on a panel yesterday and the narrative of “exponential growth in LLMs” came up. The story goes like this: LLMs have in recent years doubled in size every few months, so they’ll get better/smarter etc. and we’ll have to base our model of thinking about them, their regulation … | Continue reading
Recently 25 experts and me released an open letter to the US Senate and House of Representatives asking for better regulation of the crypto market. Being what it is this letter had to argue on the basic fundamentals of the underlying tech without going into a lot of technical det … | Continue reading
(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.cc) By tante Version 1.0Date: Dec 17th 2021License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 Introduction I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this … | Continue reading
“Robots will replace us!” is a very popular meme for those who don’t want robots or “AI” to replace human… | Continue reading
Automated statistics systems are all the rage today. But not under that heading and name. They are called “artificial intelligence”.… | Continue reading
A few days ago I spend my lunch break writing a short Twitter thread pointing out the core falsehoods people… | Continue reading