I can't find the exact tweet because TWTR search is bad, but this is a thought I've expressed more than once, as it was one of my 'lessons learned' from hanging around the Euro startup scene in 2015.
There are numerous passages that seem like either my or someone else's tweets.
To be clear, I think plagiarism is kind of over-cited as a sin. We're in a remix/retweet culture, and I'm perfectly happy to have people take my ideas and run with them. Have at it...I consider it a success. Not like my ideas are that unique or valuable.
But copy/pasting tweets?
Yes, I vaguely know him (we *were* in a group I admin'ed). I DM'ed him about it and he gave me some BS line and ghosted me.
(Thought of posting thread, but seems there's some privacy right that still applies to private DMs. So take my word for it.)
But maybe....he's just being true to his Lindy beliefs!
Plagiarism is certainly Lindy. In which case, he is living his truth (as a lie, but whatever).
Lastly, here's an implicit admission of guilt.
Someone DM'ed me his piece saying 'this sounds just like your usual Europe/US spiel', so I subbed to read.
As soon as I sub-Tweeted about him, he booted me from the subs list.
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I wrote about this ages ago back when I gave a damn about media.
It's very simple: US journalism (unlike other Western countries) adopted 'objectivity' as a standard, less because of moral probity, and more because Macy's needed unpolarizing content across a large audience.
Techies who think the NYT only as smart as some its dunderheaded writers are mistaken: there's a whole biz and tech team there, and they felt the winds changing.
They know they're in the compelling stories biz, not the news one anymore.
I'm as excited about AI as the next guy (and even more excited these days), but I think AI people are being a wee bit delusional (on two levels) about how the whole AI builder vs. publishers with training data saga will play out.
Do we really think that AI builders (in the West) will be able to get away with egregiously copying and using copyrighted materials (and make money off of it!) with zero recompense?
This is from the Stability/Getty Images suit. The AI even reproduced the watermark!
Even assuming that AI wins (in the OAI vs. NYT suit for example), and only strict bit-for-bit copying is protected and the rest is fair use.
Let's fast-forward this movie a few years: AI replaces the way most users consume the Internet, i.e., @perplexity_ai replaces Google.
90% of the disconnect between the West and Israel is Israel still living in the capital 'H' History of ethno-nationalist struggle and war, and the West having resigned itself to the Fukuyaman End of History: life as virtue-signaling LARP, and the UN/US/EU as the global HR dept.
They raped our women, took our children hostage, and murdered our elders, so we flattened their cities, killed or captured their fighting men, raised our flag and prayed to our God on their land.
This was the entirety of human history. The Torah recounts the story many times.
The West in 2023 AD cannot abide the wheel of History spinning once again: after the triumph of liberalism in WWII and the Cold War, such a reversion to historical norm is unthinkable and revolting. The heavily Christian roots of liberalism expect a messianic age of peace.
I was in Israel shortly after the recent Hamas attacks, going everywhere from the scenes of the atrocities, to the preparations for war, to the techies in Tel Aviv supporting the war effort.
Thread with both text highlights and on-the-ground photos.
Our story begins with your humble correspondent having rifles pointed at him by jumpy reservists as he tried to enter Mefalsim, one of the kibbutzim brutally attacked on 10/7. A few words from my driver and an Israeli press pass cooled things down. South Israel is a war zone.
The adjoining parking lot, like most we'd encounter, was a mix of reservists' cars, shot-out cars from the attacks, and a tank unit waiting to enter Gaza.
You'd think a 60-ton thing would be hard to hide, but it was hard to spot the Merkavas pulling in.
Debate at an AI dinner last night. Everyone floats their shaky theory about morality and the AI bots. I point out there's a lack of overt religious reasoning here, and one guy confronts me:
Why are humans special? If the AI has sentience, why should we treat them differently?
"Judaism would say tzelem elohim (the image of God) sets humans apart, which is basically saying humans possess an intrinsic and transcendent good that exceeds the material."
"But that's ridiculous. I don't believe in God."
"Say we had two sentient AIs running on two servers, and I told you you had to choose between blowing the head off of some human or unplugging the machines. Which do you do?"
Like many things in Web 3 marketing, it's a reboot of a Web 2 practice: quests are like the offerwalls of old where users got free virtual goods for engaging with a game or app.
@spindl_xyz@layer3xyz@Galxe@QuestN@rabbithole_gg Quests are fairly unique in that they're 'wallet aware': it's a standard Web experience, but the publisher knows the user's wallet (both as an anti-fraud measure and to pay out the giveaways).
Thus, downstream measurement is *much* easier than having to join via Web 2 clicks.