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Meredith Whittaker

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951 total appearances

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Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

american guy dream of the you know the largest in the world um but ai is a you know it's a very slippery term it's not a technical term of art it can apply to many many different things and there are small models there are sort of you know heterodox approaches there are expert systems which they're now trying to bolt onto the side of generative systems because like wait probabilistic answers aren't true so we need to bolt truth back on and we're kind of repeating a lot of the

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

american guy dream of the you know the largest in the world um but ai is a you know it's a very slippery term it's not a technical term of art it can apply to many many different things and there are small models there are sort of you know heterodox approaches there are expert systems which they're now trying to bolt onto the side of generative systems because like wait probabilistic answers aren't true so we need to bolt truth back on and we're kind of repeating a lot of the

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

you know, a lot of the, a lot of the history of AI kind of speed running it in a search for a business model.

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

you know, a lot of the, a lot of the history of AI kind of speed running it in a search for a business model.

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

you know, a lot of the, a lot of the history of AI kind of speed running it in a search for a business model.

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

So my answer there is that like a lot of the things that need to be done to, you know, simply disarm and draw down the centralized power of these, you know, surveillance and infrastructure companies are the same things that would need to be done to redefine in a sense, what AI is and our relationship to how truth, how, you know,

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

So my answer there is that like a lot of the things that need to be done to, you know, simply disarm and draw down the centralized power of these, you know, surveillance and infrastructure companies are the same things that would need to be done to redefine in a sense, what AI is and our relationship to how truth, how, you know,

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

So my answer there is that like a lot of the things that need to be done to, you know, simply disarm and draw down the centralized power of these, you know, surveillance and infrastructure companies are the same things that would need to be done to redefine in a sense, what AI is and our relationship to how truth, how, you know,

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

decisions, how, you know, I don't want to use the word truth actually, but like how information is made via analyzing data and who gets to control that. And I think, you know, my sensitivity to data in that answer comes directly from my measurement experience, right?

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

decisions, how, you know, I don't want to use the word truth actually, but like how information is made via analyzing data and who gets to control that. And I think, you know, my sensitivity to data in that answer comes directly from my measurement experience, right?

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

decisions, how, you know, I don't want to use the word truth actually, but like how information is made via analyzing data and who gets to control that. And I think, you know, my sensitivity to data in that answer comes directly from my measurement experience, right?

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

Like where you, you know, one upgrade to the Linux kernel across our server fleet fundamentally changed the kind of data we were able to create. like, how it populated the schema and, like, meant that that data wasn't necessarily fungible with the data collected on the older version of the kernel, right?

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

Like where you, you know, one upgrade to the Linux kernel across our server fleet fundamentally changed the kind of data we were able to create. like, how it populated the schema and, like, meant that that data wasn't necessarily fungible with the data collected on the older version of the kernel, right?

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

Like where you, you know, one upgrade to the Linux kernel across our server fleet fundamentally changed the kind of data we were able to create. like, how it populated the schema and, like, meant that that data wasn't necessarily fungible with the data collected on the older version of the kernel, right?

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

And in order to solve that problem, I had to get a guy to go sit with the kernel maintainers for, like, two years to, like, make sure that the update wasn't going to, like, fuck up the way we got TCP DOMs, basically. So, like, that, you know, that's... And that's...

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

And in order to solve that problem, I had to get a guy to go sit with the kernel maintainers for, like, two years to, like, make sure that the update wasn't going to, like, fuck up the way we got TCP DOMs, basically. So, like, that, you know, that's... And that's...

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

And in order to solve that problem, I had to get a guy to go sit with the kernel maintainers for, like, two years to, like, make sure that the update wasn't going to, like, fuck up the way we got TCP DOMs, basically. So, like, that, you know, that's... And that's...

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

then think about social data then think about data that reflects like who gets access to resources then think about all of the other things and um i think i think it's actually an exciting idea to think on like you know how do we how do we create systems where we're much more attentive to that and recognize that there is a you know it really matters how those choices are made how those you know how data is created who gets a say in it and who gets a say in how it's used

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

then think about social data then think about data that reflects like who gets access to resources then think about all of the other things and um i think i think it's actually an exciting idea to think on like you know how do we how do we create systems where we're much more attentive to that and recognize that there is a you know it really matters how those choices are made how those you know how data is created who gets a say in it and who gets a say in how it's used

Logbuch:Netzpolitik
LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

then think about social data then think about data that reflects like who gets access to resources then think about all of the other things and um i think i think it's actually an exciting idea to think on like you know how do we how do we create systems where we're much more attentive to that and recognize that there is a you know it really matters how those choices are made how those you know how data is created who gets a say in it and who gets a say in how it's used