[FRIAM] AI Alliance

Wed Dec 6 13:47:00 EST 2023

As the habitual tangenteer that I am, I'm left reacting to the phrase 
"Musk's reality distortion field".    Tangent aside, I do very much 
appreciate Glen's take on this and found the multiple references (much 
more on-topic than my tangential riff here) interesting and useful.   I 
too hope Stallman will weigh in and wonder what the next evolution of 
EFF might look like or be replaced by in this new evolutionary landscape 
at the intersection of tech and culture?

I'm hung up, the last few years, on Yuval Harari's Intersubjective 
Reality 
<https://medium.com/amalgamate/inter-subjective-realities-64b4f6716f72> 
as derived from the social science Intersubjectivity 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersubjectivity>.

When I first heard Harari's usage/coinage I reacted to it somewhat the 
way I did to Kellyanne Conway's Alternative Facts 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts>, but I now deeply 
appreciate what they are all alluding to, some more disingenously than 
others.

I don't disagree that Musk's every action and statement has the effect 
of "distorting reality" but it is our /Intersubjective Reality/ that is 
being distorted, not the reality that most of us were trained/steeped in 
via the philosophical tradition of /Logical Positivism 
<https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/>/.   Others here 
were (Social Sciences, Humanism) probably trained up and steeped more in 
Phenomenology <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/> and 
more comfortable with Intersubjective Reality.

I find the likes of Musk or Trump or Altman or ( * ), as the 
/Personality/ in "Cult of Personality" in much the way star this 
recently discovered in-sync planetary system 
<https://mashable.com/article/nasa-exoplanets-orbit-star-sync> exists 
(see below).   With the planets' orbits finding pairwise (and more 
generally n-wise) resonances, all (presumably) coupled exclusively by 
gravity (and synced through internal dissipative tidal forces?).

Is chatGPT or OpenAI or AIAlliance ( or, or, or, . . . ) yet another 
species of celestial body in an orbital dance?

Musk, of course, operates in a higher-dimensional field of forces with 
Tweets (X's?), public appearances, financial transactions, and 
launch/contract/release announcements as the "intermediate vector 
particles"  and the sturm and drang of individual drama trauma among the 
companies, organizations and individuals who are effected by it all as 
the internal dissipative forces.

Mashable article on in-sync planetary system 
<https://mashable.com/article/nasa-exoplanets-orbit-star-sync>

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/tess/discovery-alert-watch-the-synchronized-dance-of-a-6-planet-system/

On 12/6/23 10:57 AM, Pietro Terna wrote:
>     Genius!
>
>
> Il 06/12/23 15:11, glen ha scritto:
>> For those of us who refuse to contribute to Musk's reality distortion 
>> field: https://thealliance.ai/
>>
>> Yeah, it's interesting. 2 questions came to my mind: 1) Where is 
>> Mozilla? Are they a part of it? And 2) "open" is not a simple 
>> concept. Is it possible that so many organizations have a clear 
>> understanding of what it means? If so, what do they mean? We've seen, 
>> over and over again, a kind of exploitation of Utopian values, 
>> especially in infrastructure-level software. (I'd love to get 
>> Stallman's opinion.)
>>
>> One way to clarify someone's position on their private conception of 
>> "open" is to ask how they feel about limits to the exportation of 
>> encryption software. 
>> <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/us-export-controls-and-published-encryption-source-code-explained>
>>
>> Another tack is to ask how they feel about fake news, trust in 
>> institutions, free speech, platforming, etc.
>>
>> IDK. The AI Alliance smells, to me, kinda like more TESCREAL [1], 
>> ripe for exploitation and *-washing [2] by the privileged. If a tech 
>> is open and stays open, it'll most likely do so because individuals 
>> commit to it, not because some meta-corp of mega-corps get together 
>> as "allies". But I'm a bit cynical.
>>
>> [1] Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singulatarianism, Cosmism, 
>> Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism
>> [2] Green-washing (fossil fuel lobbyists at cop28), ethics-washing 
>> ("ai safety"), dei-washing (sensitivity training), etc.
>>
>> On 12/5/23 23:47, Pietro Terna wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> what about the post below?
>>>
>>> Star Wars?
>>>
>>> Best from Italy, Pietro
>>>
>>> Post of Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 6:16 PM dic 05, 2023:
>>> IBM & Meta are launching the AI Alliance to advance *open* & 
>>> reliable AI.
>>> The list of over 50 founding members from industry, government, and 
>>> academia include AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Hugging Face, the Linux 
>>> Foundation, NASA....
>>> https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv <https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv>
>>> (https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03 
>>> <https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03>) 
>>>
>>>
>>> Invio dal telefono, prego scusare gli errori.
>>
>>
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