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<p>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?<br>
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<p>I'm hung up, the last few years, on Yuval Harari's <a
href="https://medium.com/amalgamate/inter-subjective-realities-64b4f6716f72">Intersubjective
Reality</a> as derived from the social science <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersubjectivity">Intersubjectivity</a>.</p>
<p>When I first heard Harari's usage/coinage I reacted to it
somewhat the way I did to Kellyanne Conway's <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts">Alternative
Facts</a>, but I now deeply appreciate what they are all
alluding to, some more disingenously than others. <br>
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<p>I don't disagree that Musk's every action and statement has the
effect of "distorting reality" but it is our <i>Intersubjective
Reality</i> that is being distorted, not the reality that most
of us were trained/steeped in via the philosophical tradition of <i><a
href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/">Logical
Positivism</a></i>. Others here were (Social Sciences,
Humanism) probably trained up and steeped more in <a
href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/">Phenomenology</a>
and more comfortable with Intersubjective Reality.</p>
<p>I find the likes of Musk or Trump or Altman or ( * ), as the <i>Personality</i>
in "Cult of Personality" in much the way star this recently
discovered <a
href="https://mashable.com/article/nasa-exoplanets-orbit-star-sync">in-sync
planetary system</a> 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?). <br>
</p>
<p>Is chatGPT or OpenAI or AIAlliance ( or, or, or, . . . ) yet
another species of celestial body in an orbital dance?<br>
</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<div align="center"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/01HNUvMxTcL83hnoMk4OrOO/hero-image.fill.size_1248x702.v1701462196.jpg"
alt="" width="877" height="493"></div>
<p align="center"><a
href="https://mashable.com/article/nasa-exoplanets-orbit-star-sync">Mashable
article on in-sync planetary system</a></p>
<p align="center"><a
href="https://science.nasa.gov/missions/tess/discovery-alert-watch-the-synchronized-dance-of-a-6-planet-system/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://science.nasa.gov/missions/tess/discovery-alert-watch-the-synchronized-dance-of-a-6-planet-system/</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/6/23 10:57 AM, Pietro Terna
wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 06/12/23 15:11, glen ha scritto:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:2485e41d-734f-429e-ab70-46fca8b66824@gmail.com">For
those of us who refuse to contribute to Musk's reality
distortion field: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thealliance.ai/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://thealliance.ai/</a>
<br>
<br>
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.) <br>
<br>
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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/us-export-controls-and-published-encryption-source-code-explained"
moz-do-not-send="true"><https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/us-export-controls-and-published-encryption-source-code-explained></a><br>
<br>
Another tack is to ask how they feel about fake news, trust in
institutions, free speech, platforming, etc. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
[1] Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singulatarianism, Cosmism,
Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism <br>
[2] Green-washing (fossil fuel lobbyists at cop28),
ethics-washing ("ai safety"), dei-washing (sensitivity
training), etc. <br>
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On 12/5/23 23:47, Pietro Terna wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear all, <br>
<br>
what about the post below? <br>
<br>
Star Wars? <br>
<br>
Best from Italy, Pietro <br>
<br>
Post of Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 6:16 PM dic 05, 2023: <br>
IBM & Meta are launching the AI Alliance to advance *open*
& reliable AI. <br>
The list of over 50 founding members from industry,
government, and academia include AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Hugging
Face, the Linux Foundation, NASA.... <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv" moz-do-not-send="true">https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv" moz-do-not-send="true"><https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv></a>
<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03"
moz-do-not-send="true"><https://x.com/ylecun/status/1732086572529365136?t=wI9-xlsgfRTiFkS0zhh8nQ&s=03></a>)
<br>
<br>
Invio dal telefono, prego scusare gli errori. <br>
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