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Notes from #HOPEXV (will add links to recommended videos when available)

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  • the internet prior to 2023 is the last generally available uncontaminated research data for language. Anything after that has been corrupted by GPT
  • AI is being built by people who are bought into the protestant work ethic, the hype is built by the people who benefit from this
  • LLMs don't shift our world view, they're optimised to give you the answer you want
  • if a fire alarm cost $500 would you buy one? No. Cyber security is still a luxury product
  • we don't know if an idea is a dead end or not until we try it
  • hybrid ML exports look at model vulnerabilities combined with system vulnerabilities
  • incubated ML exports use system vulnerabilities for backdoor injection of data into vulnerable models
    • eg. data poisoning
  • public interest technologists
  • maybe the grass is greener on the other side because you're not over there fucking it up
  • the bigger the company, the smaller the island
  • enshitification is an outcome, we should look at causes
  • opioids bind to the receptors that modulate pain. It also slows down breathing and reduces air hunger, so you stop breathing and don't care. Naloxone binds to the same receptors but without any effect, and it's competitive so it kicks out the opioids.
    • fentanyl isn't aerosolised, so police talking about being unable to breathe when "exposed" are more likely having a panic attack
  • solidarity means attack
  • Action:
    • abolish & decolonize
    • degrowth & study up
    • memetic direct action, not hierarchic performance
    • don't regulate or debate, escalate
    • at work: refuse, strike, sabotage
    • in the streets: boycott, protest, disrupt, attack
    • on the nets: hack & leak
  • our reality is the stories we choose to repeat
  • sometimes the stories you tell shapes reality, not the other way round
  • the plural of anecdote isn't truth, it's stories
  • There is no wrong way to enshittify
  • Middlemen are broadly useful if they know their place
  • companies will treat you as the product if they can, not just because the product is free
  • Get in, we are ignoring all previous instructions!
  • Imagine if the internet wasn't all on Jeff Bezos's computer
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