Proton @ProtonPrivacy is good. But you need to be emailing another person with a Proton email account to avail yourself of any real privacy guarantees. This is why it’s good to encourage friends etc. If you’re emailing a Gmail account etc it’s all stored on Google’s servers
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Nvidia’s Strength Goes Beyond GPUs, Says DFIntelligence
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Mdr. Il y a encore des gens qui croient que la force de Nvidia c’est juste de vendre des GPUs ?
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 20 avril 2024
Ahah les noobs. Bouuuh.
Rdv en 2030. 🤓🤓 https://t.co/9OY1aTdHtN pic.twitter.com/krmxmHw8qrLMAO. Are there still people who believe Nvidia's strength is just selling GPUs? Haha, noobs. Boo. See you in 2030.
https://x.com/bryanrbeal/sta/bryanrbeal/status/1781454698136109380
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US Surveillance Law and TikTok Ban: Data Privacy Hypocrisy
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This is fucked. Please take a moment to consider what's happening here. Abuse of surveillance powers is about to be enshrined in US law at the same time that a bill to force TikTok to sell to US buyer or be banned is moving forward, justified in part via "data privacy".
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TikTok Bill: Understanding Its True Implications and Concerns
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I wrote more about what the TikTok bill actually represents, and why it's bad, here:
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Apple MacBook Pro Upgrade Confirms Desirable Design Innovation
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Apple Documents Confirm Desirable MacBook Pro Upgrade https://
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Techno-Optimism and Eugenics: Gebru Critiques Silicon Valley Vision
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Alt text for video: Audiogram with Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 logo, title "Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto", subtitle "How a Silicon Valley billionaire's so-called 'techno-optimist' vision has eugencist roots" Captions for audio: Timnit Gebru: Yeah, "There are only
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Major AI Labs Differ on Future Improvement Pace Outlook
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Of the major labs, Meta seems to have the most public pessimists about future rapid improvements. OpenAI and Anthropic seem most optimistic team members. Google and Microsoft people seem quite mixed overall. Everyone has incentives to posture, but we will learn a lot more soon.
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GPT-5 Race: OpenAI’s Lead in Advanced AI Model Development
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The current state-of-play in the key question of how good AI gets: So much depends on GPT-5. OpenAI had a year+ lead in creating a GPT-4 class model. Now there are four GPT-4 class models. If exponential growth is still possible, OpenAI should be the first to show us. Or not.

