»This gendered dichotomy—reason as male, emotion or irrationality as female—is shown to permeate philosophical traditions, even in instances where philosophers did not explicitly intend to make gendered distinctions.«
»This gendered dichotomy—reason as male, emotion or irrationality as female—is shown to permeate philosophical traditions, even in instances where philosophers did not explicitly intend to make gendered distinctions.«
AI Must Die!
Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence
AI MUST DIE is a short zine by Myke Walton and Cam Smith that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2025.
AI is fucking everywhere: at work, at school, in our homes, in our phones, on our streets, in our governments, and at war. We are living through an era of extreme AI hype. In this climate, some people have gotten rich off of the stolen data and stolen labor that fuels these technologies. Others have been surveilled, oppressed, exploited, and killed. This text presents a short, practical guide to the technologies currently called “AI,” the ideologies and actors pouring gasoline on the AI dumpsterfire, and what we can do about it.
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How long will this go on? When will the hype cycle end? Is another AI winter coming? Faced with an inhumane tech industry and complicit governments it may ultimately fall to the people to invent new ways to evade, refuse, resist, sabotage or otherwise destroy AI.
Hammers up! AI Must Die!
Seize the means of computation
Read the full zine here: https://www.aimustdie.info/
@asrg Even if I laugh about the very ironic title (they clearly write that #AI is *no* existence or #intelligence that could die), this #zine is a good compilation for critical questions to ask and for thinking about #AIEthics and rules. A first starter for #activism.
#LLM #genAI #generativeAI #zines #resist #solarpunkSunday #luddites #noAI
CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.pdf
#HackerNews #CIA #Star #Gate #Project #Overview #1993 #pdf #Intelligence #History #Research
The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World
This open source book explores how intelligence and cyber-security analysts can uncover hidden links between threat actor infrastructure and ongoing investigations by pivoting on both classic and unconventional indicators — many of which are often overlooked. The material is grounded in empirical, field-tested strategies used in cyber-security, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, and intelligence analysis more broadly.
I released the first version of this book following the @firstdotorg CTI Conference 2025 in Berlin, where the initial idea for the project emerged.
🔗 Source of the book in Markdown https://github.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting (if you want to contribute ;-)
#cti #threatintelligence #pivoting #pivot #intelligence #intelligencecommunity #cybersecurity #book #openbook #investigation #opensource
The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World
This open source book explores how intelligence and cyber-security analysts can uncover hidden links between threat actor infrastructure and ongoing investigations by pivoting on both classic and unconventional indicators — many of which are often overlooked. The material is grounded in empirical, field-tested strategies used in cyber-security, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, and intelligence analysis more broadly.
I released the first version of this book following the @firstdotorg CTI Conference 2025 in Berlin, where the initial idea for the project emerged.
🔗 Source of the book in Markdown https://github.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting (if you want to contribute ;-)
#cti #threatintelligence #pivoting #pivot #intelligence #intelligencecommunity #cybersecurity #book #openbook #investigation #opensource
Japan is moving to create a National Intelligence Bureau as part of a broader effort to break down intelligence silos, strengthen information protection and modernize its intelligence system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/14/japan/japans-planned-intelligence-bureau/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #defense #intelligence #sanaetakaichi #nationalintelligencebureau #nationalsecuritysecretariat #nationalsecuritycouncil #liberaldemocraticparty #japaninnovationparty #shinzoabe #fiveeyes
Are more reflective thinkers better at games that require empathy or perspective-taking?
In two experiments, reflective thinkers performed better on such games, seemingly because they paid more attention to the other players' incentives.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500007373
#econ #cogSci #psychology #relationships #negotiation #diplomacy #geopolitics #intelligence #defense #security #policy
Japan plans to create a ministerial post for intelligence-related matters as it works to enhance its ability to collect and analyze domestic and foreign information, government officials said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/09/japan/politics/intelligence-ministerial-post/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #diet #intelligence #defense #cabinet
Chimpanzees show genuine reasoning and metacognition — the ability to weigh evidence, update beliefs and judge what they do or don’t know — while current AI systems do not. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/09/world/what-chimps-think-of-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #chimpanzees #primates #artificialintelligence #ai #intelligence
My #introduction needs a refresh.
I'm a #PhD student at the University of #Vermont, studying the #Evolution of #Evolvability. I'm into #AI, #ALife, #Biology, and #Philosophy, because I want to understand #life, #adaptation, and #intelligence using my native language of #ComputerScience. I share my musings and #research on my #blog. I love #science generally, and am full of bitchy #AcademicChatter.
I was a #SoftwareEngineer in #SiliconValley for many years, but left in 2021. I'm glad I did, and now I feel a bit betrayed by the #TechIndustry. I've been going back to my #FOSS roots, and gradually #DeGoogle ing my life. I still love to talk about #code #craft, #UX, and healthy #engineering #culture. Recently I've been enjoying #gpu #programming, mostly in #taichilang.
I have a wife and a #cat. I love #nature, #photography, #cooking, and #yoga.
All kinds of people are valid and worthy, but #trans people, folks on the #autism spectrum, and #bipoc get a shout out right now because they need our support.
“A thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures,” the statement said.
In the video that was posted last Tuesday, #MarkKelly was 1 of 6 lawmakers who served in the #military or #intelligence community to speak “directly to members of the military.”
#law #MilitaryLaw #LegalEthics #Trump #RevengePolitics #FreeSpeech
"To know what needs to be measured one has to understand what makes human intelligence so powerful.
Unfortunately almost nobody leading AI efforts right now is doing that or getting it right. Some cling to the idea that knowledge and/ or reasoning are intelligence, others explicit state that they don’t know what intelligence is: Demis Hassabis says that we need to build AGI in order to understand intelligence, while Elon Musk claims that nobody understands it (personal conversation).
Fact is that we can and must understand human intelligence from first principles for us to develop it effectively. However, we need to start with epistemology and cognitive psychology to figure it out. Not statistics, mathematics, or computer science. I summarize these blind spots towards AGI as ‘The 7 Deadly Sins of AGI Design’.
In short, what makes human intelligence so special is the ability to quickly adapt to changing circumstances, by learning incrementally in real time and to form contextual abstraction on-the-fly. We also leverage meta-cognition to monitor and control our thought processes (System1 and 2 thinking).
AI born from these insights is called Cognitive AI, or what DARPA calls “The Third (and final) Wave of AI“. LLMs contain knowledge and skills that are off the charts relative to humans, but they do not posses the unique qualities required for real intelligence."
https://petervoss.substack.com/p/benchmarks-and-the-narrow-ai-trap
#AI #AGI #Intelligence #CognitiveAI #CognitivePsychology #Epistemoogy #LLMs #Chatbots #GenerativeAI
It is extraordinary for the #Pentagon, which until the 2nd #Trump term has usually gone out of its way to act & appear apolitical, to directly #threaten a sitting member of #Congress with investigation.
In its statement, the Pentagon suggested that Kelly’s statements in the video interfered with the “loyalty, morale, or good order & discipline of the armed forces” by citing the federal #law that prohibits such actions.
“A thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures,” the statement said.
In the video that was posted last Tuesday, #MarkKelly was 1 of 6 lawmakers who served in the #military or #intelligence community to speak “directly to members of the military.”
#law #MilitaryLaw #LegalEthics #Trump #RevengePolitics #FreeSpeech
My #introduction needs a refresh.
I'm a #PhD student at the University of #Vermont, studying the #Evolution of #Evolvability. I'm into #AI, #ALife, #Biology, and #Philosophy, because I want to understand #life, #adaptation, and #intelligence using my native language of #ComputerScience. I share my musings and #research on my #blog. I love #science generally, and am full of bitchy #AcademicChatter.
I was a #SoftwareEngineer in #SiliconValley for many years, but left in 2021. I'm glad I did, and now I feel a bit betrayed by the #TechIndustry. I've been going back to my #FOSS roots, and gradually #DeGoogle ing my life. I still love to talk about #code #craft, #UX, and healthy #engineering #culture. Recently I've been enjoying #gpu #programming, mostly in #taichilang.
I have a wife and a #cat. I love #nature, #photography, #cooking, and #yoga.
All kinds of people are valid and worthy, but #trans people, folks on the #autism spectrum, and #bipoc get a shout out right now because they need our support.
210 IQ Is Not Enough
https://taylor.town/iq-not-enough
#HackerNews #210IQ #NotEnough #Intelligence #Insight #MentalHealth #Psychology
[Helsinki flashback] #Trump contradicts #US #intelligence, says #MBS 'knew nothing' about #Khashoggi death.
Then in classic Trump fashion, Trump dismisses a reporter’s question on the #murder of #journalist #JamalKhashoggi as an attempt to "embarrass" the #SaudiArabia leader, horrifically adding:
🚨 "things happen" [um… dismemberment doesn’t just “happen”] 🚨
Trump asked the reporter where she was from, then called her "fake news."
From animal welfare to AI models, #research often frames questions in ways that center #human priorities and exclude nonhuman perspectives. Anthropologist Christine Webb suggests imagining alternative intelligences — like mosses — that prioritize #coexistence and ecological #resilience over dominance. ▶️ https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/the-bias-that-is-holding-ai-back/
Her new #book: The Arrogant Ape
#AI #moreThanHuman #narratives #framing #anthropocentrism #humanHubris #mosstodon #intelligence #philosophy #ecology #animalWelfare
Houston, We Have a Problem: Anthropic Rides an Artificial Wave – BIML
https://berryvilleiml.com/2025/11/14/houston-we-have-a-problem-anthropic-rides-an-artificial-wave/
#HackerNews #Houston #We #Have #a #Problem #Anthropic #Artificial #Intelligence #BIML