I don’t have to get past the preface to read things like:

" I should also give some space to Amotz Zahavi’s idea that altruistic donation might be a ‘Potlatch’ style of dominance signal: see how superior to you I am, I can afford to make a donation to you!"

But don’t worry, I’ll read the entire book and highlight what I think is most despicable. Is it just a Lemmy post? Yes, but this matter is important to me.

I’ll think of it as if I were writing a scientific article of low reach.

Edit: Further down the PREFACE:

"Similar feeble thoughts have been strung together to produce the impression that Darwinian social theory is reactionary in its political implications. "

. He calls his theory a Darwinian social theory! This is a joke!

Moving on.

The Market God predicts that the 8-ball will say ‘Yes’. The 8-ball says ‘No’.

The selfish gene is about applying a darwinian solution to humans. It’s where the memetic experience comes in. The Nature reporter themselves talks about the “Replicator”.

I’ve read it twice, the last time being 2021, but maybe I’ll have to read it again to resist this shit mainstream Science is trying to feed the world.

Social darwinism is wrong. The human will show itself in all its beautiful complexity despite dumb simplified theories.

Any restablished connection sends telemetry data.

I think those tech moguls are really betting on the political power of AI. That it can overturn elections, hack powerful systems, change regimes, advance science incredibly.

All of which are social achievements. Except the moguls themselves and their projects are not social at all.

So they bet: “Our projects are so politically relevant the money won’t matter.”. And it ends up mattering, maybe. I don’t know, I’m no political scientist.

You know, since we’re on this topic, I think a small LLM powered by tool use would be cool. But things need to be better. For example, will you rely forever on DuckDuckGo that for instance relies on Bing? That’s a bad idea. Someone needs to get CommonCrawl or make new datasets and power it using tool use. Tool use + a small LLM would be useful for many uses that people have for LLMs. That would cut energy use and the need for large DataCenters a lot. Isn’t that what you want?

Sorry, I rather use AI than a real person on a red carpet. I just don’t jive with Fame.

Edit: I could have put a picture with Robert Downey Jr. or something like that, but I really didn’t want to.