Ned Whitman
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Software engineer interested in philosophy, security, cryptography, formal methods, category theory, distributed systems, and operating systems. 🧩🏳️🌈
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@focusfronting
The problem is in the singularity, you can’t be no one: you have to be someone. It’s a matter of determining what someone you are, but to have equality and a frame of reference of reality, meaning to have the same affordances, assurances and protections in the system as everyone
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@howie_hua
How can 98% of people not solve this problem if there’s no way to cross each bridge once? Do the remaining 2% just not answer the problem that it can’t be done? Math teachers who try to trick students in the way they frame and word questions are 100% the problem.
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@BostonJoan
This is illegal. This violates your data subject rights. I would report it to the authorities if they can do anything about it.
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@TheFP
@bariweiss
@FedSoc
Absolutely, I agree with
@bariweiss
that there’s a deeper crisis in society and this might be how it’s manifesting, but we have to confront it honestly, truthfully, with authenticity and integrity, and ultimately be transparent about it, don’t we?
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@EmmanuelMacron
“C’est cela l’amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour.” - Albert Camus
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@mer__edith
Thank you for not backing down on your principles about privacy. If security doesn’t work for everyone, it works for no one.
Unchecked surveillance quietly transforms power relations. Privacy is for personal good, and security is for collective good. The protection of the individual is that of the whole. The abuse of one person’s privacy is the failure of the entire system’s security.
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@glaad
Follow the science! These medical providers have criminal liability on their hands. What they’re doing to permanently damage people who are egodystonic is evil.
The American College of Pediatricians just put out a 🔥🔥🔥 statement calling out all the major medical associations by name for pushing the gender transition craze on kids.
They ask for these groups to "IMMEDIATELY stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers,
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“Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension.”
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@AdamMGrant
Good ultimatum. We need neither of these candidates for what’s best for America, and they know that.
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@astro_greek
@elonmusk
This happened with my reading comprehension test evaluation in 4th grade: they informed my mother that I might be “retarded”, and they ignored that I was doing advanced math on Jump Start software in 1st grade onward despite them surveilling it. I’m hoping my PhD is a chance to
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Unchecked surveillance quietly transforms power relations. Privacy is for personal good, and security is for collective good. The protection of the individual is that of the whole. The abuse of one person’s privacy is the failure of the entire system’s security.
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@PhysInHistory
Provable security that will reinvent how we understand the truth: for example, ensuring authenticity of information, enforcing data integrity, regulating what AI can and cannot do and knowing how, data ownership and licensing, and preventing image manipulation with
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@Anthony_Bonato
That you have to be good at arithmetic to be able to proceed to working with algebra, abstractions and other higher order concepts
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@JoyceCarolOates
I became interested in philosophy after getting into computer security. It ties everything together: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and morality. We’re due for philosophical renaissance about this. It’s inevitable if we begin to rethink how we interface with information and
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@rupasubramanya
There were also eunuchs during ancient times in different civilizations, and this distortion of what it means to be of differing sexual orientation doesn’t qualify third-genderism as a valid modern identity, it’s counter to dignity and equality for homosexual people, and it
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@ClimateHuman
Why on both sides of the isle is there next to nothing about government regulation to curb the fossil fuel industry and for them to have any sort of accountability for the damage they have and are continuing to cause? We need a carbon tax immediately.
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@CrispinCowan0
@BostonJoan
It’s hate crime that falls under cyberbullying and online harassment, which is illegal.
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@democracynow
2 things can’t be true at the same time
Independent human rights expert
@FranceskAlbs
presents her latest findings.
"My report finds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that
#Israel
is commiting the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a group in
#Gaza
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@jordanbpeterson
Pride is wrong when it’s excessive not mere self-affirmation. There are levels to it: some are definitely insincere or mistaken about what constitutes pride, but the advancement of homosexual people and our equal rights is something we should absolutely celebrate.
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@bariweiss
@thehonestlypod
What influence by humans with bias has been integrated into the models and systems that’s resulted in selective outputs?
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@weeklyshowpod
@jonstewart
I called out the electoral college on a phone call canvassing me for my political views and support of
@KamalaHarris
the other day. I think the electoral college is absolutely something we as a country should decide to abandon. We no longer need it, and it’s structurally unjust.
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@PirateWires
They’ve never actually been working on computer regulation, and it does feel like an extraction operation
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@JasJWright
I’m not so sure about that. It’s exposure for her campaign, but I don’t quite get “brat” vibes from Kamala. I get world leader and prosecutor who went to law school vibes. Is she “so Julia” whatever that means? To me, brat is a parody of itself. Are we really “bumping that,
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@bungarsargon
@TheFP
I don’t agree: I thought
@KamalaHarris
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"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe" - Galileo Galilei
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@xriskology
It’s not hatred: it’s science. The medical malpractice that’s being done in the name of “gender-affirming care” is criminal and destroying children’s lives. Trans and non-binary ideology and identities are illegitimate. People who assume them are willfully pretending to be
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“No, the actual problem isn’t tech qua tech. It’s the fact that we live in a world of nation-states and massive multinational corporate actors that flex power akin to states. And in this world, information control and asymmetry are key tools for the expansion and exercise of such
📢NEW FROM ME!
On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer
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It’s tragic people don’t take data ethics as seriously as they should because the computer security industry has become comfortable with fraud and bias to justify highly fallible and unjust practices that have the effect of denying principles like equality. One lie, one
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@xriskology
It’s a way of them justifying arbitrary technological development without reforming ethics that should govern their systems. It’s bound to catch up to them in some way or another…
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The fact that Dostoevsky wrote this when he was only 16 years old 🌻
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@CoryBooker
Protecting the individual is the basis for everything that America stands for. We are not to be ruled by kings, but we are to be governed by the will of free people. It is the individual who votes and the individual who has rights and is kept safe.
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@SenSchumer
Great news! System governance goes beyond AI even though controlling those systems might seem the most important right now, this should also be a time to address destructive surveillance, privacy and data protections, etc.
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I didn’t find god: I understood god as the abstract ordering of the universe to organize human intellect through which we perceive reality. The theoretical omnipresence and totality of the system is god-like, and we can understand the system like we understand god, but itself is
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@AlexThomp
I’m worried that both
@POTUS
and his administration aren’t equipping themselves to meet the moment.
I understand the gravity of what happens with leading a country during a time of war and the decisions that need to be made, and while there’s been no “attack” on American soil, our security is at stake and our country is under threat facing existential risk. We need the wisest
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@davidchalmers42
@WorldSciFest
@bgreene
This isn’t about “silicon” and how consciousness is an emergent property of biological substrate, it can be squarely denounced with the theory of computation, the mind and machine are fundamentally different with respect to their physics and mathematics
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@shaunmmaguire
Sadly, ethics come into play regardless of intent to target Hamas, if it’s been proven that a party conducted itself wrongly indiscriminately killing civilians, Israel must be held accountable. Collective punishment is a war crime.
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@Fe_CLAD
Case in point
@brianstelter
Bottom line: This was the "highest rated CNN program in history," and it was a great night for democracy, with more than a dozen networks simulcasting the debate. But the TV ratings are also further proof of political FATIGUE in America. Many people are tired and tuned out.
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@cynthiawu_
I lived with a family of Chinese intellectuals who fled to Yunnan to live a provincial life when the Cultural Revolution took place who passed down tradition of Chinese history, art, language and culture. Its history needs to be better understood by the West.
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@micsolana
Because the solve isn’t banning them. It’s time to implement a solution that actually resolves security concerns transparently. A solution surveillance capitalists don’t want disrupting control of American data or giving up their influence over user behavior.
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@mmitchell_ai
Right—and what decisions did people make repeatedly while having access to the information they needed to do their science? Who was not given access to information and why?
I took a class in college called “controversy” with
@NaomiOreskes
that has to do with how scientific progress disrupts society in, you guessed it, controversial ways, and it feels like I’m living through what will be taught to future students about developments of technology and
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@democracynow
@DarrickHamilton
@DeanBaker13
In this case, it’s not about the economy at all. It’s in part about a moral economy but moreover a moral society.
@DarrickHamilton
touched on more of what’s at stake and that is the sea change we are about to experience. A paradigm shift to provable security is at our door step
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@StevenLevy
You’re so incredibly wrong. “Agnostic” about AGI like it’s some cult, that we “don’t know if it will happen in the long run” or that the insiders don’t know either? They do know and haven’t come forth that largely what they’re doing is a pseudoscience. We actually do know and
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@emilymbender
I don’t understand why we’ve abandoned the principle of consent in today’s world, across so many arenas as well. It’s seems obvious that we can detect data subjects in pornography and inform people about their right to choose whether the content in question gets censored. This
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@grittygrease
“Antivirus” software is a security anti-pattern and shouldn’t exist. It’s a part of the insecurity industry. Nothing can compromise an operating system if it’s secure by design, and there would be no such a thing as a threat to cause a “virus” by an actor in the first place.
“This has implications on the way cyber(in-)security is defined. The book adopts a critical security studies approach to security. It is key that cyber(in-)security always refers to securing some part of cyberspace from a particular threat for a particular referent actor.”
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