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Fair. AND. Balanced

Didn’t you see the press release about it? He did a big show and tell on Twitter. Nobody cared and the story never went viral.

Is that whiskey I smell on your condescension, bud? 😎

Yes, we surely cannot trust all those “doctors” with their “medicine” and years upon years of “training” to do what’s right FOR their patient in consultation WITH their patient and WITH the parents of those patients over the course of SEVERAL years working together to find the healthiest path and treatment regimen for these children. They’re just looking for a quick score and to make a quick buck! 🙄

No. That’s 9-4-3. Not haiku.

Another hallucinating LLM

I knew UK was rapidly deteriorating into a dystopian hellscape, but I had NO IDEA it was already so far gone. OMG… The horror!!

I'm reminded of the day I took my kids to the beach. The vast ocean crashing her waves before us, the bright sun shining above, and my youngest suggested we could make the beach larger / the ocean smaller by slapping at the waves with their mini-sand shovel and plastic pail. Next, we'll be jumping high to fix problems with orbiting satellites using our pogo stick! Nolege is power!

Mass shootings aren’t the big problem we face. It’s regular old every day ones. And suicides. Emphasis mine in the below. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ How many people are killed in mass shootings in the U.S. every year? This is a difficult question to answer because there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the term “mass shooting.” Definitions can vary depending on factors including the number of victims and the circumstances of the shooting. The FBI collects data on “active shooter incidents,” which it defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Using the FBI’s definition, 103 people – excluding the shooters – died in such incidents in 2021. The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again excluding the shooters). Using this definition, 706 people died in these incidents in 2021. Regardless of the definition being used, fatalities in mass shooting incidents in the U.S. account for a small fraction of all gun murders that occur nationwide each year. (…) In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were accidental (549), involved law enforcement (537) or had undetermined circumstances (458).

He might try to primary Trump and take the presidency Or he might just ooze over to newsmax instead

Parliament

The bigger risk IMO is how much better these systems will be at exploiting the most massive risk in the systems security chain: us humans. A simple click on a simple link somewhere with malicious underlying code to infect the users computer has just gone up orders of magnitude in likelihood. It’ll be easier to fool us than it already is on the psychological side of hacking.

This touches on a parallel theme that interests me. What happens when multiple AIs that have trained themselves in silos begin interacting with and learning from one another? There’s a lot of meat on this bone to chew.

Maybe not fully connected yet to their news, but work being done by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence is already rivaling ChatGPT and Google (at least according to a well positioned President inside Microsoft).

One thing that bothers me somewhat is how our lives are so online now, even at work for those with remote working opportunities, that socialization in real life is falling aside. We’re forgetting how to get along. How to work through minor disagreements. How to associate with those who fall outside our tribe. How to think differently and challenge our own thoughts. How even at grocery stores we no longer have to interact with a cashier, opting instead for self-checkouts. This came up in my own thoughts in context of americas gun problem (not the subject here!) and how even the most minor of scuffles leads people to reach for a gun instead of a conversation or outstretched hand… but I wonder too how able and socially competent todays kids will be when they age since so much of what they do is online. We seem to be losing our ability to work together, or at least don’t seem to be practicing it enough lately… But then again, perhaps all young men transitioning into old-farts across the generations feel this way and this category of concerns are a regular part of aging… much like how “all modern music is crap and they just don’t play or write songs like they used to!”

Can they do something about it? If so, then there’s no need for anxiety or concern. If they can’t do anything about, then anxiety and concern are a waste of time anyway and should be abandoned. When something is deleterious to our wellbeing, we should seek to amend it, but not being able to mentally calculate huge equations without help really isn’t a problem if we’re spending our days fishing or babysitting a grandchild.

The reports aren’t the problem, nor will they solve it

Yes. Without question. The brain is just another muscle to be exercised in this context.

Not entirely true anymore. What previously would’ve taken 8 years for a PhD student can now be finished in half a second.

Many white collar jobs will be going away

You don't feel your thoughts and emotions are impacted by the information hitting your various news, social media, entertainment, and related programming feeds? Can you not see how algorithms are shaping those feeds and adjusting based on past behaviors? It may be off-topic here, but hopefully this gives you a better sense of my intended meaning.

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The computers are now programming us.