💡 Ed Zitron's new 16K-word "How to Argue With An AI Booster" is an essential communications toolkit for the next ~18 months. Go read it, and bookmark it.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #hype
https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/
maxlath
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This is one of the best things I read this summer:
"In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen." Thank you for writing it so brilliantly @colincornaby 🙏
This is one of the best things I read this summer:
"In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen." Thank you for writing it so brilliantly @colincornaby 🙏
Robert W. Gehl
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Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype
Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype
"So here's the catch. If you have the power of geoengineering to turn Mars into Earth, then you have the power of geoengineering to turn Earth back into Earth."
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and writer
Video clip of showing Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and writer speaking, transcript: Climate change will not make earth uninhabitable. Climate change will make earth a living hell. In fact, I live in New York city where in our harbor we have the statue of liberty and she is holding the declaration of independence in her left arm and her right arm has the torch. The melting ice on land? The ocean level will rise to reach her left elbow. So that takes out all of New York city and basically every other coastal that we've spent tousands of years building since the dawn of civilization. So life will be very very different. So the way I look at it there is people who want to colonize other planets, give us an escape route. We trashed earth, let's move elsewhere and hope we don't trash that. Well, there aren't many places to move. You'll vaporize on Venus, so you're not going to Venus. Mars rotates once every 24 hours. That's kind of interesting. It's tipped on its as earth is, which means it has seasons, it has polar ice caps the way we stil do at this moment, and there is evidence of running water on its surface. So there's a chance we could terraform Mars. My favourite word over the past few decades. You turn something that is not Earth to something that's like Earth. Then you just move there. So here's the catch. If you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Mars into Earth, then you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Earth back into Earth.
@rolle
Yeah, unfortunately that's a #fallacy and deGrasse Tyson knows better, but chooses hypotheticals like "if you have the power". It's like trying to land on Mars but only managing to skid on the outer atmosphere and never entering it.
Yeah, unfortunately that's a #fallacy and deGrasse Tyson knows better, but chooses hypotheticals like "if you have the power". It's like trying to land on Mars but only managing to skid on the outer atmosphere and never entering it.
The #climateCrisis is inherent to the system that's created it. Expecting that the same system that owes its existence to exploitation of resources and people will now act against its own interests and… save the planet, is just very bad #fiction.
🧐 Wall Street is catching on.
“If you’re going to invest now and get returns in 10 to 15 years, that’s a venture investment, that’s not a public company investment,” Luria said. “For public companies, we expect to get return on investment in much shorter time frames. So that’s causing discomfort, because we’re not seeing the types of applications and revenue from applications that we would need to justify anywhere near these investments right now.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/tech/wall-street-asks-big-tech-will-ai-ever-make-money
These bros can't go extinct soon enough
｢ Rosebud was founded in 2023 by Chrys Bader, a Y Combinator alum and co-founder of Secret; and Sean Dadashi, a UC Berkeley Cognitive Science graduate. The pair met at a men’s group, and came up with the idea for Rosebud based on their own experiences with therapy and coaching ｣
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/rosebud-lands-6m-to-scale-its-interactive-ai-journaling-app/