Barry U

Visual Thinker, Horseman, Conservationist. Working at the intersection of art, neuroscience & philsophy. INTJ. All pics mine except retweets.
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[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The parking lot at Disneyland #Paris went #solar. 67,000 #solarpanels will make it one of the largest solar canopies in Europe. Time to give every parking lot a #solarpower upgrade.

We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climateAction #climate #endfossilfuels

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done.

Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate

#biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@vitrupo Which was more important to humankind's survival, knowing the difference between a snake & a twig (language of imagery), how many snakes/acre (language of math) or how to spell snake (verbal language)? 🤯

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@vitrupo Information from its roots means putting form into function. The form is language, the function is communication. There are different langauges, vision uses the language of imagery, speech uses the verbal language. Content is everything.

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@muellerberndt If the best they can come up for an ROI is #surveillancepricing they are in big trouble. 🤯

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

@Jason Here’s the truth, @Jason:

We have not reached AGI.

We are not even close to reaching AGI.

And moreover, you and your techbros who think we are there have a profoundly sad shallow understanding of what it means to be human.

[~ Cordelia @samanthawillman]

The healthy man would rather have a friend than a servant, rather have a worthy opponent than an enemy.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Do you understand the irony of what just happened..

the FBI spent two years investigating Hillary Clinton for using a personal email for government work.. it dominated every news cycle.. it decided an election.. "lock her up.."

the man they put in charge of the FBI.. just got his personal email hacked by Iran..

the DOJ confirmed it.. Iran-linked group "Handala" breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and got his data..

think about the timing..

America has fired 850 Tomahawk missiles at Iran this month.. spent billions.. and Iran didn't fire back with a missile..

they walked through the front door of the FBI..

and here's what nobody wants to say out loud.. the FBI Director was using a personal email in the first place.. the same thing the FBI called a national security threat when Hillary did it..

the agency that decides what's a crime.. doesn't follow its own rules..

The rules only apply until you're the one making them.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Here’s ICE being chased by the residents of Los Angeles.

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@Grady_Booch Machine intelligence is signal based and can be expressed as an algorithm. Human intelligence is information based and cannot be expressed by an alogrithm. 🤯

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

China is using folding mobile photovoltaic power stations, long strips of solar panels that unfold to quickly generate electricity, bringing clean power to construction sites, disaster zones, and remote areas.

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@AnnieForTruth It's caled a Kakistocracy. 🤯

[Barry U @Gazorble]

Machine intelligence is signal based and can be expressed as an algorithm. Human intelligence is information based and cannot be expressed by an alogrithm.

[Dr_Gingerballs @Dr_Gingerballs]

@TrueAIHound @fchollet It’s applied statistics. Intelligence isn’t statistical, but some aspects of it can be described statistically. Focusing on the statistical approximation is the fatal flaw.

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@painterseleven 👍☺️You disappeared from my time line for a while. Good to see you back.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Aeroponic towers are a vertical farming technique that suspends plant roots in air and mists them with nutrients, achieving up to 90% water savings and triple growth speed compared to soil-based methods.

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@RCdeWinter Back at you. ☺️

[Barry U @Gazorble]

@donalddhoffman My understanding of Advaita Vedanta; There is one absolute Truth - LIGHT. Two manifestations, Nature & Consciousness. Consciousness the observer, Nature the observed. Send/receive process appears with biological structure as the embodied mind. How the Universe knows itself.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I'm pretty sure everyone at my company saw this article and now they all think we're in an AI crisis.

We're not in an AI crisis. We use Claude to summarize Slack threads.

But here's what's actually interesting: this whole panic reveals something nobody wants to admit.

Every company in America has been bullshitting about their "AI strategy" for two years.

We all saw the hype. We all knew we had to say something. So we rebranded our existing automation as "AI-powered" and called it a day.

My company isn't special. We're all doing the same thing.

The problem is now the executives actually believe their own bullshit. They think we have "significant AI exposure" because they've been telling investors we're "AI-first."

I just got pulled into an emergency meeting. Six executives asking me to explain our "AI dependency matrix."

There is no AI dependency matrix.

There's Claude for meeting summaries, there's some sentiment analysis in our support tickets that came free with Zendesk, and there's whatever Gmail is doing when it autocompletes my sentences.

But I can't say that in a room full of people who told their boards we're "transforming the business through AI."

So I said we have "distributed AI touchpoints across multiple vendors with no single point of failure."

Which is technically true. We use a bunch of different services that all have AI features we mostly ignore.

The CFO asked if we should "hedge our AI exposure."

I have no idea what that means. Neither does he.

What am I going to do: nothing. Because in three weeks, Anthropic will say something reassuring, the stocks will recover, and everyone will forget this happened.

But I'll have documentation showing I recommended a "risk assessment" that mysteriously never got prioritized.

The funniest part is that half these executives probably don't even know what Anthropic is. They just saw "AI" and "crash" in the same headline.

We're all pretending. The whole industry is pretending.

And articles like this just remind everyone how fragile the pretending is.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.

The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.

The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.

The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.

The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS.

The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.

Conclusion: The higher you go in the social power structure the smaller your balls become.