@Tyler_A_Harper Not sure if anybody here has read R.U.R., the '20s Czech play which introduced the word "robot" to the global lexicon, but the move to give seemingly self-aware tech human rights is granted in the first act. Needless to say, it blows up in humanity's face by the second
I'd recommend everyone go back to McNamara's takeaway from the Cuban Missile Crisis, recounted in the Errol Morris doc The Fog of War: "Rationality will not save us." The logic illustrated below tells us why. Rather, it is empathy with your enemy, and mere luck, that can
AI is probably the biggest prisoner’s dilemma we’ve ever created. Everyone knows slowing down might be safer. But if OpenAI slows down and Anthropic doesn’t, OpenAI loses. If the US slows down and China doesn’t, the US loses. So nobody slows down.
That’s what makes this so insane. You don’t need some evil person trying to destroy the world. You just need a bunch of people making the rational decision for themselves over and over until collectively we’ve raced somewhere none of us actually wanted to go.
It’s a race to zero. Zero cost of intelligence. Zero time between thinking and doing. Maybe eventually zero need for us at all.
@__naeisbae I took one look at that trailer and I said to myself, this is 100% erotic wish fulfillment on behalf of its filmmaker (as are many films, admittedly). Horror is merely the backdrop
So I attended a good old fashioned movie premiere/UFO sighting last Sat for WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS. And no, they didn’t abduct me https://t.co/YFQRK2KsVw
A little something from the bio I'm currently working on. If you're still interested in some context re Hungary, this will fill you in on the 1918-1948 period as well, too https://t.co/bVb1TWaHs5
Attn those of you who haven't left here yet due to you-know-who: so I have a Substack, and wrote my first proper post on it re DJ Dan and his untimely passing https://t.co/oKR7aI9q2G
@emollick Just go over to Bluesky, and you'll see a whole legion of writers, some of them as good as we've got, and they simply refuse to engage. To them, this is an unwelcome, unrequested change that will take their jobs. If that's the prevailing attitude, it probably will
Holy crap. These guys are actually using the Center for Land Use Interpretation, who is basically your crazy hoarder uncle if he was an archivist, as a source for their Iron Mountain due diligence. Jeez https://t.co/C1u2way8uD
@JustinSayfie Good lord, is this grotesque. Seriously, the NYT is already in competition with the wellness influencers with their own Well section, so Tressie is essentially trying to steer traffic from its competitors, saying you won't be a Good Liberal if you listen to them. Sheesh.