Stuff I consumed, pondered, and in extreme cases acted upon.
AIEEEEE 🔗
The mistakes AI makes are different to the ones humans make:
AI errors come at seemingly random times, without any clustering around particular topics. LLM mistakes tend to be more evenly distributed through the knowledge space. A model might be equally likely to make a mistake on a calculus question as it is to propose that cabbages eat goats.
George Eliot’s Shadows of the Coming Race, a view from outside the techbrosphere:
This last stage having been reached, either by man’s contrivance or as an unforeseen result, one sees that the process of natural selection must drive men altogether out of the field; for they will long before have begun to sink into the miserable condition of those unhappy characters in fable who, having demons or djinns at their beck, and being obliged to supply them with work, found too much of everything done in too short a time
The Village 🔗
Adam Serwer asks if Americans will ever escape their algorithmic prison:
The Trump agenda, if successfully carried out, will lead to misery on a massive scale. It will test the bars of the algorithmic cage—will Americans judge based on their own experiences, or by what they see on their screens?
Certainly Federal workers might:
Many are downloading and using Signal for the first time to communicate with each other — away from the eyes of Trump and Musk loyalists but also from mainstream tech companies. For some, everything but the most innocuous conversations have been moved. Photos of pets might stay on typical channels; almost everything else is on Signal.
Cats 🔗
Emily Brontë, regarding cats:
We cannot sustain a comparison with the dog, it is infinitely too good; but the cat, although it differs in some physical points, is extrememly like us in disposition…A cat, in its own interest, sometimes hides its misanthropy under the guise of amiable gentleness