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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
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ft.com
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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
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Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend wired.com
A big week for AI denialism platformer.news
AGI could drive wages below subsistence level epoch.ai
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AI as Social Technology: Astor Lecture by Professor Henry Farrell youtube.com
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$300,000 Robot Dogs Are Guarding AI Data Centers. Are We Doomed, Chat? vice.com
1995 GLITCH IN VISION // Dark Synth, Synthwave, Cyberpunk, Retrowave, Futurewave Playlist youtube.com
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Companies are discovering that pressuring employee AI adoption and tokenmaxxing was a mistake. Employees running wasteful prompts and automating trivial tasks just to hit metrics, drove up AI cloud bills with little to no business outcomes. Goodhart’s Law strikes again.
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Some thoughts on the blog today on "humans are unreliable narrators too" as a common defense of AI mental-state language, and what I think it misses about the nature of reasoning or thinking or belief or intention as we understand these terms statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/202…
www.wired.com/story/pickup... you're going to see a bunch of "later life" wikipedia entry celebrities and micro-celebrities succumb to AI psychosis
i think you should be embarrassed to write a news article about people's posts www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...
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i like how AI policy think tanks will put out papers like "AGI could drive wages below subsistence level" and then not realize that the obvious implication of their paper is that they broke capitalism and/or humanity epoch.ai/gradient-upd...
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AI as social technology - I gave the Astor Lecture at Oxford's Blavatnik School last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE6...
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www.vice.com/en/article/3... this is one of those articles that quickly falls apart when you click on the article it links to
this is one of the better examples of what i would consider "AI-gen music" as its own bespoke genre youtu.be/ua4CW3uJEf0?...
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there is a problem in policy analysis i'm going to try to dub the "half-assed apocalypse" issue. which is that people make apocalyptic pronouncements about something but fail to behave in any way consistent with the implications. the "AI will take all the jobs" thing is a good example.....
it feels increasingly surreal to read AI consciousness debates in an environment where most of US politics, society, and economy aggressively emphasize turning your brain off
anthropic played some stupid games and won a stupid prize
My thoughts on the meta-thread prompted by Scalzi's AI post is largely that fiction about robots and AI is largely fiction about people, much in the same way that Clever Hans the horse has proved (in animal psychology) that you cannot study animals in isolation from people
you can save yourself a lot of cortisol by simply recognizing that a lot of regular people are going to use chatbots for parasocial purposes you find revolting and aren’t suffering from false consciousness
future world where LLM agents imbibe antivaxxer sentiment and resist updates: *system crashes* OpenClaw bot posts: "patched???"
in the future, people will deny this picture is real and say it was AI generated
thinking about an LLM-ified version of "My Neck, My Back" and giggling
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