Indiana Jones, whose front row students once wrote âI love youâ on their eyelids, now faced a half empty lecture theatre who hadnât done the reading.
New from me: Chat-GPT and the automation of bullshit - Will AI only become civilised when the bullshit piles up high enough that we need a system to deal with it?
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TIL Twitterâs Community Notes uses the principles behind Netflix recommendations engine, in reverse, to identify notes that are deemed helpful by people who DONâT normally agree. #prosocialtechtwitter.github.io/communitynâŚ
Finding this meltdown of Twitter so stressful, because Iâm realising how much Iâd come to depend on it, and I feel so stupid for treating it like a commons, when it never was.
Hume was wrong, when he said that âought implies canâ - that our responsibilities are limited by our abilities. Wrong because he ignores the fact that a sense of âoughtâ drives us to extend our abilities through technology and process innovation. âOught implies couldâ instead.
Looking forward to this @golden_fang_band gig with @mickdaleyo and the corporate raiders at @goldenbarleyhotel on Friday week. @ Golden Barley Hotel instagram.com/p/Ci3ffEHBPT2/âŚ
Just like going to moon gave us Velcro, maybe in worrying about the ethics of AI, weâll figure out how to imbue corporations with values. After all, the latter is made of people - oils be easier, right?
Very tangential take but this makes it sound like the mistake Elizabeth Holmes made was that she went into business, rather than politics. I guess thatâs what they mean by the infinite game - you never actually have to deliver.
Itâs utter nonsense and she knows it. Rees-Mogg proposed a sunset clause for June 2026 and his own cabinet colleagues told him it was unworkable. Sunak promised repeal by the next election in 2025. Truss is just trying to up the ante. None of them can actually deliver this.