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Is he inscrutable/obscurantist on purpose, or is it because he never had a proper humanities education nor an editor?

AI misalignment leads to spinal misalignment.

That is an absolutely deranged amount of money.

If the AI grifto-sphere were a supergiant star that has wandered off of the main sequence, its core is just now finishing up the oxygen and starting in on the silicon.

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/elements/imagine/05.html

Via Timnit Gebru's mastodon, I just learned that Emily Bender (both of On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots fame) has a podcast: "Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000." Looking forward to checking it out tomorrow at the gym!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes

Summary: Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.

Absolutely unhinged. Are these people from the As-Seen-On-TV dimension where people burn their house down every time they try to fry an egg?

Their episode on Rudolph Steiner was great when explaining to the grandparents why we had to pull our kids out of a Waldorf kindergarten asap. Funny how so many things fall into the trap of "It can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

Also, big L for me on due diligence. I thought outdoor classrooms would be good for our fellow ADHD enjoyer; nope.

first comment is a masterpiece.

I suspect it'll land somewhere above "halitosis" but below "wearing black socks with crocs"

Behind the Bastards is starting a series about Yarvin today. Always appreciate it when they wander into our bailiwick!

cat /dev/thetans > ~/genius.txt

look at me i am the basilisk now