Been catching up on @ouropinions this week on my commute. I love their discussion of fascism and book bans. It's a real good listen. Read banned books!
I also really enjoyed their discussion of AI with @emilymbender who is one of the coolest UW Linguistics professors. I loved her point that the real test we should have for automation is whether it does the specific task we want it to, not whether it has some "general intelligence" that comes out of racist pseudo-science.
@charliejane@ouropinions@emilymbender Thanks for putting in the research and the work to do the fun info dumps. I especially liked Annalee's discussion of how the bunnies in Watership Down finally made fascism click as a real thing rather than Nazis being like Sauron just a thing that's bad because it's bad.
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