I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.
There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/
@kellogh@futurebird Marcus is in a funny place on your your list, since he's founded AI companies and worked as Uber's head of AI.
Could just as easily say that someone like him—who's worked in ML but has deep expertise in how actually intelligent systems work—is in a better position than Hinton, LaCunn &c to make this discernment
@kellogh eh, seems like we have fundamentally different ideas of how expertise works, so I don't think we're going to convince each other.
But to better frame my perspective: when we're asking whether one mind will be able to outsmart all other minds, it seems useful to consult the experts not only on that one mind, but on all the others, and those with expertise on the infrastructure we're building that one mind on
can't get past how on-the-nose it is to cancel your Muslim valedictorian's speech in favor of an orgy of drones and pyrotechnics; pure militaristic aesthetics
Even with all the collaborative work tools available out there, we don't talk enough about the very sophisticated practice of 2-3 colleagues editing a draft together by texting chunks of the draft back and forth 😬
"Because humans have no natural immunity to #H5N1, the virus can be particularly lethal to them. Despite assertions of an overall low risk... to the general population, the reality is that the understanding of this risk is limited, and it’s evolving alongside the virus. The situation could change very quickly, so it is important to be prepared
"Americans would find it challenging to get a prescription filled for [flu antivirals] within the optimal [48hr] time frame"
@jilleduffy
Thank you for writing this, it's such a beautiful exploration challenging how we think about growing older.
That there's no good literature on women's "midlife crisis" is an intentional omission, historically speaking - when Gail Sheehy coined the term she meant it to describe mid-century women reclaiming their autonomy after their kids moved out. But a bunch of chauvinist psychologists deliberately smeared Sheehy and appropriated her idea for men.
@steveportigal ooh I'm less familiar with the history of steampunk than these others, but did it have, or were there attempts to give it, any particular political valence before being aestheticized?
Food $200
Data $150
Moderation $0
CEO salary $193 million
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Reddit had a net loss of $90.8M last year, so had they paid Huffman as much as Apple pays Cook, they would have turned a profit, and still would've had enough left over to pay nearly 1k mods $40k/yr
A question for #Bookstodon : As part of my #ttrpg#worldbuilding efforts, I am looking for good books on 19th century #trade networks and supply chains - where things (from raw materials to finished goods) were produced, and what happened until they reached their final consumers.
In particular, I want to get a good overview of the sheer range and variety of trade goods (as opposed to looking at just a single aspect of global and domestic trade). Can anyone help me out? #history#histodon
@juergen_hubert this is the kind of questions I would've put to @AskHistorians if I were still on reddit. Wonder if they or @zhukov knows someone who can help?
@allendowney thanks for this! Hope you can find out more about any methodological differences between Gallup and other data. You point out that people might be misled by the FT plots subtracting out the overall leftward movement of youth, but I think their visual design is misleading too -- sticking arrows at the end of your line charts is visually implies that it will continue into the future with far more certainty than we can have. This exaggerates the expansion of the gap!