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I finally sat down and read Exiting The Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher. As with all Fishers work, I feel sad that I’m only coming to it 10+ years after it was written. It is a deeply clarifying piece of writing. In my mind it paints the fecklessness of Western Leftist “activism” is a way…
Here’s me shorting Musk’s reputation to increase my own in a community… notice the drop in submission activity, but the big jump in cumulative karma. Yes, it’s as dumb as it sounds. Only posted because it’s a weird early 21st C Sci Fi trope come to life.
From the shit-n-shit-out file… these are not generalized tools, eventually we’ll lean that (probably the very hard way) With less than a year to go before one of the most consequential elections in US history, Microsoft’s AI chatbot is responding to political queries with conspiracies, misinformation, and out-of-date or incorrect information.With less than a year…
The Cassini spacecraft observed that Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a series of jets erupting from its South Polar Terrain. Previous studies of in situ data collected by Cassini’s Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) have identified H2O, CO2, CH4, NH3 and H2 within the plume of ejected material. Identification of minor species in the plume…
The tiny design decisions in Teslas drive me up the wall. From opening hatchbacks that allow water into the rear to weird steering wheel designs that no one asked for, let’s have a look at other design decisions that have caused frustration for Tesla customers. … “God, I wish my steering wheel looked light something…
One of the problems the Voyager team faces, in addition to working across incredible distances to communicate with an Earthly spacecraft drifting at a solid 38,210 miles per hour on its way through interstellar space, has to do with technology that is now several decades old.
Old approaches to new problems generally fail… the world is failing the requisite variety test on this one. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/15/ertd-d15.html
Study authors Philip Johnson-Laird, a retired psychology professor from Princeton University, and Marco Ragni, a researcher at the Germany-based Chemnitz University of Technology, recognized these limitations and designed a three-step framework that has the potential to replace the Turing Test. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/do-ai-improvements-call-for-something-better-than-the-turing-test/
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