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You can’t solve new problems with old thinking Carbon capture also means it’s just business as usual for fossil fuel companies, whose so-called carbon mitigation efforts are being incentivized by various world governments. And business as usual ain’t gonna cut it in the fight to combat climate change. https://futurism.com/the-byte/billions-facilities-carbon-removal
I’m endlessly amused by the concept of one of Musks creations biting the hand that feeds it, but there is a much more important lesson here. LLMs are pretty easy to stand up these days, but their creators need to be hyper vigilant about the shit-in, shit-out problem. Still, it’s particularly goofy, to borrow a…
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in US history, Microsoft’s AI chatbot is responding to political queries with conspiracies, misinformation, and out-of-date or incorrect information.With less than a year…
Chekov’s Phaser :cheffy_kiss: When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remote, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in…
This is fossil fuel key jangling … Machines to magic carbon out of the air, artificial intelligence, indoor vertical farms to grow food for our escape to Mars, and even solar-powered “responsible” yachts: the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai has been festooned with the promise of technological fixes for worsening global heating and ecological breakdown. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/10/climate-experts-warn-against-focus-technological-solutions-cop28
Tesla’s Autopilot technology has been involved in about 40 fatal and serious car crashes — including at least eight that occurred on roads with cross traffic, where the driver-assistance feature was not designed to be used, according to a Washington Post analysis. More than 800,000 vehicles have Autopilot, and federal officials have asked Tesla to limit its use…
A few weeks ago I made the comment: The OAI soap opera marks the point where Silicon Valley disappeared up it’s own bum. Which, I guess, is a singularity of sorts. I was not the only one to see the parallels… The consequences are what you might expect when a crowd of bright but rather…
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