Link. I don’t auto-update, I wait until Apple turns the update notification on. Which takes days to weeks post iOS release depending on Apple risk assessment. Don’t go early.
Daily Archives: February 23, 2023
The Singularity Is Far – Aaronson 2008.
Link. Sharing because today, 2/23/2023, Aaronson says he was wrong: “And I apologize for anything I said before the deep learning revolution that was, on balance, overly dismissive of the scenario”
Aaronson’s take on ChatGPT is not reassuring.
Link. “Now there’s a second type of conversing entity. An alien has awoken … Supposing that a language model ever becomes smart enough to be genuinely terrifying, one imagines it must surely also become smart enough to prove deep theorems that we can’t.”
He wants to watch ChatGPT grow into its full self so we have someone non-human to teach us. He retracts his 2008 claim that the Singularity was far away.
#beafraid #chatGPT #AI #singularity
“doomer culture is debated in the pages of the New York Times and the BBC. It even has its own music.”
Link. Yeah, this seems to be a thing. Fueled by crazy takes on COVID — that it’s somehow airborne HIV with a dash of Ebola.
“Biden said it’s time to decide what kind of world we want to build. Looking at the coalition that supports Ukraine, he said: “We need to take the strength and capacity of this coalition and apply it to lifting up—lifting up the lives of people ev
Link. Nobody ever asked when Biden would “become Presidential”. Not even idiots like Carlson. He leads.
‘Free college’ in Minnesota.
Link. Only two years so not a 4y degree. But, yes.
Minnesota’s 60-below record Tower set in 1996.
Link. Might have been during a ski trip we were doing, but that was only -40F. Yakutsk Russia gets colder; I think some cars there run engines for days or weeks at a time.
Russia’s second offensive failed before it began.
Link. “Russia’s army is fragmented after a year of war and increasingly resembles a militia of disparate forces”. Meanwhile, Putin turns to China.
Wildebeest: Fediverse on Cloudflare
Link. “you can quickly deploy your Mastodon-compatible server on top of Cloudflare and connect it to the Fediverse in minutes, and you don’t need to worry about maintaining or protecting it from abuse or attacks”
I’m late to the party, didn’t realize this launched so long ago.
Wagner fighters captured in Ukraine.
Link. “One of the men said he watched a friend taken off to be shot — or “zeroed”— by a Wagner enforcement team for protesting deployments that sometimes led to hundreds of fighters a day being killed in and around Bakhmut…
… Ilya said he would advise other convicts not sign up. For one thing, he said he has never been paid.”
“Google has four core cultural problems. They are all the natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called “Ads” that has kept growing relentlessly every year, hiding all other sins.”
Link. Lots of large PTCs and Gov orgs are like this. Process paralysis.
“the number of people 60 and older registering for Ironman’s 140.6-mile and 70.3-mile triathlons has quintupled from around 2,500 in 2012 to nearly 13,000 last year.”
Link. Ten years ago 50s was old at CrossFit. Now it’s routine.
Google engineer Blake Lemoine – LaMDA AI “sentient”. June 2002.
Link. He was fired. His cognitive science background likely informed his definition of sentient. Many laughed at him. I did not laugh then, I do not laugh now. #beafraid #AI #ChatGPT
“After App Tracking Transparency (ATT), every major social app is now charging for features and Apple gets a cut on iOS.”
Link. Happy accident.
“Apple’s ads and store and illusion of safety make it more likely for people to get themselves into trouble vs. somehow discovering and trusting an unknown authenticator app on a random Web site.”
Link. We need competition.