Unrelated note: Jill Stein is doing very well!

If we’ve learned any lesson from the internet, it’s that once something exists it never goes away.

Sure, people shouldn’t believe the output of their prompt. But if you’re generating that output, a site can use the API to generate a similar output for a similar request. A bot can generate it and post it to social media.

Yeah, don’t trust the first source you see. But if the search results are slowly being colonized by AI slop, it gets to a point where the signal-to-noise ratio is so poor it stops making sense to only blame the poor discernment of those trying to find the signal.

I recommend listening to the episode. The crash is the overarching story, but there are smaller stories woven in which are specifically about AI, and it covers multiple areas of concern.

The theme that I would highlight here though:

More automation means fewer opportunities to practice the basics. When automation fails, humans may be unprepared to take over even the basic tasks.

But it compounds. Because the better the automation gets, the rarer manual intervention becomes. At some point, a human only needs to handle the absolute most unusual and difficult scenarios.

How will you be ready for that if you don’t get practice along the way?

Nor is losing your night vision to the glare of a car (it’s always a pickup) behind you with too-bright lights that fill your mirrors.

It really fucking is. Nothing is a bigger red flag to me than a pickup. 98% of pickup drivers are assholes.

Basically this: Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447

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Panic has erupted in the cockpit of Air France Flight 447. The pilots are convinced they’ve lost control of the plane. It’s lurching violently. Then, it begins plummeting from the sky at breakneck speed, careening towards catastrophe. The pilots are sure they’re done-for.

Only, they haven’t lost control of the aircraft at all: one simple manoeuvre could avoid disaster…

In the age of artificial intelligence, we often compare humans and computers, asking ourselves which is “better”. But is this even the right question? The case of Air France Flight 447 suggests it isn’t - and that the consequences of asking the wrong question are disastrous.

Yep: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/beautiful-minds/who-created-maslows-iconic-pyramid/

However, many people may not realize that during the last few years of his life Maslow believed self-transcendence, not self-actualization, was the pinnacle of human needs. What’s more, it’s difficult to find any evidence that* he ever actually represented his theory as a pyramid*. On the contrary, it’s clear from his writings that he did not view his hierarchy of needs like a video game-- as though you reach one level and then unlock the next level, never again returning to the “lower” levels. He made it quite clear that we are always going back and forth in the hierarchy, and we can target multiple needs at the same time.

Bit me baby one more time

He did the same thing to an Israeli spokesperson, and then MSNBC fired him.

Surprising number of people taking this seriously.

Don’t worry. Someone will soon come by to remind us that it’s pointless to regulate AI, and also harmful to do it, and it’s actually a good thing for everyone, and also we’ll be shoveling shit until we die if we don’t get on board, and please oh please just let me get off to one more deepfake of my classmate before you take away my toy it’s not faiiiiir.

I’ve been comparing it to Kessler Syndrome, but for culture.

Yeah… What a mess. A horrible, horrible idea.

Mass producing disguised explosives is risky business.

Obviously they wanna price them low, to attract buyers in the target market. But if you price them too low, they become an opportunity for middlemen to resell to another market.

And now you’ve spread several batches of explosives to who-knows-where.

Hopefully they thought of that and restricted the detonation trigger to specific country codes. But that doesn’t erase the fact that there are explosives in the device.

Because to Trump, politics is like pro wrestling. Showing kindness to your opponent is like dropping kayfabe. There’s no good way to stay in character in that moment.

Arguably one of the most important groups to hear from if we’re gonna find the right balance between freedom to create and freedom from harm.

Climate change might kill you in a couple decades.

Wealth inequality might kill you in a couple years.

Fascists might kill you in a couple months.

Art of Rally

Need For Speed: Heat

Does bike racing count? If so: Descenders is amazing

And if that counts, how about Crumble?

Ooh: Turbo Golf Racing, and Kart Rider

Race the Sun?

“…” said an al Qaeda spokesperson, who remained anonymous out of fear of losing his life for speaking with Western media

“…” said one U.S. official who also asked to remain anonymous out of fear of losing his life for speaking with Western media

Okay that’s pretty good.

Drive a Smart Car to own the libs

Guns don’t kill people. Gunmen kill people.

Now, you might ask: How do men become gunmen?

They’re born a man, and then one day they just decide to identify as a gunman? Makes no sense.

It’s those gun groomers. Corrupting your kid’s mind.