Maturity is realizing that it doesn't matter how often or how right we are, but how much damage we do when we are wrong.
Greg Strange
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McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
Trans Mountain Pipeline is my new drag queen wrestling moniker.
"If you’re not able to draw a direct line to [how many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that tradeoff [on AI spend] becomes harder to justify because AI is not free."
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I read it. The judge vacated department policies which had no legal justification. Hopefully, this dies before it creates problems.
Former commander of US Army in Europe comments:
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"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."
Trying to export all my data from GOOG to migrate to a better service requires signing up for Google Cloud, accept new terms, wait 24 hours to get an export and then not be able to download the export without installing and using a command line tool. That's gotta violate a whole bunch of laws. 🫠
Watch this and other exciting episodes of Idiocracy on Americathon!
(📢) Please RT this 200-post thread on the eve of Elon Musk becoming humanity’s first trillionaire.
I’m a Musk biographer, and my opinion—based on my research—is that he’s one of the most dangerous men alive.
I urge folks to consider this before aiding in enriching him further.
GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.
