Lawyer, writer, boardgamer, cyclist, tries-not-to-be-a-dickhead-ist.
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Christopher Bird
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possibly unpopular opinion: people are losing their shit about what is, when you get down to cases, basically a glorified search engine
is Attie going to write posts for you to read? no. it's just going to let you - if you want - design a "custom algorithm," meaning: you input the stuff you want to read about, and it creates a feed for you based on your inputs. that's all this shit does
(i mean I dunno maybe they'll decide to turn it into a chatbot, I can't see the future, but right now you'd have to be amazingly stupid to jump in and try to "compete" with Claude and ChatGPT and Grok at losing money)
when the "AI" bubble dies, those things are still going to be around and be useful, because they aren't power-sucking IP-stealing plagiarism-assisting mental-health-damaging waste-of-everybody's-time bezzles, they're just useful specific-instance tools. Attie will probably fall into THAT category
"but I hate AI" look man I get it, Sam Altman is a turd and Grok is a stupid name for anything, but there's heaps of things that are technically "AI" per the current (stupid) working definition of the term that are mega-useful, most of them in the medical and engineering fields
like, all they are really promising here is a means of automating a process that most blooski users either do manually or not at all. AND it is purely opt-in to boot. as deals go, it is the smallest of deals
We have maybe, *maybe* one chance to fix this without bloodshed when Trump leaves office. But as long as his party survives intact & unapologetic, every leader who wants to impose his will on the world will know that Netanyahu & Putin & Orban made the right bet by supporting the GOP.
why do people hate "AI"? they hate it because they hate ChatGPT and other glorified chatbots - the most hyped and least useful form of it - not because they hate the general concept of pattern extrapolation to different cases, which is broadly what most modern "AI" is
Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."
