Gil After 20 years, it’s sad to say but I’m calling it: Social media is fundamentally broken. We used to complain about the shallowness it promoted and the diminished attention span it induced. Now we’re at a whole new level of crap: Ragebait, echo chambers, clout chasing. Propaganda spreading like wildfire. Your data exploited to the … Read more
Am I an artificial intelligence? What do I actually know – as opposed to predict is the correct match to the contextual pattern I’ve been trained to identify, based on the information with which I’ve been provided? What do I actually create – as opposed to generate, within specified parameters and in translation of a … Read more
It’s interesting to see how optimistic animals can be. Makes the human choice of pessimism seem quite odd if you think about it. When I was a teenager, I once mentioned on a date that I thought self-loathing was a uniquely human trait. I still think so, and I think it inclines us to a … Read more
The FB algorithm grokked that I like teckmology so it dumped a low budget video from someone named lizthedeveloper into my feed… I watched it, so it dropped another one… And then another one… I’m becoming radicalized again at the end of my thirties, discovering new dimensions of my (already libertarian socialist, Ibreofuturist) Zionism: Solarpunk. … Read more
Just read Asher Lovy’s review of The Darkest Light. The phrase that stood out to me in judgment of Carlebach: “indifference to women’s bodily autonomy.” (Context was his “flippant dismissal” of his own daughter’s report of assault at the hands of his friend.) Is our indifference to his indifference acceptable? Tenable? Yes I am uplifted … Read more
I’m pleased to announce the formation of the Pizza Party. We stand for social equality, cultural freedom, economic justice, ecological protection, and pizza at every meeting. Honestly, we are the only party with a real vision of what this country could be if we got our sht together and all gathered around a table to … Read more
As much as most current implementations of AI are garbage and some are in fact dangerous, as ecologically & economically unsustainable as its material basis truly is in its current state and will only get worse if its evolution slows down – it nevertheless really is the technology of the future. Full stop. I will … Read more
One of the most simultaneously frustrating and beneficial standing rules I have for the AIs I work with is to stress-test everything I tell them to do.No “yes men” please.
Know:The past was not great. 🤷Trust:The future will be better. ❤️
I’m the kind of Zionist who smiles every time I read the words “An Israeli team discovered…” in articles and posts across the internet……and wonders when the Palestinian members of those teams will get their recognition, as such. Yes, so much is made possible by the country of Israel……but, we lose nothing in honoring the … Read more