Thank you, Ezra, for a magnificent specimen of #MoralPanice and the hubris of the present tense. He portends doom but never says how it comes. He ignores the history and lessons of technological adaptation past.
This Changes Everything https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdness.html?smid=tw-share
Search or fabrication?
https://www.aiweirdness.com/search-or-fabrication/
Janelle Shane of the wonderful AI Weirdness catches the #ChatGPT #BingAI in lots of lies / hallucinations in reply to perfectly straightforward questions.
I feel strange to write this but there is a nuanced take on the #SVB bank collapse that is not popular anywhere. What is happening is what is supposed to happen and uninvolved taxpayers are not paying for it. FDIC has taken over the bank and will sell its assets. Whatever it gets for those assets will be paid back to depositors. Despite VC financial illiteracy there is no bailout nor a need for one.
The two things that need more scrutiny are Thiel's involvement and the loosened regulations.
This bobcat spent two hours hunting in our yard yesterday. Such a privilege to be in its presence for so long.
#bobcat #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #NewHampshire
A basking chukar partridge, seen in Hawai'i. It looks peaceful, but it had just tried rushing us in a parking lot for snacks. #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #birdsofmastodon
It may be silly and the graphics stubbornly ancient, but I gotta say things like the Darkmoon Faire are what keep me playing #worldOfWarcraft after like 15 years, and after having played and left many other games in the same general genre.
Nothing else I've seen combines gameplay and humor and lorecrafting in the same way. #games #videogames
Funny to see VCs who generally rail against government intervention making the case for a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank now that there's an intervention that would directly help them and their friends.
Socialism for me, capitalism for thee.
Reminds me a bit of the people I know who went from ardent YIMBY to NIMBY the moment they settled down in a neighborhood and bought a house.
paraphrased: ...the intellectual bankruptcy of a conservative legal movement that has spent half a century rhapsodizing about how judges must apply the law, not make it. All six conservatives agreed that making millions of Puerto Ricans ineligible for certain federal benefits presents no fairness concerns requiring judicial intervention. Today, confronted with a result they don’t like, the conservatives reserve the option to veto any action they deem Too Big A Deal.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/supreme-court-student-debt-cases-fairness/
Hi, I'm Justin. I am a software engineer living in #SanFrancisco's #innerrichmond. I'm married, have two kids, and enjoy spending time with them.
Right now, I am working on personal projects and would like to work someday in #MachineLearning or #VirtualReality #VR. I wish both were more open like the web was in the early 00's.
To keep fit I mostly enjoy #Cycling around #sfbay
I enjoy #3dprinting, #gaming, #SciFi and #GeekCulture #Goth #Cyberpunk.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
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Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
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