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Peg Tittle
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Dec 02 2024
Sam Harris on Trump – WELL worth the read
https://www.thefp.com/p/sam-harris-vote-kamala-harris
Nov 10 2024
Weizenbaum on AI
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai “The book has two major arguments. First: ‘There is a difference between man and machine.’ Second: ‘There are certain tasks which computers ought not be made to do, independent of whether computers can be made to do them.’” See, this is a no-brainer for me. I wouldn’t even THINK of writing an article, let …
Oct 22 2024
Jaded, Ela Lee
Highly recommended! (esp for men!) A few impressive bits: “I’m minded to pursue the current approach, given the sensitivities in this area, and reassess once we have greater visibility over how the strategy has been received,” Will spoke, baritone and authoritative. “Urrrr,” Genevieve’s voice grumbled, … “is your Grand Plan of Action that …
Oct 10 2024
“We’re getting sick of noise pollution”
“With every AI project abandoned, every bitcoin not mined, every pickup truck not sold, every jet fighter not flown, people somewhere will get relief. With every bicycle that replaces a motorcycle, every garden hose that supplants a power-washer, every rake that displaces a leaf blower, our world will both warm a little more slowly and …
Sep 19 2024
Boys will be Boys¸ Clementine Ford
so many choice bits … and this is just a small percentage of what I’ve underlined in my copy … “…how wonderful it was that men had now increased the time they spent with their children to up to forty minutes a day! Well, hell, let’s have a fucking parade.” p7 “A basement …
Sep 07 2024
Dynamic Pricing – didn’t know there was such a thing – oughtta be illegal!
‘Corporate Greed Is Out of Control’: Warren Slams Kroger’s AI Pricing Scheme
Sep 07 2024
Transaction Taxes!
Of course there should be transaction taxes. I did not know there aren’t. WTF?! The Irrationality of Markets
Sep 05 2024
The Overstory, Richard Powers
from The Overstory, Richard Powers … eyes toward the wilderness … [He] sees slabs of light through the trunks where there should be shadow all the way to the forest’s heart. … [He investigates then] stumbles back through the curtain of concealing trees … “Have they been clear-cutting, up the valley?” … “Shit, yeah.” “And …
Aug 30 2024
god is not Great – Christopher Hitchens
Notable bits from god is not Great, Christopher Hitchens “…no statistic will ever find that without these blandishments and threats [heaven, hell] we commit more crimes of greed or violence than the faithful. (In fact, if a proper statistical inquiry could ever be made, I am sure the evidence would be the other way.)” p5 …
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