I think that Ferguson has characterized the mechanism correctly. Social Media rarely creates extremism from nothing. I like the term “activating” and it is aptly used. The algorithm finds susceptible people and supplies them with validating material  and then connects them to communities in which their prejudice is normalized. “You have found…[Read more]

That’s a good vid Enco.

Humans are impossibly stupid. Bark like a dog. Woof. Woof. Evil Zionists. Woof. Woof.

Jake and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s a video where historian Niall Ferguson explains how AI has been weaponized by the algorithms of social media and AI geared toward rage-baiting, by the contrarian drift of youth towards older generations, and the ability to spread a message worldwide in seconds. The end result is what we see every day. Leaving…[Read more]

Jake:

I had to look up Ghibli. Dont think i have seen an anime film.

I’ve only seen still-lifes of Ghibli. They are just sickeningly sweet, not at all like humans even in good times, especially during workplace injuries.

Ghibli will not replace us. Here is a pretty safe bet. if AI begins to send us to a dystopian hell the Jews will be…

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Enco,

I had to look up Ghibli. Dont think i have seen an anime film.

Ghibli will not replace us. Here is a pretty safe bet. if AI begins to send us to a dystopian hell the Jews will be blamed.

Jake:

Reg,

Curious to know how you see AI’s impact on us in near and long term.

Well, I seen a T-shirt promoting workplace safety whose imprint was created by AI. It showed a big-eyed Ghibli person smiling in obliviousness as they slipped on a wet floor, destined for a head concussion with said floor.

In an AI-produced promo on the break r…[Read more]

Reg:

Great video on data poisoning as a line of defense against data scraping. (I say this as one of millions of signatories of John Perry Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Indepence of Cyberspace.”). Combined with hostile takeovers by shareholders who don’t want suits from creators eating into profits, this is a good strategy.

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Reg,

Curious to know how you see AI’s impact on us in near and long term.

Well, there’s no harm in learning from AI how it cracked a proof.

Human: “Our time of 40 math professors spent fourteen months checking the proof.”

Lean: “I spent 14 seconds.”

Human: “Yes, Lean is correct.”