Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
– James A. Michener: Chesapeake (1978)
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
– James A. Michener: Chesapeake (1978)
I just wish someone really understood me. Ideally, me.
– Lore Sjöberg på Mastodon (link)
“Artificial Intelligence” was launched in 1956 as an academic marketing term. The target market was the US Department of Defense — the perfect customer for technology that doesn’t work but totally will in the fabulous future.
Pivot to AI: Military AI: I’m from the government and EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE (link)
When a candidate makes a false claim, reporters can respond one of three ways:
The first option privileges the lie by allowing a candidate to run around saying things that are not true — but at least it does not help spread the lie further.
The second option — even if it includes mention of the fact that the claim is false — privileges the lie a great deal by helping the candidate spread the false claims. At the end of the day, what most people take away from this week’s media coverage of the lipstick flap is likely that there is some controversy around whether Barack Obama made a sexist comment about Sarah Palin. That’s a clear advantage to McCain — and thus the media’s handling of the episode has rewarded his falsehood.
The third option punishes the falsehood. If you think the media’s job is to bring their readers and viewers the truth, this is obviously the best of the three options.
This is where some will say “but then reporters will be taking sides.”
And there is some truth to that: They’ll be taking the truth’s side.
Jamison Foser (fra 2008, citeret i artikel 2024 – link)
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
– Douglas Adams: The salmon of doubt
I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.
– Kamala Harris
Just noting that all arguments about possible future general artificial intelligences are basically warmed-over versions of mediaeval Christian theologians arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. They’re EXACTLY that grounded in both observable reality and theological discourse. You be the judge.
– Charles Stross på Mastodon – Link
We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
– Louis Brandeis (link)
A robot may not harm shareholder value nor, through inaction, allow shareholder value to come to harm.
– Benno på Mastodon – Link til indlæg. Realistisk modernisering af Asimovs Three Laws of Robotics
To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money.
– Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Mariana Mazzucato, Rufus Rock: To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money.