Antarctica is the most educated continent because everyone living there that can get a college degree has a college degree.
– Rationalwiki: Antarctica
Forfatter: Morten Juhl-Johansen
Værdifuldt versus fyldt værdier i
The bug in capitalism is the implicit assumption that people’s willingness to pay for something indicates it is of positive value. People are willing to invest in a Ponzi scheme because of the opportunity to get rich. That doesn’t mean Ponzi schemes have value to society.
Dare Obasanjo på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Kunstig versus manglende intelligens
Tak til altid intelligente SMBC Comics – link til oprindelige stribe
Hvil. I fred om nødvendigt
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
– Clarence Darrow, The story of my life (1922) – (diskussion af citat)
Art of the grift
Do AI art and ChatGPT output qualify as art? Can they be used for art? Sure, anything can be used for art. But that’s not a substantive question. The important questions are who’s getting paid, who’s getting ripped off, and who’s just running a grift.
– David Gerard: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
Stenet vej til fortabelsen
I say the Lord works in mysterious ways. Well… He ain’t got nothing on the Devil.
– The Mantawauk Caves ep. 7
Veritas
Vi ved alle, at kunst ikke er sandhed. Kunsten er en løgn, der lader os erkende sandheden.
I artiklen: We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
– Pablo Picasso, The Arts: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Covering All Phases of Ancient and Modern Art, Volume 3, Number 5, maj 1923
Læk!
Hvis vi er en tænketank… så er der hul i bunden.
– Michael Schøt i Dybt Go’ Nat Danmark (link)
Uventet twist
Until I moved from the dead bird site to Mastodon I never realized that I had so much pent up civility.
– HamOnWry på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Aftryk
A decade ago, I’d been drunk on the power of technology to make a dent in the universe; I had sobered up in the intervening years, had turned my love into just a job, which is to say, I’d become an adult.
– Cory Doctorow: Attack Surface