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Upon reflection…

I think the surest tell of the value of the GenAI boom is to ask, is the software that I use and interact with on a regular basis getting significantly better or not?

For the good of humanity, every “hard” science fiction story has to have elves in it, now, as a reminder that none of it is ever gonna happen, so we should not try to base our society on trying to make it happen.

I’ve been reading more contemporary science fiction for *reasons* and the number one thing it lays bare is that all science fiction is actually fantasy and that a lot of people are suffering from this category error now in a way that is ruining the world.

These people are like the Iraq-war supporters who when it predictably went to shit said well we were wrong for the right reasons. History shows if we are not careful these people will still dominate discussion and decision making in time to usher in the next catastrophe.

The AI mania is, like Trump, both a problem and a symptom of larger problems. Now when the problem is almost impossible to deny, you start to see many people implicated in the larger problem—hence the cause of the new problem—begin to criticize and agitate. You should doubt their proposed solutions.

No shit

I have a classics degree and only today did I make the connection with the cow massacre scene in O Brother Where Art Thou and the Odyssey because I’m a dumb dummy.

It’s a fact that if you are a man and you are going to wear shorts, they need to be short, ending well above the knee. Otherwise stick with pants.

The fox knows many things, the hedgehog one thing, and Generative AI knows nothing because it isn’t sentient.

Imagine choosing to use Generative AI when a rose exists in the world.

Sea creatures

Fireworks