Defending against AI Lobbyists - Schneier on Security
This piece is by Nathan Sanders, guest blogging on Bruce’s site. A decent read and the comments aren’t all batshit crazy, which is nice.
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This is somehow poetically apt, almost selbstsatire for Twitter’s impending implosion into irrelevance.
[ Note: this is recent and apparently for real. The ad I mean. Not the content they’re hawking, Carol. ]
Here’s what ChatGPT thought I should know about Humanism
Here’s what ChatGPT thought I should know about Humanism when I recently asked: Tell me about ‘humanism’. Humanism is a philosophical and ethical worldview that places human beings at the center of value and importance, emphasizing their capacity for reason, empathy, and dignity. Humanism is often associated with secularism, skepticism, and a focus on human reason and science as a means to understand and improve the human condition. It is a broad and diverse movement with various historical, cultural, and ideological expressions.
I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars… [reads, looks up] …but it’s a pretty good fucking shake
More Songs About Buildings and Food
All we may have left to offer our children, by way of an explanation as to how things came to be the way they are, is that we conquered, and now run, the entire world with language games…
Fictional Investor Brief
Turing Tours - AI Training
| Company Name | Turing Tours |
|---|---|
| Industry | AI Training Data Sets |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Assets | IP ownership and license in excess of 12.5k petas (raw, estimated) |
| CRate | Domain conversion exceeds ~200 gigs per day/domain |
| EYield | Entropy holds at -.03 |
Well howdeedoodaaday!
Trusted Securities Advisor ChatGPT
Trusted securities advisor ChatGPT says this is what we’ll hear from the Federal Reserve in their next statement (Note that ChatGPT has no information past September 2021): At the Federal Reserve, we are deeply concerned about the current banking liquidity crisis. We understand the challenges faced by financial institutions in managing their liquidity risk in the current environment of heightened uncertainty and volatility. To address this crisis, we are taking several measures to support the liquidity needs of banks and ensure the stability of the financial system.
What two-fold lesson have the markets taught us this week?
- Coincidence is hard to model
- You can’t tourniquet your buttocks
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Spent the day hanging with ChatGPT; what an amiable, well informed idiot.