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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Ah I see. I mean sure, that’s fine to consider and think through. Although, there doesn’t seem to be much meaningful difference between “replace it” and “figure something else out”.

    But if the plan is to dismantle everything and wing it, I’m glad they volunteered their community to “figure something else out”. Im sure we can learn something from it. However, I suspect they will eventually circle back to having some system of law, some system to judge adherence to that law, and some system to enforce adherence to that law.

    Still, I think there’s nobility in willing to sacrifice one’s own security (if not others’, which certainly is already the case in the current system) for the sake of those experiencing injustice/oppression. But there are also prudent and foolish ways to go about it.

    In Canada we’re actually grappling with this tension leaning the other way, ensuring justice for those being processed through the justice system. Our bail system ensures people are not unjustly held for prolonged periods of time pre-trial, but the consequence is you have more cases of violent people readily released on bail who then attack someone else not long after. This is exacerbated by an inefficient system where trial dates take so long you’d have to hold someone presumed innocent for months or over a year, as well as an insufficient system without enough support and rehabilitation that helps minimize recitivism.







  • You need a bit balance of everything. I used to be snooty about small-talk. Eventually I started noticing that the most personable people, who make someone new feel welcome, included, and who make you feel like you’re noticed and worth remembering through recalling basic personal details–these people have excellent small-talk skills.

    I think part of why small-talk often feels pointless is because people don’t enter into it intentionally, with purpose. If you go into it with purpose, like creating a good social experience for others, or building/maintaining 2nd/3rd order social connections in a humanizing way, it feels a lot different. Like anything, it’s still exhausting after a certain amount.





  • AI bad. But also, video AI started with will Will Smith eating spaghetti just a couple years ago.

    We keep talking about AI doing complex tasks right now and it’s limitations, then extrapolating its development linearly. It’s not linear and it’s not in one direction. It’s a exponential and rhizomatic process. Humans always over-estimate (ignoring hard limits) and under-estimate (thinking linearly) how these things go. With rocketships, with internet/social media, and now with AI.






  • The online comment context and usage of “Why won’t you debate, are you scared” suggests the response is directed at online trolls, people who argue in bad faith, and imperiously demand rigourous debate without offering the same let alone an ounce of intellectual generosity, i.e. sealioning. In contrast, something like a movie review is a structured evaluation is still an opinion, but it doesn’t deride readers for not engaging with it.




  • I think the threats, limitations, and harms already underway due to AI are very real. And it’s scary thinking how the issues will develop under the current ways such technologies get pursued and implemented to accrue power.

    I also think we should be honest about the capabilities of the technology, the practical applications of it, and reconcile with the fact that the genie is out of the bottle. It’s the industrial revolution, it’s electricity, it’s the assembly line, and nuclear fission.


  • Well no, the AI doesn’t do the curating, the company running the AI-powered platform does the curating. Neural Net AIs aren’t built to understand anything. The company running the platform curates the training, prompt engineering, and non-AI structures (algorithms, rigid parameters, and basic rules) that hone the generative AI into maximizing the desirable kind of outputs and minimizing undesirable outputs for the specific field of tasks.