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Playing [Texas’s] energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin
(www.economist.com)
You're welcome!
swlabr
joined 2 years ago
Pre-watch: With the prior knowledge that her main job prior to this was wrestling promoter, the ol’ overtonussy is preeeetty loose
Post-watch: lol
Rupi Kaur
should sueI don’t know that we can offer you a good world, or even one that will be around for all that much longer. But I hope we can offer you a good childhood. […]
When “The world is gonna end soon so let’s just rawdog from now on” gets real
How much of this is the AI bubble collapsing vs. Ohiophobia
JFC I click on the rocket alignment link, it's a yud dialogue between "alfonso" and "beth". I am not dexy'ed up enough to read this shit.
Spooks as a service
Utterly rancid linkedin post:
text inside image:
Why can planes "fly" but AI cannot "think"?
An airplane does not flap its wings. And an autopilot is not the same as a pilot. Still, everybody is ok with saying that a plane "flies" and an autopilot "pilots" a plane.
This is the difference between the same system and a system that performs the same function.
When it comes to flight, we focus on function, not mechanism. A plane achieves the same outcome as birds (staying airborne) through entirely different means, yet we comfortably use the word "fly" for both.
With Generative AI, something strange happens. We insist that only biological brains can "think" or "understand" language. In contrast to planes, we focus on the system, not the function. When AI strings together words (which it does, among other things), we try to create new terms to avoid admitting similarity of function.
When we use a verb to describe an AI function that resembles human cognition, we are immediately accused of "anthropomorphizing." In some way, popular opinion dictates that no system other than the human brain can think.
I wonder: why?
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"Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried - If Books Could Kill
(www.buzzsprout.com)
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“Crypto is already a giant video game — and we are here to make it more fun and rewarding.”
(medium.com)
The video game in question:
Making a startup named Sphinctr