A convergence we will see more often
“Man ends his life after an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change”, Euronews.com reports: A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long...
View ArticleWe think we are living at the dawn of the age of AI. What if it is already...
“Research finds ChatGPT & Bard headed for ‘Model Collapse'”, writes Ilkhan Ozsevim in AI Magazine: A recent research paper titled, ‘The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models...
View ArticleThe gaze of strangers
I have a dilemma. I want to write a post about how creepy it is to take a photo of a stranger and put it on social media with a deniably mocking comment. The easiest way to illustrate this would be to...
View ArticleLin Biao welcomes Prigozhin to the club
From the Wikipedia entry for Lin Biao: Lin became instrumental in creating the foundations for Mao Zedong’s cult of personality in the early 1960s, and was rewarded for his service in the Cultural...
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What I did on my holidays
Switzerland is a great country. In most respects Machiavelli’s description of the Swiss as “armatissimi e liberissimi”, “most armed and most free”, still applies. But… It says, Mandatory shooting...
View ArticleHelp me make an inspirational poster
Taking a Christmas break from my customary snarkiness, I mean this without irony. I would like to make one of those motivational posters with an inspirational quotation or slogan on it. The slogan...
View ArticleWhat good things have happened this year?
I’ll start. Javier Milei. Lots of space launches. And?
View ArticleNon-sarcastically, why am I so sure that this image is generated by AI?
The awkward moment when you take pride in destroying civilian infrastructure and killing 21 thousand people, 70% of which are women and children pic.twitter.com/0EYA7U9ctQ — Double Down News...
View ArticleI wish this Quote of the Day were less appropriate to the year just gone
“I stayed up last night… Not so much to welcome the new year, but to make sure the old one leaves…” – Ben David, in the comments to the previous post. Still, hope springs eternal in the human breast....
View ArticleMaybe you will remember for the rest of your life where you were when you...
Or maybe you, and I, will eventually wince, sigh, and add one more entry to the list that contains the Fleishman-Pons announcement of cold fusion in 1989 and the 2011 OPERA faster-than-light neutrino...
View ArticleHugone awry
I felt old reading this article by Adam Morgan of Esquire magazine. For a while some thirty years ago, the terms “Worldcon” and “Hugo” were part of my daily life. What happened to them? Inside the...
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