Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

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Giving this a try due to the kerfuffle over at the Other Place.

I used to write for the tabletop game industry back in the '90s; some of my fan antics in GW's Eye of Terror campaign got written into 40k canon. Served as a volunteer Forum Ninja for Bungie.net back in the mid-'00s. These days I do fairly uninteresting (but necessary) work at a contact centre.

Interested in games still. Also interested in space and technology, Sadly recent events got me very interested in Canadian & US politics.

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Understand that “declassifying the JFK files” is setting up a pretense to shut down the CIA. This is the culmination of 70 years of KGB efforts to destroy the CIA. It will be rooted in disinformation and selective disclosure that Americans already have been groomed to believe.
There’s weird streaming rights issues, and then there’s whatever’s happening with The Expanse https://www.polygon.com/tv/516278/expanse-amazon-prime-video-streaming-leaving
There’s weird streaming rights issues, and then there’s whatever’s happening with The Expanse

The Expanse might (partly) leave Prime Video, which is a great reminder that streaming services aren’t archives or libraries for us to always find our best sci-fi

Polygon
Recruiters with higher-quality AI were worse than recruiters with lower-quality AI. They spent less time and effort on each résumé, and blindly followed the AI recommendations. They also did not improve over time. [ . . . ] Dell’Acqua developed a mathematical model to explain the trade-off between AI quality and human effort. When the AI is very good, humans have no reason to work hard and pay attention. They let the AI take over instead of using it as a tool, which can hurt human learning, skill development, and productivity. He called this “falling asleep at the wheel.”

"Why great AI produces lazy humans"

/by Ethan Mollick, adapted from "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" by Ethan Mollick.

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick: 9780593716717 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitiv...

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow

Is everything you know about early history wrong?

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/rewrite-your-history

Rewrite Your History

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s 2021’s The Dawn of Everything is, as its subtitle proclaims, a non-fiction book presenting A New History of Humanity. Although really, what they offer is a new interpretation of history. Which would not be as snappy a subtitle. There is a standard version of the progression of technology and civilization that many of us learned in school: a long uncharted stone age of wandering tribes leading simple, boring, uniform lives, the domestication of plants and animals, the rise of towns and cities, the creation of centralized states, and finally after some fuss, Canada. Whether or not all that was good is open to debate, but there is a certain degree of inevitability about it all. A leads to B leads to C and so on, each stage bringing additional complexity and challenges. It would be disturbing if the facts did not to line up nicely with the model. Graeber and Wengrow suggest that they don’t.

James Nicoll Reviews
One of them saved my gd life....
G’night Mastos
I was trying to figure out how to say this and Scalzi does it in 14 words. https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/113901059516657875
Well, the above thread aged like spilled milk; the NASDAQ's power dive after NVIDIA got shown up by Chinese AI developers, which is drawing down the Dow and TSX with it, means my hedging opportunity is probably already gone. Going to have to ride the current turbulence out and hope for a bit of a rebound.
Addendum; the one stock in my portfolio that I picked up because of a tip, instead of playing smart & doing research, is now worth so little that selling it wouldn't cover the brokerage fee. It's not a huge loss, to be honest, as I knew it was going to be risky; the lesson it taught me was probably worth the price.

Trump and his minions have said, far too often to ignore, that they want to crash the US economy. I have to take that seriously if I want to protect my retirement... even while hoping I'll end up with egg on my face & a couple of years of FOMO.

Just venting; not financial advice & all that. (6/6)