The student approached the Master and said "He wants to put a million people on Mars by 2040! That's so amazing!"
The Master replied. "I have a better plan. I will put a million people on Antarctica by 2040."
"But that sounds fucking insane. Why would you want to do something that stupid? It's a barren wasteland that's difficult to populate and would provide us with absolutely nothing!"
At that moment, the student was enlightened.
I finally read the article. I laughed out loud at this:
> Usually when everyone around you disagrees with you, your default assumption should be that you're mistaken. But this is one of the rare exceptions.
I'm trying to imagine the sort of person who thinks they can or should do "founder mode" .... not being surrounded by sycophantic yes-men.
I'm having difficulty.
Found on FB with the following text:
"While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo.
Township of Holway, Taylor County, Wisconsin
Admin asked me to edit my post with the nearest city. The nearest city to the location of this picture is Owen, WI, which is 9 miles away."
Photographer: Kristie Kohn
Hello!
30 trillion cells in my body are human, whatever that means, and 38 trillion are various bacteria! There are a bunch of viruses too which are currently impacting my functionality!
I am 68 trillion microorganisms in a trench coat which results in a sort of self-propelling, self-replicating digestion tube, but I am paid to act as if I am a clean, rational, thinking machine!
This is very stressful for all 68 trillion of us, so sometimes we complain about it on the internet.
Hey #MAIHT3k fans! Our next twitch stream (episode 14) is this Friday. Come listen live while @alex and I chat with Dr. Lucy Suchman about AI hype and military and national security --- and take apart AI hype coming from none other than Henry Kissinger + Palantir's applications of LLMs to warmaking.
twitch.tv/dair_institute
Friday July 21, 1pm Pacific
Hey @emilymbender ; I’m hoping that you’ve seen the NYTimes “the daily” podcast episode: The Writers’ Revolt Against A.I. Companies
Copied from twit space:
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Man goes to doctor. Says he is CEO of AI startup but has no idea how to become profitable.
Doctor says solution is simple. Advanced model GPT-4 is in town. Ask it how to profit, and it will surely know the answer.
Man bursts into tears. “But doctor” he says “you are GPT-4”
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Thomas Zimmer
Schrödinger's Prat
Kim Scheinberg
Nick
Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Muzaffer Kal