Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripping with AI hype. Here's a quick rundown.

First, for context, note that URL? The Future of Life Institute is a longtermist operation. You know, the people who are focused on maximizing the happiness of billions of future beings who live in computer simulations.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

#AIhype

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Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea - known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water - changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp." Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their pre-announcement price. The company announced no specific integrations with any kind of blockchain, nor has it made any such integrations since.

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Weaponizing hyperfocus: Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale

https://tailscale.dev/blog/weaponizing-hyperfocus

This is a little history of the DevRel team at @tailscale and how working on it has let me transmute a part of myself that I hated into an asset.

#devrel

I have performed an unscientific survey of people who are working in coding and cybersecurity to see what language they use most often.

The result: profanity.

Jill Lepore in The New Yorker, “What the Jan. 6 Report is Missing.”

“Nor does it inquire into the consequences of an educated national elite of politicians, journalists, and academics increasingly living their lives in a Met Gala to Davos to White House Correspondents Dinner world, or the degree to which so many of them appear to have so wholly given themselves over to Twitter — knowing the world through it, reporting from it, being ruled by it.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/what-the-january-6th-report-is-missing

#journalism #Jan6