I would like to see a law which makes companies responsible for any errors their AI makes. Since their key appeal is for passing accountability to a black hole, I think it ought to transfer to them instead.
If they had to manage that risk I think we would see more responsible use.
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There's a curious new rhetorical strategy I'm encountering more and more often in online spaces wherein ignorance about a claim is taken to refute it. It goes a bit like the script below. It's the death-of-expertise script, but with an additional twist.
Has anyone written about this?
Today I’m walking off the job with hundreds of my Washington Post colleagues for 24 hours to demand a fair contract. It's the postguild's first strike in 48 years.
To support us, avoid all Washington Post journalism today, Dec. 7.
You can read more here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-at-the-washington-post-deserve-a-living-wage
The Washington Post says it supports writers. So why won't it pay its workers a living wage? We've been bargaining with the Washington Post for over a year. Journalists, copy editors, designers, marketers, accountants, and so many other employees of the Post have shared why we need a better contract over the past 13 months but they are just not listening. That's why they need to here from you. We've included some text for you below that will send with your name, but please feel free to personalize it with your own words: Are you a longtime reader or subscriber? Why do you value The Post’s journalism? Why do you support its workers in our fight for a fair contract? When you click “Send Letter,” the letter will be automatically sent to the inboxes of interim chief executive Patty Stonesifer and general counsel Jay Kennedy, addressed to them; a copy will also be sent to the Post Guild. Thank you for your support!
Nervous System is a strange business. We are a computational design and digital fabrication studio known for things like a no-assembly 3D printed dress or designing 3D printed organs.
However neither of those things actually make any money. Monetarily we are primarily a jigsaw puzzle company. How did that happen?
So here’s a thread about jigsaw puzzles.
This is the first and only thing we've created that went well and truly viral. We released it in 2016 during the hayday of Facebook video and it was reshared by various random aggregator accounts like "Bored Panda" and had millions of views on multiple accounts. There were tens of thousands of comments, like "What kind of evil person made this impossible puzzle"
And we were completely unprepared. Remember at this point, puzzles were just a side thing we basically did for fun. When we released this puzzle, we hadn't even finished designing the packaging. Everything about our puzzle making process was inefficient. As orders piled in, we changed "ships in 2 weeks" to "ships in 4 weeks" to "ships sometime next year". It was basically like doing a kickstarter but instead of shipping in 1 year, we shipped immediately. Jessica and I switched our sleep schedules so we could work alternating 14-15 hour shifts (no lunch break) keeping our single laser running 24 hours a day. At the same time we were trying to hire more help and buy a second laser cutter. This is by far the hardest thing I've done in my life and nothing else comes close
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