Marc Burgauer

Andrew, please start following @emilymbender.bsky.social (which will lead you to discover other _serious_ people who are critical about AI), learn what a stochastic parrot means, why there is no “mind” doing the speaking.

That you didn’t even make that assumption explicit and questioned it makes the entire episode a Weekly World News quality piece. I am saddened by this - far from unique - example of how the Bunker’s quality has become hit (you still have some fantastic people) and miss in recent months.

Do you not understand that all such speculations assume that AI is developing some kind of conscious agency and that the only people who claim that is possible have huge investment, either social or material (or both), in a continued belief and that all other experts think it laughable?

@jonahg.bsky.social feedback: “discovered” you on Call me back. Subscribed to your podcast after listening to the Henry George episode: excellent!

Is there a meme one could use on people who have a burning need to be seen as the smartest person in the room? Asking for a friend.

Exactly. They are the same project.

Can you afford to complain if you’re still dependant on getting jobs from click bait media?

That is a very good point!

Having said that, I don't think there's anything wrong not using them. It's a tool, nothing more. The entire hype is because we cannot get over the fact that it "talks", forgetting that what is doing the talking are all the authors it ingested.

I am pretty sure you would stop. I use it in the ways you suggested, also as a better search (you use search?), and I find it absolutely not addictive. As long as you are clear on your intention, I am sure you will not be tempted to go with its output. Only use it for domains you have expertise in!

Everything has alway been an act. This too now, is an act. Whatever is needed to be in the favourable network position. It all makes sense from that perspective. No three spirits needed.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

So... we have a former prince but not a former Royal Society fellow, despite involvement in the same case and multiple current instances of improper behaviour, such as political interventionism, incitation to violence, etc.
One can only wonder why, right?

There was a phase in the late 70s and into the 80s where a lot of good music (composition and songwriting) was “enhanced” with “new” synth sounds or effects. Most of it just sounds crap today, cheap, show-offy and arbitrary. Makes the music annoying! That’s the stage we’re at with using AI.

How can we make the walls of your bubble that silently polarises you thicker?

You could also consider that he’s trying to get you levelled up from professional to badass?

The Arendt quote: AI slop increases our confusion in distinguishing reality from fiction (lies).

Maybe a bit rose-tinted glasses to attribute this to the enlightenment? A lot of the “tolerance” had to do with shame and guilt and that experience has worn off, which is why, I think, antisemitism has now such a “great” comeback at the first “opportunity” to blame Jews again.

Also being bi-lang, when I think, they’re often one language. I still use German sayings and constructs, literally translating them into English to my listeners bafflement. The scary things is that I have started doing the reverse when speaking in German.

That’s a good question. Why do so many respond to it with engagement? I don’t know. It scares me. Why are we unable to get out of this deep rooted blame culture? Why is compassion so hard?

You don’t want to be on this list. Being on this list means you’re a polariser. You’re evoking strong feelings, not profound thinking. I have seen everyone on this list spewing toxic content, even if by some surely involuntarily, but most do it deliberately.

Expect Robert Jenrick to copy this joyousness in his social media pieces next. (No, only fools think this is authentic from Mamdani either.)

"Today, the name of terror is technology. - H. Marcuse

Well, guess I have a new favorite movie...

I didn’t say anything about changing it.

Maybe start with exploring where your current model is wrong?

Already happening in Amazon warehouses.

Hard to find a better illustration of why you should ignore everything before the 'but':

You describe British Winter. But then, seasons here are overall less pronounced. We’re lucky to get snow, just to break the monotony, but because snow is rare, the country lacks the infrastructure to cope with it well, so it’s immediately painful. British Winter sucks. Try the alps? ;-)

In case you needed another reason to sign the letter by @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social against "uncritical adoption of AI in academia"...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Spontaneous activity of astrocytes is a stochastic functional signal for memory consolidation | PNAS In the absence of explicit neuronal inputs, the glial cell astrocytes exhibit recurring intracellular Ca2+ fluctuations, primarily localized at thi...

Go glial cells! More and more evidence keeps pouring in that the cognitive brain is not just a neuronal network. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...