Senate brain has claimed another.

A YouTuber I watch that lives in Japan said that Japan wants to use AI for their labor shortage instead of immigration, and I question how an aging population has enough people for manual labor and healthcare that way. AI can’t handle those tasks

The way I know the exact age of the people who made this. They have to be under 30

Some people have the rapture, some people have the revolution, and some people have the singularity.

I am too, which is why I think religion would be good for people. I’m on the fence whether they know that or not. The fears of being eternally tormented by a wrathful AI is so obviously a religious fear to me that I have to think they know what it’s based on, but maybe not.

Teaching should also be safe for the same reason, but there are sadly tax incentives here. Replacing teachers means you can lower the budget and lower taxes. That’s a path to getting reelected, even if it would be disastrous

There is a religious side to some AI booster discussions that I do roll my eyes at. I think far fewer people are happy going without religion than they think are, and it would do them a lot of good to join an established religion that they find palatable instead of pouring it into AI

There is something to this! I was primarily thinking about how lawyers present arguments in court, but it’s also true we represent clients to the IRS. That’s not something an LLM can do

I think my industry is cooked long term. Accounting and tax work is ultimately just data input following a complex series of laws. I see no reason why humans are needed for that outside of some particularly complicated edge cases. Lawyers and doctors should be safe

Right, they may or may not revolutionize the workforce. It’s just not true they don’t work at all. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t have the understandable anxieties surrounding them! This is how right wing ghouls like Musk poisoned the discussion. He celebrated the worst possible outcomes

To survive professionally (and maybe even personally) what is coming, I need a clear understanding of the capabilities of AI. I can’t afford my like or dislike of the tech to keep me from adapting to it to the best of my abilities. 2/2

I also know my job shapes how see this. I’m an accountant. My industry is thrilled by AI! We have a massive labor shortage, and bluntly, accountants like that AI is cheaper than labor is. I don’t like the latter part, and at the same time, I know accountants will be advising clients to adopt AI. 1/2

Women and girls should be safe from having any and every picture or video of them used to make porn. Governments shouldn’t be able to use them to attack our shared sense of reality

I agree with that! I know the YouTubers I sometimes watch are completely over the top. I imagine the discourse on X is completely insufferable. I also find concerns about the capabilities of text based outputs to be distinct from image generation. The latter is a bad development for the world imo.

I think it depends on the booster? Like I think Gyges doesn’t make many too many outlandish claims. The ones saying it will end all knowledge work are pretty clearly over their skis though. I once rolled my eyes at the boosters in general, but Claude can build complicated spreadsheets for my job

This is because Kobe died imo, and as tragic as that was, that doesn’t mean players can’t try to surpass him

I maintain that if the most prominent boosters of AI weren’t Musk and Altman, we would be able to have a more constructive conversation about it. Negative polarization rules everything around us

He’s the governor of the state with the fifth largest economy of the world. The governor of California is probably the best prepared person in the country to be president. It’s just Newsom sucks for unrelated reasons to that

It’s definitely true that being the Supreme Commander of the Allie’s forces in Europe gave him the most preparation for the job! I was thinking this was also about temperament.

Carter wasn’t the best president, but I think he cleared that bar. Obama too

Watching an NBA player make a run at Wilt’s record is one of the great joys of the sport. Who cares if Kobe’s record gets knocked down a spot as a result?

Can someone persuade a bunch of cultural conservatives to care about something else is the question I keep returning to. Someone on the Right has to establish a non-reactionary politics for them. We can’t do that for them

I think both Nicholas Meyer’s and Tony Gillroy’s success in Star Trek and Star Wars respectively have shown that finding people interested in the fundamentals of storytelling and a fresh perspective are the best options for major franchises

I do think that Tarantino’s desperately needs to evolve as an artist if he’s going to succeed creatively in his old age. As much as I adore Kill Bill, that’s not likely a movie he could make as well today.

I am not sure if Fiolini is up to the task to writing a villain fit for an adult show, unfortunately. His live action creative endeavors haven’t been as successful as his cartoons were

I now can see why Tarantino set that ten movie limit for himself. He’s sliding into old man crankdom in a way guys like Scorsese and Spielberg have avoided

You can almost hear the executive relieved the plot is reset to the 1977 status quo in the background

It’s truly amazing just how many awful people there are on the Allies’s side whose reputation was saved because when faced with one of the greatest dangers in human history, they rose to the challenge to destroy it

1. We all have more access to good art than any people in history.
2. Initiatives like UNESCO Heritage Sites have preserved many incredible sites for us and future generations to appreciate.
3. A hot soup on a cold day warms the body and the soul

I’m 99% sure it’s him.