This was all anyone debated within tech for the first 1.5 years after ChatGPT was released. The resolution was that it's not a technical problem but a cultural one like social media, so the market is preferable to giving control of it to the government, who would likely abuse it far worse.

sorry grace we only have one brush available

You can judge people with 98% accuracy just based on their media tab

it's that double 'L' - confuses them every time

I've read that poem. Simple but elegant.

Don't Make Mirror Life: Synthetic Biologist Kate Adamala on Risks & Responsibility In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, University of Minnesota Professor of Genetics and Synthetic Biologist, Kate Adamala, offers insights into synthetic biology and its potential implications ...

While not convinced by the parallels with AI (or concerns re: mirror life), this is a great interview that touches on a broad range of interesting aspects of biology and how we think about the definition of life, among other thing.
www.cognitiverevolution.ai/dont-make-mi...

Creating anything requires the person to first make a commitment to figuring out what they actually want in some detail and that on it's own is more than most people want to do 99% of the time.

Good point. I failed to fully appreciate the complex and wondrous ecosystem dynamics at play. Or I fulfilled my role as the mocker perfectly, enabling the continued emergence of a beautiful but perverse dance.

I keep trying this bluesky site but keep being reminded it's somehow even dumber than twitter

Invest in white collared shirts

Buddhist cat: Bark! Bark!

I only wish Neil Postman had lived long enough to see how much worse it could get

Okay I'm stealing that and listing "epistemic inoculation" as a skill on my linkedin

Why punish yourself so? These replies all appear to be generated by a particularly bad LLM trained purely on angsty teenagers' comments pulled from old tumblr and myspace posts. Less intelligible than average 4chan slop.

This is wonderful. You had me at "there's a confusing diagram". Absolute catnip

Agree. The API and open ecosystem is so much better. Elon seems determined to make that part as bad as possible on X

Interesting list. If you're on a Steinbeck tear, I suggest The Winter of our Discontent if you haven't already read it. Very underrated and always relevant, though more so these days.

I recommended everyone in the tech industry read it last summer leading up to the election (they didn't).

I followed this when it came up and my takeaway was that the attempt at adding a sunsetting clause is so spectacularly illegal that it has no chance of holding up.

Really hoping that is the case

As an avid reader, this is actually an indictment of the quality of modern writing in general

okay

Meta is already doing this, just not for that reason

When you think you're playing 4d chess put it's actually jenga

Did you read "The Deluge"? Really feeling like that timeline now, though somehow even dumber

But if I don't say "thank you" you might just burn it the rest of the way down

Kids who grew up with some form of homeschooling and/or homesteading have typically been some of the most interesting and independent people, in my experience.

So weird when people act like those things are a personal attack on them or something