Ged Sperber

The Murder of Good Why Fascists go to hell and what the Holy Spirit has to do with our epistemic crisis

I've written a little essay on the Holy Spirit and the epistemic crisis we find ourselves in. Don't worry, I haven't gone Christian. But noticing that even the delusions of religion are at this point epistemologically more valid than many big institutions should worry atheists and theists equally.

A picture of Gender with its tongue out

Going to tell my Grandkids this was Gender

Goddamn, @edzitron.com . I was just vaping when I came to your "they call him clamuel" line and started laughing so hard that you made me actually almost lose consciousness because I fell into a coughing fit. Seriously not sure whether to say well done or be upset, but jesus.

How fucking stupid do you have to be? Why the Ruling Classes seem more stupid every day: the Agnotology of extreme Wealth

That the world‘s most valuable people consistently don’t know shit about fuck seems rather odd at first. However, I do have a pet theory in this regard. If you‘d like to hear it it’s over on Substack.

ICE is moving forward.

I did that ten years ago. Not here yet are the people who have done it 30 , 40… and so on ago. It’s a long running tradition. Rich kids have always cheated and then run stuff.

Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.

Finally! (By Stephen Collins)

“Should we put the Nazi there?”
“Nah man but what about the cute little lady? She seems dangerous.”

COULD be interesting for planning , which is what it’s meant for after all. But seeing at what places they decided to NOT GO into specifics makes me also think it’s really an AI Booster study with window dressing. Which would make sense looking at the authors.

I do, but I still really appreciate the reference and seeing that this has obviously been a topic for some time. I mean, it really does make sense and it also makes sense to have a look at this specifically. To some extent I would even say that the Iceberg model if applied correctly

Thanks for the reference. "A novel methodology." (i.e. "We ask people: u use computa?")

11-1011.00 - Chief Executives O*NET OnLine provides detailed descriptions of the world-of-work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, developers, researchers, and more. Individuals can find, ...

indeed included. Since their skillset is derived from the O*net occupational profiles this would certainly include C-Suite. See for example here: www.onetonline.org/link/summary...

The skillset isn't listed anywhere, I've tried to find it. Also no list of the AI tools that they count. However, seeing how financials and administration are explicitly underscored a couple of times and management of workflows is something that they point out, I would assume that management is

That doesn't seem to be accurate. They have mapped the entire workforce, that would imply that the C-Suite _is_ mapped as well.

Damn. I knew that tool but it didn't occur to me that this is of course the implication. Thanks for that.

YouTube video by Universal Comedy Dylan Moran Vs The Funk Soul Brother | Monster | Universal Comedy

Thank you. :D I'd love to take credit for the line, however, it's from this bit here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4i...

I thought @edzitron.com would probably see it anyway since it's as a reply to his post, but thanks for the additional encouragement. :) Glad you liked it. Always good to hear.

I... can't believe that that's the example. But sure. It does make sense to take that.

AI isn't coming for your job: Melting the Iceberg Why the new MIT Study speaking of 11.7% automation is horseshit and why the way it's being reported is even worse

You may have seen this "MIT study" that allegedly (it really doesn't) claims that 11.7% of the US Workforce can be made obsolete with AI. While it doesn't say that, it's still horseshit. If you want to know why, I've written a short comment.

AI isn't coming for your job: Melting the Iceberg Why the new MIT Study speaking of 11.7% automation is horseshit and why the way it's being reported is even worse

I've written a short comment regarding this new MIT study that is being passed around and why it is horseshit. "11.7% of US workforce is being replaced by AI" my ass. Thought that might be of interest. Also - thanks for all your work, you are one of the best resources out there.

The state of economic debate 2025

c) Anthropic lied as a cherry on top.
To be clear, as of now we know NONE of these things. (Or at least I don't.)
But I would be highly surprised if not at least 2 of the three turn out to be true, still surprised if it isn't all three.

Calling it now: as we learn more about the "Chinese hacking campaign" that Anthropic reportedly stopped, we will learn that
a) the extent is inflated in the report
b) the state-sponsored will turn out to be a very generous interpretation of the facts

In defense of the BBC Why we need a Firewall for Journalism even if it does a sloppy job

I don't think we can act anymore as if we could criticise media in a vacuum - in order to save critical journalism, we will have to stick up even for fuck ups. I have written a little piece where I try to make a case for this.

POV: you are sitting in on the White House Antifa briefing

AI ist die Antwort. Was war die Frage? Der Axel Springer KI Kongress und die Sehnsucht der Bundesregierung nach deregulierter KI

Nachdem letzte Woche die WELT ihren KI Kongress in Berlin abhielt und ich das zweifelhafte Vergnügen hatte, mir ein paar der zugehörigen Videos auf Welt-TV angesehen zu haben, wollte ich das Ganze nicht vollständig unkommentiert lassen.

Mika Anderson (@mikaanderson) PLEASE UNDERSTAND! When a credible expert like Liz Oyer starts a video with “I don’t want you to be alarmed “… it's really BAD!

Friendly reminder how things have been going at the DOJ.

Antifa in their own words The Politics of Hope and why we'll win

As several countries are debating designating Antifa as a terrorist organization in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk, I felt compelled to write a love letter to Antifa and every other antifascist out there.
Bring it, you cowards. We won't back down.