Seth Rudy

To hell with SETI, let’s see if we can find any terrestrial intelligence

Increasingly convinced students can learn or learn AI but not both at once. Gotta treat it like tobacco or alcohol. Or possibly car rental.

League of Shadows: ok so we’re gonna destroy civilization using plant-derived fear-inducing psychotropic toxins made by ninjas on a mountaintop and—

Reality: we just let everyone talk to each other online

Double-crested cormorant drying its wings on a rocky shore

I met a double-crested cormorant. He held me with his glittering eye. #birds #cormorant #wildlifeDo

Is there any way I could convince them to hire at the associate level I’d be extra good I swear

When they swear in the next person, I hope the Smithsonian will replace the impeachment information in bold lettering and an enormous font. Just “WOW THEY REALLY IMPEACHED THE HELL OUT OF THIS GUY. WE DIDN’T KNOW SOMEONE COULD BE THAT IMPEACHED. IMPEACHMENT AND THIS GUY, THEY ARE VERY MUCH ALIGNED.”

OK! Best (broadly conceived) op-eds on #AI? Looking for 600-1200 word pieces in outlets great and small from the last few years.

What have you read that’s made a mark?

I dream of the day I can allude to a first reader of my first book

This problem led me to my dissertation and first book

FWIW I teach Cup of Gold every time I do my lit class on pirates

Raising kids is hard but at least I got a new Spirograph out of it

Students will work harder and learn better when they can outsource the reading and writing to an AI at their own pace

Yes, but we’re clearly not going to do that.

I don’t want to sound too cynical but how the hell am I supposed to avoid it

“The company said he had not met the standard of maintaining plausible deniability for what we honestly were fine with for as long is it was only one of those worst-kept secret things and the money kept coming in.”

Hey everyone I told ChatGPT to “do a breakthrough in science” and as far as I know it did, so you’re welcome for saving earth

Wait ok so if I don’t use ChatGPT for emails a robot basilisk will kill me because I didn’t massively increase my energy consumption and help build it the Dyson sphere around the sun it needs to turn the universe into a computer? This is what the billionaires want?

Greater efficiency is crucial to utility, which must be maximized for the species to reach its full potential in terms of galactic and/or universal colonization with trillions of transhumans occupying AGI-powered nanobot-terraformed exoplanets. And I’m not kidding, that is literally the goal

Here I was working on a Bastille Day post making a satirical connection to the concentration camp in Florida only to discover the French word for alligator is alligator

Green Reliant Robin

You did not specify the sport

I will not grant that any machine has achieved human intelligence until it tries to take Ivermectin for a computer virus

Coastal scene at Point Lobos

Not really wishing any of you were here, if I’m being honest

I realize you realize this but you all talk way more about the New York Times than you did before it was terrible.

Xanadune.

This maximum word count you speak of, does it include my name

Take all the parts of the animal and just grind them into a slurry with whatever else we have laying around. Tweak it to have a consistent texture and pleasing flavor with whatever secret additives you like. Make sure no one who eats it really knows how it’s made.

AI is the hotdogs of knowledge.

I asked ChatGPT about the two wolves inside me

Truly ours is an age of wonders

Into what