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- Comment on The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril 18 hours ago:
I certainly hope that the Wayback machine is setting up a number of independent proxies.
- Comment on Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine 1 day ago:
Nope not what I am disagreeing with
no, it’s what you’re questioning in the first place; the title of you post:
Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?
and I answered your question with the facts. and failing to understand the logic isn’t the same as ‘disagreeing’ with it– ignorance isn’t and ’opinion’, it’s just being wrong. just like framing my factual explanation as a debate so your lack of understanding can be framed as ‘just your opinion’ and therefore valid doesn’t make it so.
- Comment on Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine 1 day ago:
That’s… not what I said at all.
First, I’m not making any sort of argument. I gave an explanation, a response to your question. It explains why people have negative expectations of the future (and present) of AI based on real-world experiences and the real-world negative effects of AI that we already know of today and the future prospects we see coming based on current developments in the news and what we know of those in charge of AI development.
And AI doesn’t really work very well at all, and when it messes up, it causes lots of problems that can have serious consequences, many of which were only beginning to understand. And when it does work, it can have serious consequences that are both short and long term that can undermine serious foundations of our society such as education, science, and even basic human interaction with possibly disastrous results.
so, yeah, it’s perfectly understandable why a lot of people are less than optimistic about the technology and its future.
- Comment on Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine 1 day ago:
ok, but I wasn’t making the argument for either.
- Comment on Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine 1 day ago:
probably because it’s hard to imagine things going well with AI, and our current reality seems to be bearing that out.
- Comment on Audiobooks can help students learn new words—especially when paired with one-on-one instruction 2 days ago:
Do you know what else can help kids learn new words?
Books
- Comment on Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address 1 week ago:
Oh, I’m sorry, I clearly misunderstood what you said.
- Comment on Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address 1 week ago:
Oh, I had my own Web server for a couple of decades, and while that was useful, maintaining my own email server was a pain in the ass. Especially for junk mail filtering.
- Comment on Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address 1 week ago:
Had that email address for over 25 years. It’s the only one that has my actual name attached to it. It’s how very very very old friends and people I haven’t talked to since college still manage to reach out and get in contact with me. I don’t think I wanna change it. I have other, newer email addresses I use for contemporaneous stuff.
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, this makes me immediately suspicious
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 1 month ago:
- Comment on Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors 2 months ago:
Not only is that true, but Wikipedia’s resistance to bias (generally speaking) is definitely one of it strengths. even if it gets slammed with a bunch of revisionism for assisted period, it will eventually self-correct.
- Comment on Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors 2 months ago:
I am very grateful for Wikipedia, and I have donated to them several times. If you can, I suggest you do too. Wikipedia is a solid public good.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 2 months ago:
That was definitely Steve Jobs and the iPhone 4. And while that was definitely pretty silly, it wasn’t as ridiculous as this.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 2 months ago:
I know, right? You never heard Steve Jobs demanding that people be nicer to their iPods.
