I am taking a break from this platform.

When I pointed out direct, obvious examples of anti-Semitism, X rejected my complaints.

Now some idiot working for X has failed to understand that the three letter word noted below is an abbreviation for the important statistical notion…

Another smart thinker noticing signs of diminishing returns.

The New York Post’s idiotic, one-sided trashing of Nina Jankowicz and her important new project of countering systematic disinformation campaigns made me want to find out more.

I have followed The American Sunlight Project and wish them luck!

“What the tech industry wants, in their ideal world, is ‘self-regulation’ in which they’re pretty much free to do what they want. That’s basically what’s happened with social media, & it’s been a disaster.”
—Gary Marcus

open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus…

Another indication that we have (at least for a while) entered a period of diminishing returns.

True AGI could probably reason past this apparent plateau, but perhaps this is what you get if your whole technology is based on mimicry rather than reasoning.

“AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No can stop them.” The Washington Post pranshu verma Cat Zakrzewski

This has been my biggest fear since day one. Still is.

When Beff Jezos and I both smell the stench of regulatory capture, you know it’s bad.

China's government is censoring what videos Americans can post on TikTok.

How Washington all too often works (and a big part of why I wrote Taming Silicon Valley) in three screenshots — with thanks to Ed Newton-Rex tolga bilge (from today) and Marietje Schaake (from August) for speaking truth to power.

This is not the way to a thriving, AI-positive…

MustRead 🫵

Yes! Taming Silicon Valley is available for preorder, now. 😀

PS I will be giving away all profits.

The moment I heard Pinker talk about regular and irregular verbs as a window into the computations of the brain is the moment in which I decided where I wanted to go grad school and who I wanted to work with. This should be good, very good.

Retweeting this from August ‘cause it seems awfully relevant again.

Congrats Gary Marcus 👏👏 Can’t wait to read it 🤓🤘