To the United States, a drone strike seems to have very little risk and very little pain. At the receiving end, it feels like war.
-- General Stanley McChrystal

Sigh.

There are so many things just profoundly, embarrassingly, staggeringly wrong about this paper by Leopold Aschenbrenner that I just don't know where to begin.

situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/upl…

Gaslighting by Adobe

You know, I could make a computer with this.
-- Alan Turing (at Bletchley Park, having been shown a thermionic valve).

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
-- Aldous Huxley

Because for every system architect who needs the hard-core details to adopt a thing, there are hundreds of devs who have to get specific tasks done cos their company uses the tool.

And they don’t need to go deep cos in 2 years they’ll move to a new job and learn a new tool.

Upside down - bertrandmeyer.com/2024/06/04/ups… bertrandmeyer.com/2024/06/04/ups…

Grady Booch has expanded his curated collection of books on AI, neuroscience, and human nature to 461 books. Explore this remarkable collection via the visual explorer here: obren.io/tools/booch-ai… or go to data source here: librarything.com/catalog.php?vi…

And the forests of the world are grateful.

theregister.com/2024/06/07/hp_…

Sunset

Mottled light at dusk.

At sea.

1/15: In April, I resigned from OpenAI after losing confidence that the company would behave responsibly in its attempt to build artificial general intelligence — “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans.” openai.com/index/planning…

this, btw, is the context for the frustration and deep skepticism of partnering with AI companies to help their search products. there is an unnervingly straight line from this to an assumption that the job of all reporters is to gather string for an algorithm

An author on Threads suggested a new term for generative AI: 'derivative AI'

Hat tip: threads.net/@mnorthauthor/…

But trust us.

Best definition of agile I’ve ever heard.