Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster, say Henry Farrell and
Cosma Shalizi from The Economist
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Stephen, thank you for these,
Continuous your paragraphs at the bottom, there is a project I have wanted to
pursue off and on for 25 years, and which gets cheaper each year. I probably
described it before on the list (maybe more than once), in which case apologies
for the repeat.
The neoclass
Thanks, Russ. I posted that because I've been bugging certain Friam
attendees about why they travel so much. I say there's no place that I'd
rather be than Santa Fe so I tend to stay here.
It's not that I haven't traveled. I remember being moved when I stood at
the place where Thomas Becket was
Goodhart's Law.
On June 24, 2023 3:48:14 PM PDT, Russ Abbott wrote:
>Frank, Thanks for the link.
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>Agnes Callard, the author of the article, sneers at tourists who visit
>Paris in order to visit the Louvre in order to see the Mona Lisa (and then
>spend 45 seconds looking at it)--because that's w
Frank, Thanks for the link.
Agnes Callard, the author of the article, sneers at tourists who visit
Paris in order to visit the Louvre in order to see the Mona Lisa (and then
spend 45 seconds looking at it)--because that's what one does in Paris. But
presumably, Callard would find it perfectly acce
Thanks, Roger.
I put a copy of Shalizi and Farrell's paper for discussion here:
https://redfish.com/papers/temp20230624/shaliziFarrell_AI_Economist.pdf
(As this is a not a public email list, I think it's fair use to post a link
to the article for discussion. I will delete the file tomorrow so
I didn’t pay to read the economist, but the summary of the article given in the
twitter thread is one I like.
Meaning: the framework of reasoning they use seems insightful and of the right
kind to me. We had a version of it earlier in the Ted Chiang article linked
from the Cory Doctorow articl
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
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Sooo a derpy animal, meets a literal eldritch nightmare creature. Now does
this encounter include both speakable, and unspeakable PTSD inducing
nightmares? or did the derps mind just turn into something about the
consistency of jello?
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 2:56 PM Roger Critchlow wrote:
> I w
I was trawling through my saved bookmarks looking for insights into
Prigozhin's mutiny, when I stumbled to http://bactra.org/weblog/ and found
that Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi have just published an essay in The
Economist,
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/06/21/artificial-intelligen
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