The End of AI

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Let’s leave aside the unreliability of the current LLMs that are often called “AI.” Leave aside the carelessness with which the label “AI” is attached to many things. Leave aside.

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The Democracy of Death

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GLOUCESTER  O, let me kiss that hand!LEAR  Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. This (gift link) is an interesting and disturbing essay about the increasingly pharaonic obsessions of the authoritarian/plutocrat/Silicon Valley of the Kings class in our midst: The man perhaps most associated with this desire is Peter Thiel, who once outlined his interest in blood plasma transfusions...
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The Tao of Trump

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What's thousands of dead Africans? Nothing if those shithole countries don't give Trump Inc their minerals: Saulo Kasekela died of AIDS on March 7, in a small town called Mpongwe in the copper belt of northern Zambia. He was a 37-year-old security guard, admitted to the...
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Texas Flood

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I am in Fort Worth for the worst possible reason (extreme family medical emergency), but hey at least I got to experience this storm conjured up by Hades last night: Hail the size of tennis balls and wind gusts up to 89 m.p.h. pounded North Texas...
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