'Addiction' is the new 'surveillance' -a great trigger word that sounds unquestionably bad, but is very hard to define in any systematic way, and acts mostly as a tribal marker, especially for people who are convinced this is all very obvious and simple and hate anyone who disagrees.
zero scale or engagement and too many horrible people.
Also - 😂
I said that San Francisco is kind of a small place without much going on, and you got so upset that you’re still talking about it a decade later. You prove my point better than anything I could possibly say.
The other thing I did to get dog-piled was to say that San Francisco is a small provincial town without much going on. People got extremely upset and the local newspaper wrote a story, proving my point in the most hilarious possible way
The interesting thing was that very left-wing people said the answer was charity - I should go and volunteer at a kitchen. Thats a right-wing solution. It never occurred to them that maybe this was a failure of city government, political society and indeed the electorate.
More people sleep on the street in San Francisco every night than in the entire UK, and if I mentioned this, people would tell me it was my fault and I was racist and I hated poor people. There’s a deeply toxic and deeply stupid strand to San Francisco.
A decade ago, when I lived in San Francisco, like any European I was astonished and horrified by the scale of homelessness there.
If I ever mentioned this on Twitter, I would get dozen of replies saying I was a terrible evil person for mentioning this. I still don’t really understand that.
You're proving my point.
Don't ask 'have you stopped beating your wife?' questions, and don't treat every argument as though your opinion is the only one any honest decent person could hold. It's bad for you.
Indeed, that's how MAGA people behave.
I can show you the problem, but I can't make you think about it. 🤷🏻♂️
There’s a lot to be angry about right now. But the risk is that you just get more and more toxic yourself, feeding off rage with an audience that’s not worth it, and in the end, what did it get you? You didn’t learn, or persuade anyone.
This is one reason I’m not active here, and don’t miss Twitter.
I don’t agree with Ben here.
But one lesson from Twitter: if you find yourself making an aggressive personal attack on someone, and then you have hundreds of anonymous idiots shouting YEAH! FUCK THAT GUY!” in your mentions, you get a big surge of dopamine, but that’s probably not good for your soul
Manually driven cars kill 30,000 people a year in America.
Not figuratively - 30,000 actual people actually killed every year.
Tell your social media intern to work on their rhetoric
I said the exact opposite
The study says that a third of people who actively use AI use AI for search.
This is circular.
Yes, I still see this attitude sometimes. It's an astonishing lack of curiosity. This whole field is full of of questions, but if someone watches this and doesn't think something important has happened, they are only fooling themselves. blog.google/innovation-a...
At this stage, people who still claim that generative AI doesn't work and is all bullshit are showing an amazing level of wilful self-deception. blog.google/innovation-a...
Also unaffected: Santa Claus, tooth fairy.
I hate AI because it makes confident assertions it hasn’t checked and also I saw a headline that says a study I haven’t read claims only 5% of AI pilots work
The way that ‘MIT study’ that supposedly claimed ‘95% of AI pilots fail’ (none of which was really supported by the analysis or methodology) still gets cited everywhere ironically tells us quite a lot about the error rate in human reasoning
It's kind of amusing that he starts by saying that people accused him of not understanding crypto, and then proceeds to demonstrate that he doesn't understand *anything* - but is quite sure that anyone with a different opinion to him is a bad person.
The interesting thing about OpenAI’s ‘code red’ is that it involves pausing product and doubling down on models, and not the reverse. OpenAI’s core strategic problem is that it has no unique product and no distribution.
There are 17 pages on resources and roughly two thirds of the entire presentation is about broader social and economic consequences. There is even a slide that literally charts the effect on jobs of automation
There is also a page on how people often say silly things about changes like this.
Keynes said “when the facts change I change my opinions“, but some people start with opinions and then choose their facts.
I am not entirely surprised that someone who rage-quit Google after publishing a paper based on made-up energy consumption data would support a book based on water consumption data that turns out to be wildly wrong.
This McKinsey chart does a pretty good job of capturing the problem in asking people or corporations "Do you use AI?" without defining 'use' or 'AI'. The US government does a survey like this. It is meaningless.
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
You cannot understand fragments of sentences without reading the rest of them.
I’ve never said that and I don’t think that.
I don’t understand why people invent quotes. Try engaging with what people actually say?
One effect of the splintering of Twitter is that the people building AI are mostly still there, but most of the people who think that AI is evil and stupid left to go to places like mastodon or Bluesky, where now they just talk to each other in decreasing circles of irrelevance
