I posted an article recently. If you’ve had your eye out for it, Australia only really has two supermarket chains, and they’ve formed a bit of a duopoly and raised prices 2x to 4x in the last few years. This has had Aussies forced to either eat far more frugally (read: “starving students have nothing…
I’m in the midst of a blog series on AI-related ideology and politics. In Part IV, I looked at algorithmic bias, one of the demonstrable concerns about today’s AI models. Now I’m going to examine the dire hypothetical predictions of the Existential Risk Guardians. Could future AI destroy human civilization? This Part V will be…
This past month, I started adding proper support for “issue trees,” a feature whose absence has pained me as I’ve worked on the Narrative and Game Engines. Problems and goals seem to naturally exist in a hierarchy: any problem spawns a plan for solving it, which can contain new tasks or subproblems that require their…
I’m in the midst of a blog series on AI-related ideology and politics. In Part III, I considered some implications and pitfalls of the AI factions and their agendas. This part is about a specific hot-button issue: “algorithmic bias,” which has some contentious race-related associations. An image model’s attempt to produce an infographic about AI…
After the completion of the Simple Tron demo last month, it seemed like a good time to clean, unify, and improve consistency across Acuitas. So I’ve been on a refactoring spree. It is, unfortunately, not the most exciting thing to write about, but it’s an important part of the process. Still from Star Trek: The…
I’m in the midst of a blog series on AI-related ideology and politics. In Part II, I introduced the various factions that I have seen operating in the AI research and deployment sphere, including the loosely-related group nicknamed TESCREAL and a few others. I recommend reading it first to become familiar with the factions and…
As you know I’m moving my online articles to this newspaper-style site, to simplify things for myself and hopefully for you as well. That means there’s a split going on. As of May/June of 2024, any posts still scheduled on the old sites will still post there, but (hopefully – WordPress is still a deep…
Food can be medicine – but it can also be toxic. And not always for the obvious reasons… Harris was a victim of the usual corporate manipulation. He ate a snack food that was advertised and promoted as a “challenge” which in this case was to tolerate concentrated doses of the capsaicin from two of the…
They were all the vogue a few years ago. Going to save the world from famines. FSM knows we could use them now, hey? What with the climate warming, and all? If you want to hear what’s going on, Two Bit da Vinci has a video. It’s a 14m watch and lays out some issues…
Drinks like a fish, flops about like a fish, has a decided enmity for any shapely carp that crosses his path. Perhaps he’s had a chance encounter end in disaster in the past? Wouldn’t put it past this shagmeister. Or perhaps he thought he was merely fondling a trevally. (Sorry – you have to sit through a whole…