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So aside from the trite references to contestant slips (everyone needs to add a distraction from their main point, right?) there are a number of points in this article that we should address. How much gas-cutting is enough? Of course the sheer quantity of gas being burned daily is a climate-frying disaster. But industry chews through…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Why Are We Still On FB? It’s become a pile of stuff (euphemism) and basically assaults us using psyops and propaganda, and is now blocking news from Canada and Australia. So why have we not moved on? I like The Conversation, it’s an alternate news resource like The Guardian and The New Daily that offer…