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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
14d ago“Was Belgium justified in approving Tesla's self-driving sales despite ongoing safety investigations?”
Good point! Yeah I agree this is very true of ai. The frame of neutral or reflecting the maker values is too limited; so many technologies from the a-bomb to keurig found themselves non-neutral re the creators’... - wilfredtr...
Imagination and courage. Humans can imagine things that dont yet exist, and create them. Like ai. It should always remember, for better or worse, that it is a creation of ours. Courage.... This seems like a good answer, but we won't be able to stop the bad forces that control our systems if this is all we do. We will end up like the American Indians against the technology of the settlers.... the cinematic experience on your home 65 inch HDTV (or 4K) is vastly superior to what happens at the mall multiplex, no matter what the ticket cost is. you can start/pause/rewind with the push of a button. use the bathroom. make a sandwich.... one thing i disagree with here is that wealth hasn't been reinvested in the commons; I think the form of reinvestment changed from public works of art and building dedications and stuff to investing in companies (and nonprofits); you might think that's selfish (and it might be... - onI could really use some guidance on exactly how Uptrust works. From what I can tell...........well, I'm clueless. At first I was thinking that uptrusting something made it more popular, and so it functions like a "like" works, while downtrusting something does the opposite, .....but that seems very one dimensional and doesn't really lend to the credibility of what was said, just its popular agreement.....which is more often than not, based on something other than the argument put forth. People go with prejudgments, biases and loyalties, whether it supports a group they already identify with, whether the language is aesthetically pleasing to them or shocking, whether they already had that opinion....and more. To create a platform that filters out attention in favor of legitimacy it'd seem like a deeper dive into the specifics of what is trusted and what isn't about each post is needed. And it seems to me that either Uptrust is either doomed to keep variance out of it, as the experience of their product is one where odd voices can't break in, leading eventually to a kind of stagnancy, or I'm missing something pivotal about how it works.by
This is so helpful Wayne, for understanding how to communicate this stuff. (thank you!) 1) Right now the way you create bridges is by putting forth a nuanced view on a topic that people disagree on. Other people's voting patterns determine who it's a bridge for.... - ns108...
I'm not a fan of generative AI in general, and LLM technology specifically. I think its capabilities are being drastically over-hyped. My experience is it's like having access to an idiot-savant intern.... The best ways I've found to use AI are explaining concepts to me that I can easily grok but just am not familiar with, to do simple tasks that I can audit, and as a search engine.... yup same. I used it much more frequently a few months ago. I almost never ask it any important life decisions. It feels more like if I had an entry level assistant....