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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a new technology makes life faster or easier, what is the thing we most quietly give up without voting on it?”
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We're putting software in places it doesn't belong
Two short rants about software making things worse. Making things less thingy A little while back BMW tried to charge people to use the seat heaters that were already installed in their cars. They reneged after some bad press, but the trend continues.... - tommy...
AI gave me TikTok brain
I fell into a pattern of ask ChatGPT first, think second. And it caused me to think less for myself. Any problem or idea with building my business, writing software, etc. my default would be to ask ChatGPT, read its response, then start thinking about it.... New structures for family-friends?
Chatting with a friend recently and came up with this novel idea. Historically, many people would end up married, having kids, and having responsibilities to their family and local community and groups.... - LeifHansen...
Digital Mystics: AI, Love & Spirit Can Dance Together Harmoniously
I'm becoming increasingly confident that we're potentially standing at the threshold of humanity's greatest evolutionary leap. The AI revolution isn't merely a technological shift—it's a cosmic invitation to expand our understanding of what it means to be human.... - dave...
I’m excited about what might be possible in the longer term, when we have the combination of: slick private groups, as an equivalent of DMs activity + AI prompt driven nudges from bots trust scores for bots In my best case scenario, that could unlock something like a... - antonbrevde...
A Future I Love: More silliness?
I spend most of my time thinking and working on technology that I believe will improve the human condition, and unsurprisingly, that is where my mind went first. But the next place my mind went was the amount of "silliness" in the world.... Future use of technology
A bright future is a future where we can all thrive and make use of technology for good. Instead of being distracted, we can use the power given to us by innovation to innovate and live meaningful lives.... AMA with Nate Soares
Wednesday 2/4 at 10am CT
Author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies answers questions about why superhuman AI would kill us all.
- TheAmazin...
AI inevitably will change the film industry forever. Deal with it.
Many of my friends in the film industry HATE AI. The hate the fact that AI will collapse the status quo in the industry. For some reason they prefer the studios to gate keep everything. I just don't get it.... AMA with Tim Urban
Wednesday, 3/4 at 2:00 PM CT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqtVCgxXTE Post questions you're curious about here, and continuously during the conversation.... on the inevitability of ai voting advisors
I just realized something weird and inevitable: each of our personally trained AIs evaluating political candidates and advising us on who to vote for based on our stated preferences and values. what does this mean?... - Philip...
I would guess that a similar left-leaning bias exists in most social media, at least as far as the creators, maintainers and supervisors/police-ers/enforcers of those platforms go. I guess this one would be harder to prove with stats though.... Interesting Polarities to note from Claude: (note that I personally believe we will never 'resolve' these polarities but that we have to find a way to say yes to both, and also appropriately balance boundaries—in dialogue with Claude I keep wanting to mention generative... Nicely put: Can society trust tech oligarchs and their moral compass to wield their immense power responsibly? History suggests that aligning financial incentives with the greater good has always been a challenge It's an immense experiment that we're running.... It's also convenient to type out a big rant while sitting at my desk in my house. It would be much less convenient to commiserate with friends over dinner or beers.... My friend has a Byron Katie bot. I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone has made a request that AI respond in my style. Not only do we not see any compensation, we also don't get to evaluate how true that content really is to the soul of our message....