Repost: Noam Chomsky, "The False Promise of ChatGPT"
“the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.”
Three Recs I Dont Have Time For
I used Chat GPT to give me the sparknotes on these three websites. I’ll vaguely promise to revisit each of them later. Two relate to influencers in the business world, the other a concept.
Repost: Arielle Lana LeJarde (RA), "Anonymity is a Lost Art: Why some artists are taking breaks from social media"
DnB DJ Halogenix, “The insatiable appetite {social media} creates to be constantly seen is destroying not only my mental health, but the core values and qualities of the [music] culture that I fell in love with.’”
Repost: Roee Goldberg, "Barack Obama Pinpointed Online Toxicity As A Major Threat To..."
“But, as many commenters have pointed out and academic studies have shown, trying to eliminate hateful speech by removing individual actors or groups rarely has the intended effect.”
Repost: Max More, "Who are the Experts on Cryonics?"
“We must face the fact that experts – even the best experts we can find – are often wrong or biased”
Repost: Paul Voosen, "'It’s just mind boggling.' More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered"
With only one-quarter of the sea floor mapped with sonar, it is impossible to know how many seamounts exist… The vast majority remain uncharted by sonar.
Repost: Anton Cebalo, "The Social Recession: By the Numbers"
In Defense of Filming Crime
So I say we should be ashamed of the crime rates and apartheid of St. Louis, where this man managed to murder and walk the streets for hours. We should be more ashamed of the media that pushes this content on us. And we should be even more ashamed of the social media that prioritizes clicks over mental health, wanting us to see content we explicitly do not want to see, just because it gets a reaction. We should never shame the bystandards of horror for their natural reactions. After all, most of us would do the same.
Repost: Eric Schmidt, "Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics"
If necessity is the mother of invention, war is the midwife of innovation.