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@ZelenaHull photography started as a laborious process. With digital, the same arguments were made as we see in AI. The end of photography. There is a distinction: if you capture something new and true, it doesn't matter what kind of camera. Get AI in your camera and the image will be neither

Stuart Russell says
1. AI is likely to succeed.
2. Unconstrained success brings huge risks and huge benefits.
3. What can we do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits and avoiding the risks?

@thewebrecluse @janallmac
Yep of course you are right. I was trying to speak more broadly. Cognitive bias and threat sensitivity does, (in my understanding), drive actions that end up being destructive in a workplace and society at large. Knee jerk reactions to types of people, facts, or lack of them, or social status, can be quite destructive. Example: Conservative reactions to policies that are forward looking and actually benefit them as a group. Thanks your insights! https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2008530117

@thewebrecluse Thank you for this thread, it has set me up for the week :) Wonderful.

@thewebrecluse @janallmac so well said, and I am sorry you suffered in this way. Empathy and thinking small, local and for the future, rather than simple world domination are the critical ingredients. Recognizing that there are infinite options for living in a better society is first, then finding a way convince all those invested in the more brutal way is the hard challenge. It's all cognitive bias. The more one is driven blindly by these biases the harder it is to create a better reality. IMHO

@janallmac @thewebrecluse Being told yes! Great Idea! endlessly by rich parents, sycophants, gifters hitching their wagon to him. Malignant narcissism. I listened to him on a podcast about military history and he had a coworker on the show with him that had to constantly, gently correct his endless errors of fact. He didn't know the subject but somehow thought he had something to contribute anyway. Why? because he is a billionaire! Money = divinity, obviously.

@thewebrecluse
I helped invent my discipline, and I certainly observed that once the spirit of doing new things was replaced by routine, the grifters, psychopaths, sneering self promoters appeared. They were not smart enough to actually contribute.Their only skill is self promotion. Business paved the way for this mindset. Open plan offices, 20 hour days, permission to steal from and punish customers, HR depts that protect bullies, is our landscape today. Musk is the purest example.

@BlueVoter24 When I was in third grade I attended a school on the upper west side of manhattan. I watched all of these ships pull in and out of the piers and loved the process. I saw the final visit of the Queen Mary, led up the river by fireboats. United States was my favorite, with fine lines and distinctive stacks. On the downside, I was young when we moved to NYC and spent the first year coughing because of air pollution, as in your pic. Thank you for this - was very nice to see.

@Museek A nice quote. People these days feel very alone and forgotten even while alive. Strange times.

@BlueVoter24 Just saw the Nutcracker this past sunday in this magnificent theater. Yay. 60 dancers and detailed costumes, was fun. Nice picture :)

@Janet You too!!

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