Dear US voter, please DO listen to @ArickWierson:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/30/opinions/world-leaders-back-biden-over-trump-wierson/index.html

bc it's not just LEADERS. To get how COMMON non-US ppl see #USA2024, see me in 2020

https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/09/the-unbearable-us-ness-of-online-discourse/

Dear Europeans (and everybody else)

pls do NOT make me use #chatgpt to find THESE 5000 words for #Europe!

Pls tell me yours, and tell everybody to do the same! (read the post to know HOW)

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

@rpardee I think so, but what that would have to do with the point of my post? Not sure I see any link

This is THE creepiest, most depressing thing I've seen online this month. In general, not just about #dating or #marriage

Just for the record, this thingy I just read:

“My #twitter archive is hard to turn into a static website because I used the threading and polls features extensively. So it’s just sitting in my backups”

is why years ago I wrote:

“The first and most important thing that I see missing in Twitter is an automatic way to just forbid people from posting long threads, without/before saving them also as one, darned, real HTML page with a permanent URL.”

https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/06/the-first-thing-twitter-would-really-need/

You mad bc #OpenAI stole Johansson' voice?

Me, I am mad that Altman called #chatGPT's voice *SKY* , as in "talking to (my!) #AI is talking to God"

This man is really off the rails. A new Fra Dolcino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Dolcino

This story CONFIRMS what I wrote: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-only-thing-that-ai-tech-bros

@MidnightRider of course it's a huge, huge task. My thesis is that the whole circus is going to pot right now anyway, at increasing speed, all by itself. So we'd take advantage of this to slide in the right solutions

You mad bc #OpenAI stole Johansson' voice?

Me, I am mad that Altman called #chatGPT's voice *SKY* , as in "talking to (my!) #AI is talking to God"

This man is really off the rails. A new Fra Dolcino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Dolcino

This story CONFIRMS what I wrote: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-only-thing-that-ai-tech-bros

@MidnightRider no doubt that greed caused huge damage, but what I propose is "good" in the sense that as things stand now, it's the least impossible way to solve certain problems. E.g. mass urbanization, which is unstoppable barring REAL catastrophes, is incompatible with the car industry of today, REGARDLESS of who makes cars, and what fuel they use.

Three characteristics of your next car:

1, very likely, it will be Chinese

2, very likely, it will be your LAST car

3, and this will be GOOD, if it happens the right way:

https://open.substack.com/pub/mfioretti/p/carmakers-must-die-and-flat-cars

"We are close to what I call #covid19 shipper capitulation"

because of "surprisingly strong market, plus lower vessel capacity due to the Red Sea crisis"

https://theloadstar.com/mounting-container-shortages-creating-total-havoc/

My "real #smartgrid at HOME"

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-real-smart-grid-should-be-inside

would ALSO reduce "the black carbon that humans are directly spewing into the atmosphere" that Matt Simon describes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-is-ignoring-the-other-deadly-kind-of-carbon/

"No, Today's #AI isn't sentient"??? (*)

Of course it isn't but the REAL point is that even if #AI were sentient, we REALLY shouldn't give a f**k, for (at least) all these reasons:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/taking-ai-too-seriously-is-not-intelligent

(*) from https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6980134/ai-llm-not-sentient/

If anybody has already written, or found, a decent explanation of what this latest crap from #facebook #meta #ai is REALLY about, can they please post it? Thanks.

"There was a time when Medium was useful. But those days are long past."

"I wonder whether the writers who still use Medium have assessed the trade-off between the minuscule revenue produced and the negativity that they engender. As a means for showcasing talents and expertise there are better options than Medium."
(from https://buff.ly/4azRoHH )

1, that's 1000% true

2,here's why I never considered Medium: https://buff.ly/3Vb2IFB

@feloneouscat of course. But in practice, what''s the difference?

"so far, the consumer applications for #AI are simultaneously underwhelming and dystopian."

which is EXACTLY, EXACTLY the same thing we were saying no more than 3/4 years ago about the Internet of Things, for the same, equally valid reasons:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/business/ai-dystopia-silicon-valley-nightcap/index.html

#Iot

Exactly. With #UBI, it's not IF, it's WHEN.

(do see the full post for details!)

https://open.substack.com/pub/mfioretti/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the