"Our fear of AI’s potential is emblematic of humanity’s larger difficulty recognizing intelligence in unfamiliar guises."

Or, maybe, we fear being screwed by the few who CONTROL AI

Just maybe

https://www.noemamag.com/why-we-fear-diverse-intelligence-like-ai/

"why is there so little about this in the news? Both @guardian & @repubblica bury any env news after the sports section. @nytimes gives less space to... devastating species loss, deforestation, starvation than they to recipes"

https://thesubversivefarmer.net/blog/we-really-need-a-plan

#climatechange

"#OpenAI in its current form is untenable. There is no path to profitability,... #genAI needs to much energy..."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/

GREAT! So we can dump that crap, and focus on disrupting the ONLY things that REALLY need it first, aka #money & #DEBT:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/there-is-only-one-thing-that-really

#AI for #UBI, not the opposite !!!

First reactions to my call for a world with #UBI, without #DEBT , #GDP, ridiculous #growth and tamed #corporations are positive.

What are yours?

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/there-is-only-one-thing-that-really

2010, when we believed that #Facebook could bring #peace:

"it is striking to realize that peace becomes plausible when barriers to communication are eliminated"

AND

"Might #Palestine youth feel similarly?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090304363.html

embrace #serendipity (also) through my daily almanac!

From insane #copyright to #vegan babies, #quietquitting and mocking #BurningMan,

interesting stuff that happened #onthisday, between 2009 and 2023

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-6/

(much) More than "Republicans" I would say "self-hating hyperindividualism", but that meme is a good starting point to get there

My daily #onthisday Almanac, today from 2006 to 2023:

dangerous #russia bloggers, #Vatican worries, depressing myths about workers & consumers and much more at:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-5/

#serendipity rules!

This may seem the craziest thing I've ever written. But is still much saner, and simpler, than the life we live today:

on life, work, mental #health, #money, (no) #BigTech, and everything else

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/there-is-only-one-thing-that-really

Life skills workshops (#nutrition, #cooking, financial literacy) to help students transition to independent living

Sure, much of this stuff belongs to #parenting, NOT schools

But why aren't such courses mandatory in EVERY university?

#onthisday, 2009 to 2023:

defending web links
stupid attacks to #Syria
#permaculture fails
screens are bad
breaking up #facebook
Dugin's theories
drowning in #plastic
RSS IS STILL GREAT
Peak Car
Social Mobility Illusion

all this and more at https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-4/

"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

#artificialIntelligence #AI #creativity

Four years ago, I was

"depressed, not because I do not have full time work anymore, but exactly because I still (must) have it."

How many of you feel the same for the same reasons, today?

See "Let’s talk adults and purpose now" in https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/05/italylockdown-is-over.-lack-of-meaning-continues/

#bullshitJobs

Of aging, pensions, "experience" lost, and "innovation"

a hugely important, urgent theme:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/09/a-spectre-is-haunting-italy-the-spectre-of-quota-100/

Said in 2017:

"All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years in twin ‘death spiral’ for big oil and big autos, says study that’s shocking the industries"

https://financialpost.com/transportation/fossil-fuel-vehicles-will-vanish-in-8-years-in-twin-death-spiral-for-big-oil-and-big-autos-says-study-that-shocking-the-industry

#ElectricVehicles

Today's #onthisday almanac, because #serendipity and memory matter A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things in this day, from 2005 to 2023 (*):

https://buff.ly/3AP2PPx

Instantly Falsify reality with #AI!

proof n. 999999999999....

that #google sucks, #duckduckgo is much better:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/google-sucks-snow-white-is-woke-in