It’s wild that humanism challenged a god-centered worldview by shifting focus to individual human agency and this person is appropriating that term to *denigrate* agency in order to return to that worldview, except this new god is just a janky corporate magic trick that makes people dumb.

“You don’t solve public health problems with bombs,” Tree added. “Otherwise we’d be bombing tobacco and alcohol executives.”

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.

That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

This.

Many of us in science are consciously purging our language of the use of 'AI' when we mean 'ML' (which IS seriously useful) because of the push by some commercial developers to conflate 'AI' with 'AGI' (which doesn't even exist!)

I don't think any person needs a billion dollars. I think they can have three or four million dollars... they don't need to have a billion dollars. They can have five million.

Who convinced Trump to do a big national tour where he goes around the country mocking people for being worried about inflation? Whoever it was deserves some kind of big FIFA trophy.

I live outside the US & I expect our neighborhood to have fireworks & I know our apartment complex has a few people from the states & Canada who will be pulling out the champagne. I don’t know the wines here yet, but I think I should find something to chill in the fridge.

Anyways, the bigger story is that CHA poisoned kids with lead in their housing, spent $1.1 million defending itself against a resulting lawsuit, and has yet to resolve the issue of lead in its units.