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/

Very confusing argument...the previous article argues that the definition of poverty used means that 'poverty can never be reduced' when bringing everyone at the bottom of the distribution to an income of 50% of the median income would reduce poverty to zero.

From @hiltzikm.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit.

"Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.

...'In such cases, the result is not an infodemic but a marketplace of rationalizations. People do not treat harmful viruses as a consumer good, and they do not want to be infected with them; with misinformation, by contrast, they often do.'

not completely convinced of framing from public health perspective, but this is good..

'Motivated believers seek out misleading content that rationalizes their favored convictions and narratives, and misinformation entrepreneurs stand to win social and financial rewards from satisfying this demand'