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One Coin, Two Sides? 0
In a thoughtful article which I saw at The Roanoke Times, Richard Kyte muses on the implications of ChatGPT and its clones. Suffice to say, he has a few questions.
A snippet:
Imagine all the things that implies, all the ways in which human beings put words and images together. And then imagine that much of that is done by some kind of entity that has no self-awareness, no personhood, but is capable of precisely imitating the full range of expressive activites that, up to this point in world’s existence, have been the exclusvie province of human being.
While on the topic, methinks this article from Psychology Today Blogs on deepfakes (in this case, deepfake porn) is also relevant. AI and deepfakes seems to me two sides of the same coin.
The Graham Cracker Has a Notion of Immigrants 0
Republicans play the race card because it’s the only card they have left. Otherwise, they got nothing other than their fealty to the robber barons of our New Gilded Age.
The Republican Party of my youth–the party that could include persons of integrity, such as Dwight Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, and Everett Dirksen–no longer exists.
Richard Nixon’s racist Southern Strategy is all that remains of it.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry charges you with being addicted to your phone.
Yes, you (but certainly not me–well at least to the extent that I avoid “social” media like the anti-social plague that it has become). They further argue that this is no accident:
Follow the link for some recommendations on how you can get your life back.
More News of the Polite 0
If you’re too stupid to know you’re packing heat, maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to pack heat.
Afterthought:
Yeah, I know that most of them didn’t really “forget.” They just couldn’t face being separated from their portable phalluses.
Let’s try this again:
If you’re too stupid to realize that metal detectors detect metal, maybe you’re too stupid be allowed near anything made of metal.
All the News that Fits 0
I think that a strong argument can be made that Fox News is little more than Pravda, Republican style.
Chickens. Home. Roost. 0
I’m sure I’m not the only person who sees misty water-colored vestiges of irony in this headline.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.