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Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)(honisoit.com)
84 points by andsoitis 28d ago|65 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
> The point being: humans seem to me to be the weak link here. That doesn't mean AI isn't dangerous . Humans are not to blamed for being the weak link.
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Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
4 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
> Because if an AI takes over the systems at a factory, it can't really do much beyond what the factory could already do. The production lines use single purpose robots and machines to build a particular product, and can't be p
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Mental Time Travel(royalsocietypublishing.org)
6 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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Dynamics in Mesoscopic Systems(ds.mpg.de)
4 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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The Human Use of Human Beings - Norbert Wiener (1989) [pdf](monoskop.org)
11 points by andsoitis 28d ago|1 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
why horizontal orientation rather than vertical orientation? the letter seems, at least to me, that it would have better ergonomics and extensibility.
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by andsoitis 28d ago
> Privacy is only hard Privacy is one of those words that you think you understand until you try to define it.
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Expanding model choice in Copilot with Grok(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
4 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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Why is privacy so hard? (2019)(cacm.acm.org)
61 points by andsoitis 28d ago|64 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49681720
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by andsoitis 28d ago
you're welcome! fun stuff! good luck!
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Agents of Alienation(jaronlanier.com)
2 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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Why optimistic science fiction is still possible and important(fasterplease.substack.com)
2 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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Contradiction (1937)(redsails.org)
1 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
good! so the thing to think about is how do you incentivize serendipity in a way that gives a payoff. it also helps having a mental model of who the user might be. there's probably some psychology at play worth considering too.
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by andsoitis 28d ago
The race is happening, cannot be stopped. But can be shaped. Huang is best positioned, in my opinion, to shape it given his fluency across the technology, diplomacy, and different cultural values (China / America).
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VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up(pcgamer.com)
6 points by andsoitis 28d ago|1 comments
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Cybersickness Variability by Race: Findings from 6 Studies(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier(singjupost.com)
78 points by andsoitis 28d ago|109 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
This is where Jensen Huang is very uniquely positioned to synthesize. I cannot think of someone who has more fluency in the combination of technology, diplomacy, and cultural insights.
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by andsoitis 28d ago
The root problem is fundamental: you're trying to recreate a physical experience in a virtual world. More rigorous would be deconstructing the inherent constraints of the problem space as well as deconstructing the goals the system sho
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The Art and Science of Listening(gatesnotes.com)
1 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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Audemars Piguet Neo Frame Jumping Hour(audemarspiguet.com)
2 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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War has not halted the Gulf's data-centre boom(economist.com)
2 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
cute but very poor usability that gets in the way of exploration. skeuomorphism for interaction systems is usually not the way. useful for communicating key metaphor, but not for overall navigation.
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How the Netherlands Bent Bureaucracy into Something Beautiful(reasonstobecheerful.world)
2 points by andsoitis 28d ago|0 comments
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by andsoitis 28d ago
> This bias functions as a form of “algorithmic coloniality” [6]. By privileging the epistemologies of dominant cultures (historically, Western, industrialized nations), LLMs implicitly suggest that these frameworks are superior or more
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by andsoitis 28d ago
and just like a real fly, likes to sit on and eat feces.

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