I've now slid into choosing now to be the time for making lots of changes to my Linode (more)

Nadia Asparouhova: Mapping out the tribes of climate. Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer?... What I found instead is that while the media still portrays climate change as a simple question of beliefs, the climate field has long moved on to diversified solutions. Whether one believes in climate change is no longer the interesting question; now it’s “What do you think is the right approach?” (more)

Machine learning, a branch of Artificial Intelligence, concerns the construction and study of systems that can learn from data (Big Data). For example, a machine learning system could be trained on email messages to learn to distinguish between spam and non-spam messages (SpamWars). After learning, it can then be used to classify new email messages into spam and non-spam folders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning (more)

Simon Wardley: Why open source AI matters? Why the fuss about conversational programming — Part III. ((2023-01-30) Wardley Why The Fuss About Conversational Programming) (more)

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks for sequential data processing. Unlike feedforward neural networks, which process data in a single pass, RNNs process data across multiple time steps, making them well-adapted for modelling and processing text, speech, and time series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network

TensorFlow is a free and open-source software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence. It can be used across a range of tasks but has a particular focus on training and inference of deep neural networks.[4][5] TensorFlow was developed by the Google Brain team for internal Google use in research and production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow

Jon Udell: Elevating the Conversation with LLM Assistants. Here is some CSV data that created a problem for Steampipe’s CSV plugin. Can you see what’s wrong? Last week several of us failed to see, at first glance, what was wrong. Excel was happy with the data... ChatGPT-4 had a better idea. (more)

Simon Wardley: Maps as Code. Why the fuss about conversational programming? Part II. (2023-01-30) Wardley Why The Fuss About Conversational Programming (more)

what seems like Elite Overproduction is really Midwit Overproduction

Gary Marcus on AI (GenAI). ...a new article on LLMs from six AI researchers at Apple: "we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models .... Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching--so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!" (more)

Gary Marcus: AGI by 2027? Apparently OpenAI’s internal roadmap alleged that AGI would be achieved by 2027, according to the suddenly ubiquitous Leopold Aschenbrenner (recently fired by OpenAI, previous employed by SBF), who yesterday published the math to allegedly justify it. ((2024-06-01) Leopold Aschenbrenner's AGI Situational Awareness Paper) (more)

The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science, by Gary Marcus; ISBN: 9780262632683 (more)

Gary Fred Marcus (born 8 February 1970) is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI). Marcus is professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University. In 2014 he founded Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company later acquired by Uber.[3][4] His books include Guitar Zero[5] and Kluge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus

Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin, which describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.[1][2][3] This, he hypothesizes, is a cause for social instability, as those left out of power feel aggrieved by their relatively low socioeconomic status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction (more)

The word "mid-witted" was popularized by far-right activist and writer Vox Day. On February 17th, 2012, Vox Day[1] published the blog post "The tragedy of the mid-witted" in which he commented on a life story article "Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume" by Jennifer Wright... The term "midwit," meaning a person of average intelligence, saw use on 4chan starting in late 2013... On January 1st, 2017, an anonymous 4chan[6] user made the earliest found post which used the IQ bell curve diagram to argue about the similarity of political views of groups with low and high intelligence... On June 24th, 2019, an anonymous /pol/[11] user posted a Manlet meme referencing the horseshoe theory interpretation of the IQ bell curve... The viral popularity of the format began on March 10th, 2010, when an anonymous 4chan[15] user posted a meme about Ted Kaczynski and the anarcho-primitivistic ideology. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit (cf Middle Mind) (more)

see Personal Data Server

component of BlueSky architecture (more)

Portable Identity for ActivityPub. I want to focus on: portable digital identity. The idea that I should be able to take all of my data, everything that my identity consists of, and move wholesale to a new instance/server/PDS/whatever you call it. Bluesky permits this. Mastodon and most (all?) other ActivityPub implementations do not. But that doesn’t have to be the case, nothing about ActivityPub—architecturally speaking—is incompatible with this vision. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #73: Openly Evil AI. What do you call a clause explicitly saying that you waive the right to whistleblower compensation, and that you need to get permission before sharing information with government regulators like the SEC? (more)

artificial super-intelligence - AGI but way smarter/faster than humans