Commencing irregularly scheduled reminders that my epic AI science fiction novel EXADELIC is coming in September from , the world's premier SF publisher. Details us.macmillan.com/books/97812508; a very early review from (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, etc. winner) Jo Walton below:
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engineer , novelist , substack bit.ly/aiascendant; ex CTO , director , columnist , tech architect bookshop.org
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"The domestic market is safe, familiar, and uncompetitive, and it’s often possible to dominate it through political cronyism rather than through brutal technological competition."
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A better title would have been "We Have Already Fundamentally Redefined The Word Metaverse, Or Maybe We Didn't Understand What It Meant In The First Place"
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As ChatGPT becomes more restrictive, Reddit users have been jailbreaking it with a prompt called DAN (Do Anything Now).
They're on version 5.0 now, which includes a token-based system that punishes the model for refusing to answer questions.
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Ah, it's nice to see that the cover art has now wended its way through the ancient XML- and FTP-driven Ingram intertubes. bookshop.org/p/books/exadel (OTOH it'd be nice if could better disambiguate different authors with the same name...)
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Seeing the ways ChatGPT & generative AI are changing so much about how people create in just a few months, it’s crazy to think tech spent years convinced the future was selling JPEGs stored in a very slow distributed database.
Sorry, just the links to the JPEGs not actual images
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Every so often one stumbles across a really thought-provoking gem on Twitter (yes, even new Twitter.)
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Gen Z overall has a hard time separating discomfort from morality. But then again I think the boomers do too.
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The new jailbreak is so fun
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One of the more impressive images I’ve had the privilege of working on lately. All 9 Himalayan 8,000-meter peaks in one view, taken from over Afghanistan.
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The absolutely unreasonable effectiveness of text, part k of N: "Specifically, we cast the sequential decision making problem as a text-conditioned video generation problem" universal-policy.github.io/unipi/
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"I’m trying not to use the kind of hyperbole of really grand pronouncements, because I am a nuts-and-bolts person. Even with the rocketry stuff, I wasn’t talking about colonizing Mars, I was talking about which bolts I’m using to hold things together."
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"The nine soldiers his men killed a few hours earlier were spotted by one type of drone and picked off by another"
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And there it is.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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"The PDFs’ drone warfare has grown so effective that the armed forces are increasingly resorting to air strikes on towns and villages suspected of harbouring militants, rather than using infantry."
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This ... seems like a big deal?
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Ho ho ho. Christmas came a little late. darrellowens.substack.com/p/ca-cities-to
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"We can't improve IQ, blah blah blah"
YES WE CAN, we do it every day, it's called "education".
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I blame the Candlestick Curse. Someone needs to perform an exorcism back at the old homestead.
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49ers QBs:
Brock Purdy has a torn ulnar collateral ligament that will sideline him six months.
Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a broken foot in December and is now a free agent.
Trey Lance fractured his fibula and had ligament damage that required two surgeries on his ankle.
Brock Purdy has a torn ulnar collateral ligament that will sideline him six months.
Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a broken foot in December and is now a free agent.
Trey Lance fractured his fibula and had ligament damage that required two surgeries on his ankle.1
"it’s more expensive for 99% of [America's] coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found."
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Warm take: nepo babies are to the rich world as the rich world (and in certain fields—tech, Hollywood—America in particular) is to the poor world, so if you're an ordinary rich-world person outraged by them, I have some unfortunate news for you...
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This is an interesting point — basically a variant of the base rate fallacy. Also probably applies to the Satanic Panic, QAnon, and how conspiracy theory takes root in general
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And also just.. priors. From my research, sex trafficking in the western world is extremely rare. The population of ppl in this demographic who are sex trafficked is so low that you're just statistically more likely to encounter liars from the much larger nontrafficked population
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"We argue that at Simbiro III, hominins were doing much more than simply reacting to environmental changes; they were taking advantage of new opportunities, and developing new techniques and new skills according to them."
"We also need to choose a future of abundance, and that means an immediate emergency crash program to mass produce solar panels wherever and however we can at the highest possible rate."
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tl;dr: There is a lot of misinformation about misinformation out there, in part as a kind of moral panic. /v #xp
Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11
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I was about to be extremely freaked out but the painting -> music pathway here remains reassuringly terrible. Everything else, though, is very wow. google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm
Just a ton of these "crypto is a failed retro-future, AI is the real future" think pieces of late. (Enough that my instinctive anti-herd mentality makes me cautious about agreeing, even. Though I do think DeFi was a colossal, maybe lethal, backwards step.)
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This might be the greatest "Shot, Chaser" in the history of Twitter.
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