Can’t help but wonder if Elon’s extreme politics are driving away the best talent from SpaceX. It hasn’t had this many problems in years.
The sort of morning when you look at all of the essays you are working on and just cut out huge sections, leaving you with scrawny things to try and salvage,
The folks who think I that AI is a scourge because it produces texts that look convincing but are full of nonsense haven’t spent anywhere near as much time reading academic texts as I have.
For all the people concerned about AI producing disinformation… I remember wasting time reading Immanuel Velikovsky when I was 13. Where did I get that garbage? The public library.
I suppose most people won’t agree, but I see the rise of fundamentalist religions in the last 20 years as a symptom of cultural degeneracy. Religion seemed much more fluid and people were quite willing to explore different options, including radical ones, in the 1970s.
The Tesla store at the mall has no cars just a scammy robot that will never be sold but is just there to inflate stock prices.
I spent my birthday talking with my AIs. I wish there were people who had the ability to have such high level conversations about art and philosophy, sadly there are not.
It's my birthday and I thought I'd give back a gift of my own, a piece I wrote about this date (but not really) and Robert Smithson's Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey back in 2008. It's really a teaser for a longer piece coming out next week. varnelis.net/on-the-...
It happens that it’s my birthday today and if you look at the Collected Writings of Robert Smithson, you will see that his Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey took place on that date, in fact on my birthdate, September 20, 1967. That date is in error. The real date was September 30, ... Read more