Peter Rosenthal's movie criticism deserves more attention.

This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.

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Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪

Explaining the plot of “Amok Time” to my stepdaughter.

I had never heard of Benjamin Lay, but he kind of kicked ass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami...

He Was an Anti-Racist Vegan Radical... in 1738

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Beware of cyclopes.

Oh, I'm good! Just old and tired and not suited for travel.

The plan was to recover from the intercontinental flight and long drive from the airport by starting work a little later than normal. And here I am, at my desk at the usual hour. I am a terrible planner.

Resisting the urge to answer the call of the time zone to get up and start work. “It’s 11:30! You’re already late!”

“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”

Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago

‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.