Elon Musk is in the news again, for worrying out loud about the AI that we may create that will kill us all.
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Elon Musk is in the news again, for worrying out loud about the AI that we may create that will kill us all.
Memo to self: when writing postings about a person, check to make sure they are not still alive and making news. Normally, when dealing with historical figures (e.g.: Lyudmila Pavlichenko [stderr]) we can safely assume they are not making more news. But …
(Also, my parents’ manyth anniversary! Congratulations!)
Today’s the anniversary of the day that the French stormed La Bastille, the prison that had become a symbol of the power of the monarchy.
It’s hard to estimate the impact of movies that slant our way of seeing things. I think I was 15 or so when I saw Z the first time.
Are you scared?
In an earlier posting about “operators” (special forces/CIA) in Libya,[stderr] I posted a picture that I had saved from early in the rebellion there.
This hasn’t been getting a lot of play in the US media, presumably because they think that it’s one of those plans that is designed to change in the 20+ years before it takes effect.
It was Raid Night (sunday, 9:00pm) for my World of Warcraft raiding guild, and we had a couple of guests along for the quests. Per usual procedure, we were all collected in audio-chat, logged in to WoW, and most of us had a bottle of wine or some beer open, and as the raid continued – as was our wont – we got merry.
In case you don’t know about it, NASA has semi-crowdsourced the Juno explorer’s camera: you can get raw data of Jupiter and join a collective that are trying to help decide where to target.
… Xi and Putin are trying to achieve a political solution to a political problem. I’m terrified that the US will do something stupid because it’s not the power sitting at the head of the Grownup Table. Actually, the US is mysteriously absent from the Grownup Table. Oh, look, over there in the corner, wearing the “dunce” hat, it’s America!