Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org

@crude2refined @Riedl @chrisoffner3d Most of the ones I know were forced into early retirement. A couple worked for awhile as scribes at perhaps 1/2-2/3 their previous compensation.

@Riedl @chrisoffner3d This is almost exactly what happened to friends of mine who worked 15 years ago as medical transcriptionists after a local local large medical center bought speech recognition software. Even though the software didn't work well, the managers raised productivity requirements.

5 years later they eliminated most of the jobs.

@ct_bergstrom Inspired by the master!

Just cancelled my NYTimes subscription. On the verge for a long time, but this put me over the edge.

@ct_bergstrom Pearl knew it was time. “Pinker, you’re on our side. Sign on to the paper”.

Pinker silently worried his Jeffrey Epstein pendant as he gazed into space. He shook his head and a spray of silver curls and hair product drifted into the sunbeam entering the window of his Cape Code beach house window and down into the pair of alligator skin boots next to the commemorative “Time 100 Most Influential people” plaque on his desk.

“Confound it, Judea, I just can’t do it. It collides with my other responsibilities and my reputation. It can’t be seen as my cause now.” A collective groan filled the room.

Never seen anything approaching the speed of innovation in the open source LLM world today. https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1654917326381228033?s=20

@ct_bergstrom I feel like people are trying too hard on bluesky. It's tiring after awhile.

That said, someone chewed me out a bit here when I dared to even mention bluesky.

@Riedl I'm surprised the relative openness lasted as long as it did. But still sad that it's gone.

@Riedl He didn't directly deny the lede of the article.

Life expectancy is *not* the same as the age most people die. If a lot of people die as infants or children (as they did 100 years ago) then the average age of death will be substantially lower.

Sigh. This New Yorker article confuses life expectancy with the age most people die. Interestingly, in the print edition it says "most Americans died" while the online version has "many Americans died" in their mid-fifties so they got the message from somewhere but still got the big picture wrong. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-future-of-fertility

NYTimes headline in next big recession: "Massive layoffs boost US economy"

Ted Chiang's interesting New Yorker essay on AI and the need to reform capitalism reminds me very much of the higher level view David Runciman took on the problems of capitalism in this talk a few months ago.

Runciman talk: https://tinyurl.com/43mrmyxt

Chiang essay: https://tinyurl.com/pc22tpjj

@jetjocko Hoping that the IRS audits Thomas and Conway's company to see if a 1090 was issued and reported.

I can dream, can't I?

@ct_bergstrom Wait, is J. Pearl *that* J. Pearl? Though TBH I don't know anything about his politics.

@ct_bergstrom Yann not happy.

@wc_ratcliff@ecoevo.social I refuse to cross that line.

@ct_bergstrom Obvious answer for NPR is to assign an intern to tweet a link to that same story about Musk every hour.