Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org

@ct_bergstrom Is this legal for (some) human children? Asking for a friend.

https://www.theonion.com/critics-say-submersible-should-ve-been-tested-with-poor-1850566314

@jeffjarvis Such a dumb Op-Ed given that it takes about a minute to find out that rural counties have a higher gun death rate than urban counties. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/map-gun-death-rates-lower-cities-than-rural-counties-rcna81462

@JenLucPiquant That's great. And remarkable that no one stopped.Or knew that Browne was playing a Leonard Cohen tune!

These kind of "look at these fools who don't understand investing" articles are a quick way for a business journalist to crank out a story, but for some reason the authors never mention the proximate cause: affinity bias.

Shot and chaser from a VC at Sequoia, one of Silicon Valley's oldest VC firms.

@DeanBaker13 Waiting for the Times to follow up on the stories they ran earlier this year about all those suburbanites who invested in egg laying chickens.

@ct_bergstrom So hard on such a measured journalist.

@melaniemitchell One of the big problems with OpenAI's "papers" is that they are unverifiable marketing white papers.

And love this footnote on the claim that it found vulnerabilities in code.

@ct_bergstrom He lost me with his summary of Von Neumann as a "computer scientist". Read (or skim) this tribute by Stanislaw Ulam if you want to know more about one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. https://web.archive.org/web/20210215095053/https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1958-64-03/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5.pdf

@jeffjarvis Checking all the authoritarian boxes - nostalgia for an imaginary past, populism, an appeal for greater "order" and more religion and, of course, deference to raw political power.

Right out of "Strongmen", which I'm really enjoying.

@ct_bergstrom That's what you get for watching the Tucker Carlson video.

Kudos to the NY Times for running a live tracker on the wildfire smoke situation there when they didn't even mention the more pronounced wildfire induced air quality issue here in the Pacific Northwest last year.

I found this an interesting and telling analysis of OpenAI's Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever dog and pony show at Tel Aviv University yesterday. https://twitter.com/LuizaJarovsky/status/1665703042555998209?s=20

It turns out that the functionality of the human brain isn't solely determined by the connections of neurons, but also by the larger scale shape of the brain itself. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01774-8

Yet more proof of the fact that we don't really understand many things about how the brain really works.

Something to pass on to the next overconfident ai-superintelligence-is-going-to-destroy-the-world-soon bro in your neighborhood.

@rosanita @jeffjarvis Hadn't seen it, but I think I found it - was it this one? https://www.wired.com/story/runaway-ai-extinction-statement/

@jeffjarvis Hendryks is a newly minted PhD who is a co-director of the Center for AI Safety. The other director is an undergraduate Stanford student. Can't believe anyone would take this seriously.