The reverse centaur. That’s where Big AI is the human part, and you’re just the horse part.
If you have a suspicion that the AI bubble will burst, or even if you don’t, it’s worthwhile to read Cory Doctorow’s AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage, in The Guardian. Some useful metaphors in there. For example…
A way to see how typical and predictable you are
The Net as one big gaslight
Joan Westenberg: The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack. Just one worthy pullquote: “The problem is structural. The total volume of things-you-should-have-an-opinion-about has exceeded our cognitive bandwidth so thoroughly that having careful opinions about anything has become damned-near impossible. Your attention is a finite resource being strip-mined by an infinite army of takes.”
Hope Spring trains eternal
Bummed to see the Mets trade Jeff McNeil to the A’s. At least he’s back home in California. But this move by the Mets looks like a good one.
Unrelated, sort of: After watching Brett Butler play for the Durham Bulls, I followed his major league career for all nineteen (!!) of his seasons as a leadoff hitter. Fun guy to watch.
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