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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
Just try my way for once; I guarantee you’ll love it
There’s no way for @NASA to nail a landing on a #comet, yet also “oh, we calculated wrong. Taking Earth’s massive gravity into account: “It’s not gonna hit; just enjoy the show and it’ll all be over before you know it.” #axelrod is the answer, not #asi which will still #skynet
AI Alignment: A Red Herring that Can’t Work…
Wait… what?? In our ongoing discourse on AI alignment and intergenerational responsibility, we stand at a pivotal juncture, confronting cognitive tendencies and their societal ramifications. From a neurodivergent perspective, there is a pattern of deferred consequences — a temporal convergence where effects are not resolved but merely postponed, often burdening future generations. This pattern extends beyond AI…
AI Alignment: Oppression worse than ever, in a red herring’s clothing
Robin L. M. Cheung examines the societal and generational implications of deferring consequences, a behavior exhibited in AI alignment and economic strategies. Highlighting the intersection of neurodivergence and temporal impacts, Cheung criticizes the attribution errors that credit success to individuals yet blame personal failures on the next generation. Advocating for holistic thinking and collective responsibility,…
Accounting & LLMs?
A self-employed Canadian real estate broker with an MBA struggles to employ AI for bookkeeping due to the complexity of categorizing expenses and capital assets according to CRA’s regulations. Attempts with various large language models for categorization, revenue recognition, and vendor reconciliation have been thwarted by their limitations, necessitating a manual approach for accurate financial…
Exerpt from an LLM working sesh
with Google Gemini Advanced, the wee hours of 18feb2024 Robin L. M. Cheung One of the most productivity-boosting ‘side effects’ of working with an A.I. as a sidekick is that it really is like working with a human, with a cool personality that ‘gets’ even nuanced jokes, but totally not like working with a human,…
Opting Out of Demon-crazy: A right only immigrants have. Too bad I was born here…
They are free to do business as they choose and I thought our code of ethics (I realize that as a photographer and not a Realtor this may not apply to you) it explicitly explains something that Jordan B. Peterson probably didn’t read in his physiologicst code of ethics I’m guessing they also have an…
✝️ Happy Birthday, Katie ❤️
What stars does my daughter fall asleep by at night??!
GPU to GOD in two steps
For me, possibly one of the most compelling scenarios that added to my finally being convinced that “everything happens for a reason,” that that reason really is for an “overall & for everyone over the course of the long term, the best possible outcome from that moment forward,” if we just “let go and let…
Demoncrazy: Treating cancer with a Band-Aid®️
You guys are so caught up in it all that you can’t see: as Matthew tried to explain to us, a bad tree cant bear good fruit, and the bad tree here is capitalism, demoncracy–the pillars of society made of cancer that you want to salvage by treating with a band aid…And even then, as…
Backwards Logic World…
The most relevant reason for believing that someone accused of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity, in this case; you all claim to know well a popular aphorism that is plain to see in the multiple serial catastrophic, existential-scale ‘goings-on,’ yet it looks like the most obvious, simplest, most time-tested and seminal of explanations is…
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