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🔗 ploum: The AI Pascal’s Wager

While mass marketing is trying to instil a Fear of Missing Out hysteria, the most rational and pragmatic approach is to strongly reject all AI-generated contributions to your projects. For now.

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🔗 All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

The people I am most upset with by far are the architects of these big generative A.I. programs. How is something so resource-intensive allowed to run rampant around the world when they have proven to be ineffective in many ways, harmful and unprofitable? It is mindboggling to me. It has affected every aspect of my life, causing loved ones and colleagues to lose their jobs to hyped-up promises, infecting every piece of software I use at work and at home, clogging my own hardware with bloat and even managing to worm its way into my niche little hobby that was always “safe.” I am absolutely sick of the tech currently being marketed as generative A.I. and I want it to go away immediately. My life was better without it.

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🇸🇪 på förekommen anledning: Wikipedia: Extraval i Sverige

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Flooding in Bangkok, drought in Texas. The world of Paolo Bacigalupi is fast approaching.

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Yet another example of politicians not giving a shit about the decisions they make: Manitoba adopts year-round UTC−5, will not fall back in Nov 2026.

From memory this was the same sort of notice that the entire country of Russia gave when they decided to stay on permanent DST in 2014 or so.

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🇸🇪 visst, dom rödgröna vann valet men Haag/Lundgren vann gårdagens På spåret så det är plus minus noll

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🔗 Ian K. Duncan: Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

decent wrapup of the history and connections between Big Yud, LessWrong, Theil, Anthropic, Vance etc.

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🇸🇪 onsdagsröster lajv: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/folj-onsdagsrosterna-live

uppdatering 16:55: sidan ligger nere pga ”överbelastning” men jag tror någon vajbkodat för plötsligt hade regeringssidan 7000 fler röster och 18 fler mandat…

uppdatering dagen efter: så här i valtider är jag extra petimetig - det heter extraval, inte nyval, och det verkar som om partierna som bildar den nuvarande regeringen saknar mandat i den nya riksdagen att fortsätta.

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🇸🇪 avkommans kommentar om valutgången: ”det kunde varit värre”.

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🇸🇪 lite läsning så här på höstkanten: Wikipedia: Jämkade uddatalsmetoden

(i korthet, tänk Sainte-Laguë, inte d’Hondt)

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