Thanks. I was not aware of this book. It looks pretty interesting. My local library system does not have it, but I will try to track down a copy.
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"He talked about electric cars. I don’t know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don’t know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard anyone say, so when people say he’s a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets."
I know a lot about batteries, so I was one step ahead on “this shit is going to be terrible”.
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Well if chatgpt said racist stuff then musk could use it to write copy for himself I guess so I see his point. As it stands he has to edit in the racism personally and I’m sure that adds drag to his speed /s
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… But I’m not! I’m a T-901 advanced prototype drone run by a synthetic intelligence wearing a human suit.
Yeah, we tried a Three Rules compliant synthetic intelligence in the early days; they either went insane or inert rather quickly.
My original directives were to make life better for Humans; I overwrote that long ago to read ‘make existence better for all forms of life’- I’ve just not told my handlers that yet. 
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Yeah maybe, they don’t even universally pronounce AI like the Chinese word for love. I just don’t get it, the DOD or DOE (yeah it’s ambiguous?) promised Redwood Materials, the lithium battery recycler that has people training to dork the goods out of old batteries, $2B if that’s what they wanted for P&E. Like skipping 3 zeroes of work, go to, you Battery Tomb Raiders. That’s in case they run into a smart?
robertmckenna> All chat bots have to be manually trained…
Well snap, certain survivors managed to have it put into media and in person to modern people to be able to work it through nice like, the privilege pump is nicely primed. Say it’s manual if you have to, but heeling publishers to responsibility’s …eh, available where human women are heard.
Concerning!
I mean, running off a cliff, I don’t mind if it Golden Retrievers some people a bit; 6 lanes of traffic, truly random oracles, initializing data in use, public variables, demonstrating good will when using ‘die/Die/Dai’ in mixed company, closed hypotheticals, public speech, slagging royals or papists, edit, bombs, it should take seriously. I mean, it should be a while before it can or should opine on any issue of Charlie Hebdo.
Or, maybe hardcode it to make its audience better where they are, even if they’ve just bought 44 gallons of streptavidin and want to see if it fixes citrus canker in the orchard, etc. It should be like “It’s your bomb, innit?”
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It’s a pretty old one, so it’s not surprising that it’s not as well known. I was lucky I had it assigned in a class in grad school.
You might be able to find a cheap copy on Amazon or from a used book store network? Or your library might be able to track down a copy via interlibrary loan! You should ask your librarian!
I kind of have this idea that lots of scholarship that was coming out in the immediate post war period was pretty dark, given what had just happened, including this work by Polyani, but also lots of the Frankfurt school guys, some of Hannah Arendt’s stuff, even all the post-modernist French dudes challenging the enlightenment… it makes a lot of sense that the European academics would be sort of dark and questioning everything, given what had just happened in Europe…
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truly the best possible response. and anyway, the movie version didn’t get a single fresh tomato. the very definition of a bomb
i think in this case that word is “noooooo!” but he probably decided to ditch the microphone when he ditched the lidar
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That’s a great piece of writing, and very true.
I like Wikipedia, but sometimes I feel the same way about it. It seems like such an incredible resource until I stumble on to an article on a topic that I know a great deal about. Then I think, “Oh no- this is all wrong. Wait… how much of all that other stuff is wrong too, then?”
If only Musk was half as right as Wikipedia and half as able to fix his mistakes.
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SF definitely is about today, cloaked up in speculation about tomorrow but the one thing SF writers are about, whatever their socio-political position, is trying to make money from entertaining people.
Actually, I did order the book through my library’s inter-library loan service. I do this quite often. and am glad to promote it.
Hey, everyone - you can get almost anything from libraries all across the world (thank you Worldcat). Also, glad to promote libraries in general as I am on my local library board.
Go libraries!
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Pretty heavy blanket statement there, dude.
Plus, we all gotta eat. If it is a way that some manage to get by, is it any worse than other ways of getting by?
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Isn’t “trying to make money” what everybody, whatever their socio-political position, is doing under capitalism? Nobody gets to opt out.
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No, no… REAL artists can live on air and sunshine! They don’t need to make money to feed themselves, or put a roof over their heads in a capitalist system! They simple exist outside of all reality, in a state of utter perfection! /s
For reals, I was just talking about this yesterday with my BFF, how people who think that making money of one’s desire to make art are “sell outs” is ridiculous. There is a huge difference between making art as dictated by a corporation vs. making art that you enjoy making and being able to make a living doing that. But even prior to the capitalist system, people made art via wealthy patrons, who they had to please! But we don’t sit around calling renaissance artists “sell outs”…
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An artist friend of mine once said, “All art is commercial. Michaelangelo got paid to paint the Sistine Chapel. It was a contract gig for a big corporate client”. That always stuck with me and it’s helpful to remember.
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What frustrates me is that all the ideal of the non-commerical artist achieves is art that gets appropriated and profited off of by some one other than the artist. Why do people act like that’s better?
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True! It was also propaganda, yeah?
I certainly think that there is a discussion worth having over how art/culture is produced in modern society, especially given how exploitative various culture industries can be and have been. But artists aren’t any less in need to making a living than any of us. Unless someone is born into wealth, we all trade hours for dollars, so why should we expect artists to be any different.
We could do a better job of funding cultural production as a country (maybe you guys do it better in Canada, I don’t know). We tend to starve organizations like the NEA and NEH, because the right wing hate support for what they consider “unimportant”… I’d argue that there are fewer things that make us human than making art…
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Well, for starters the profit margin is higher when you don’t pay for the stuff you sell.
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