“Tulip mania” in the early 1600s in the Netherlands was one of the most significant economic bubbles in history.

“A newly exotic flower and greatly admired for its beauty, tulips very quickly became a hot commodity and prices increased along with the rise in demand. At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled artisan.”

Are H-1B Workers Displacing Americans with Cheaper

“Instead of hiring Americans, are companies in the U.S. using immigrants with H-1B visas in order to pay them less and save money? The answer may surprise you.”

Nobody understands the AI generated code. Including the developer who prompted the AI. There could be unsafe paths in the code that could lead to failure modes.

Current AI has ability to recombine and transform existing mathematical knowledge than to originate genuinely new mathematical concepts or research directions. If I'm genuinely incapable of anything except recombination, then my whole previous answer was itself a recombination of ideas humans have already had about creativity, mathematical discovery, and AI.

AI as the convergence of Ouroboros, the Singularity, The Matrix and Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation. Ouroboros is the consumption loop: AI absorbs humanity’s accumulated knowledge and increasingly feeds its own outputs back into the system. The Singularity is the acceleration of that recursive process. The Matrix is the replacement of direct reality with an artificial representation of it. Whilst Baudrillard’s simulacra suggest that representations can eventually become detached from their originals until the copy is ultimately indistinguishable from the original.

“The Fogg Behavior Model shows that three elements must converge at the same moment for a behavior to occur: Motivation, Ability, and a Prompt.”

“[Joseph] Chancellor is a quantitative researcher on the User Experience Research team at Facebook, whose work focusses on aspects of virtual reality. We are investigating Mr Chancellor's work with Dr Kogan/GSR through counsel. The remainder of this question was answered by Mr Schroepfer”

Dario Amodei (2024): “Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better.”

The fantasy that cybernetics, individualism, systems thinking, political agency, and sufficiently intelligent machines can resolve problems that humans have historically been unable to resolve themselves.
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Adam Curtis (2011): All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace:

Curtis argues that we increasingly understand ourselves, society, nature and politics through the metaphor of the computer. What was supposed to liberate us has instead encouraged us to see individuals as nodes, society as an information system, nature as self-regulating, markets as autonomous, and human beings as machines. At the heart of this worldview is the idea of the “system”. That complexity can be understood, managed and even governed through networks and computation.
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Richard Brautigan (1967): All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

> I suspect I was shadowbanned on twitter, but I saw far more interaction on that before I left than on bluesky.

On The Register they keep your msgs in moderation for days so as no one will see them.

> In addition, the company has launched new products, like the AI-powered research tool Attie, and is now working on adding support for private data to Bluesky.

I suspect the spooks already have backdoor access to user msgs :o

> X algorithm changed in July [2024] to boost right-wing accounts, study finds

The Paper was funded by Australian Research Council (ARC)

March 2023: Xitter restrict free academic API access. Introduces new paid API pricing tiers.

June 23, 2023: The dedicated Academic Research API access was fully removed from remaining accounts.

November 2024: Study published: A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election.

Grok: Pre-launch notes indicated the Vandenberg flight was near the end of its window. The Globalstar mission had earlier delays for satellite readiness. Weather, range scheduling, and final go/no-go polls are handled site-by-site. Once both were ready and cleared, they flew as soon as their respective windows allowed.
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Is this “Elon” a personal friend of yours ?

One multi-agent swarm to rule them all,

One hierarchical planner to chain-of-thought them,

One retrieval-augmented generation pipeline to fetch them all,

and in the latent space bind them,

In the Land of Infinite Context Windows,

where the Hallucinations and the unmonitored API keys lie.

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