Writer in New York. Formerly the Washington Post & the Atlantic. obsoletedogma.com/ bsky.app/profile/obsoletedog…

New York
I'm sticking around Twitter, but I'm also going to be posting at Blue Sky, just to remind myself what it's like to be someplace where the algorithm isn't promoting fascists. bsky.app/profile/obsoletedog…
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Nothing will make you more against AI than hearing what kind of world the people behind it are trying to create
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang questions whether some of the learning fundamentals are still relevant “Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? I don't think it does.”
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100% this —> AI agents are inherently dangerous. We shouldn’t have them. We should nationalize the AI labs, decommercialize it, and use AI exclusively for scientific research.
🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for. That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations. So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."
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The good news, for Trump, is that the history books won’t blame him for letting AI get so powerful that it kills us all. The bad news, for us, is that the reason the history books won’t blame him is that there won’t be any history books because we’ll all be dead.
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“What evidence is there that intelligence translates into power” asks the member of the most intelligent and powerful species on the planet despite his species not being anywhere close to the strongest or the fastest
The "AI will kill us all" theory requires a belief that "intelligence" translates into power. Nerds might like to think that the smarter you are the more powerful you can become. The data of history suggest this theory of power is false.
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We already can’t control AIs, and we’re on the verge of making them much, much smarter. Except it’s even worse than that. Because *we’re* not going to be the ones making AIs smarter. AIs are. We want to outsource the job to them. Why does anyone think this would end well?
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The only question is whether humans will use AI to kill everybody before AIs kill everybody themselves
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It can feel tedious to keep repeating it, but Trump and the wider Republican Party are very actively and openly trying to end democracy in America. This is unfathomably dangerous and insane.
NEWS: President Trump is planning to announce that Georgia's two senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, are illegitimate because of fraud, a well-placed source in Georgia tells us. Announcement could come as soon as tonight.
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Reasons the Supreme Court should have upheld birthright citizenship: 1) The Constitution 2) Flo Balogun
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Good news: SCOTUS didn't strike down birthright citizenship in direct defiance of the Constitution's stated words Bad news: ***Four*** Republican justices were willing to ignore/pretend they didn't understand that the Constitution's stated words guarantee birthright citizenship
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Bigger French collapse: Wemby’s 4th quarters or 1940?
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Turns out missing that flagrant on Wemby didn’t matter because Brunson suspended the entire Spurs team for Game 6
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Matt O'Brien retweeted
Step back here. In Hungary, Orban's allied billionaires bought independent media and then stifled it to help Orban. The Ellisons bought CBS to stifle it to help Trump. They will do the same to CNN.
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
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The fact that we've put iPads in schools is horrifying enough. But replacing actual teaching with AI games is actually insane. Ed tech is an oxymoron. It's worse than pencil and paper learning. We need to get all screens out of schools.
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School administrators have been completely conned by the idea that giving every an iPad will help reduce the achievement gap. In reality, it's making that gap worse. Rich families send their kids to screen-free private schools because they know screen-based learning doesn't work
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We shouldn't be asking to put a moratorium on AI in schools. We should be demanding to ban *all screens* from schools, period. It's just spending money to make our kids dumber. It boggles the mind that anyone thinks this is a good idea.
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Matt O'Brien retweeted
There is alot more to this story than meets the eye. I have heard from a GOP source with excellent knowledge of the state of play at the high reaches of the party that the idea of Don Jr going for the nomination over Vance or Rubio is not some far fetched development. What I was told, and I quote, was "Trump has liked Rubio better than Vance for a while. But Rubio and Vance could split the non-Trump vote while Don Jr takes the hard core vote and this means the nomination. Would be pretty appealing to DT" Just watch Don Jr closely over the coming months....
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Dude, we get it. You’re a racist.
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Leftists are absolute fucking morons, and the worst thing you can do is pretend they deserve an ounce of respect
Replying to @BigMeanInternet
The implication that if you steal something from a museum you're depriving the public is kinda silly. They have more stuff in the basement! A lack of art objects is not one of the many real threats to American museums.
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Leftists are so impressed by the worst professor you ever had that they can’t even figure out if they should vote against Donald Trump or if stealing is bad
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