The UK public being skeptical about AI must be good news for Big Yud.
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Usual suspects weighing in.
Remind me: why is Hyprland bad? I don't doubt it is, I just need it to add to my mental list of stuff to avoid.
Harvard Business Review: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
[...] Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. On social media, which is increasingly clogged with low-quality AI-generated posts, this content is often referred to as “AI slop.” In the context of work, we refer to this phenomenon as “workslop.” We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.
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They say "Luddites" as if it's a bad thing...
Absolutely amazing. They're not even pretending anymore.
“‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’ - wait, now I’m really hungry”
I particularly agree with the point about the style being much more science-y than I'd expected, in a way that surely filters out large swathes of people. I'm assuming "people who are completely clueless about science and are unable to follow technical arguments" are just not the target audience. To crudely oversimplify, I think the target audience is 120+ IQ people, not 100 IQ people.
I haven't read the damn book and I never will, but I have a hard time imagining there's any modern science that can't be explained to 100IQ smoothbrains, assuming the author is good enough.
Enjoy this Rat pitch for a "pastor" who shall spread the gospel of Bayes to the unwashed masses:
Not sure if a LessWronger extensively quoting Accelerando as a blueprint for a singularity takeoff is complimentary to Charles Stross:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xp9ie6pEWFT8Nnhka/accelerando-as-a-slow-reasonably-nice-takeoff-story
Worht noting is that the novel is 20 years old...