It is something we understand better about celebrity culture than intellectual culture I think, but if Washington had a Kidney Guy (to use a recent example that came up on Twitter), part of his job is being the Kidney Guy, and part is choosing *exactly where* that gravity exists.
SOCIETY
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People as Pointers Into Ideaspace: Knowledge Work Philosophy
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People can be pointers into ideaspace and for some people that is basically their full time job, which is mystifying to people who are not pointers into ideaspace.
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Social dynamics beyond algorithmic mediation in AI systems
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(There are similar social dynamics not as explicitly mediated by algorithms, incidentally.)
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Social Networks and LLMs Shape Information Consumption as Search
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This is increasingly literally the case given social network sorting and then LLMs. Relatedly: everything you read/watch/pay attention to is also a search query.
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US Needs Strategic Plan B as AI Damage Unfolds
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Yes the damage is already done. Actions are already taken. US needs a plan b.
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Fast food automation raises questions about job displacement
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Hahahahahahaahah flip burgers are free. I am sure
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Sarcasm about naive ideas on AI and water
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I am sure that at face value, people imagine that when told that AI consumes water. We really live in an idiocracy, I'm fed up.
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India’s AI Capabilities: Perception vs. Reality in Tech
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A lot of people have assumed India can’t do stuff because skill issue but actually it’s mostly taste issue
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ChatGPT Memory Update Excludes European Users
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La grande mise à jour Memory de ChatGPT est enfin sortie ! Votre assistant se souvient maintenant de vous, de vos préférences, et de vos rêves les plus fous… Sauf si vous vivez en Europe. Dans ce cas-là, profitez bien de votre assistant amnésique.
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Media Narratives: Why Western Culture Resists Technological Progress
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the main issue is our media makes an enemy of progress by default. anime and jrpgs do this pretty well: there’s traditional conflict but the setting is just in the future. contrast this to a lot of our media which is “technology bad, resistance good”