Shiny things 7/
Curated links from the junk drawer of the internet
Rest in power, Tina Turner. What a life, what an artist.
industrial-scale catfishing - we can't be far from AI scaling this even further. A gpt-4 style LLM that trains itself on catfishing, never sleeps, molds itself for maximum manipulation? It would print money and destroy lives. One can imagine Her crossed with the last of us - Humans as cortical homunculi, with some sort of abstract notion of free will but essentially trained pets. Another dystopian thought - instead of catfishing for love could one catfish for radicalization?
the wood wide web theory is apparently gnarled and possibly rotten. I’m not educated enough to agree or disagree with the original arguments or this takedown, but I like to believe that mushrooms / mycorrhiza are amazing in ways we dont understand.
With OpenAI, his ridiculous history of venture building and now worldcoin, is Sam Altman designing our future? Is his worldview compelling, inclusive and progressive?