Simon
@princeheureux.bsky.social
Interested in education and improving society
Living in Sweden but like to spend a lot of time in France
https://www.instagram.com/aspiring_idler/
https://substack.com/@simonwesterberg
Living in Sweden but like to spend a lot of time in France
https://www.instagram.com/aspiring_idler/
https://substack.com/@simonwesterberg
I just noticed that the AI voice at Substack has a hard time differentiating Danish and Norwegian and sometimes switches between the languages when it reads a post. Don't judge Swedes that have a hard time seeing a difference between the languages in writing.
June 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I just noticed that the AI voice at Substack has a hard time differentiating Danish and Norwegian and sometimes switches between the languages when it reads a post. Don't judge Swedes that have a hard time seeing a difference between the languages in writing.
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Publicly, Amazon said its new robots with a sense of touch are all about making work easier on workers. Internally, they said the robots are "critical to flattening Amazon's hiring curve over the next 10 years." Needing less humans to work is great but WE SHOULD ALL BENEFIT via an AI dividend - UBI.
Amazon sees warehouse robots 'flattening' its hiring curve, according to internal document
An official company document describes Amazon's new Vulcan robot and similar machines as key to keeping a lid on hiring growth.
www.businessinsider.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Publicly, Amazon said its new robots with a sense of touch are all about making work easier on workers. Internally, they said the robots are "critical to flattening Amazon's hiring curve over the next 10 years." Needing less humans to work is great but WE SHOULD ALL BENEFIT via an AI dividend - UBI.
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It has always been weird to me that we can get more useful stuff by taxing useless stuff.
How can you build healthcare out of soda cans?
How can you build healthcare out of soda cans?
May 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It has always been weird to me that we can get more useful stuff by taxing useless stuff.
How can you build healthcare out of soda cans?
How can you build healthcare out of soda cans?
A common justification of capitalism is that the system produces much of everything and, as a consequence, also much useful stuff.
May 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
A common justification of capitalism is that the system produces much of everything and, as a consequence, also much useful stuff.
Everytime you talk about "production" in a societal/political context you need to have the question "the production of what?" in the back of your mind.
May 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Everytime you talk about "production" in a societal/political context you need to have the question "the production of what?" in the back of your mind.
Now that we have incredibly useful machines, why do humans have to live like machines?
May 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Now that we have incredibly useful machines, why do humans have to live like machines?
An education system that doesn't allow the students to follow their curiosity is a failed education system.
May 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
An education system that doesn't allow the students to follow their curiosity is a failed education system.
How is AI doing on the giving prosperity to all benchmark?
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
How is AI doing on the giving prosperity to all benchmark?
If artists and thinkers try to be useful to society, they immediately become useless to society.
May 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If artists and thinkers try to be useful to society, they immediately become useless to society.
Neither art nor philosophy works under either a commercial or a public funding system.
Art and thinking require a more fundamental form of freedom. It can't rely on the approval of the crowd.
Art and thinking require a more fundamental form of freedom. It can't rely on the approval of the crowd.
May 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Neither art nor philosophy works under either a commercial or a public funding system.
Art and thinking require a more fundamental form of freedom. It can't rely on the approval of the crowd.
Art and thinking require a more fundamental form of freedom. It can't rely on the approval of the crowd.
It seems like the fundamental belief that "rough AI"-doomers all share is that AI have/can have a mindlike grasp of reality.
May 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
It seems like the fundamental belief that "rough AI"-doomers all share is that AI have/can have a mindlike grasp of reality.
Newspaper columnists are basically paid to lie. It says in their contracts that they have to write an opinion piece about a current topic at a certain time. That is, regardless of whether they have an opinion or not. If they have not made up their minds, they must pretend they have.
April 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Newspaper columnists are basically paid to lie. It says in their contracts that they have to write an opinion piece about a current topic at a certain time. That is, regardless of whether they have an opinion or not. If they have not made up their minds, they must pretend they have.
I can't see why AI generated material would be more "unreal" than any other fictional content.
April 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I can't see why AI generated material would be more "unreal" than any other fictional content.
Most people don't seem to believe that the whole world is being reshaped by AI. And they certainly don't act like they do.
April 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Most people don't seem to believe that the whole world is being reshaped by AI. And they certainly don't act like they do.
Someone called it "the San Francisco consensus", the belief that the whole world is being reshaped by rapid technological advancement.
April 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Someone called it "the San Francisco consensus", the belief that the whole world is being reshaped by rapid technological advancement.
Epistemology: Based on what we know about the world, what can we say about what the world is like?
April 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Epistemology: Based on what we know about the world, what can we say about what the world is like?
"Listen to the experts!"
No, engage with the arguments.
No, engage with the arguments.
April 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"Listen to the experts!"
No, engage with the arguments.
No, engage with the arguments.
Good arguments are more important than good evidence.
The data can't think for you.
You can't just throw out all the pieces of the puzzle on the floor and claim that you solved it.
The data can't think for you.
You can't just throw out all the pieces of the puzzle on the floor and claim that you solved it.
April 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Good arguments are more important than good evidence.
The data can't think for you.
You can't just throw out all the pieces of the puzzle on the floor and claim that you solved it.
The data can't think for you.
You can't just throw out all the pieces of the puzzle on the floor and claim that you solved it.
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We're used to a world where baseline competence is hard, so we have an elaborate system of training to get there. (Above baseline, it's mostly up to you tbh.)
In the emerging world, baseline is (too) easy. So we're going to have to think harder about how we train ppl to do genuinely new stuff.
In the emerging world, baseline is (too) easy. So we're going to have to think harder about how we train ppl to do genuinely new stuff.
Exactly. If we can't train new experts in anything anymore because the path of least resistance through the training is so tempting and unchallenging, then what happens? (cont.)
bsky.app/profile/nata...
bsky.app/profile/nata...
How do you get new humans to become experts if they never get a chance to learn while doing?
April 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We're used to a world where baseline competence is hard, so we have an elaborate system of training to get there. (Above baseline, it's mostly up to you tbh.)
In the emerging world, baseline is (too) easy. So we're going to have to think harder about how we train ppl to do genuinely new stuff.
In the emerging world, baseline is (too) easy. So we're going to have to think harder about how we train ppl to do genuinely new stuff.
The lack of meaningful discussion between the right and the left is both frightening and uncanny.
April 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The lack of meaningful discussion between the right and the left is both frightening and uncanny.
My default mode is to hope that the US wins the tech race/cold war with China. The best outcome is international collaboration but if you have to choose, I choose the system where being oppositional is the least difficult/dangerous.
April 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My default mode is to hope that the US wins the tech race/cold war with China. The best outcome is international collaboration but if you have to choose, I choose the system where being oppositional is the least difficult/dangerous.
I'm rapidly becoming an evangelical AI ambivalentist.
Though I'm generally an optimist.
Though I'm generally an optimist.
April 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I'm rapidly becoming an evangelical AI ambivalentist.
Though I'm generally an optimist.
Though I'm generally an optimist.
The more advanced technology gets, the faster it solves problems and creates new ones.
AI Leaders Debate Progress, Safety, and Global Impact at TIME100 Summit
YouTube video by TIME
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The more advanced technology gets, the faster it solves problems and creates new ones.