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So why do I let AI in my house? Don’t I care about the environmental consequences? What about the theft of intellectual property? Don’t I understand that these are bullshit machines?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So why do I let AI in my house? Don’t I care about the environmental consequences? What about the theft of intellectual property? Don’t I understand that these are bullshit machines?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
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In contrast, we show that "any factual AI system ... is so astronomically unlikely to be anything like a human mind, or even a coherent ... part of that mind, that claims of ‘inevitability’ of AGI ... are revealed to be false & misleading. 7/n irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/d...
Debunking AGI inevitability claims
Have you heard these claims? "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent!" or "At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!" In a recent preprint, my co-authors and I explain why, and presen...
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 16, 2024 at 8:15 PM
In contrast, we show that "any factual AI system ... is so astronomically unlikely to be anything like a human mind, or even a coherent ... part of that mind, that claims of ‘inevitability’ of AGI ... are revealed to be false & misleading. 7/n irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/d...
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🎲Before climate change, similar 10-day spells of hot, dry and windy conditions would be incredibly rare, expected once every 500 years.
However, they are now expected every 15 years.
However, they are now expected every 15 years.
September 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🎲Before climate change, similar 10-day spells of hot, dry and windy conditions would be incredibly rare, expected once every 500 years.
However, they are now expected every 15 years.
However, they are now expected every 15 years.
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⏫In a world without climate change, similar heatwaves would be expected less than every 2,500 years.
But today, with 1.3°C of warming, they are much more likely, expected every 13 years.
But today, with 1.3°C of warming, they are much more likely, expected every 13 years.
September 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
⏫In a world without climate change, similar heatwaves would be expected less than every 2,500 years.
But today, with 1.3°C of warming, they are much more likely, expected every 13 years.
But today, with 1.3°C of warming, they are much more likely, expected every 13 years.
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Heres a gift article link on the story the Times did last month on this, and goes over the costs of these high tech data centers (like here in Utah) and how consumers like us will be picking up the tab, as usual www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Heres a gift article link on the story the Times did last month on this, and goes over the costs of these high tech data centers (like here in Utah) and how consumers like us will be picking up the tab, as usual www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...