This is an issue with micro blogging. It's like reading a choose your own adventure book, reaching a conclusion you don't like, going back to page 14, reading a few pages to learn that you actually need to return to page 56. The solution seems to be "live on the app," and that feels like marketing

I take it back. If you jump back to the thread originally posted by @coreyatad.com, they're replying to someone who shared the link.

Oh yeah... I encountered someone else quoting that single screenshot, went and read the column, agreed with you, still felt frustrated that I had to leave the app, came back and complained, only to have you gesture at the whole thread. You're right, but micro blogging's issues persist.

Why use a screenshot without any link to the argument? There are links in the article that allow a deeper critique, but you're keeping us a step away from that. Like you want us to uncritically accept your take. I'm not saying you're wrong, but putting a barrier between us and debate is shady

I do not like how Atad's post uses a screenshot and no link. It's like he's intentionally making it difficult to click through to Pinker's sources and critique his arguments. Effectively saying, "This debate is over because of what Pinker said here." It's no way to conduct discourse

Ummm... The article says a bit more than that. www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/o...

Many of these missteps are the result of people not knowing an appropriate use for AI, and it's not the user's fault because the developers launched an unfinished product and expect the users to figure out appropriate uses. We still don't know what AI is good at

Got pulled into a Faculty Senate meeting on Zoom. Wish I could join you

The foundation of the systems we are interrogating understood that a human must be in the loop. Despite what the GenAI pitch might claim, the machine cannot select for meaning because the system, at its roots, is designed to allow all meanings so a human might eventually find the actual message

The system must be designed to operate for each possible selection, not just the one which will actually be chosen since this is unknown at the time of design."

"These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages...

Sorry, @adamkinzinger.bsky.social , you don't have the clearance required to know how negative your security clearance actually is

But a lot of bike companies are like that. I love the Csepel road bikes out of Budapest, but they operate at far too small a scale to export. They focus on quality over quantity, and that means a smaller market. Seems like Lovens might be a similar story, no?

I'm just past the halfway mark and I have to say, the bestseller status is not a fluke. You wrote a great book, John