I was listening to Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast, episode 301, interviewing Tina Eliassi-Rad. It is an interesting discussion of AI and data, and its relevance to human knowledge and behavior. Eliassi-Rad commented that Walter Cronkite was the most trusted authority, that anything he said would be believed. Eliassi-Rad asserted that we don’t have anyone like…
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It’s the Stupidity, Stupid!
“One small step for America, one giant leap for Idiocracy.” Yes, that’s a reference to the Mike Judge movie. #Republicans and the #MasterPlanners (see @levernews.com) have taken us most of the way to Idiocracy. When Private Equity and the Churches complete their takeover of the health care industrial complex, then we will make it the…
Colorado Democratic Senators Vote for Project 2025
My Colorado Senators, Bennet and Hickenlooper, have voted for six and seven of Trump’s cabinet nominees, respectively, so far. Have they not read the #Project2025 document? Why are they complicit in anything that Trump does? This collaborative cop-out will end up losing them their power, respect and maybe their country. Ballotpedia is a great resource…
Robot Optimism
I follow a couple of YouTubers who report on developments in the technological realm of AI and robotics. Recently, one described work at Meta on a home companion/helper robot based on the “dog” platform that many robot developers have adopted. Give Meta credit for opportunistic exploitation of the love that people have for dogs. The…
Let’s Simplify Dating
This morning, I was doing calculations in my head involving dividing by the number of months in a year. 12, yeah. Divide by 12. It would be a lot easier if it was 10. Why not have 10 months per year? 36.5 days per month. Look, it’s already easier (dividing 365 days by 10)! So,…