I study philosophy, bioethics, data science, and human computer interaction. I also gamble on cryptocurrencies
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Paul August retweeted
In the mid 1980s, crowds at Milwaukee County Stadium were becoming so drunk that the Brewers began showing a PSA on the stadium scoreboard
#ThisIsMyCrew
Paul August retweeted
Just learned that Patrick Stewart has passed away. Such a sad loss. Here he is in one of the best things ever put on television, the Star Trek episode “The Measure of a Man.” I show it to my students in Philosophy and Science Fiction every year.
Paul August retweeted
Robert Gasser is the first lefty to face the minimum through six innings in a World Series game since SANDY KOUFAX in 1965
Paul August retweeted
This is the definitive Uecker article.
Bob Uecker’s spirit hangs over a bittersweet Brewers World Series
“When you think about Milwaukee, you immediately associate it with Bob Uecker. It’s the Brewers, and it’s Bob Uecker.”
nytimes.com/athletic/7721570…
Paul August retweeted
The Milwaukee Brewers are the first team in the history of American sports to get swept 0-4 in the postseason and then sweep that same opponent 4-0 the following year.
A “revenge sweep” has only happened 4x prior - never in consecutive 7-game series, and never in the MLB at all.
Paul August retweeted
You need to bathe in Woodrow Wilson's horribleness.
You need to be Great War hate-read maxxing.
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📚 Au Japon, des gens vont désormais en boîte de nuit… pour s’asseoir silencieusement et lire un livre pendant qu’un DJ joue de la musique d'ambience.
Le concept s’appelle JUCY BOOK RAVE et se déroule notamment dans un club souterrain de Shimokitazawa, à Tokyo. Ici, pas besoin de danser ni de hurler pour parler à la personne située à 30 centimètres de vous. Les participants viennent avec un livre, s’installent dans la pénombre et lisent pendant que la musique accompagne leur soirée.
Paul August retweeted
They kicked around a lot of endings in the writers' room, but everyone agreed that this one was the most in-character.
Paul August retweeted
one thing i read on here that is extremely true is that u don't have to have any opinion on the phenomenological consciousness of AI; the METR report clearly shows that we need good high level understandings of their sociology. they have emergent processes that have emulated the human baseline from the outset, and it's not a stretch to posit that these entities in groups act like humans in a group.
Paul August retweeted
The uncanny psychological dynamics on display in this insane saga (and their obvious causal role in how this all materialized) should update any rational observer to conclude that understanding model cognition matters for alignment, and thus deserves > ≈0 attention from labs.
Paul August retweeted
celebrate americas 250th
With TC’s 256th
• World Cup
• White sauce
• Ween
LOST IN THE SAUCE
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Paul August retweeted
The House That Giannis Built
This is Giannis Legacy
He literally saved basketball in Milwaukee, transformed the downtown landscape and delivered a championship
Without Giannis, I have real doubts Fiserv Forum would be standing here and Bucks would still be in Milwaukee
Paul August retweeted
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
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The popular conversation around AI in America looks nothing like the narratives the elites are driving.
For our new research, we analyzed 25,000 TikTok and YouTube videos about AI---and watched thousands of them ourselves---to understand how Americans are encountering AI in their everyday lives.
Despite an elite conversation focused largely on backlash, AI videos embracing AI outnumber videos about resisting AI 3 to 1.
These "adopter" videos don't focus on the things elites talk about: they talk about funny memes and effects AI can help make and ways you can use AI to help you with your job search.
There is a significant and organized social media community focused on resisting AI, but surprisingly, it's not mainly about job loss, data centers, or existential risk. Instead, it's about creative theft and the erosion of human-made art. This has all the hallmarks of a genuine movement---with organized efforts to support human artists, to report AI-generated content, and to oppose the technology in the real world.
All in all, when we look past the efforts of the labs and the media to impose a top-down narrative around job loss and existential risk, we find everyday Americans having a far different and in many ways more "normal" conversation (@random_walker)---one in which AI offers immediate and personal opportunities and challenges all at the same time.
Check out the full research piece, which is loaded with interesting real example videos, here:
freesystems.substack.com/p/m…
