the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

This this this.

So my point is that we need to get better at understanding when the language of progressivism is co-opted by bad actors to hustle into the public sphere (“too innovative for regulation”) technologies that threaten the basic foundations of trust necessary to a functioning society.

I mean, right???

This combination of words is striking me as mordantly funny this morning, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social.

One day it would be nice for a city’s cultural institutions to be run for the benefit of the city and not a bunch of rich suburbanites

god that’s so bleak; I love that museum, a gem

What's important here is that it's the ICE raids that are capturing their attention.

This is why the reliance on focus groups and polls and the inevitable claim that voters only care about "kitchen table" issues misses the mark.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

Every bit of intelligence you see in the output of Generative AI is on your head, not in the soulless, dead pastiche of human creativity and thought the machine is blindly regurgitating.

I've realized that a whole lot of smart and well-informed people are overestimating the value and potential of "AI" tools because they underestimate how smart and well-informed they themselves are and how much expertise they bring to the interaction.

It's the curse of knowledge all the way down.

Mean to talk this way about my research program

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

😬😬😬

You’d think if you spent four or five years working on something, it’d super easy to wait a month or even months for someone to give it a careful read—and, no.

Then find it as soon as the new copy arrives—been there

Executives love Generative AI because it always gives them exactly what they want, whether it’s possible, ethical, smart, or not those things.

as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think

This has been the entire thing for months. It's better if Democrats start saying so in public.

It’s absolutely laughable that ai bros imagine they’ve cooked up intelligence—spend a few minutes watching a tardigrade which has a thousand cells or even the complex behaviors of a single cell organism and imagine we can best a human or even something simpler with enough compute.

Spectacular

What do you think would happen if Columbo got sent to The Village from "The Prisoner"

I so enjoyed visiting that house

“They mean well, they’re just misguided.” No! They’re bad. They occupy a very bad position in society and it’s not exculpatory that they tell themselves it’s for good that they do bad.