“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” – Epictetus

Keep thinking about the fiat world work guy talking about how annoyed he is that people are asking over and over “what’s the use case”/ROI for his particular AI agent demo. His stated opinion is that people are luddites, thinking in old mindset/deterministic features, and not thinking creatively. My dude, I said, “What’s the use case is a valid, neutral, curious question….” His head exploded and I got a tongue lashing of adrenaline-fueled nonsense. Fact: What’s the use case is a great question .. ….with interesting and informative and even new brainstormed answers ….unless you have no answers.

Next read-- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/empire-of-ai-book-karen-hao-review

No bread, just circuses …

Need to introduce my Flipper to bitchat…

Don’t become “them”…

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Jack Kerouac

Heard a story from an AI filmmaker, where she wanted to hire human voices for her film… ..so she posted the jobs on 2 sites. Both Voice job sites removed her job listing “on principle” against an AI-assisted film. So she used AI to do the voices. The humans literally took away the potential human voice jobs—not the AI.

What slime molds can teach us about memory…

What can slime mould teach us about biological memory? | Aeon Essays

Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob?

“Don’t let the force of the impression carry you away. Say to it, ‘hold up a bit and let me see who you are and where you are from—let me put you to the test’. . .” - Epictetus