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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Sure, I don’t disagree with what you said. Some will say Applied Science is a category of science, others will say it’s distinct from capital “S” Science. I don’t really care either way, the distinction I was making was: Science is a process of developing knowledge that explains the natural/observable universe, including the humans/societies within it, i.e. a way of understanding what is. Engineering is the application of scientific knowledge, principles, and methods of inquiry in the construction and development of technology–it does not seek to explain things about the world.




  • AI bad. But also, video AI started with will Will Smith eating spaghetti just a couple years ago.

    We keep talking about AI doing complex tasks right now and it’s limitations, then extrapolating its development linearly. It’s not linear and it’s not in one direction. It’s a exponential and rhizomatic process. Humans always over-estimate (ignoring hard limits) and under-estimate (thinking linearly) how these things go. With rocketships, with internet/social media, and now with AI.





  • I think the threats, limitations, and harms already underway due to AI are very real. And it’s scary thinking how the issues will develop under the current ways such technologies get pursued and implemented to accrue power.

    I also think we should be honest about the capabilities of the technology, the practical applications of it, and reconcile with the fact that the genie is out of the bottle. It’s the industrial revolution, it’s electricity, it’s the assembly line, and nuclear fission.