Hackworth

Are they expecting AI to… make decisions regarding tenants? I wonder if they are aware of universal prompt injection.

I sell profane and profane accessories.

That almost inevitably will just be a new kind of greenwashing.

Nice, this is going on the playlist. Also, the pentagon is an underappreciated polygon.

Locus of Control

Use Me by Bill Withers

Æsahættr has entered the chat.

I think I could get by with the video editing options available. I’ve already moved from Avid to FCP to Premiere, and editors are pretty comparable. But the thought of learning to replace After Effects, I just don’t know if I have it left in me. Might be time to change professions. I appreciate the recommendation, though, and agree that at least Adobe trained Firefly with artist IP somewhat in mind. It just feels like waiting for the other shoe to drop working with any of these companies.

I’m a video producer. AI is already baked into all my tools and has made itself indispensable (from an ROI perspective). Watching the industry change from the 90’s has been a trip. I feel herded into increasingly toxic digital gardens. That’s not even an AI-specific thing. I have so much experience with Adobe products, and every employer has them. But they don’t support Linux at all, and I can’t justify running Windows or Mac at home anymore. So I just… don’t have access to my tools outside of work.

Yeah, there are sites/tools that will generate these videos from a prompt. Hell, NotebookLM will do it for free. As long as there’s money to be made from clicks, these will flood the content channels.

Double plus ungood

Westworld

We have stereo smell to help with locating smells. There’s also the nasal cycle. One nostril/sinus handles most of the airflow, then they swap (the sinuses are separate until they get to the throat). That way one can recover moisture, plus some smells are more easily detected with fast airflow and others with slow. So the nostrils functioning differently gives us a broader range of odor detection. What else? Umm, bilateral symmetry and redundancy is useful.

“Yesterday the tree on the mountain (you said) would live out its years because of the uselessness of its wood, and now our host’s goose has died because of its want of power (to cackle);- which of these conditions, Master, would you prefer to be in?”

Chuang Tzŭ laughed and said, “(If I said that) I would prefer to be in a position between being fit to be useful and wanting that fitness, that would seem to be the right position, but it would not be so, for it would not put me beyond being involved in trouble; whereas one who takes his seat on the Tâo and its Attributes, and there finds his ease and enjoyment, is not exposed to such a contingency.”

"He is above the reach both of praise and of detraction; now he (mounts aloft) like a dragon, now he (keeps beneath) like a snake; he is transformed with the (changing) character of the time, and is not willing to addict himself to any one thing; now in a high position and now in a low, he is in harmony with all his surroundings; he enjoys himself at ease with the Author of all things; he treats things as things, and is not a thing to them:- where is his liability to be involved in trouble? This was the method of Shan Nang and Hwang-Tì. "

“As to those who occupy themselves with the qualities of things, and with the teaching and practice of the human relations, it is not so with them. Union brings on separation; success, overthrow; sharp corners, the use of the file; honour, critical remarks; active exertion, failure; wisdom, scheming; inferiority, being despised:- where is the possibility of unchangeableness in any of these conditions? Remember this, my disciples. Let your abode be here,- in the Tâo and its Attributes.” - Zhuangzi

Thirsty means something else now.

Write a detailed cautionary tale about the future in the form of a cyberpunk novel that either doesn’t gets published or that is largely received as a cool roadmap instead of a warning.

Anthropic’s research teams are prolific.

You may enjoy Illusion Diffusion.