The funeral of Navalny; Asimov's laws of robotics on Mystery Hype AI Theater 3000; Very Briefly Noted; & Fear of a Black Pope!; Quick Takes on Acemoglu & Johnson's "Power & Progress"; Affirmative...
Re: The AI Con, a narrative takedown of the AI bubble and its megaphone-wielding boosters that exposes how tech’s greedy prophets aim to reap windfall profits from the promise of replacing workers with machines.
MMMM??? Describe the machines that will replace customers.
Why don't utilities like PG&E and Hawaiian have hazard insurance? Regulators may not have believed the utilities implicit charges for self-insurance, but they would have to have accepted insurer's premiums. Now would insurers have been setting precia based on forard-looking models? Maybe not, but at least that would be their problem, not the utilities'.
I recently rewatched The Death of Stalin. A major turning point involves controlling who can come to his funeral. In still seems to be a big deal in some places.
Democrats do not need to crave the approval of environmental activists; they need to crave the approval of the marginal voter in the swing state/district.
[It's a separate issue why environmental activists are not focused like a laser on minimum cost measures for reducing CO2, so that their approval would be worth craving.]
Re: The AI Con, a narrative takedown of the AI bubble and its megaphone-wielding boosters that exposes how tech’s greedy prophets aim to reap windfall profits from the promise of replacing workers with machines.
MMMM??? Describe the machines that will replace customers.
Navalny funeral: This reminds me of a song our choir sings at Easter:
"They have been saying
"No one will remember"
"They have been saying"
"Power rules the world"
....
Roll away the Stone!
Why don't utilities like PG&E and Hawaiian have hazard insurance? Regulators may not have believed the utilities implicit charges for self-insurance, but they would have to have accepted insurer's premiums. Now would insurers have been setting precia based on forard-looking models? Maybe not, but at least that would be their problem, not the utilities'.
I recently rewatched The Death of Stalin. A major turning point involves controlling who can come to his funeral. In still seems to be a big deal in some places.
Democrats do not need to crave the approval of environmental activists; they need to crave the approval of the marginal voter in the swing state/district.
[It's a separate issue why environmental activists are not focused like a laser on minimum cost measures for reducing CO2, so that their approval would be worth craving.]