Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Honestly my only disagreement here is when Chiang writes that "it’s not the job of A.I. to strengthen capitalism...yet that is what it currently does." I think by the time of the Dartmouth conference John McCarthy had pretty explicitly renounced the Communist beliefs his organizer parents raised him on and IMO McCarthy's (and Minsky's, and the other guys)' political beliefs are part of the story of AI's intellectual history

I do not love that in 2023 a totally smart writer still has to include a disclaimer that "whenever I criticize capitalism, I’m not criticizing the idea of selling things" in the goddamn New Yorker

"Note that you cannot simply say that you will build A.I. that only offers pro-social solutions to the problems you ask it to solve. That’s the equivalent of saying that you can defuse the threat of McKinsey by starting a consulting firm that only offers such solutions." get their asses Ted https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

OMG this seller is also selling random old soviet hardware, help

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155121908850?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=hBb6LJJcS9C&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=s45yvgRWQCy&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY oh no a giant roll of tiny graph paper in LATVIA do...do I need this?

turning to my preferred coping strategy for stress, buying deadstock stationery on ebay

just got mom home from the hospital, now the part where I try to maintain calm while being hella triggered by having to parent my parent like I'm 16 years old again!!

went to yoga at 6:15 IN THE MORNING, feeling like a real sicko

surgeon just called to let me know that she's out and everything went fine! she's staying overnight and then I'll be taking her home tomorrow

asking grad students to contribute money to a fund that helps pay for undergrad internship stipends when my cohort includes new parents trying to make a $35K stipend work is a bold fucking move is all I am saying

my university has a "day of giving" (ie fundraising for the school) today and it''s very weird to be getting emails about how every bit helps while texting with a fellow grad student who has been waiting almost eight months for reimbursements from travel for grant-supported research

I don't understand whether the implication is Fox fired him for being racist and saying "white people fight honorably" etc or because he expressed an iota of sympathy for someone allegedly associated with antifa, can someone please clarify

the patient's procedure is still in progress 🤗

a "Godfather of AI" implies a Fredo of AI

the hospital is sending me very dry automated text message updates—"the patient's procedure has begun", "the patient is doing well". Imagining someone trying to program this to be "nicer", eg "the patient is doing well!!" plus some emojis

taking my mom to her big spinal surgery this morning, please send good vibes

this extremely stupid little joke had me thinking about how good the infernal affairs movies were and I happened to be browsing criterion and they're all there!! amazing!!

just renewed grimoire.computer which I still think was a pretty cool project and will always be glad it introduced me to @Mer__edith

"NEPA rules don’t apply to space" is so cursed https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-environment-cell-towers-failures