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My favorite movie when I was a little kid was On the Waterfront. Brando gives the greatest performance I’ve ever seen. But his gradual softening is believable in part due to the warmth and decency that radiates from Eva Marie Saint, who was extraordinary. When he tells her “you’re the first nice thing that ever happened to me,” you believe it because of her, too. Loved her so much in this, and countless other movies. Thank you for giving your artistry.
Steve retweeted
These Anthropic people are insane. Since you’re talking up theologians, a sidebar theological question they SHOULD be asking: “If we seriously believe a product we are working on to become billionaires could wipe out humanity, under your faith is there a hell and would we be going? Also, should we stop?”
nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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New BPEA paper by @SVNieuwerburgh argues that AI buildout will cost $10.3T over next 8 years. Furthermore, to get a 10% return on this, those investing will need annual revenues of $3.7T by 2032! (Approx 9% of GDP!)
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When I was 25, one of the VPs would stand behind my chair and hold his hands on my shoulders while he was speaking in meetings.
I told my boss it made me uncomfortable, resulting in HR asking me to sign a pledge of “assuming positive intent” because THAT was the problem. Henceforth, I wore high heels and stood at every meeting.
I’m 6’4” in heels, and he was 5’7” with shoes on.
My designer heels in court and in important meetings aren’t a fashion statement, they’re a lifelong protest of anyone who wanted me to feel small.
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I'm going to throw up a question about the investigation of the Hugging Face incident. When you do an investigation of any dangerous incident, one key element to examine is human error. But the Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) institution didn't do that. They seemed only interested in what the agents were doing. That is, they anthromorphized the agents, while turning the humans into non-player characters.
Did OpenAI researchers and executives know the risks they were taking and take steps to manage them? What kinds of human discussions were happening internally around these models? How did they mitigate these risks internally? Did they discuss legal liability? Was the board or were executives involved?
These are the kinds of questions to ask if you are a real regulator. I don't see where or if METR asked them. Mostly they footnoted that these questions are 'out of scope.' They saw this project as a technical inquiry into the capabilities of intelligent models, not as an analysis of a dangerous accident. They interviewed eight researchers. Any executives? Any board members or lawyers?
From the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco to the Space Shuttle explosion to the 737 Max, we've always realize that human behavior is the foundation of how complex systems behave. That is true here too. I don't see any analysis of the actual people at OpenAI making decisions about the tools used for hacking.
Am I missing something?
Steve retweeted
@letterboxd and @tubi: can you merge, have Letterboxd have a chat/feed function similar to X/Twitter and stream all of Tubi’s content and let Letterboxd mutuals text chat during the movies and TV shows? Thanks, gang.
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Before the 1996 NBA draft, the entire world expected the Philadelphia 76ers to draft UMass’s Marcus Camby with the No. 1 pick.
Sixers former GM Brad Greenberg even admitted the front office was dead set on drafting Camby.
Everything changed within weeks leading up to the draft when one intern managed to flip the minds of every person in the Sixers front office into drafting Georgetown’s Allen Iverson at pick #1.
Who was that intern?
24 year old Daryl Morey🤯
Steve retweeted
Just a quick reminder that they arrested this guy for paddleboarding alone in the ocean during Covid while Anthony Fauci had dinner with Jake Tapper and his wife in DC and Gavin Newsome hosted a party with friends in California.
Steve retweeted
New w/ @PranjalDrall: Private Credit's State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers. It's about how insurance insolvency, tax, and financial-regulation law have subsidized PE's takeover of life insurance and become the submerged law of private credit.
Steve retweeted
"The finest black pitcher of his time, Rube Foster was a big, outwardly genial Texan who called friends and strangers alike "Darlin'."
But Foster was tough with the white owners of the big city stadiums where his teams played when the big leaguers were safely out of town.
And he was tough on his players, too, insisting on the same kind of aggressive, fast-moving baseball preached by John McGraw, fining any member of his team $5 if he were tagged out standing up.
"You're supposed to slide,"he said.
No one unable consistently to bunt a ball into a cap could play for Rube Foster, and white MLB baseball managers regularly attended his games to study his tactics."
Ken Burns.
"What more interesting kind of organization could black people create than leagues and baseball?
It was a sport that defined America, and so black people adopting this sport and showing we too can have leagues and we too can play this game and play it very well, in some way was black people showing white Americans:
Yes, we're American.
Yes, we can play this game and this game means something to us, too, and it means something in our history and in our heritage."
Gerald Early.
The Leland Giants went 110-10 under his management and his incredible pitching that year.
Rube Foster was also paid under the table to teach Christy Mathewson his famous "Fadeaway" pitch by New York Giants manager and Mathewson's close personal mentor, John McGraw.
"Do not worry.
Try to appear jolly and unconcerned.
I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter.
This seems to unnerve the batter."
"Rube Foster."
Art by Kadir Nelson.
Steve retweeted
If 5 year from now the top model is only as big a relative improvement vs Fable as Fable is vs GPT 3 then every AI name will have traded down -80% from the peak and quite a few will go bankrupt
