New from me: Chat-GPT and the automation of bullshit - Will AI only become civilised when the bullshit piles up high enough that we need a system to deal with it? ethosdesign.substack.com/p/c…

TIL Twitter’s Community Notes uses the principles behind Netflix recommendations engine, in reverse, to identify notes that are deemed helpful by people who DON’T normally agree. #prosocialtech twitter.github.io/communityn…

Finding this meltdown of Twitter so stressful, because I’m realising how much I’d come to depend on it, and I feel so stupid for treating it like a commons, when it never was.

Hume was wrong, when he said that “ought implies can” - that our responsibilities are limited by our abilities. Wrong because he ignores the fact that a sense of “ought” drives us to extend our abilities through technology and process innovation. “Ought implies could” instead.

The shadow of "exit to community" is "offload liability onto the community". qz.com/crypto-companies-can-…

Tonight! @ Golden Barley Hotel instagram.com/p/CjZxcZqLV5d/… – at Sydney, New South Wales

Looking forward to this @golden_fang_band gig with @mickdaleyo and the corporate raiders at @goldenbarleyhotel on Friday week. @ Golden Barley Hotel instagram.com/p/Ci3ffEHBPT2/… – at Sydney, New South Wales

At what point do we start considering this might have been (be?) the stage rehearsal for a coup? theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Just like going to moon gave us Velcro, maybe in worrying about the ethics of AI, we’ll figure out how to imbue corporations with values. After all, the latter is made of people - oils be easier, right?

Some words from the 20th century French #phenomenologist, Maurice #MerleauPonty, and some pictures of #hamsters. How did I not know about this sooner? instagram.com/merleauponty_h…

Just posted a photo @ MoshPit Bar instagram.com/p/CglrrPNB84-/… – at Sydney, New South Wales

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Very tangential take but this makes it sound like the mistake Elizabeth Holmes made was that she went into business, rather than politics. I guess that’s what they mean by the infinite game - you never actually have to deliver.