Zvi Mowshowitz: AI ([AGI]) and and the Technological Richter Scale. The Technological Richter scale is introduced about 80% of the way through Nate Silver’s new book On the Edge. (more)

pun on "train of thought"; a type of prompt engineering? Chain of thought (CoT) mirrors human reasoning, facilitating systematic problem-solving through a coherent series of logical deductions. Chain of thought prompting is an approach in artificial intelligence that simulates human-like reasoning processes by delineating complex tasks into a sequence of logical steps towards a final resolution. This methodology reflects a fundamental aspect of human intelligence, offering a structured mechanism for problem-solving. In other words, CoT is predicated on the cognitive strategy of breaking down elaborate problems into manageable, intermediate thoughts that sequentially lead to a conclusive answer. If we think about prompt chaining, it is a more rudimentary form of CoT prompting, where the AI is prompted to generate responses based on a given context or question. In contrast, CoT prompting goes beyond merely generating coherent and relevant responses by requiring the AI to construct an entire logical argument, including premises and a conclusion, from scratch. https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/chain-of-thoughts

issuer of free SSL certificates https://letsencrypt.org/ (more)

person who does Systems Thinking (more)

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Instead of wishing that BigMedia would become less fascist-appeasing, let's give your attention and money to some information creators who are not evil.... (more)

CryptPad is a collaborative office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and open-source. https://cryptpad.org/ (more)

Paul-Michel Foucault (UK: /ˈfuːkoʊ/ FOO-koh, US: /fuːˈkoʊ/ foo-KOH;[9] French: [pɔl miʃɛl fuko]; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power versus knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself.[10] His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

John Rogers Searle (American English pronunciation: /sɜːrl/; born July 31, 1932)[4] is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959, and was Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, until June 2019, when his status as professor emeritus was revoked because he was found to have violated the university's sexual harassment policies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle

In the philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience.[1][2] It is contrasted with the "easy problems" of explaining why and how physical systems give a (healthy) human being the ability to discriminate, to integrate information, and to perform behavioral functions such as watching, listening, speaking (including generating an utterance that appears to refer to personal behaviour or belief), and so forth.[1] The easy problems are amenable to functional explanation—that is, explanations that are mechanistic or behavioral—since each physical system can be explained (at least in principle) purely by reference to the "structure and dynamics" that underpin the phenomenon... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #95: o1 Joins the API. A lot happened this week. We’re seeing release after release after upgrade. It’s easy to lose sight of which ones matter, and two matter quite a lot. The first is Gemini Flash 2.0, which I covered earlier this week. The other is that o1 (OpenAI o1), having turned pro, is now also available in the API. (more)

SmallCo (sometimes a One Man Show) not Built To Flip, nor really Built To Get Big. But designed to generate enough cash flow to make a decent Life Style for all participants, often tied to one's personal Value-s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business (more)

The opposite, in nature, to BigCo. (more)

New Years are an opportunity for committing to resolutions, starting new habits, discarding what no longer serves us. Why not take the challenge and start a Cyber-Cleanse? This is not a digital detox: one of those getaways where you lock your phone away for a few days and attempt to focus on the world around you instead of constant notifications. It's a chance to take stock of your digital footprint, clean up what you've left behind, and move with intention toward a different set of digital habits in the coming years. (more)

Emergent Democracy guru https://micahsifry.com/ (more)

"The Californian Ideology" is a 1995 essay by English media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of Westminster. Barbrook calls it a "critique of dotcom neoliberalism".[1] In the essay, Barbrook and Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 1990s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism... Andrew Leonard of Salon called the essay "one of the most penetrating critiques of neo-conservative digital hypesterism yet published".[3] In contrast, Wired magazine publisher Louis Rossetto wrote that the essay showed "profound ignorance of economics"... Barbrook argues that members of the digerati who adhere to the Californian Ideology embrace a form of reactionary modernism. According to him, "American neo-liberalism seems to have successfully achieved the contradictory aims of reactionary modernism: economic progress and social immobility. Because the long-term goal of liberating everyone will never be reached, the short-term rule of the digerati can last forever."... Sociologist Thomas Streeter of the University of Vermont has said that the Californian Ideology appeared as part of a pattern of Romantic individualism with Stewart Brand as a key influence.[9] Adam Curtis connects the Californian Ideology's origins to Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism... In the 2011 documentary All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Curtis concludes that the Californian Ideology failed to live up to its claims: The original promise of the Californian Ideology, was that the computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destiny. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or to change. (accountability sink) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology (more)

A pirate is one who robs or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognized sovereign nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate (those commissioned by a nation were called Privateers or Corsairs) The most famous corsair was Sir Francis Drake and England was the main nation in promoting them. (more)

Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work. Chatbots help craft emails and act as customer support. Algorithms help banks decide loan eligibility and assist in reviewing job applications. AI is gaining a foothold in many workplaces, aggregating information and helping people make smarter decisions. At least that’s how AI is sold. (more)

TV network. I worked there for a couple years, in finance, at the broadcast center. CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS (more)

The mental practice of acknowledging the uncertainty/risk of every belief or decision or action. (more)