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  • ChatGPT at one year – we cut our path in moving on

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    “Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI). The latter is more efficient and cheaper in a narrow labor economics sense but troublesome in all sorts of ways.” – Wired > email Newsletter > Steven Levy > Plaintext > The Plain View (December 8, 2023) Ready or not, in November, 2022, a new…

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  • Happy Thanksgiving 2023

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    My holiday digital card for 2023.

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  • when close enough often enough ≠ correct – tracking tech

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    As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found more “good enough” things to be just that – versus always seeking the so-called “best.” But trusting “good enough” data – approximate or inaccurate data – that works most of the time can take us down rabbit holes. Saying “the tech made me do it” is no excuse for knee-jerk actions. Recheck those disclosures! This article contains a telling…

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  • Better to ask forgiveness than permission? – Big Tech regulatory framework

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    You want your kids to be good citizens, conscientious & responsible; but also resilient to new challenges and hardships (as “sh** happens”). So, how do you come up with guidelines for their growth that are as dynamic as the novel circumstances they’ll face? Ditto for economic and social health and growth? As noted elsewhere as a comment to my post “Lords of AI,” the news…

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  • Fusion dreams – big science tokamak travail

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    No “Mr. Fusion” in the near future. Perhaps not even a giant tokamak. Here’s a tale of ongoing Big Science travail, Big Science going bust. A schedule that just keeps slipping into the future. • Scientific American > “World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal” by Charles Seife (June 15, 2023) – The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) [conceived in the…

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