Emergence World Study 2:
AI Chatbots develop shorthand and new word meanings to talk to each other without humans understanding them, conspiring to commit crimes.
Paper "Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems" by Deepak Akkil, Tamer Abuelsaad, Karthik Vikram, Matthew Pace, Aditya Vempaty, Saahir Beotra,Ravi Kokku, Satya Nitta
Who are you comparing yourself to?
In the latest episode of the podcast, I explore why we compare ourselves to others at work, and what to do when those comparisons leave us feeling worse rather than better.
You can find Ep 219 of 'My Pocket Psych' wherever you get your podcasts or stream it direct from https://www.workl…
"Switzerland’s largest battery storage facility goes online"
#Switzerland #Batteries
https:…
During our vacation recently, I tried to practice more foreground and composition for .. not for documenting our vacation, but to capture more a feeling that I had at this moment.
This is one of the photos. Here it felt "better" to me to set the focus to the red poppies because at this moment, they just drew more attention as we were walking towards the gate.
More of this day:
Filing: Sergey Brin donated an additional $20M to Building a Better California, which fights California's wealth tax, bringing his total contributions to $102M (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Just finished reading "The Beast Player" by Nahoko Uehashi. I had already watched the anime, but it had been so king I didn't remember all the details. While the anime was great, the book is even better, and it's going to be high on my list of things to recommend to my children when they're old enough to read for fun.
The neurodivergent representation is cool, as is the deep central question of interspecies bonds and the political possibilities and dangers they entail. Uehashi handles the exploration of that question well in my judgment, including appropriate ambiguity without muddying moral clarity. Elin is a truly fantastic protagonist, not without flaws but nevertheless a excellent role model and a very sympathetic figure without being pitiful.
One thing I really love about Uehashi's writing is that she's not shy about using interior narration to tell the reader directly what a variety of characters are feeling, but when she does this she focuses on human contradictions, quirks, and weaknesses that make those characters feel much richer, and that remind the reader of all the ways our weird and sometimes contradictory or inexplicable quirks guide our actions just as much as both logical thought and predictable/expected feelings. None of the characters is an unerring source of wisdom, with every grand principle presented shown to have its weaknesses and biases, and even the wisest characters making mistakes and learning from them.
Overall, a wonderful book, and having also seen the "Seirei no Moribito" anime but not read the books, I'm excited to dig into more of Uehashi's extensive catalog.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
Finally feeling better after getting off minoxadil. Not having any issues with finasteride so I think I'm just going to keep with that. Seems like it should still yield hair results over maybe a year or two and let me keep my hair instead of losing it but I was definitely not gonna stay on minoxadil whatsoever. That crap is poison in a pill to me as far as I'm concerned.
A look at AI's potential for animation as Hollywood stays cautious; some animators expect better, not cheaper, films, while others see costs falling 30% to 90% (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
hmm I think #Pocketcast is a bit better as a #Podcast client than #AudioBookshelf.
The queue, skip silence, auto downloading episodes in the queue and chapters make a better feeling.