Notes

My biggest fear with AI is that we’ve reached a plateau. If we’re stuck with “smart enough to bullshit” but spend a decade struggling to actually automate meaningful solutions, I fear for human culture.

This feels like a glimpse of the future: coding by writing examples that are treated like unit tests: https://austinhenley.com/blog/mirrorlang.html

Germany, of all nations, should be keenly aware of the dangers of forgetting state attrocities. So it’s especially upsetting to see Berlin supporting Japan’s effort to censor history and remove memory of the ianfu. https://www.theleftberlin.com/berlin-mayor-insists-on-removing-statue-for-victims-of-sexual-slavery/

I’m old enough to remember when voting for local offices required researching the candidates because you couldn’t count on whether the Democrat or the Republican was the batshit crazy one.

I’m very tempted to approach the creators of inTouch and ask how much it would cost to influence “parents” to vote or subscribe to crypto schemes.

Today we observe that the Israeli state under Netanyahu has spent a full year “defending itself” by killing a child every 48 minutes.