This may be key to reining it in — “The reason it was boring was because it was made safe,” LeCun said last week at a forum hosted by AI consulting company Collective[i]. He blamed the tepid public response on Meta being “overly careful about content moderation,” like directing the chatbot to change the subject if a user asked…

Putin goes far beyond delusions of grandeur — It’s a simple yet terrifying scenario: NATO rounds up dozens of modern tanks and hundreds of support fighting vehicles and sends them to Ukraine along with attack aircraft and missile systems. And they train an elite corps of Ukrainian soldiers in modern mechanized warfare skills. Meanwhile, Russia’s brutal dictator, who…

We have a glaringly obvious problem and equally obvious solution — The gun lobby has achieved its goal of Americans becoming numb to a constant barrage of gun violence. The silence in Washington is deafening and we don’t even hear that crap about thoughts and prayers anymore. Thoughts and prayers are meaningless without legal action. I cannot fathom the kind of…

Everything goes by his rules — Picture a gated retirement community with rules set by a Homeowner’s Association or HOA. An idyllic place to see out one’s final years, undisturbed by the reality of the outside world. And then a man is elected leader of your HOA and he becomes consumed by writing rules and dictating…

It’s not a pretty picture, not pretty at all — It’s normal. It’s acceptable. It’s expected, and it’s disgusting. And it is reality right now. Our leaders are compulsive liars, at least some of them. The problem is that they don’t care. Lying has become a legitimate political position. …

“The party that has spent months grabbing headlines by attacking drag queens is now represented by one in Congress.” — Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From an American, 1/20/2023 Representative George Santos* is the gift that keeps giving. Apparently he verified his past as a drag queen on Wikipedia. *Btw, this is not about George Santos. They can dress any way they want. This is about the Republican Party. …

The House goes kaboom — Anyone watching could see it coming, yet now that it is here it is far worse than anyone could have imagined. Kevin McCarthy, Republican Speaker of the House, gave up every concession he was asked for, no matter how looney or outright dangerous. To get a title. And now, they…

I’ve been there many times. It’s not what you think. — I opened a doc and wrote this title several weeks ago, intending to do my normal thing, which is to dive into a topic and try to get to the gist of it. But I stalled because I thought, what exactly is an altered state? …