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'AI Can't Think' - Slashdot
November 26, 2025 at 6:06:23 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence
- https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/25/2146258/ai-cant-think
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Cultures break down all the time, of course | MetaFilter
November 12, 2025 at 8:54:12 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors
- https://www.metafilter.com/211005/Cultures-break-down-all-the-time-of-course
At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors Zeitgeist -
Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did - Impact of Social Sciences
March 4, 2025 at 10:15:17 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did
- https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/03/bluesky-will-trap-academics-in-the-same-way-twitter-x-did/
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New Blade Runner TV miniseries begins filming in Prague | Radio Prague International
July 18, 2024 at 6:38:22 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -Blade Runner 2099, the upcoming Amazon Prime Video television sequel to the 1982 and 2017 films of the same franchise, has started shooting in Prague
- https://english.radio.cz/new-blade-runner-tv-miniseries-begins-filming-prague-8823175
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We Still Use the Same Words We Did 15,000 Years Ago
May 7, 2013 at 5:14:55 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -some of the words we use today could be 15,000 years old—meaning that Ice Age humans would have been able to understand parts of our speech.
- http://gizmodo.com/we-still-use-the-same-words-we-did-15-000-years-ago-493591254
