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by liberal japonicus I found this interesting Federov said: “A lot of officials in different countries forget that human behaviour nowadays is about clicking a few clicks. It is not about circles of hell, wasting people’s time. “We acted more like a start-up, not like a public sector company,” Federov told MEPs, encouraging an “an … Read more
by wj For this weekend’s Open Thread, we step away from the chaos in the US and return to a familiar subject: Ukraine. (Bearing in mind that I’m nothing like an expert on the subject.) Everyone has been talking for months about the coming Spring Offensive by Ukraine. So far, nothing has happened. Why not? … Read more
by liberal japonicus This New Yorker piece by Ted Chiang is really worth your time. As it is currently deployed, A.I. often amounts to an effort to analyze a task that human beings perform and figure out a way to replace the human being. Coincidentally, this is exactly the type of problem that management wants … Read more
by liberal japonicus I hear Crow and think Raven, so I wonder what Harlan is going to be thinking about Ron Wyden's tapping at his door. It would be high-larious if this sunk him. A thread for your graft related observations.