"ChatGPT is a statistical representation of things found on the web, which will increasingly include ITS OWN output (directly and second hand). You post something picked up from it & it will use it to reinforce its own knowledge. Progressively a self-licking lollipop. Enjoy #AI" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, @nntaleb

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The Racket Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: the Top 50 Names to Know The result of months of work, by a large team, which among other things followed leads from #TwitterFiles material.

Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi May 10

Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to KnowThe citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel
Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt , Techno Fog , and 4 others May 10, 2023

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Morgoth's Review: Chernobyl: The Problem With Technocracy

"Centralization is power’s natural goal but the vast bureaucracy that's required demands increasing levels of predictability so as power gets nearer to its goal it necessarily renders the system sterile, unable to produce new ideas and solutions" Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre

The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.The disaster occurred during a safety test when the reactor's power output surged, leading to an explosion and a subsequent fire. The explosion released a massive amount of radioactive material into the atmosphere, which spread across Europe and beyond.The disaster resulted in the immediate death of two workers, while 29 others died later due to acute radiation sickness. The disaster also caused long-term health effects, including an increased incidence of cancer, birth defects, and other health problems among the local population.The Soviet government initially tried to cover up the disaster, but the scale of the accident was too big to be hidden. The disaster forced the evacuation of thousands of people from the surrounding areas and led to the creation of a 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the plant, which remains in place to this day.The Chernobyl disaster had a significant impact on the nuclear power industry, leading to increased safety regulations and changes in nuclear reactor designs. It also raised awareness about the risks associated with nuclear power and the importance of ensuring the safety of nuclear facilities.

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Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. (Robert Brault)

John Searle circa 1984 discussing artificial intelligence and his analogy of the Chinese room.

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Syntax (AI) vs semantics (human).

I asked ChatGPT to tell me the difference between Syntax and semantics

Syntax and semantics are two important concepts in linguistics and computer science.

Syntax refers to the rules that govern the structure of a language. It deals with the way words are arranged to form sentences and how those sentences are structured. Syntax is concerned with the grammatical correctness of a sentence, regardless of its meaning.

Semantics, on the other hand, is concerned with the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. It deals with the interpretation of language and how words and sentences convey meaning. Semantics is concerned with the meaning of a sentence, regardless of its grammatical correctness.

In summary, syntax is concerned with the structure of language, while semantics is concerned with the meaning of language.