Assassinating is so easy a child could do it. It’s getting away with it that’s hard.

Yes, and we’re in denial about it.

Every time I hear someone talking up prompt engineering, I feel like I should say something. But I don’t.

Thank you for your cooperation.

I like that someone in a position of authority is talking about this.

And I don’t mean to denigrate data science. It is important and powerful. And real machine intelligence may one day emerge from it (or data science may one day point the way). But data science just isn’t AI.

This is because the AI of today is a shit sandwich that we’re being told is peanut butter and jelly.

For those who like to party: All the current “AI” technologies use statistics to approximate semantics. They can’t just be semantic, because we don’t know how meaning works or what gives rise to it. So the public is put off because they have an intuitive sense of the ruse.

As long as the mechanics of meaning remain a mystery, “AI” will be parlor tricks.

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Thanks for explaining.

It’s certainly true that women who rise to the top of national politics get relentlessly, negatively caricatured (Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi). With Kamala Harris it’s different because a lot of the murmuring comes from Democrats and they never say why.

Will someone please come out and say what the problem with Kamala Harris is? I see people hinting about it all the time, but I have no idea what it’s all about.

It appears to just be EU countries on the list.

You’re making my point for me. Will someone please think of the pandas? Also, the “/s” doesn’t affect pandas when in quotes.

Every time you “/s” a baby panda dies. Just say no to “/s”.

I’m going to need to see your passport to prove you’re not American. Otherwise fines may be assessed.

I would be interested in learning what people find objectionable about my comments, if anyone would care to share.

Yes the developer sees it, and also the data brokers they sell all their user data to see it, aggregate it, and corollate it. Not to mention whatever Microsoft does with it.

My main point is that “observability” tools like Clarity are screen grabbing whole Web sessions and have been for some time.

This has already been happening on the Web for quite some time. For example Microsoft Clarity records everything you do on those dodgy Web sites you visit. And they assign a universal identifier to you that can be correlated with the IDs Google and your device have already created and broadcast to profile you.

And you think “oh but I use x, y, and z to prevent tracking”. Guess what: They make your browser do nonsense tasks in the background to benchmark your hardware and then assign a UUID to you based on that.

The only thing that can help this situation is privacy legislation with real teeth.

To be clear: I’m not talking about counting guns. I’m talking about normalized insanity. The Republicans continue to play with fire and whip the crazies into a frenzy. Democrats just gawk at them and make reassuring statements to each other.

I’m saying there could be more Pizzagate-style vigilantes and Jan. 6ers in our future and we need to think about what it means to be ready for it.