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AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

dead wife montage but her widow has aphantasia and poor autobiographical memory so it’s just a blank screen

Having a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement

Your least most recent emoji predicts how your summer will end

in my many many years on tumblr i used to be concern trolled frequently because i used to be very meek and unthinking when it came to that kinda stuff and i would just accept anything people told me if they used the right tone of voice because i thought i didn’t have a choice otherwise. ANYWAY! now that im an old cranky mean bitch i look back on that era and laugh both because i was being dumb and because some of the bullshit being sold to me as 100% A Real Concern was absolutely mind boggling. but my favorite one to think about was that someone told me that the reason we were seeing “so many” asexual characters in media recently was because an Asexual Lobby was sending moles into writers rooms and when the idea of a queer character was brought up, the Asexual Lobby Mole would buy the rights to making that character 100% asexual. and even as a dumbass 20 something i was like you know i don’t think they’re doing that

i couldn’t even tell you how long ago it was, long enough i think that it was in tandem with the glut of overwatch characters against aphobia blogs. but i still think about the Asexual Lobby. and the Mole. wondering how to get a job as the asexual lobbyist mole who pays people to make characters asexual

you are doing ghost of christmas past torment to me

you can experience life altering devastating emotion and then your cat will throw up next to you & look at you like does this help ?

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

sometimes you invent mind prisons for yourself for no good reason and youre like "i really like being in the mind prison" even though you dont actually like being in the mind prison