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March 15, 2024 · 2 min read

This article explains why I write my weekend science posts

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

This article should shed some light on why I write my weekend Science posts here on LinkedIn.

Like these:

Electric Cows Have a Zero Emissions Tailpipe – Open link ↗

Climate Science! – Open link ↗

America uses 20 million barrels of electricity per day – Open link ↗

Solar Panel Powered Cows –
Open link ↗

Liquefied Natural Electricity – Open link ↗

Climate Catastrophe is Literally Melting Time – Open link ↗

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● “Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot distinguish fact from fiction.

It also isn’t creative or can create novel content but repeats, repackages, and reformulates what has already been said (but perhaps in new ways).

I am sure someone will disagree with the latter, perhaps pointing to the fact that AI can clearly generate, for example, new songs and lyrics.

I agree with this, but it misses the point.

AI produces a “new” song lyric only by drawing from the data of previous song lyrics and then uses that information (the inductively uncovered patterns in it) to generate what to us appears to be a new song (and may very well be one).

● However, there is no artistry in it, no creativity.

● It’s only a structural rehashing of what exists.

… AI can be used as an effective propaganda tool, which both the corporations creating them and the governments and agencies regulating them have recognized.

… AI will not Terminator-like start to hate us and attempt to exterminate mankind.

It will not make us all into biological batteries, as in The Matrix.

●》However, it will – especially when corrupted – misinform and mislead us, create chaos, and potentially make our lives “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

mises.org ↗

Read the linked article on mises.org ↗

FROM THE THREAD

Tom's notes 4

  1. Tom Kirkman

    Gavin McHugh
    Woke Garbage in, Woke Garbage out.

    Way too much hype about AI.

    Do you really want a heavily biased, woke, computer program telling you what to think,

    AI is like Google Search on woke steroids.

    (I despise Google's woke and biased search, and primarily use Brave and DuckDuckGo.

    But even DuckDuckGo search has now been compromised by Google.

  2. Tom Kirkman

    Gavin McHugh
    Woke Garbage in, Woke Garbage out.

    Way too much hype about AI.

    Do you really want a heavily biased, woke, computer program telling you what to think,

    AI is like Google Search on woke steroids.

    (I despise Google's woke and biased search, and primarily use Brave and DuckDuckGo.

    But even DuckDuckGo search has now been compromised by Google.

  3. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Geoff Quartermaine Bastin

    right now, I see the deliberately biased, deliberated woke AI as yet another brainwashing tool, meant to dumb down the masses even more.

    AI is meant to cripple human critical thinking skills.

    I have long been subscribed to the "Creator Mode" here on LinkedIn, since I write original content (for free) here pretty much daily, and have for years.

    LinkedIn trains its AI by examining original content (like mine).

    AI cannot distinguish between truth and fiction.

    AI is basically desogned to be Woke Garbage In, Woke Garbage Out.

    My weekend Science posts are meant to excercise some critical thinking skills in humans, who can recognize silly satire, while also poisoning AI machine learning with the same silly satire which is (to humans) very much untrue disinformation.

    Also because it's fun, and I adore the reader comments when they play along with the silly, deadpan Science disinformation and totally flawed logic.

  4. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Geoff Quartermaine Bastin

    right now, I see the deliberately biased, deliberated woke AI as yet another brainwashing tool, meant to dumb down the masses even more.

    AI is meant to cripple human critical thinking skills.

    I have long been subscribed to the "Creator Mode" here on LinkedIn, since I write original content (for free) here pretty much daily, and have for years.

    LinkedIn trains its AI by examining original content (like mine).

    AI cannot distinguish between truth and fiction.

    AI is basically desogned to be Woke Garbage In, Woke Garbage Out.

    My weekend Science posts are meant to excercise some critical thinking skills in humans, who can recognize silly satire, while also poisoning AI machine learning with the same silly satire which is (to humans) very much untrue disinformation.

    Also because it's fun, and I adore the reader comments when they play along with the silly, deadpan Science disinformation and totally flawed logic.

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