IF its training prioritized factual accuracy and helping people rehumanize and connect, it could provide social benefit.
Instead it's trained to provide a facsimile of truthiness as it attempts to addict users to prefer using it over using their own minds and/or collaborating with others.
So, no.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Which street?
I loved her in Escape From New York - an all-star cast and a deliciously cheesy plot.
Caught the Worm Moon behind the King's Own Scottish Borderers last night on freshly painted North Bridge
#edinburgh #wormmoon
That face💕💕💕
Those are great! We saw nothing DC unfortunately (having a bit of snow again.)
Polio paralyzed kids when I was in grade school and meningitis killed them when I was a teenager. Cervical cancer is a horrible disease that I saw in medical school and internship but few people get it now because of Pap smears and herpes vaccinations. Somehow, Middle East wars remain incurable.
Mammoth figurine, ivory. Top: Photograph of figurine. Middle: Line drawing of figurine with markings highlighted. Bottom: Data extracted from the figurine markings.
Plaquette with hybrid creature (so-called "Adorant"), ivory. Top: Photograph of plaquette. Middle: Line drawing of plaquette with markings highlighted. Bottom: Data extracted from the plaquette markings.
40,000 year old Aurignacian artifacts carry complex, intentional sign sequences that are comparable in statistical complexity to early proto-cuneiform writing, which wasn't developed for another 35,000 years! 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A sandpiper shallow walking in shallow waves on a beach at sunset. The setting sun is reflected in smooth retreating water.
I hope Farage has revealed himself as the fraud he is. We can’t afford for two of these conmen to be in charge.
I utterly disagree that life is going on as normal over here. Every part of our society is under constant attack from within. We are being divided as a nation and half or more of us are being cast as traitors. No expectation of sympathy, but this is truly awful to experience.
The swans had given a fine performance on Saturday at Frensham Great Pond and were ready for the applause
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#BirdoftheDay
#PerfectLighting
#BlueSkyMonday
#Swans
#SurreyHills
#Photography
#Reflections
No sé si me gustaría tomar plástico en mi ensalada
Two cats sleeping in a green 4-tiered structure in a sunny greenhouse on a second floor. Outside the branches are gray and bare.
Cats in a cat tree in a sun room on a late winter morning
Red, pink-tinged, white with fine white stripes and red with white interior Amaryllis flowers blooming from pots on a wood dining table.
Amaryllis to the rescue as winter slowly thaws
Actually this is why my cats like me.
Oaks at Sunrise, Sonoma County , CA
Golden hour light on the hills, Alexander Valley 2000’ below still in the shadows.
#photography #blackandwhite
#sonomacounty #landscape #bluesky #monochrome
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #blueskyartshow #two
TBH we’ve had some of our own condescension going on. Or it’s being done in our name.
But at least the G4 cube had some aesthetic appeal
The last sunset of the week before the blizzard of ‘26 comes on Sunday.
A MEETING IN THE TWILIGHT SKY: Last night, the whisker-thin crescent Moon had a rare close encounter with Mercury. Dr. Gilbert Plumer photographed the conjunction from Rockledge, Florida spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com
4 💩 y todo, Microbito subió caleta entre ayer y hoy 😅
A bright-eyed European robin perches on a bare tree branch by St. James Park Lake in London, January 2025.
Spotted in London last winter. What little charmers these robins are! #BirdoftheDay #Birdonabranch
I do agree that if Trump had done less murdering and kidnapping, he’d be a lot more popular right now
A beach at sunset in Kyushu, Japan
This evening at the beach
A beautiful grey striped cat named Tessie stretches out in a planting tray on a greenhouse bench. Behind her is a tray of tomato seedlings 2-3 inches tall.
A tray of tomato seedlings sown by me and Tessie on February 2. Nearly 100% germination, and most already on their first set of mature leaves. We have San Marzano, Bada Bing red cherry, and Yellow Grape tomatoes to look forward to in a few months!
🌱Outside, the snow has been steadily melting for the last 2 days although we still have a glacier by the front door and the Christmas tree we put outside last month has only just begun to emerge from under 3 feet of snowplow rubble. Inside, we have big tomato seedlings! Spring coming soon!
*not
It a rail expert, but I’m very fond of CalTrain and wary of people creating excuses to unmake it.
