https://hubski.com/A thoughtful web.https://hubski.com/images/discussion.pnghttps://hubski.com/https://hubski.com/pub/472238https://hubski.com/pub/472238This is way funnier than I ever thought it would behttps://hubski.com/pub/472236https://hubski.com/pub/472236https://hubski.com/pub/472234https://hubski.com/pub/472234https://hubski.com/pub/472231https://hubski.com/pub/472231https://hubski.com/pub/472230https://hubski.com/pub/472230https://hubski.com/pub/472229https://hubski.com/pub/472229https://hubski.com/pub/472228https://hubski.com/pub/472228https://hubski.com/pub/472223https://hubski.com/pub/472223In 2023 I started writing a sci-fi book about what I think'll be the future of AI. To become more trusting of my writing voice, I've been writing short stories. I just finished a short that I'm extremely proud of. I've been using AI to help me develop writing prompts to isolate an aspect of writing I want to focus on. The prompt was: "In a near future, every human thought, word, and emotion is automatically archived in a planetary database. Two people meet in a quiet maintenance station — one is The Archivist, tasked with deleting redundant memories to reduce storage load; the other, a visitor, has come to plead that a specific set of memories not be erased."This post's link will take you to the short story that emerged. I ended up getting way deep into curiosity of the diversity and history of languages. What started as a comment about the history of English, turned into various paragraphs. I became so fascinated with the language that I ended up literally writing a research paper at the end of the short story, complete with 37 citations. I hope you enjoy the read, and stay tuned for when the sci-book is released (fingers crossed within a couple months).https://hubski.com/pub/472210https://hubski.com/pub/472210https://hubski.com/pub/472209https://hubski.com/pub/472209https://hubski.com/pub/472203https://hubski.com/pub/472203The American right is on the verge of a major shift. People on the right, people I know, people I can’t name, are refusing to do anything that might be seen as opposing the Nick Fuentes/Tucker Carlson “we must fight organized Jewry, priority number one” juggernaut. These unnamed people are in a position to speak out, even in rather benign ways, but won’t. And here’s the key: they’re not refusing to speak because they agree with Fuentes/Carlson. They don’t. These are good people, very good people, not remotely anti-Jewish or hateful toward anybody.These unnamed people are refusing to be openly critical of Tucker/Fuentes because they fear for their career in conservative politics. They fear that being seen as anti-Nick/Tuck might cause repercussions that could affect their job prospects.They might be correct. And that’s chilling.https://hubski.com/pub/472202https://hubski.com/pub/472202Thanks, Zohran.https://hubski.com/pub/472200https://hubski.com/pub/472200https://hubski.com/pub/472191https://hubski.com/pub/472191A typical conspiracy theory usually starts out on the fringes. Maybe it’s just a couple of people posting on a message board, gathering “evidence.” Maybe it’s a few people out in the desert with binoculars waiting to spot some bright lights in the sky. But some conspiracy theories get lucky, if you will: They start to percolate more widely; they start to become a bit more acceptable; they start to influence people in power. Maybe it’s the UFOs (ahem, sorry, “unidentified aerial phenomena”) that are now formally and openly discussed in government hearings. Maybe it’s vaccine skepticism (yes, a much more dangerous example) that becomes official policy. And it’s impossible to ignore that artificial general intelligence has followed a pretty similar trajectory to its more overtly conspiratorial brethren. https://hubski.com/pub/472189https://hubski.com/pub/472189https://hubski.com/pub/472188https://hubski.com/pub/472188These centres will cost $2.5tn to build, according to Barclays, to service an industry that still doesn’t turn a profit. But the maddest bit arguably is how much energy they will require once completed. Using Barclays’ 1.2 “Power Use Effectiveness” ratio, all these data centres — if they are all completed — would need 55.2 gigawatts of electricity to function at full capacity.If we also use Barclays’ rule of thumb that 1 gigawatt can power over 800,000 American homes, it means that these data centres will consume as much energy as 44.2mn households — almost three times California’s entire housing stock.*https://hubski.com/pub/472181https://hubski.com/pub/472181Boko Yout - Enemyhttps://hubski.com/pub/472176https://hubski.com/pub/472176Posting this mostly to find it again later, since the reading time on this behemoth is 2-4 days (!).https://hubski.com/pub/472165https://hubski.com/pub/472165