Random Thinkology #2
2024-01-11
I will be short this week as I was too busy skiing last week to fill my head with silly stuff.
On AI and my important miss.
As we arrived to Killington on Tuesday, I spent about half an hour to buy a ticket for my wife online, but at some point I always failed. I gave up and went to the ticket office in the morning. It is easy they said, you just have to do it on your phone, we’ll show you how. They couldn’t, so they did it manually. Buggy software. As I was walking away with the ticket, I realized that they made two mistakes on it.
A spelling mistake in her first name and assuming that she has my last name, just because he didn’t pay attention when I spelled it out for him. Two mistakes in such a small set of data is a lot. Then it just hit me how incredibly dangerous this is in this new world where big data meets AI.
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models have no way to collect data about the world by themselves, they rely on human direction and input with all the potentials for errors and mistaken assumptions. As automation grows through the autonomy of AI, the potential for mistakes will grow exponentially.
I am quite certain that there are dozens of mistakes in all the data about me floating around somewhere.
Just imagine how close we are getting to the possibility of this happening to us in our personal lives:
The only way we can avoid it is having complete, total full and sovereign ownership over every piece of data about ourselves. Shouldn’t I write a post about this? A manifesto?
On cultural dominance
I had a discussion on the lifts with our 24-year-old musician friend. We started with RAP, but the conversation quickly expanded onto a wider culture. His firm belief is that the Western dominance is global and unshakable. I am not so sure, but I do not have the numbers. If I could see a site that lists top musical hits, best selling books and highest grossing movies, in every country on any language, I would be standing on firmer grounds.
What does cultural dominance mean anyway? Our conversation was limited to the arts, we didn’t even touch the finer details of customs, attitudes and behaviour. I think I know more than most, but I still shocked myself with my own ignorance. I have too many questions I have no answers for and lack the self assurance of a 24-year-old.
How can we compare cultures? How can we measure our influence and the influences on us? Let me know in the comments.
On the death of objectivity and the dangers this represents
Just before Christmas, I was flooded with donation requests. Many years ago, I was donating to Wikipedia every year. Not anymore.
Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. Sanger left in 2007, Jimmy Wales sold his souls to the globalists, the philantropaths and the legacy media.
Wikipedia’s Smear Piece on WCH Represents a Badge of Honour
Here are their biggest donors:
AmazonSmile Foundation
Apple Inc. Matching Gifts Program
Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin
Argosy Foundation
Bloomberg LP
The Boeing Company Gift Match
Cisco
Google.org
Google Matching Gifts Program
Leilani and Richard Grinold
The problem isn’t simply that Wikipedia is getting useless, but that we cannot even go back to the printed encyclopedias. They don’t exist anymore. Wikipedia is becoming just another heavily left-biased tool of the culture war. Finding reliable information is getting more difficult every day.
The Tess Lawrie article has a link to an article of Larry Sanger…
Oh, NOOOO! Another rabbit hole!
I will let you know when I emerge.
You should let me know where it leads you.
On WEF desperation
….or is that a World Economic Forum OF desperation 😊?
About a year ago, I gave my email address to the WEF because I wanted to download some documents. I am on their mailing list ever since.
In the past month, I got several invitations to become a member in order to get access to their 2024 virtual event.
I got an invitation last year as well, for a noticeably higher price. I even started a post about it, titled “the Great Bullsit” (with a lot fewer of the real bulls around)
Choose a plan that’s right for you. | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
The WEF may have an identity crisis in the process of trying to gain public acceptance.
How do you go from secretive Cabal mode to propagandized populism?
Last year’s event was a bust and this one already stinks of desperation. Is there a chance that it will just disintegrate? If they live to next year, I may consider attending. Would YOU, if you could?
Shouldn’t we try to understand the enemy?
Again, let me know in the comments!
On a personal note…
Last week I posted the first one of this new series and made a stupid mistake of changing the header assuming that it will affect only this section of the Substack. It didn’t, so my regular post went out with the email header that was intended only for this one. My apologies.
This one is still a work in progress, so your patience is MUCH appreciated.