Category: 1977

robot plumbers?

My opening lesson as a toiletologist. Pasting in below a link to a conversation between Ross Douthat (NYT) and Daniel Kokotajlo, former Open AI employee. I’d thought repair plumbing was less at risk from large language models than the practice of medicine. Daniel is causing me to rethink. Dan is pessimistic, he reputedly places the probability that A.I. will decimate humanity at 70 percent. Eek! Same as the chance your toilet will misbehave.

Dan’s website

Clovis and Yadkin

Driving with Dorsey. What will turn up. Work from 1000 years ago turned up in the course of turning the soil. Dorsey was a farmer, farmers turn soil and in the course of their labor unearth the production of countless individuals from millennia. In both cases the discovery and manufacture driven by intelligence, art and the need to eat.

Information on projectile points Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Pictured, Mr. Gordon Shifflett.

contemplation

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

driving around with DWS