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jyhrowon Calling AI 'other intelligence' better describes the advent of a new lifeform

Don't call me super-intelligence

jyhrowon Pixel Area, a new directory of personal and independent websites

By Oleh Providnyk. Not a text list of websites like the traditional blogroll. Each website is represented by a "pixel", oversize pixel, on a 100 by 100 coordinate grid with room for 10000 websites. Like the Million Dollar Homepage but not commercial, only for personal websites

jyhrowon What Motivates Innovators?

"Exceptional technical inventors often become preoccupied with a problem that other people have learned to work around."

jyhrowon The AI threat is real, it just isn't the one in the headlines

The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us out. It’s today’s AI, being wired into everything, carelessly and fast.

jyhrowon ICE-style immigration raids won't be used in Australia, minister says

Australia is making changes to its immigration policies, but won't be using heavy-handed tactics for enforcement according to reports