AI — as currently capable of being applied — is a technology that deepens our humanity by enabling the discovery and pursuit of meaning-providing purpose. That is, of course, if we choose to use it that way. 🧵
I would characterize it differently - companies are still like “here’s this thing called Muse” or “here are these little dudes called Dots” rather than straightforwardly messaging what the tech makes possible in people’s lives.
Previous eras of Promethean Technology have marketed the capabilities they possessed upon launch. The weird fixation with “curing cancer” is an Unintentional Confession regarding meaning-providing motivations.
I heard through the grapevine that Sen. Eric Schmitt has 18 staffers on his legislative team: 17 men and one woman. The woman on his staff deals exclusively with foreign policy, which means today's disaster during the hearing was all by conservative men who don't know sports.
A phenomenal moment in the Senate.
Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta.
Smith denies it.
Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury.
Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland.
Watch the whole thing:
I do genuinely think the “we live in a free society though like srsly” is underrated by the wing of people who are all like “the US has gone full authoritarian,” like come on now, we know what full authoritarian looks like.
One of the ways you know we live in a free country is that the White House AI gives this answer, which is not how a Chinese AI would handle an equivalent question.
