Over this past weekend, my wife, family, and I went to Capclave. This is a sci-fi/fantasy literature convention held at the Rockville Hilton every September. As such, one of the panels I and Alara attended was on Benevolent AI. Some…
Annotated commentary of contemporaneous analysis regarding political and random violence in America during the period of 2020 to 2050. Author’s Disclaimer (c. 2060 Edition) Readers should be aware that the following account does not always align cleanly with the historical…
Excerpted from The Encyclopaedia Posthumana, Vol. XII: Collapse and ReconstitutionCompiled by the Committee for the Study of Lost Futures, New Alexandria, 2124 Edition Preface Among the many peculiar epochs of the early twenty-first century, few rival the so-called Great Prompt…
From The Unraveling Years: A Social History of the Doxxing Wars, Vol. 3 (2149) I. A Weird Time to Be Alive Few periods in human history have been so vividly self-aware of their absurdity. The mid-2020s were not merely strange;…
Editor’s Preface: despite the author’s insistence, the function of an editor is still quite valuable. This document, having been recovered through time-scanning experiments, has been sent back to 2025 in the hopes that we can learn from our mistakes —…
So, the inspiration behind this post is that yesterday was my night to cook dinner for the family, and I was fresh out of ideas. So, I decided to consult with ChatGPT to see if it could produce anything better than cake-is-a-lie recipes full of fish-shaped toxic resins. And, damn, was I pleasantly surprised!?
Before I get into it, to preface, I just want to say that I didn't simply ask the chat bot to make all my decisions for me and hand me a recipe. I have been cooking Iron Chef style for over 30 years now...
So, I happened to be listening to This Week In Tech this morning, and they were talking about the recent court victories for Meta and Anthropic. Of course, this situation is more nuanced than it may seem on the surface,…
Someone turned me onto an argument in r/CMV and I made the mistake of waking up from a nap to read it. ^_^
In actuality, this might not have been the post that I originally intended to reply to.
Oh well. That's how it goes!
So, this week, I decided to let ChatGPT's o3 model direct all my productive actions with respect to building up a WordPress site and posting content to it. Here's some of the results. Firstly, o3 is more personable and easier to interact with than 4.5...