Oppenheimer (2023) ★★★
Although Oppenheimer is a solid and historically accurate film, it is overly long – making its missed opportunities all the more glaring – and the key dramatic tension rests on speculation that was considered entirely fictional long before 1945.
Barbie (2023) ★★★★★
This might be a “Woke” film, but it is Wokeness with a human cafe.
Some modest suggestions for AI terminology of a fantastical nature
The cryptocurrency space can provision a putative malevolent AI with discrete decentralized compute, storage, and opportunities for secure accumulation of cryptographic assets and social capital. Consequently, there might be an AI Control Trilemma: Ban further AI software development; cap hardware; criminalize crypto – pick two.
The coming of AI has made Universal Basic Income a political and technological inevitability in the long-term, regardless of whether there are extensive attempts at AI control.
Twitter Space debate with Roko Mijic about feasibility and desirability of AI control.
In this podcast with Noah Carl, I make the case that a prolonged stalemate is programmed, assuming continued Russian mobilization prevents Ukrainian victory, and the materiel balance doesn’t shift sharply to either party.
> Как Россия может еще выиграть…
The Ukraine War will begin imminently, and Russian TOTAL VICTORY is programmed.
Narrator…
The logical case for why war a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent.
Wheel of Time: Season 1 (2022) ★
Rafe’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s world of eternal return keeps your eyes glued to the screen just on account of how utterly bad and cringe it is.
Fictional short story in which an AI takes over the world by leveraging its financial dominance in the cryptocurrency space.
