Friday, January 06, 2023

[Roaring 20s] Roaring 20s 2.0 Follow Up

Addendums to previously discussed topics.

  • Scott Alexander on crypto -- He finds some reasons to not abandon crypto in the face of the current meltdown.  He is right that it's a good thing to have the technology available and functional even if it doesn't change the world.  Crypto needs to 1) rebuild trust (learning the lessons of a thousand years of finance all over again), 2) Find a use case that isn't of dubious morality.
  • Politics of ChatGPT -- ChatGPT is still all the rage.  This post explores where it stands on politics.  It seems it is over to the left.
  • Fake blade runner dialog -- Using the previously discussed Stable Diffusion in conjunction with ChatGPT, this is a machine generated homage to Rutger Hauer's famous Blade Runner soliloquy. Pretty believable.
  • Winners and losers of latest AI -- Tyler Cowen wonders who will benefit and lose from the new level of AI.