{"id":3878,"date":"2023-06-10T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-links-dumped-10-june-2023"},"modified":"2023-06-10T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:57:24","slug":"pluralistic-links-dumped-10-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-links-dumped-10-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Links, dumped (10 June 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s links Links, dumped: A grab-bag of delicious miscellania. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Links, dumped (permalink) It&#8217;s Saturday, which means: time for a linkdump post! I&#8217;m back from my book-tour across the US, Canada and the UK, finishing up in Berlin &#8211; and I&#8217;m jetlagged in the backyard hammock, waiting for my laundry to come out of the machine and plowing through a long backlog of interesting links. Let&#8217;s goooooooo! It&#8217;s Pride month, and Pat Robertson kicked it off with a bang by&#8230;kicking off. What better way to start Pride than with a piece of fanfic by Wil Wheaton about Robertson&#8217;s arrival in Hell? https:\/\/wilwheaton.net\/2023\/06\/the-wait\/ Once you&#8217;ve had your fill of schadenfreude, get your Pride\/Trekkie (or, if you prefer, Trekker) gear on with Wil&#8217;s Acting Ensign Pride collection: https:\/\/shopstands.com\/collections\/wil-wheaton Seguing smoothly into science fiction by way of Trek, let&#8217;s turn to Ted Chiang, a titan of the field, who is also a wicked-sharp critic of AI hype. Ted&#8217;s been at this since at least 2017, when he identified tech CEOs&#8217; fears of AI as a form of transference of their fear of corporations, which are, after all, autonomous artificial life-forms that are rapidly devouring the human race: https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/tedchiang\/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway When it comes to inventing catchy, devastating metaphors for AI, this is Ted&#8217;s busy season. &#8220;AI is a blurry JPEG of the web&#8221;: https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/annals-of-technology\/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web It&#8217;s also &#8220;the new McKinsey &amp; Co&#8221;: https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/annals-of-artificial-intelligence\/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey And now, in the Financial Times,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/06\/10\/in-the-dumps\/\">Pluralistic: Links, dumped (10 June 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s links Links, dumped: A grab-bag of delicious miscellania. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Links, dumped (permalink)&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[539,739,300,2695,961,1209,811,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}