{"id":7504,"date":"2024-08-23T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T22:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T22:40:42","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/08\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-467","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 467"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is vol\u00adume 467, a num\u00adber which has strict\u00adly increas\u00ading dig\u00adits when writ\u00adten nor\u00admal\u00adly as well as when writ\u00adten in bases 7 (12357<\/sub>) and 9 (5689<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Col\u00adleges Can\u2019t Say They Weren\u2019t Warned<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cIn the after\u00admath of the Oct. 7 Hamas ter\u00adror\u00adist attack on Israel, a num\u00adber of uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties were tak\u00aden by sur\u00adprise by the sheer sus\u00adtained dis\u00adrup\u00adtion and by the anti\u00adse\u00admit\u00adic ani\u00admos\u00adi\u00adty on their cam\u00adpus\u00ades. They strug\u00adgled to respond effec\u00adtive\u00adly. As the war con\u00adtin\u00adues \u2014 and as the con\u00adflict with Hezbol\u00adlah esca\u00adlates on Israel\u2019s north\u00adern bor\u00adder \u2014 uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties can no longer claim to be sur\u00adprised. They know what might hap\u00adpen this school year, and this knowl\u00adedge has legal sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcance. If they fail to pro\u00adtect the free speech of stu\u00addents or to pro\u00adtect stu\u00addents from anti\u00adse\u00admit\u00adic or Islam\u00ado\u00adpho\u00adbic harass\u00adment, there will be con\u00adse\u00adquences.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Strand\u00aded in Space? NASA Doesn\u2019t See the Star\u00adlin\u00ader Astro\u00adnauts That Way.<\/a> (Ken\u00adneth Chang, New York Times): \u201cIf you go some\u00adwhere expect\u00ading an eight-day trip and end up not being able to leave for eight months, most peo\u00adple would con\u00adsid\u00ader that \u2018strand\u00aded.\u2019\u2026 All sum\u00admer, NASA and Boe\u00ading offi\u00adcials have been reluc\u00adtant to use the words, \u2018stuck\u2019 and \u2018strand\u00aded,\u2019 which would add anoth\u00ader black mark to a space\u00adcraft that has been delayed for years by tech\u00adni\u00adcal set\u00adbacks.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Augus\u00adtine, AI, and the Demon Heuris\u00adtic<\/a> (Robert Cot\u00adton, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cOne does not have to dig deep into the com\u00adments sec\u00adtion of a Chat\u00adG\u00adPT demo video to find some\u00adone con\u00advinced that there\u2019s some\u00adthing demon\u00adic about it. At the risk of keep\u00ading com\u00adpa\u00adny with the most para\u00adnoid of the ter\u00admi\u00adnal\u00adly online, I would like to add anoth\u00ader point which makes this posi\u00adtion plausible\u2013that there is some\u00adthing of the demon\u00adic to recent AI devel\u00adop\u00adments.\u2026 I think we should be quite alarmed by how we are approach\u00ading Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Gen\u00ader\u00adal Intel\u00adli\u00adgence (AGI) and how it appears to look. If this theur\u00adgic vision of idol\u00ada\u00adtry is Bib\u00adli\u00adcal\u00adly true, we should be wor\u00adried that there are malig\u00adnant actors attempt\u00ading to gain a foothold. The veneer of dis\u00aden\u00adchant\u00adment to which tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy so effec\u00adtive\u00adly pre\u00adtends is, in fact, quite capa\u00adble of hid\u00ading a very old and very mag\u00adi\u00adcal strat\u00ada\u00adgem.\u201d\n