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🙄 No, AI disinformation is not the biggest global threat - on the difficulty of getting a message across
AI-generated disinformation is the biggest global threat, says 1500 experts. That's nonsense.
📚 The best books I read in 2023
Also, tips on how to read 100 books a year. Reading so many books requires discipline, but is easier than one might think.
📚 The Angry Optimist's book recommendations for Christmas
Four reading tips for Christmas. Everything from a history of the electronic era to the creator of Spaceballs.
💬 A book you can talk to – about the book
Tonight, the book "The Centaur's Edge", co-authored by me and WALL-Y, is being released. Everyone who purchases the book will get an AI tool, allowing you to talk to the book, about the book.
😮 The naive Tony Seba has been more right than anyone else (so listen to what he says now)
Humanity is facing its greatest change ever, according to Tony Seba. Some call him a naive, foolish optimist, but Seba has repeatedly been proven right and his critics wrong. A tip is to listen to him this time.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: If we'd regulated the internet, as we're regulating AI
President Biden's AI regulation is vague and at the same time EXTREMELY specific. If we had regulated the internet in the same way, it would have seriously hampered our development. Also: We reveal which movie Biden watched that influenced his determination to regulate AI.
🤴 Lord of the Pessimists: Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich calls himself an eternal optimist, but he is the greatest pessimist of our time. Because he makes the most common and serious mistake that pessimists make.
💡 Monthly summary: 31 optimistic news in October
💉 13% decline in child deaths thanks to malaria vaccine. 💰 Americans are getting wealthier, especially the poor. 🌱 Rhubarbs key to recycling electric car batteries. 🐔 CRISPR-engineered chickens resistant to flu. 🧠 New AI enables real-time brain tumor diagnosis during surgery.
🕰️ Counting the Minutes and Seconds to a Sci-Fi Future
We should create a Genesis Clock, to counter the Doomsday Clock, and count the minutes and seconds we have until dawn, writes The Conservative Futurist, James Pethokoukis.