Correlation does not prove causation! One popular example: shark attacks are more likely when ice cream sales are higher.

This relationship does not suggest that ice cream sales somehow cause shark attacks, however. Rather, both are related to some third factor—in this case, the activation of mind-control satellites, which are used both to market ice cream and to control sharks.

A computer science research lab has developed a simulated Canadian and a simulated Scot that can converse with each other.

It’s a breakthrough in Eh Aye.

Am I worried that AI will destroy jobs?

No. I'm never worried about any technology destroying jobs. Because jobs aren't sacred things to be preserved. Destroying jobs is progress. (Do we want to bring back the coal-mining jobs we've lost?)

What I worry about is AI, or the people promoting it, destroying LIVES. The problem is the system in which jobs are being destroyed—with what happens to the people who held those jobs.

I could give a fuck if AI does my job. The problem is the douchebags pushing it don't have a plan for how I'll keep my house and pay my family's medical bills if it does.

It's not about the jobs. To build a just and sustainable world we'll need to destroy so many jobs it would make a Silicon Valley executive's head spin. What worries me, and offends me, is that these assholes have no plan for how to absorb and take care of the people they displace. They never do.

Capitalism's playbook has always been to enclose the commons, converting public resources into private property.

I am increasingly viewing the mental health crisis through this lens. Our collective wellbeing has become enclosed, a resource to be extracted for the profit of capital.