The Smartest Airhead You Know

No personal info I am a hedgehog who types for all you know

[miraculoushedgehog]

Sometimes I read my own posts and I feel the need to remind yall that I’m actually an academic

[angel-derangement]

okay everyone listen up!! 👏👏 new plan! basically what we’re gonna do is: dance 🕺

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]

[idc0o]

some of yall didnt go insane at 15 and it shows

[miraculoushedgehog]

Hearing Isaac Wood’s voice in the big ‘26 was delightful

[most-sane-classicist]

nooooo troy dont fall youre so sexy aha

[burgerking-official]

Motion controls were the AI of the late 2000s

Basically useless feature shoved into everything that actively makes it worse

[miraculoushedgehog]

Call me crazy, but I think that romances should contribute to the story, not the other way around

[miraculoushedgehog]

My friend who declared his love for me last Christmas lost his story privileges because he would swipe up on Every. Thing. I. Posted.

So now he’s pivoted to messaging me about posts I’ve liked

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[newjackcole]

Woodlands, Evening

[sayuupi]

Sketching some bears from the bear cam! 🐻🐟

[miraculoushedgehog]

Ya girl passed

[eowynwise]

[miraculoushedgehog]

Qualifying exam tomorrow. Slides still not finished, but most notes are addressed. Still need to write out the full script and practice it. Overall, I think I’m still a little too burnt out to panic, so I think we’ll be fine

[miraculoushedgehog]

Had an AI take my order at McDonald’s. I worked fast food for 3 years and I can’t imagine how much worse that would have made my life back then

[argentsunshine]

well you know what they say. when you've invested billions of dollars into hammers every problem looks like a nail and you keep handing these hammers to your users and they go "i don't really think i needed this hammer" and "but i don't have any nails that need hammering in right now" and "this is not a nail this is a glass vase that will break if i hit it with a hammer" and "didn't you used to have, like, other tools avaliable that might be better suited to this job" and you tell them to suck it up because you've replaced all your screwdrivers and wrenches and box cutters and crates and ladders and paint with hammers because your shareholders need to see an increase in value from your hammer investments