teh_drewski
@teh-drewski.bsky.social
Australian clean energy nerd. Economics, politics, sports, music, video games, travel, books and cooking are just some of the things I don't post about.
Some photos of our recent film shoot in Indonesia for our video for Episode 21, on the Empire of Majapahit. Really excited to share the results with you all when it's done! All reenactment footage we use is 100% real, with human actors and costumes, and always will be!
We're running a policy school on 19 August I'll be chatting about "What makes you feel like you're losing in this economy? (and what to do about it) nb.australiainstitute.org.au/policy_schoo...
Policy School - What makes you feel like you're losing in this economy?
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
I have never been shown one advantage of using AI to write or research. Every single example of someone saying how they find it helpful is accompanied with "But make sure you check it because you can't trust it". Enshittifying your writing and research should not be an aim.
Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · last wk.Another one bites the dust. Just *do the work* you lazy poseurs. You want all the laurels of scholarship and publication without the labour.
A remarkable public health statistic: the US has now surpassed its highest annual measles case count in more than 30 years. It’s only July.
438/ "Trump restarted the war because he wanted ships to abandon Iran’s designated route through Hormuz for the U.S.-backed route. Weeks later, after major escalation & Brent going back above $100, every transiting vessel is using Iran’s designated route. None are using the US route." - @SinaToossi
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4w ago422/ "The test of present skirmish is clear. If ships start taking the Iranian route, Iran wins. If they do not, US wins. We’ll know the score soon enough." - @policytensor
A bet that bosses will fire workers and replace them with AI is a *good* wager. Bosses are absolute suckers for this scam. 26/
The single most salient fact about AI is the investment bubble, not the technical characteristics of chatbots or recent advances in statistical inference. 9/
There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.
Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
gizmodo.com
In the age of AI slop, people would do well to remember words ascribed to Samuel Johnson: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure"
Bravo! 👏👏 Greg Jericho appraises the emperor's new clothes www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3w agoMe on the PM’s speech: wonderful, just completely devoid of any reason why AI or these data centres are needed or will be of benefit.
$21bn investment is a bullshit figure that won’t generate actual jobs of economic activity that actually improves lives. Tell them to fuck off www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Anthropic tells Chalmers: $21b investment hinges on copyright
Chief executive Dario Amodei met with Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when AI giant Anthropic launched in Australia in April.
afr.com
Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”
"Just too gay" - designer Robert Yang is battling censorship to launch a collection of his award-winning games on Steam and Itch, and it's completely free www.eurogamer.net/robert-yang-...
Industrial policy sometimes has "Governments picking winners." But it just as often has "Losers picking Governments" US AI companies losing to open-source Chinese AI companies are likely to go to US govt to create themselves a 'moat'
What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
nature.com
373/ "Sure, cynicism is cool, but maybe we can appreciate that the American and Iranian Presidents have signed a document that commits their countries to "respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs." -@yarbatman
If I had a dollar for every time a transgender person affected my life I’d have $0.00
A milestone achieved on Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM. Energy discharged from utility batteries over the last 12 months now exceeds generation from peaking (OCGT) gas turbines. Those who thought batteries would only provide ancillary services now looking foolish.
Oh, you can't write a 5-page book report without AI? I fucking wrote 5-page book reports without having read the goddamn book. Get your finger out of your ass.
Sick of the relentless adult content I see on Bluesky: back pain, interest rates, tax brackets, that noise you make when you stand-up sometimes.
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Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
Revenge of The Business Idiot
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We are going to win! This stuff can and will be brought to a halt. None of it is inevitable. Anthropic cannot afford to slow down. It has to grow to at least $100bn a year in revenue or it doesn’t have a hope in hell of paying its compute bills. Same for clammy little Altman.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo agoUber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
