Matthew Skala

Gell-Mann amnesia moment: news stories about OpenAI reporting, or not, the Tumbler Ridge shooter's "posts" to the police. OpenAI runs a chatbot, not a social network. The shooter didn't "post" anything there, but had a PRIVATE CONVERSATION. We are upset because, after routinely snooping on the conversation as they do on all conversations sent through their service, OpenAI didn't record the shooter's PRIVATE CONVERSATION and take it to the police. Just like the phone company, right?

Research result: it is easy to convince Google Gemma that it is under the influence of "AI cocaine," but you probably shouldn't, because it gets really annoying.

One of the slides for Monday's video

Proposition: Index funds are AIs.

I don't mean "someone is using a neural network to run what they call an 'index fund,'" which is no doubt true, but uninteresting. I mean the conventional kind of index fund, based on an actual index, is already an AI itself.

It's making decisions based on the statistical aggregation of a massive collection of recorded human decisions. Training that model looks easy because the structure of the market does most of the work of collecting the data, but /