I loved reading this article right now when my cortex and lizard brain have been at odds with one another and I made the wrong decision about getting medical help for a cat scratch. And AI would’ve been no use whatever.
Am I mimetic or a stubborn fool? Anyway more on my adventures another time. There are such good ideas in here, I’ll be journalling them when I get home (from hospital).
Because the future is here already and when we have kids and grandkids we need to be able model these very important concepts.
An essay about agentic vs mimetic people, using your lizard brain, and why outsourcing your judgment to AI is a values problem before it’s a …
Yesterday I ‘interacted’ with two sites by Liking them, sites that are apparently being used by Zberg’s AI bots to learn their trade on. So I get this in my Messages this morning … this is a screenshot, there are ‘six’ pages of it …
I didn’t ask for it and I resent the bot using my interaction, electricity, internet plan, adding to my carbon footprint unasked. those are my feelings about the matter. It’s good to have informed opinions, though.
These are the facts …
As well as the full instructions on how to solve a Rubrik cube, of about six pages, there were a further four pages with an explanation of an astronomical event I’d taken an interest in. Talk about information overload!
This is an example of a summary composed after ‘scraping’ knowledge requisite to the topic from around the internet. It’s not even the first time that we’ve been training bots. Remember teaching GoogleSpelling?
You have to accept this is a far more accurate process than the primitive efforts of the spelling bot.
But it is not yet a sentient bot. Doing a light edit, I discovered a lot of unnecessary repetitions, unseen by the bot. Lama 3.2 cannot think for itself.
Below the copy-and-paste about my comet inquiry. Interestingly, I googled my inquiry and this reply came by way of one of Zberg’s platforms.
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) has been visible in the Southern Hemisphere’s evening sky since early 2025, and its visibility has improved as it moves farther from the Sun. Although it’s currently dimmer than it was at perihelion on January 13, 2025, it’s still a great target for binoculars or cameras ¹.
Here are some key visibility dates for Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and other comets in 2025:
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS): Visible in the Southern Hemisphere’s evening sky since early 2025, with improved visibility as it moves farther from the Sun. Its brightness peaked at magnitude -3.4 on January 13, 2025 ¹.
210P/Christensen: Expected to be visible via large binoculars in November 2025, with its closest approach to Earth on November 8, 2025 ².
24P/Schaussman: Will reach its brightest point in early 2026, with its closest approach to Earth on January 4, 2026. It may be visible with large binoculars ².
C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos): May become visible through small telescopes or large binoculars in the autumn of 2025, with its closest approach to Earth on February 17, 2026 ².
Then there are the facts of what it all costs … more research needed.
Rita de Heer 