Gordon's Notes

1. I was right about polling being worthless 2. At least Biden was spared humiliation  3. Americans chose oligarchy willingly.  4. Our feebl...

I'm putting this down as a marker for me to look back to in a few years. When autonomous vehicles are able to operate in Minnesota winte...

In advance of Nov 5 2024, some thoughts on  Muskism. Because I can't resist this kind of thing. Musk and his fellow tech oligarchs more ...

These days my social media experience is largely Mastodon. There's something to be said about a social network that's so irreparably...

This morning on my Mastodon : It’s possible that we have built an economical and technical environment that is too complex and treacherous f...

My current social media vice is Mastodon , with Threads 2nd and Bluesky a distant 3rd. (For me Facebook isn't actually a vice; it'...

Almost 40 years ago we used Quicken version 2 or 3 for DOS 3.1 on a Panasonic 8086 with 640K of memory and a CPU too feeble for a modern toa...

The following two diagrams were taken from  Mooler et al's GitHub LLM guide (April 2023) . I'm posting them here as a snapshot of th...

TLDR: The "technological singularity" was an important and useful term with a clear meaning. Then it became the "Rapture of t...

A Scientific American contributor found ChatGPT (probably 3) scored 155 on a standard IQ test : Estimated on the basis of five subtests, the...

Scott Aaronson, who works on AI safety for OpenAI, wrote a critique of AI Pause that was not up to his usual standards. Here's what I w...

The ad-funded internet is collapsing. It's been ailing for years but, as seems to the rule, the last bit is happening quite quickly. I&#...

 Not a bad response. ”Describe what happens when ChatGPT is enhanced with natural language processing and domain-specific knowledge modules....

TL;DR: It's not that ChatGPT is miraculous, it's that cognitive science research suggests human cognition is also not miraculous. &q...

The catalytic converter on my much loved 2010 Kia Sedona van was stolen. (I think there are two and the rear converter was removed. I'm ...

Over the past year or two several of my favorite writers have expressed uncertainty about the American cultural standard for "manliness...

The 70s were pretty weird, but I was too young to notice. (Not coincidentally, the Toffler/Farrell Future Shock book was written then.) By ...

First check out the Time magazine covers for 1965 . That was a very long time ago. Things have improved. Now look at the April 2nd issue an...

I wrote this in 1997 and found it in my old pre-blog Web 1.0 archives. I decided to republish it here because, you know, I could. Some of it...

I'm a fairly average sleeper for my age, but this morning I gave up a bit before 4am. With the unexpected time I finished Yuval Harari&#...