Because #UFO nonsense is in the news again, I recommend this thorough critique by #ErikHoel about the paranormal believers and the lazy journalism that has recently perpetuated it. It's quite funny, too!

"The UFO craze was created by government nepotism and incompetent journalism

Blame Harry Reid, Skinwalker Ranch, "dino-beavers," and The New York Times"

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-ufo-craze-was-created-by-government

Trying to become a good complexitarian, but need 2D ratings for (a) neural complexity, and (b) climate cost (beef is worst there).
Is "number of neurons in the structure that has been found to be representative of animal intelligence" the right metric for the first? #erikhoel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons#List_of_animal_species_by_forebrain_(cerebrum_or_pallium)_neuron_number
https:__www.google.com_books_edition_The_Revelations_zNHRDwAAQBAJ_hl=en_gbpv=1_dq=_22complexitarian_22_erik_hoel_pg=PT49_printsec=frontcover?pg=PT49&dq=%22complexitarian%22%20erik%20hoel

Prescient essay by “GeorgeOrwell from 1945: “You and the Atomic Bomb“

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/you-and-the-atom-bomb/

(important connections to the evolution of #AI #AGI #ChatGPT )via #ErikHoel cc #WonderLink #history #edtechSR

For background, I suggest reading https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/i-am-bing-and-i-am-evil

(Via #RossDouthat at the #NYTimes .)

#ErikHoel #AI