Stop calling everything utilitarianism, pleads Alex Strasser.
Andy Masley continues on his “AI and the environment” beat. It’s shocking how innumerate and misleading a lot of the reporting on this topic is. Anyway, I’m glad I can still trust in the truth of other important trends that I’m vaguely aware of via prestige media.
On Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne”:
“The song 'Suzanne' is journalism," Cohen says in the book Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters. "It's completely accurate." Asked whether there were tea and oranges involved, Cohen laughed. "Well, the tea actually had little pieces of orange peel in it. But 'tea and oranges' sounds better, doesn't it? She lived near the water in Montreal. And she did used to 'take you down to her place near the river'. You could 'hear the boats go by' and you could 'spend the night beside her.' All those things … and I touched her perfect body with my mind. Mostly because she was married to a friend of mine and I couldn't touch her with anything else!" (ht Lukas Berglund)
Unresolved debates about the future of AI, by Helen Toner
Jonathan Birch calls for “AI Consciousness Centrism”. NB I haven’t actually read this yet! But it automatically goes to the top of my reading list.
You should watch Andor. (I can confirm that this is true of season 1 at least).
Great photos of seals with guns, part of an NYPD training program. (as in the animal, actual seals, it’s so good).
When to buy tickets, when to head to the airport, what to do in the air.
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