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S. Minsos Personal Blog Entries.


PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN CANADA? NO WAY. (PR is especially bad for liberal democracies)
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN CANADA? NO WAY. (PR is especially bad for liberal democracies)
Author Minsos
Jun 8, 202414 min read


ACADEMIA AND BOTFUCKERY
Answer: "You" are a thing. Experts weigh in on AI. "'OpenAI is really excited about building AGI (artificial general intelligence) and they are recklessly racing to be the first there,' said Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division and one of the [protesting] group's organizers. . . . [Kokotajlo] also believes that the possibility AI will destroy or catastrophically harm humanity – a grim statistic often shortened to 'p(doom)' in AI circles, is 70
Author Minsos
May 26, 202420 min read


THE ABILITY TO STEREOTYPE: The no-good horrible gift of Homo sapiens tells us when its time for Canada to cut and run
The much maligned human ability to stereotype helps us understand power structures. Our observing who–stereotypes–whom, plus our making a special note of who fits in with the group, and who doesn't, is a double-edged gift. Stereotyping, a superficial assessment of the other via the manners of the group they belong to, acts as an aid to human memory and intelligence. To secure our survival and our culture club's survival, we must know who belongs to our herd (has our manners),
Author Minsos
Apr 7, 202410 min read


The CONVERSATION: Canada and the British Monarchy, 13 May 2023
Published 13 May 2023. Republished 30 Dec 2023 " But Britannia still rules the flag waves. The personal standards of Britain's royal...
Author Minsos
Dec 30, 20235 min read
Weird at Work
S. Minsos' occasional blog; making pyramidal Culture Clubs, manner by manner.
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