🔗 On God and LLMs … my bold.

I don’t have definitive answers here. But one thing that seems clear is that the newly emerging field of digital ethics (in which ​I’m currently active)​ is in the same place today as bioethics was five decades earlier, when new medical technologies began to force tough moral quandaries.
Which is all to say: before we blindly embrace whatever AI product Sam Altman or Dario Amodei declares to be inevitable, we still have a lot of work to do in figuring out ​what we’re willing to accept​.

💬 Cal Newport

🔗 iPhones sales in China grew 3% year-over-year over the May Day holiday.

The iPhone was up against a set of new product launches but still managed to grow while the market declined. It’s a remarkable story. Apple guided to similar growth for the June quarter as for the March quarter. Signals are coming in that this is not a fluke.

💬 Horace Dediu

Clearly Apple is doomed.

🔗 Then again, maybe to become someone who …

not to do because you are, but to become because you did.

💬 Leon Mika

Nice.

🔗 Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?

Would it really be so bad to introduce a voting licence? Make people take a short quiz to ensure they understand what they’re voting for and why they’re voting.

💬 Terence Eden

Not those words - but been saying this as a joke for years. In the past few years my cries have become increasingly more serious.

🔗 Nobody is destined for greatness.

There’s a version of you that keeps waiting to feel chosen, and a version that goes down into the hole and gets to work. The first one keeps waiting. Nobody is born holding greatness. People build it in the dark, with pebbles in the mouth, long before anyone arrives to applaud.

💬 Joan Westenberg

🔗The Last macOS Tahoe Review … we can only hope!

With macOS Tahoe, you do know that the chief new thing is the Liquid Glass redesign. It seems as if there are more critics of the design than there are proponents, but it’s probably more that most users don’t care enough to comment.

💬 William Gallagher

Put me in that last category - and where a lot of the critics should also be.

I definitely understand the issues that ‘the pros’ have - and interesting reads - but most of the 👎🏼 I read are just piling on and would do better to going back analysing Iran or Covid Data.

🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband

Most of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns. Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.

💬 Om