AI is coming for my job — and yours. The latest OpenAI chatbot, ChatGPT4.0, is now able to do better than 90% of all aspiring lawyers on the Uniform Bar Exam (the standardized part of the bar exam), and even better on many other standardized tests. These are mostly tests…

I’m struggling with the future I see in my mind’s eye, but I see some very serious issues arising, and soon, with these new AI developments I see the recent development of advanced AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Sydney, Bard, etc.) as extremely dangerous for a few reasons: 1) being the exemplar…

In a recent letter to Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo the CDC and FDA continue to apply absurd and egregious double standards with respect to harms from the COVID vaccines versus harms from COVID itself I wrote in 2022 about the egregious double standards applied in assessing alleged harms from…

It’s been ten years since this interview was first published (by the Santa Barbara Independent here). A lot of time has passed and it seems appropriate to re-post this interview as a further data point for the stark reality of the passage of time. Strangely, modern physics has been working…

This is a follow up to my previous post about whether Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics should apply to AI chatbots Tam: please propose the optimal “three laws of chatbots” that would enact the ethical principles and guidelines you’ve been discussing As an AI language model, I can propose a…

This is a transcript of my conversation with ChatGPT on Feb. 21, 2023: Tam: hi, please tell me what Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics are Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are a set of rules that govern the behavior of robots in his science fiction stories. The laws are: …

Hi, my name is Tamlyn I’m an addict I’m addicted to dance And my dance community here on the Big Island and around the world What an amazing community I am blessed to live in where our weekly community movement ritual(s) (aka ecstatic dance and variations thereof) can lead to…

The mainstream continues to tiptoe up to the devastating realization that Covid cases, hospitalizations and — the really big one — deaths, have all been massively exaggerated during the pandemic. Here’s a recent piece from an epidemiologist writing for Time magazine, explaining the latest scientific findings about exaggeration of hospitalizations…

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a great reminder to look at his anti-war legacy. This is a nice essay from the Quincy Institute, a new outfit in Washington DC trying to highlight a progressive anti-interventionist and anti-imperialist foreign policy that is more in keeping with MLK’s legacy. While Biden…