I am so conflicted about the timing of his disclosure. On the one hand, I completely understand why many find it unsavory (i.e. a deflection, hiding under the rainbow, etc). On the other, it seems like an extremely helpful bit of information — if anything, it lends credibility to the accuser’s story, doesn’t seek to…

I’m glad this at least tacitly acknowledged Only the Brave. In my mind it’s one of the best big-budget flicks to come out in months; I went in with low expectations and walked away profoundly moved. Bewildering to me how little press this film (with an, admittedly, terrible name) is getting.

Hot take: John Mulaney, Pete Holmes, Louis CK, Rory Scovel. Still, I <3 Patton.

A little bit of a click-baity headline, but the scientists’ argument is quite interesting — despite commenters criticizing it as “We don’t know how to make a simulation this good, so it can’t exist!”, it isn’t an arbitrary statement. There are plenty of things we can know about an algorithm without being able to build…

“unlike the other great director David (Lynch)”

Some commenters seem annoyed that you “turned it political”, but I think it’s actually a crucial description of how it feels to watch Kingsman. Vaughn might not intend for a deep reading of his movie, but that odd tone — the jokes that fall flat, the somewhat uncomfortable mean streak running through both films — is…

Late update: I just read that article about Fukunaga’s script, after seeing It last night. I’d say most of what was important to him stuck around; the major difference is in the third act. Fukunaga seems to embrase King’s grand, cosmic mythology for It, whereas the current film barely teases it. I am hoping…

“When the dust had settled, Paley had swiped from ABC Amos ’N’ Andy, Jack Benny...”

The fact that #1 and #3 have to be explicit considerations is a good barometer of how differently the general public thinks of AI than those of us who do research in the field. Everything is a program (the hardware is irrelevant to the algorithm — Watson would have still been Watson if run on your graphing calculator,…