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Have you ever thought about producing Glenn merchandise? I would love a t-shirt of Glenn ( and John) in this animation style. Please, please consider this. I think it could be a moneymaker for you.

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Will look. I liked the animation effect when I first saw it in recent months.

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Mar 27, 2022·edited Mar 28, 2022Liked by Nikita Petrov

Honestly, I don't care for this format.

What is gained by replacing Glenn's naturally expressive face and body language by a cartoon?

Moreover, for the first five minutes, in lieu of Glenn's brilliant spontaneous oratory, we have... Glenn reading someone else's words from a page.

I find that highlighting each word as Glenn says it is distracting.

Sorry to be negative, Nikita. To end on a positive note, I'll add that I do really like the "Glenn head" logo itself. It's one of the best on Substack. I also like these little experiments you are trying with the Glenn Show (the puzzles were my favorite), so don't take my negative reaction to this one in particular as a negative reaction in general. Best wishes to you in faraway Russia.

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This is sort standard AI ethics talk. I find the format very distracting and difficult to follow.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by Nikita Petrov

I suspect this is the same tech in Scotus-Toons - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-hTNobvl0o0vsPBF1J1BfA

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by Nikita Petrov

Enjoyable production quality, keep up its evolution (pun intended). As for AI, everything that extends from humanity, reverts to the unknowable, begetting tragedy!

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I would love to hear Glenn talk about the news!

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Believing the results of an algorithm that can not be explained is nuts.

As for the format I really don't get it, nor do I particularly like it. Glenn's voice comes across very robotic and unnatural.

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(If we can't even explain why the algorithm does what it does we have no reason to believe it is so much smarter than us that it has to have wisdom and be obeyed. We can say that the results it gives us are not ethical.)

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My reaction was that I need to know more about racist algorithms in particular, but I got on the email list of the Stanford HAI center when they did that topic and have seen additional videos from them. I was very bemused that the Chinese are taking control of this process when we don't really have coordination here in the United States. An AI is like any other computer program in that humanistic values determine what it is allowed to do whether the programmers on the inside or the regulators on the outside. A civil liberties-focused regulator with a Western notion of civil liberties might help to avoid this dystopia.

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The thing with animating a highlight over every single word as its spoken makes videos unwatchably distracting.

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Rubbish

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Great format. AI in the hands of a social credit tyrannical government would be a disaster. Justin Trudeau and US Democrats openly covet such power. If the last 2 years are any indication, Black Mirror's "Nosedive" episode and "Minority Report" are being ushered in. All of humanity must resist.

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