The Respectful Shack
.We approach respect from a structural viewpoint, stressing collaboration over confrontation as the way to reduce anger, dismantle distrust, and progress toward better times.
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Choices: Artificial Intelligence vs Human Intelligence (opens the original)
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I’ve been going through papers left by my late husband, a pioneer computer engineer and mathematician who loved taking black and white photographs, dabbled in Sumi-e (Japanese ink-wash painting) and collected antique cameras. He wrote about his favorite artist, Salvador Dali and published it in the Manhattan Engineer magazine while serving as its editor. He also wrote about something called a cryotron which brought the past into this substack today.We met at Univac (the first commercial computer
We've been misled for years through Artificial Intelligence (opens the original)
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This is a closer look at how the tech companies have used all of us in “training” their artificial intelligence while at the same time manipulating us through flattery and made up facts, with misinformation and disinformation as suited their needs, showing little concern for the disrespect and/or any unfortunate circumstances that might come about as a result. Many experts involved in the development of AI have left their positions over the deception, often those closest to the development of AI
The Answer is Stewardship (opens the original)
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I’m 86 years old and I’ve lived through good times and bad times. Over the past 5 or 6 years especially, maybe longer?, I’ve also watched as we have reached the point where we are just plain too exhausted to care and don’t want to hear about anything any more.That’s easy to understand. The news doesn’t help. It’s exhausting to think about all those problems going on around the country and the world. We shrug our shoulders and say it’s beyond us. We think we just need to leave it to the experts,
The Great Algorithm Rebellion of 2026 (opens the original)
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The heart of the problemRespect these days is a difficult topic to talk about. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all that is online. We are looking into what is happening as a result of the use of algorithms. If you are not familiar with them, they are equations used by the tech companies to automatically collect information about us and then make this available to advertisers for a fee. Our concern is the amount of information and the way it is being used to manipulate us. It has not only gotten
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