All set up for Halloween this year. Comics, cards, books, food, candy, I think we covered a lot.

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How do we write stories about fictional A.I. without playing into the Silicon Valley hype machine and appearing to validate their bullshit? I asked Ted Chiang, who wrote one of the best A.I. stories of all time and is also one of our sharpest critics of LLMs. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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4. Mitigating such a risk is quite obviously rational. I have noticed a resurgence on X / Twitter of people casting those who mitigate as fearful, or anxious, or suffering from OCD. Ignore people who say this.

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3. Beyond even Long Covid, and as I previously noted, I consider it highly likely that a virus that has the capacity to both adversely affect cognition and re-infect a seemingly limitless number of times will likely be a serious risk factor for future neurocognitive disease.

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2. Fundamentally, this is why I avoid infection. I value my physical and cognitive health, as I suspect the majority of people do. I understand the data on Long Covid prevalence, and, personally, I know many people who have it. This hard data and my own experience drives me.

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