Tags: ChatGPT

SHORT FAT GENERALS.

Last week Pete Hegseth dressed down America’s generals and admirals saying their weight and height will now be measured twice a year: “Today, at my direction, every member of the joint force, at every rank, is required … [to] meet height and weight requirements twice a year every year.”

The weight part I get: obesity in the military is a big recruiting problem which makes it a national security issue.

But the height part is odd because…you can’t really do much about how tall you are.

WHY AI IS WORSE THAN THE WORST STREET DRUG – AND BETTER THAN THE BEST MIRACLE DRUG.

When you’re too addled to stop drinking booze or snorting cocaine, your brain stays very clear on one thing: the only person you’re killing is yourself – and maybe your family. You can take some comfort that your bottle a day habit isn’t ruining the lives of the young family three doors down or the teller at your bank branch, or the total stranger in the nation next door.

In this regard, consuming too much AI is much worse than grossly abusing addictive substances. Every AI search you make, every AI prompt you create contributes to the Gross Global Misery that’s starting to emerge about AI’s unique seductive ability to charm its way into your brain and control it. What we know now is that AI thrives on big information; the more in, the more out.

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HOW TO USE AI.

If you read about AI and turn the page, thinking it’s not for you, or you’re too old to learn now, or technology and you never got along, or you use AI to do research or write papers, and stop there, you need to keep going. You must.

Because last week I used AI to plan a trip to Japan next year.

What I got back will not only change how Jean and I travel, but change how most everyone will travel. And travel itself, which is one of the world’s largest economic sectors, is a teensy thimbleful of what AI is already changing.

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IS THIS THE YEAR WE BECOME A POST-LITERATE SOCIETY?

I’m the last person to want to bring bad news where it’s not welcome.

But I’m going to add to the national bonfire by pointing out a blaze whose smoke is still miles off but headed our way.

It’s the idea that very soon we’ll be living in a post-literate society.

None has ever existed before. There are, of course, pre-literate societies made up of entire communities who can neither read nor write, and there are also pre-literate people, like your two-year old cousin, who exist in literate societies like our own where 99% of Canadians can read and write.

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Leave your high perch – and save your child’s life.

I know some couples who are household names in business and public service. They check all the boxes: virtuous without being virtue-signallers, hard-working without being owned by it, all while being powerful and household words.

Three of these couples in particular have kids who are in trouble: with substance abuse; mental disorders; or what I’ll call ‘chronic purposelessness.’

The parents are frantic, searching for the treatment or cure that will restore calm in their family and security in their kids.

One of them perches very high in a giant company. He oversees the people who oversee the people who run the company’s group benefits program. That is to say, the insurance company that manages many thousands of medical claims each year, including a rising number of mental health claims.

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