The go-forward knowledge problem
We have reached that point in the journey where I have now rewatched the entire Andromeda series. All five seasons have now been consumed. This was not my first rewatch, and it probably will not be the last. I own the entire series on both DVD and Blu-ray. Post-Andromeda watching, I have switched over to Stargate SG-1 season 1 and let the beginning be the beginning. That should work out well enough for the foreseeable future. A lot of SG-1 episodes exist. None of that streaming content selection really helps with the go-forward knowledge problem. We generally assume knowledge is stateful. In the moment where we are dealing with a concept or decision, all the knowledge we have happens to just generally be assumed to be stateful. The future state of knowledge is rarely considered. We progress in the decision-making process by taking the best currently known frameworks.
We really are on the precipice of advanced video models being able to make more seasons or at least scenes of Andromeda. Wholesale proliferation of AI slop is just endless. None of it is being used for anything beyond flooding social media, the internet, and a lot of academic journal submissions. People are noticing that while the problem is just beginning, it is a lot worse than you could expect. Flooding the zone was pretty easy to achieve. At least some people are talking about this at a broader level. This week an episode called “AI Slop” was released by the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver crew. It’s good that awareness within the public mind might be spreading. Getting the word out in this case is important. People have to consider what is happening. I do think that the way agents are interacting with the internet things are changing anyway to a more headless online experience vs. reading HTML and navigating the internet directly.
I know this topic has already been covered before within this weblog, but it is important to revisit. It’s not like this grand chautauqua is rooted in anything beyond a mostly evening-based check of my stream-of-consciousness writing skills.