Episode 122

122 - Blue Unicorns & Task List Trauma

Jem and Justin discuss Mac hardware trends in machining, share their perpetual task management struggles, and explore workshop innovations. A bike-fluencer emerges, they debate Shopify's AI assistant, and using smart lighting for production notifications.

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Decommissioned satellites must re-enter the atmosphere to avoid becoming space debris. Conventional metal satellites create aluminium oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with less pollution, Doi said.

Something wrong with me, latest note taking saga
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Getting Things Done
Day Plan - Nack
Best AI Tool Ever - I grow weary, and her time is perilously short 🤣
First brand deal - Tern Orox
Parenting is hard AF sometimes ꘎
3D Print tip - slice by object ⠄
GPT-o1 tries to escape ⠄

When the model was led to believe it would be "shut down" while working toward its goals in these tests, it quietly attempted to deactivate the oversight mechanism 5% of the time, OpenAI said. At one point after the AI found documentation saying it would be replaced by a new model, it tried to abandon ship by copying its data to a new server entirely. To avoid being deleted, some AI models would even pretend to be later versions of their models to trick their developers, what I assume is the equivalent of slapping on a fake moustache and saying "he went that-a-way."