General Discussion

Some deer were passing through and a shout does nothing. They seem to respond only to motion in their direction.

I get photos of the wildflowers that they refuse to eat. Everything else is fair game, and roses are yummy candy to them, so I grow nothing (changing the subject). I do miss growing roses and it's time to move anyway.

Just making observations.

Having been into science and math forever, I am more into probabilities.

We as humans are really bad at estimating things. For example, a spectacular rarity like the 9/11 attack biases us toward overestimating the probability of this exceedingly rare event. And we wasted tons of resources and half our freedoms combating it. (some really gained advantage thereby)

Here is a list of cognitive biases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

I look at that and wonder how we get anything done right at all.

Part of my career was creating "error budgets" for optical systems, so every little source of error has to be taken into account and you (wisely) throw money at the biggest ones and those that give you the most improvement for your money, complexity and time. And some things are just warning bells, when they can't be reduced or eliminated, referring to AI failure modes that are pretty much baked in by their design.

People are using it outside its area of applicability, or safe operating area. Because it's new and shiny (a cognitive bias)