Parnell Palme McGuinness

Parnell Palme McGuinness | Substack Party to many things. Always bites off more than she can chew.

“Generative AI would be psychology’s perfect case study of the Dunning Kruger effect.” Do you see overconfidence in AI? Read: https://smh.pulse.ly/eyxlfbrhrj Subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/q3kul0itbc #AI #DunningKruger

If AI just cut out the middle moron, would that be so bad? The danger isn’t that artificial intelligence will outsmart us, it’s that humans will be too dumb to use it well.

"If generative AI were a person, it would be psychology’s perfect case study of the Dunning Kruger effect." Do you agree? Share your thoughts below. Article: https://smh.pulse.ly/yezyhcunpm #AI #CognitiveBias

Parnell Palme McGuinness | Substack Party to many things. Always bites off more than she can chew.

AI has layers and layers of Dunning-Kruger traps built in. Have you seen people overestimating what AI can do? Share your thoughts! Article: https://smh.pulse.ly/q966imragp Subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/wgsjmsx3d8 #AI #DunningKruger

If AI just cut out the middle moron, would that be so bad? The danger isn’t that artificial intelligence will outsmart us, it’s that humans will be too dumb to use it well.

"AI has layers and layers of Dunning Kruger traps built in." Have you noticed overconfidence in AI answers? Let’s discuss! Read the full op-ed: https://smh.pulse.ly/xqq7uifisw #AI #DunningKruger

Actually it aged very well. I predicted that he was going down the drain and explained why.

How to beat the teals? The city Liberals now have a template Tim Wilson’s winning campaign in Goldstein contains two important lessons for future campaigners.

My column: Tim Wilson’s win in Goldstein contains two important lessons for future campaigners. One is about how to best serve a community. The other is how to stick with good policy. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

My column: Albanese’s “progressive patriotism” is central planning with Australian characteristics. A renewed Liberal Party would need to understand the ways in which a low-choice environment limits and oppresses different groups. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Young voters, stop picking your own pockets Gen Z and Millennials are quick to cry poor. But they’ve voted for the policies which caused it.

My column: Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly voting to pick their own pockets, undermining their own future prosperity. www.smh.com.au/national/you...

GFC or UFC? This economic prize-fight has us all on the edge of our seats Economics is no longer boring. Trump’s decision to pick a fight with China is a heavyweight bout for the ages.

My column: Musk and Navarro are having what is effectively an academic debate about the relative advantages of globalisation and protectionism. Their duel will influence a generation of economic thinkers. www.smh.com.au/national/gfc...

Adolescence is compelling, but here’s what it gets wrong This most talked-about British drama raises very important questions, but it also turns a blind eye to uncomfortable truths.

My column: Adolescence is four hours of harrowing watching, following the story of 13-year-old Jamie Miller, who is accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl. One rainy weekend, my nearly 13-year-old son and I watched it in a single day. He asked me to write this. www.smh.com.au/national/ado...

If Dutton is to beat Albanese, he must abandon this matchy-matchy phase Peter Dutton convinced voters he was a credible alternative PM by making difficult choices, not easy ones.

My column: The longer-term trend of Dutton’s ascent is a reminder that polls are just a measure of current opinion, not a substitute for a decisive leader or a bigger vision. Australians are sick of government-by-focus group.
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We’ve entered the era of pocket money politics And we’ve turned into children – always holding out our hands for money.

My column: as the government chucks money at us to buy our votes, we should recognise that we’ve entered the era of pocket money politics. Instead of a transfer from parents to kids, government pocket money is kids subsidising their parents. www.smh.com.au/national/we-...

Why Trump’s madness is making the world a safer place The US president has smashed the Western alliance. But the Europeans are stepping up to spend their own money on their own defence.

My column: Why Trump’s madness is making the world a safer place www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

To win parents’ votes, put their kids first – with childcare that hits home There’s evidence that children aged under three are more stressed in childcare centres than at home. Working parents need options.

My column: Pork-barrelling on childcare is a betrayal of babies and families. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Albo’s bad timing is becoming its own punchline Despite the seriousness of the times, Albanese’s prime ministership can only be described as slapstick.

My column: Anthony Albanese likes to tell us that he’s been underestimated his whole life. But I’m now coming to terms with the fact that I’ve overestimated him for most of mine. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Should we fear growing separatism? Germany offers a clue Immigration will be the No.1 issue at next week’s German election, part of a backlash against a well-meaning but ultimately misguided policy of multicultural integration.

My column: Thanks to two nurses making casually – they say jokingly – antisemitic statements on social media, Australia has had a terrifying glimpse into a possible future. That future is playing out on the other side of the world in Germany. www.smh.com.au/national/sho...

Kerr and Lattouf: Questions of race, justice and power Are our power dynamics fixed or shifting? Are they determined by gender, skin colour or cultural currency? Two current cases provide some hints.

My column: The Sam Kerr and Antoinette Lattouf cases show how wrong the West went when it tried to enshrine the victim-oppressor paradigm in law. www.smh.com.au/national/ker...

Young men are drifting to Dutton. Will their mothers vote with them? When young women supported the teals at the last federal election, some of their former Liberal-voting fathers swung behind them. Might mothers follow their sons’ lead this time?

My column: Fathers voted with their left-leaning daughters at the last election. Now, with young men drifting right, will their mothers vote with them? www.smh.com.au/national/you...

Trump is showing us the true cost of liberalism Now that Donald Trump is dismantling so many government programs, we might find out their ultimate cost.

My column: After decades of Green New Deals, Conference of the Parties meetings, United Nations treaties, and DEI schemes in the developed world, Trump 2.0 is about to show us what they cost.

What if it turns out they’ve not been a net benefit, or, worse, a drag?

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Trump’s not the tech bros’ puppet master. He may be the puppet The three wise men – Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg – have turned up at the birth of the new Trump presidency, bearing a gift more valuable than gold: the ability to sway reality.

My column: Meta’s offering to Trump is a tech-enabled way of doing foreign policy, in which the messages of the US are pushed directly into foreign electorates, speaking directly to voters. But with the tech bros brokering policy, will Trump really be in charge? www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

No, but it’s like the emotive posts in LinkedIn. Not witty, like X, just all feelz.

Is it just me or does Bluesky feel more like new LinkedIn than old Twitter?

Meddling Musk should discover his limitations. He’s not the messiah How can a multibillionaire be an “everyman”? Elon Musk can – but he should appreciate that this is his strength.

My column: Elon Musk is not God, and his judgment is not divine or perfect. He is “everyman” – us, unburdened by shallow empathy, crusading on behalf of victims, but without all the answers.

Yell-at-Parnell.zapier.app has more if you want to chat after reading.

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You’ll have to wait till Sunday to find out 🙂

It happened an hour and a half ago. Article incoming this Sunday.

I’m unleashing a chatbot of me. She has a few of my quirks but can go rogue Ever wanted to yell at this columnist? Meet the virtual “me”. We’ve created her as an AI experiment – if you’re up for the argument.

My column and my chatbot alter ego: I joked that opinion columnists can never be replaced by AI – because readers need a real person to hate - and a friend took up the challenge and built a chatbot of me. Try her! www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...

Don’t get me wrong - I never said the AfD was fit to govern. Nor did Gauland, actually, per my piece.

I suspect we need to have this debate over a glass of wine, Nick. Nobody ever wins an argument from this impass, but it’s possible to have a dem good time trying.

I’ve never defended the AfD’s stance on Russia. That all developed after I wrote the words I published today on Substack.