edmartin.bsky.social
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They all look like Judge Doom.
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I'm always reminded of Rod Liddle's car crash speech at that Durham Christmas ball. A load of people went to bat for his free speech but conspicuously didn't want to defend anything he said on its merits.
Not being defensible on the merits might be a good reason to exercise some quality control!
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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If I was making something and I found out that it was making certain users speedrun the King in Yellow I'd maybe at least think about tapping the brakes, but I guess that's why I'm not in charge of anything
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I keep thinking of the Millennium Challenge, where the American team got resoindingly thrashed in a major wargame exercise because their foundational assumption was that they were indestructible no matter what.
The general of the other team got in trouble for beating them.
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I think LLMs are appealing to a certain set of people who think they're entitled to be good at something without wanting to actually put in any work
mostly, it seems people who think the disciplines of the Humanites aren't "real" and so just any rube can do it. Chris Arnade, basically
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I saw it at 15 and thought it was crap. I saw it again at 30 and it instantly went into my top 10.
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basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery
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It's 2 minutes drinking coffee and 56 minutes trying to choke down the rocks his agent told him to glue to his pizza.
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The site is 80% slurry, with the occasional genuine news article.
I don't know why anyone would want their loved ones featured in their memorial page. A tiny note about a departed parent; the rest is AI junk, ads for whiskey cask investment scams and "Doctors amazed by this one superfood" slop.
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It's also making people dumber because an astounding number of people don't fact check anything. It's 'I did my own research', but without doing the research.
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if they somehow make a superhuman intelligence and ask it to solve climate change (for instance) it will propose solutions unprofitable to a lot of rich people & they simply won't listen to it. or they'll type "give me a less woke solution" or something asinine. computer: make me richer
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Do they think the problem with Gaza activists is that they're unaware of Oct 7th?
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It's fine, only one of them has nuclear codes
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Well if it's a UK curriculum they'll already have had to memorise "spaffing it up the wall" as a key quotation from a Prime Minister
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All those white South African "refugees" might want to hold off unpacking their luggage for the moment.
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All those white South African "refugees" might want to hold off unpacking their luggage for the moment.
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You've hardly touched your nausages.
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He's going to be really upset when he realises he's stuck on Earth with everyone else.
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A wax droid looking for a thermostat.
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The only total solution is to say that education is there to benefit society in the aggregate, and individual data points within that are less important than the net effect.
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That's the ultimate paradox of qualifications. As long as there's a method of evaluation there's an incentive to game the system. In some countries that's teaching to the test, in others it's slipping the teacher an envelope of cash.
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And you also have to let grading go. If you insist on quantifying the quality of long-form writing then people will steer their writing towards the metrics. You can't get away from the perverse incentives.
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It really worries me that in twenty years people with critical reading skills will be indistinguishable from wizards.
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Baker is the hardest of libertarians allegedly! He was on TV after the election talking about how he "doesn't really believe in the state."
If he's on the scrapheap, the scrap is his own.