• TV Show: Extraordinary, quirky take on the superhero genre, cancelled after 2 seasons.
• Anime: Because I like space battles anime, the Honorverse by David Weber (not great sci-fi, but one of my guilty pleasures).
• Obligatory Movie: “Le Roi et l’Oiseau” [The King and the Mockingbird] (animation edition)
• I want my long version of the thunderbird edition of Stargate sg1 (see episode 200).

I don’t meet that many people either, but I get the general vibe that people understand that it’s somewhat shitty, but it still fills a social need (compare/contrast horoscopes).

Completely anecdotally, I recently saw a short video of a french woman, saying to an impressive know-it-all-tv-quizz-champion [intended as a compliment I think]: “Wow you sound like Chat GPT!”

Too me that was very illustrative of the perception of Chat GPT from a less tech-literate perspective.

Shame alone isn’t enough though, especially not for the stuff people do in private, like ask LLMs for advice. Push too much shame and people might just end up simply doing it without telling anyone.

I think rephrasing the main point of the essay “Teach people enough, and they will understand that any use is misuse” can be a very powerful idea.

Teach people about germs, contaminants and proper technique, before shaming them into washing their hands.

Ahh sh*t if all my rent-seeking employee-reducing dreams come true, i’ll lose money on my product subscriptions rents! Quick! I should come up with bullshit that will solve everything!

🤓☝️ technically AP is a non-profit providing a (worldwide) public utility service. (On paper and mostly in practice it’s a journalist co-op). Her Job is to report factual information correctly, that’s (at least historically) the whole selling point of wire services.

Looking at her wiki page:

[…] spent two years at The Tampa Tribune before joining the Associated Press (AP) in 2007 as a video producer. She was the AP’s first multimedia political journalist. Pace covered the 2008 presidential election and began covering the White House […]

Definitely a journalist by training, given her career journey, it makes sense that she champions video content. But still, amongst the six senior VPs at AP, she has title the “Executive Editor”, arguably the most “Journalist” title of all of them. (Chief Technology Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, General Counsel/Corporate Secretary, Executive Editor, Chief Financial Officer, Chief People Officer)

One funny (definition of funny not included, conditions may apply) bit from the AP article:

The AP is trying new forms of fact-checking, including use of video, and more often putting its journalists in public to explain how they got particular stories, she [Julie Pace, Senior VP at AP] said.

Call me crazy, but that isn’t fact-checking right? At the most charitable this is education/fact-conveying, not the actual important groundwork of fact-checking and editing.

The replausibility crisis.

Also importantly, WAY too praising of Anthropic.

He almost certainly got the info in other places, but I find it profoundly amusing to think that in the past the AI Advisor to the Pope, may have stumbled into our corner of the internet.

For the non-French speakers among us:

In this vision for the world, democracy understood as the self-governance of equal citizens is already dead — and there only remains shrouded in the darkness of a data center, the clinical administration of its corpse.

Missed opportunity to say that exciting developments were a 1000 days away ^^.

It’s in a superposition of being both AI and not AI before anyone checks, that’s how quantum work right? No wait! Don’t check! [* Reality Destruction Noises *]

Actually the race-realism use last week, combined with this one, makes me realize that for them it’s just a fancy way of saying “world-view” [or what they consider to exist, and be true, which is not the craziest use of the word, but I would say unhelpful, and probably a small in-group marker].

It’s just a way of calling biases/prejudice legitimate.

And you know what, inasmuch the models have a “world-view” it IS annoyingly american in many ways. (at least the wrong kind of american.)

Also used for practicing my Japanese, I would say the usefulness was definitely not 0, if nothing else with the correct settings it was daily practice for the Japanese scripts (kana/kanji).

And it’s best It would definitely not bring you even to reading fluency, and was only good if you were supplementing your study with other language acquisition forms (like for example, in my case, living in Japan).

The examples were often stilted, and the accepted answers overly rigid, for sentences which weren’t necessarily realistic.

I think some of the worst aspects of the gamification were:

• Choosing easy exercises as a safe source of points, to not lose the streak. (perverse incentive)
• Essentially by setting a target, encouraging to only meet a daily points streak, and not necessarily go further for a given day. (perverse incentive)
• Tile matching to english, again with overly rigid accepted answer. (trying unhelpfully hard to map Japanese to english)

Let my streak/subscription lapse when it stopped being useful (got better reading exercise elsewhere), and uninstalled when they introduced AI shit.

Also I think there’s enough manipulation fantasy in HPMOR, and enough lack of agency from Hermione, that it qualifies—in it’s own way—implicitly as being erotic.

Also I realize the word often get’s used fuzzilly that way even in general, but I suspect what they mean is epistemology not ontology.

You have to wonder about that Tim traveler; Merlin?

For reference the open-source project appears to be OpenCog, founded by “Ben Goertzel” who at least up until 2010 held the title of “Director of Research” at SIAI, the relation stopping because he wasn’t a true believer in doom.

Honestly even the original paper is a bit silly, are all game theory mathematics papers this needlessly farfetched?