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by skybrian 1mo ago
This seems appropriate: https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wkzjtd...
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by skybrian 1mo ago
There's a lot more to it. For example, its writing style would also have to improve so it doesn't immediately give itself away. Also, the skill of the human opponents matters. You'd want to test it against people who have pra
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Nit: Turing’s actual imitation game is a party game (like Werewolf/Mafia) and nobody’s even trying to win at that. The LLM’s will just tell you they’re an AI.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
I’m skeptical of the implicit claim that they’re all the same. It seems rather difficult to prove?
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by skybrian 1mo ago
We could probably get something rather similar to voting by mail without actually using the US postal service.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Yes, being able to dispute charges and having a good return policy makes up for a lot of things. People were wary about entering their credit card number into a website at first, but they got used to it, and new payment systems were built.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
It's possible to tune your Bluesky filter bubble to avoid those people.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Yes, picking is one, and package delivery is another. I wonder how many people currently get package deliveries by robot? It might be a good metric to track?
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by skybrian 1mo ago
But suppose there are states that don't cooperate with that?
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by skybrian 1mo ago
I'm wondering how easy the USPS is to route around. In California's last election, there were 2,758 drop-box locations and 3,546 polling locations. In cities, these are often within walking distance. In rural areas, they might not
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by skybrian 1mo ago
I’m retired so it won’t be replacing my labor :)
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by skybrian 1mo ago
The "second" agent could also be the same one with a different prompt. LLMs aren't attached to their previous output; they'll point out problems if asked.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
What did you switch to?
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by skybrian 1mo ago
It’s not bad, but does start sounding like AI if you’re familiar with their writing style: > Gradient correction. Noise reduction. Separating stars and nebula. Stretching the faint structures carefully. Working on contrast and colour. Pu
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by skybrian 1mo ago
I see some odd effects. I wonder how these would be explained? According to the headline rate, unemployment was about the same in 1995. According to this alternative measure of unemployment, it's gone down by around 8% overall. When sp
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by skybrian 1mo ago
'Idiocracy' is a cartoonish movie that has to greatly exaggerate the effects of human natural selection, or else there would be no story. It promoted harmful popular misunderstandings of genetics and it shouldn't be defended
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Yes, a cartel is a failure mode to be wary of, but it's quite tedious to call an attempt to negotiate an international agreement a cartel. Global agreements are necessary to solve global problems, and many people believe that "AI
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Okay! I never do that, though, so it doesn't affect me. This has been a "works on my machine" moment.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
I can certainly see one happening without the other, but I'd expect P1 and P2 to be correlated at least some of the time?
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by skybrian 1mo ago
This seems a bit harsh. In my experience, it basically works fine for playing music. I haven’t noticed it being particularly slow either. Could it be due to having different hardware, different expectations, something else?
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by skybrian 1mo ago
This seems a bit harsh. In my experience, it basically works fine for playing music. I’ve not noticed it being slow.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Maybe it's not anything specific to Apple? There's high demand and short supply elsewhere due to AI, so it doesn't seem all that odd that many companies would try to buy gear from Apple too.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
How does that work, though? In the early days, pilots were daredevils. It doesn’t seem like aviation became safer because pilots took risks? Workspace safety didn’t improve by blaming the workers, even though they bore the risk.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Zoning might be seen as a way of getting local control over property that’s actually owned by someone else, for better or worse. Developers often have to make concessions to local governments to get approval, and NIMBYism has its downsides.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Social media websites often let you tag things with emojis or hashtags. This is more expressive, though people will disagree on their meaning.
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Not directly related, but one of the more impressive artists I've seen along these lines. Each photo has a bit of a story to it: https://bsky.app/profile/maggiemice.bsky.social/post/3mqty4y... https:&#x
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by skybrian 1mo ago
This autocomplete suggests domains that don't exist. You can just type garbage and it will suggest something, but then if you go there, there are no records. It seems like one purpose of an autocomplete box is help you avoid typos, so
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Similarly, I use my budget with Shelley on exe.dev. But it seems nice that as far as I can tell, for ChatGPT usage, coding agents compete on a level footing. I still might try ChatGPT Work sometime if there was some feature I couldn't
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by skybrian 1mo ago
I think it's just as likely that these companies will choose different strategies and go after different markets. Though there are some similarities, Apple didn't do the same thing as Microsoft. And although they do copy features,
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by skybrian 1mo ago
Arguably that's a subset of AI risk if seen from a broad enough perspective. And I think you're leaving out some logistics issues.

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