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@hyperfixedpod.bsky.social I used to host the Reply All podcast, and I have found that so many people who liked Reply All have no idea Hyperfixed exists. It's super frustrating because I have no idea how to reach those people.
So are AI agents infiltrating surveys? Not really.
Meaningful detections were almost exclusively on MTurk (11-16%).
Every other platform: at or below 1% for our primary detection flag
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Surveillance pricing isn’t just hitting you at checkout — employers are now using personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept.
“Workers are consumers, too. If it works on consumers, it works on workers. It’s the same psychology,” our @lindsayowens.bsky.social told @marketwatch.com.
"If we genuinely try to be the last Petrostate standing, if we’re trying to be the last one selling the last barrel of oil to the last buyer, what does that do to our geopolitics? You can imagine us becoming a genuine pariah"
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
1) Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London (1889–1903) What it is A विशाल multi-volume social survey of London
ChatGPT just randomly inserted Hindi (विशाल, meaning 'huge') into an otherwise entirely English conversation 🤔
Screenshot of Google having been asked "is blender easy", responds by saying "Blender has a steep learning curve and is generally considered difficult for beginners due to its complex interface and vast" before suddenly breaking off mid sentence and spouting off an incredibly long sequence of numbers
.... I see.
how diffie hellman key exchange works
(with as little math as possible)
There's a tradition in Judaism which understands time as a spiral; see: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/35...
Good news humans: we're no longer the weakest link in the chain of cybersecurity!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fossil fuel price shocks are redistribution shocks.
Last time, we warned windfall profits would benefit the ultra-rich at the expense of everyone else.
This time, there is no excuse. The numbers are in. We need windfall profit taxes & multilateral price caps now.
“The burden shifts over to who you’re suing to have to rebut everything, and actually litigate against you, and do an enormous amount of work,” observed another attorney, who works for a local government on the west coast. His office, he told us, has been struggling to keep up with a wave of AI-generated legal actions and correspondence from locals. All this time adds up. One lawyer relayed that a dispute that historically would’ve cost a client about $2,000 wound up costing over $20,000 as the opposing party filed AI-generated motion after AI-generated motion; another said that a similar case pushed what should’ve been about $5,000 in client fees to over $70,000.
All of this can shift a huge burden of labor to the opposing party. And that labor isn't cheap! Lawyers told us that cases that should've cost their clients a few thousand dollars wound up costing tens of thousands of $$$ as pro se litigants relying on AI kept escalating claims + filing new motions:
I've been looking up the definition of an AI agent and ... it turns out I've been using AI agents for ~20 years without even realising it.
An AI agent to filter out spam emails.
An AI agent to respond to people when I'm out of office.
An AI agent to correct my spelling.
Why all the fuss?
NEW
Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards
Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column
emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...
'IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS CONSULTATION RESPONSES. YOUR STRATEGY SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS ...'
I'm at an AI policy event where the chief executive of Ofcom just came on stage to Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise
"A.I. is a management power grab, disguised as an inevitable technical upgrade. To fight it, workers can use four strategies proven in the past: name the real problem; unionize it; ransom it; and block it."
labornotes.org/2026/03/four...
This looks like a great opportunity for someone working on data governance, to lead the Data Empowerment Clinic at King's: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/139965-...
New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...
EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.
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I don't think a court has ruled on this in EU yet ...
"Gemini 3 has a context length of a million tokens, but your context length is your entire career. Your whole life, really, taking into account those childhood experiences that turned you into the weirdo you are, obsessed with whatever obscure questions you care about"
feels like genai "analysis" of written consultations breaks a fundamental compact of responsibility of governors to the governed. humans don't have a great record of taking in responses, but the practise of having a human read them is such a basic part of what political representation should mean.
Are you there in person? I'll be arriving shortly, let me know if you'd like to catch up!
What do LLMs see?
I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.
Despite working 60+ hour weeks, many Uber and Lyft drivers have seen their pay drop by nearly 50% over time. Even as these companies report record profits, consumers face inflated prices, while the workers who are (quite literally) driving these companies’ success are paid less and less.
In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.
a windows 11 menu showing "convert to adobe pdf", "ask copilot", and 4 more options that take time to load
windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal
If you were to create a philosophy of LLM course, what kinds of things would you cover?
My thoughts in thread, but eager to hear what others would do
The key finding is that switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed shifted users toward more conservative positions: policy priorities, views on Trump’s criminal investigations, and attitudes toward the war in Ukraine all shifted to the right.
