How unique are hallucinated citations offered by generative Artificial Intelligence models? This paper investigates how generative AI produces and propagates hallucinated academic references, focusing on the recurring non-existent citation 'Education Governance and Datafication' attributed t...

I find the tendency for AIs to hallucinate in consistent ways very interesting

arxiv.org/abs/2604.16407

would be so funny if Ternus dumped liquid glass on day 1

USV described their investment thesis ~15 years ago as "growing networks of engaged users"

Any place online is basically the same distance away as amy other place. It's just network addresses, etc

The ideal is users serving themselves somehow, usually two sided, like artists / fans, seller / buyer

this is correct. investors refer to the general idea you're talking about as network effects

that can mean something different to people with your background, tho it has similarities

but, it is the key moat for information based businesses, or your business it indefensible

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

~Wilhelm Stekel

Was the Boston Massacre Actually a Massacre? | Lucy Worsley Investigates YouTube video by PBS

Did Propaganda Start the American Revolution?

In one of my favorite biographies, Stacy Schiff said, "if any founding father deserves a statue at CIA headquarters, it'd be Samuel Adams."

Lucy hilariously introduces Ben Franklin as "air bather", which is franklin's humor too

youtu.be/Qe1DrekvpAw

Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce? The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.

wat www.wired.com/story/prego-...

A friend shared this on discord and I had two thoughts, then that one:

1.) that's a great cover. would be hilarious if they had the idea for the cover first and then wrote the book to support the cover

2.) would be funny to go on a talk show to promote the book and tell that story

3.) that skeet

A hill I will die on: AI is just software

I really dislike the side of AI that talks about it like we're building new lifeforms or somehow AI will solve all our problems. Investors and CEOs actually believed AI will "capture the light cone of all future value"

To that I say, IT'S JUST SOFTWARE

false dichotomy. millions of people doing their best could easily include thousands doing climate justice.

so anyway, UBI, abundance, etc, are essentially a reframing of ideas, ones that have socialist counterparts, to be market oriented

proponents likely have neoliberal biases, yet it seems to draw in people with socialist biases too

the interesting question for me: what effect does that have?

Even for Jefferson, his pursuit of small government was not based on a principle of small government. It was based on believing no one had any special power over anyone else if the government was kept small and powerless

small gov -> equality

they were obviously hypocrits regarding slavery, etc

No one, during that era, was Laissez-faire. Hamilton is often called the father of US capitalism and he had to channel the power of government, barely 5 years after the country got started, to save the country from its first banking crisis

The idea of removing gov entirely is quite recent

To them, using the power of Government was crucial for a new country

Paine goes so far as to invent redistribution of wealth and believed not letting anyone be too rich or too poor was crucial for democracy

Hamilton (capitalist) wanted a constitutional amendment + tax for funding all projects

> I think the idea of redistribution towards unprofitable yet foundational pursuits

There is interesting history here! The founding generation were all fans of this in some form. Franklin, for example, helped create socialism itself. On other side, Hamilton called it "internal improvements".

the blue menus in pragmata feel like final fantasy 7

bleep bloop

in this framing, i *think* it'd allow us to just call what comes from the models "output". did you get good output? did you improve it?

we dont have to call it slop. dont have to call it anything, really, and i like that ymmv

i think slop can come from anywhere. not just ai. it's just bad work

ai can do some amazing stuff now, but we still have to be thoughtful and imo that should be encouraged. instead of drawing a line between humans and ai, i like the framing of humans using tools

so first, i acknowledge that as important too. my approach is different but i'm thinking in similar directions.

by referring to human work with all the same terms used for ai work, we'd shift responsibility to the human enough that it creates pressure for them to do better work.

why just ai content?

anything doing work should strive for greatness or what's the point

100%! i llve how apple has approached AI so much. level headed through all the extreme is exactly what we needed and a huge part of why I trust apple

if you were part of that, thank you!

the founders kf the US felt so too. it was just twenty years in their day because they didnt want to create new aristocracies

yes. we all need to remember our principles and hold on to them
while the world tries to nihilist our faces off.

you got this!

i tried to consider what the conservative side of this coin might look like

imagine an institution like The Fed, but for defense / war / intelligence

enough independence to be a kind of analog to jerome powell

a balance of powers in different form, more resistant to the public's whims

> Having both types creates yet another check and balance.

That is precisely the intent

So, if we put aside whather or not it works, we see the idea having the same effect

If the value has merit, it would be because the way we currently have it is not effective for preventing abuse

*puff puff pass*

i would def say PMC class

if anyone points out the redundancy, I'd simply say "disirregardless", continue whatever I was saying, and act like nothing ever happened

and two weeks later, Id do it again with ATM machine

does anyone say PMC class or PMC company?

we the people are also the invisible hand