thinking today about how if AI takes the easy parts of our jobs then we'll just spend all day doing hard tasks instead!
maybe first written about by @fredbenenson.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
iOS autocomplete corrects ābskyā to ābaitā
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There's this thing that's been bugging me about Claude Code: besides being addictive, LLM coding agents are incentivized to generate *more* code vs. better code.
Unfortunately, this seems like a problem for the economic model as there are perverse incentives at play:
medium.com/p/23efbaf75aee
Whoa, I asked Claude and apparently that was the correct guess:
Hah, not quite, I think it's that that cat would be perfectly average across the three PCA dimensions? Which would maybe imply it's average across the regular dimensions if they were normalized to the amount of variance (just guessing, this part is probably over my head)
I am thinking about adoptiong kittens again (RIP Catberry & Horatio š„²), and I am almost certainly going to adopt two rescues in NYC.
But I realized I didn't know a lot about cat breeds, so I decided to build a tool using PCA and Threes.js
fredbenenson.github.io/cat-cā¦
I, personally, am not going super hard on the pro-assassination memes ā as funny as they are ā because we just don't know what the motive was. We live in a time of mass accelerationist violence and I don't feel like publicly cheerleading a guy who might have a compound full of deranged far-right ramblings. But I'm also not stupid enough to think that scolding the entire internet for how they're acting is a meaningful use of my time on planet Earth. Maybe if I had a paid column somewhere - or proper health insurance ā l'd feel different.
No one has been asking for my opinion on it, but this, from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.socialās Garbage Day is spot on, imo
Also if you search for "blocklist" on here you'll find a lot of people reporting getting added to various garbage / bot / scam lists and there doesn't seem to be much recourse
I'm on a blocklist because I follow someone's definition of "conservative" accounts on here. This has resulted in over a dozen people blocking me which is no big deal, but I can't say it isn't a bit dismaying, so it's something I'm trying to wrap my head around.
Iām fascinated (and admittedly a bit repulsed) by the idea of blocklists enumerating people who follow a certain account.
On the one hand, they have the potential to be a kind of decentralized hell banning, but on the other it encourages herding and siloing since itās blocking innocent users
So how is everyone recovering from Thanksgiving?
Corollary to Godwin's law: when someone calls you a nazi you can turn off replies
This is an extremely important point about what kind of populism liberals need to be considering if we are going to win back huge swaths of the electorate.
tl;dr: economic populism isnāt going to be enough
Happy Thanksgiving!
lol, honestly afraid to name them
Interesting to find myself on a blocklist on here because I happen to follow a controversial journalist.
This means I'm accumulating 1-2 blocks a day from people who I don't know but who block everyone on the list.
ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Isnāt the problem that their echo chamber is just bigger than ours?
Our film āThe Apprenticeā is in such a funny place. Trump hates it and doesn't want you to see it.
And yet Hollywood is also afraid of it: actors are shunning Sebastian Stan for playing Trump.
If you haven't seen it āĀ go make up your mind for yourself!
www.thecut.com/article/seba...
Red state voters voting to take away their own stuff to own the libs
Holy shit. I just read that Sebastian Stan wonāt be doing the Variety Actors on Actors awards season panel because other actorsā publicists wouldnāt let their clients talk to Sebastian about playing Donald Trump in THE APPRENTICE movie. This is outrageous!
I think what itās making me realize is just how much Threads does to circulate your posts to people who might like them, whereas Discover seems much more basic
How does the āDiscoverā tab work then? Assume thatās using some algorithm to sort stuff you havenāt seen before
right back at cha
So what do like ... people like to post on here?
I can't decide if the delta in engagement I get on here vs. Threads is because I'm accidentally more centrist than the median skeeter or because I'm not getting weird enough or because bsky's algo is more parsimonious or ...
It always struck me as shortsighted to only worry about what happens when AI makes mistakes as opposed to what happens when AI becomes more accurate than l humans.
Prison recidivism is another tough example: human judges are probably more racist than LLMs at this point.
One of the best pieces of post-election analysis Iāve read so far.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...
Get well soon Elizabeth !
lots of good local (NYC) area reporting from @hellgateny.bsky.social and @thecity.bsky.social
So who is the most non-echo chamber person you follow on here?
(Am I doing this right?)
