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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安

Ted Han ★ 韓聖安

@knowtheory

Mysterious stranger, and product nerd. formerly Mozilla; DocumentCloud

Oakland Katılım Mart 2008
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dame is not here
dame is not here@dameisnothere·
@enclose_horse hello dear mr maam horse, could u plz cross-post to bluesky? you have many fans there as well 🤍 also, the dev community over there is amazing and there are some very cool social features and things you could even one day do with the protocol: bsky.app/profile/orta.i…
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enclose.horse@enclose_horse·
I've made a dedicated X account just for enclose.horse All future updates will come through here - send any feedback/questions to this account.
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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安@knowtheory·
@jamescham @f_j_j_ This is also one of those spaces where i feel like the people who specialize in each of those haven't fully worked out the dynamic between those ecosystems as published product.
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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安@knowtheory·
@jamescham @f_j_j_ Yeah the fact that the distinction between reporting, analysis and commentary isn't clearer is a bummer. Part of that feels like a consumer packaging problem, since pieces of writing may contain any combination.
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James Cham
James Cham@jamescham·
There should be different words for articles that are literature surveys vs articles that involved actual human beings going out and asking other human beings about the world. I appreciate both but they are different!
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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安@knowtheory·
@jamescham I was going to note that our kid's school requires everyone who volunteers to go through fingerprinting, but asking even guest lecturers to be background checked is craaaazy
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James Cham
James Cham@jamescham·
A clever politician would run in front of this problem, earning the gratitude of a few high potential nerdy kids and the state forever. But I worry republicans hate colleges and democrats don’t care about math research.
Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler

This entire article about @UCBerkeley shutting down IMO pathways for Bay Area math students because of bureaucratic fingerprinting regulations that other California universities don’t require is enraging.

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@jamescham Oooh, I think I need to hear more about the scope is the deliberations. Is this a family or friends group trying to settle on plans, or another type of group that is trying to make tactical or strategic decisions?
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James Cham@jamescham·
WhatsApp groups plus polls for flash deliberation works very well!
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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安@knowtheory·
And we can reflect on which scifi stories or tropes chat bots most resemble. It's definitely not StarTrek's Data or Starfleet's ship computers. For my money it's more like virtual reality in the Red Dwarf books.
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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安@knowtheory·
These are _choices_ that OpenAI, Anthropic et al have made. There's no reason these technologies _have to_ work like this. Even Grok here is at least mildly more social in terms of how people interact with it.
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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安@knowtheory·
I am much more vehement about this. I think that OpenAI's product choices are deeply deeply antisocial and inhumane. The way that they've implemented chat bots are isolating, sycophantic and have no reality in your relationships with others save for how you represent them.
rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac

i have a theory that those more susceptible to relationships with chatbots do not have groupchats in their lives the groupchat is, imo, an indispensable part of modern life in a world where we commune IRL less one needs a place to BS and get checked by friends on dumb stuff

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Ted Han ★ 韓聖安@knowtheory·
The ATProto dev community is on the cusp of some amazing new things. Dan Abramov imploded his account here, but he just published a deep dive into the promise of ATProto: overreacted.io/open-social/
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