Joe Miller
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@zdch No, you are describing the best possible case. A writer producing slop is absolutely the modal case.
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A huge percentage of the people criticizing what AI can do for journalism haven’t seen what AI can do for journalism. The modal case is not some writer producing slop. It’s an agent scanning databases that no one could or would have ever expended time making sense of before.
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@dccommonsense Probably still higher than the percentage of eligible people who actually vote in the US
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Had an interesting (and sort of random) discussion with a friend the other night. It was ostensibly about reading books. But the question came up: "if the only people who could vote were folk who had read an entire book the previous year, how many (percentage) would be eligible?"
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@zdch "Tell instacart to order one grocery item and have it delivered" is so far removed from how I exist in the world that I can barely imagine it with or without AI
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So much of the dichotomy in "AI use" discourse ping-pongs between a) media slop and b) B2B productivity applications. But there's another super important use case: c) just making a bunch of stuff in household life way easier and more convenient.
Gregor Schubert@gregorschub
🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨 Time to talk about "The Household Impact of GenAI", covered by the @WSJ ! In this paper, we ask what GenAI is doing to productivity outside of work - and find evidence of large impacts. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03144 (w/ @rainozhang, Michael Blank) 🧵(1/n)
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@TheZvi It's impossible to take things like this seriously and pretending they are serious undermines your seriousness. Mythos sounds more like a bad live service game than a harbinger of annihilation.
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In all seriousness, such correlations and associations actually matter, so now that you realize this CHANGE THE NAME, DO NOT CALL IT MYTHOS.
In fact, the primary consideration should be 'what name makes it the most aligned?' Choose that one. It's not too late.
Eliezer Yudkowsky@allTheYud
Naming their next model after Cthulhu makes it hard to take Anthropic seriously as the good guys. It's fun at any other software company, not one that actually is flirting with extinction.
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@drewlevin But it means "experience the exultant high of winning a game I was sure I lost more often". Also, people would be a lot better off coming to terms with how to get personal value out of losing games (a significant inevitability) but that's a much longer discussion
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@spuuky_ That recodes as “reduce the amount of time I spend losing this game I believe I’ve already lost”, which is not uniformly bad for many people. Consider, as a common case, the world where people pay by the hour to play the game.
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An important game design lesson: do not create a button that, when pressed, gives someone a worse time. People will press it (because they think they want what it outputs) and then be upset that you gave them a worse time.
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@ArifHasanNFL The human error of pressing "post" on an AI-generated article
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@fivewithflores I think "punky" it probably outside the range of words they'd choose (although the others are all better guesses than the actual answer)
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Yesterday was my first Wordle miss in about three years. When someone asks what the difference is with Hard Mode and regular mode, this is a good example. I got the pattern on three but couldn’t find coverage. In easy mode this is a solve every time.
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If your theory of mind says that you can get your teammates to play better by using your words, can't you also get them to play worse? And if you wanted to get them to play worse, wouldn't a great strategy be to persuade them to dislike you, maybe by insulting them repeatedly?
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A thought I had this morning: I encounter a decent amount of people trying to justify their negative chat behavior by saying that Riot doesn't sufficiently penalize soft inting, with the implication that their own use of chat is their only real recourse to getting inted.
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@JayCuda Going to be a lot of pressure in that final week when the 0-155 White Sox face the 125-30 Tigers to see if they can get up to 1 win
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@zdch Actually it would kick ass if we didn't nominate this guy for many other reasons, too!
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It would kick ass if we didn’t nominate this guy so we don’t have to just eat story after story of this getting dredged up across the entire election cycle.
New York Post@nypost
Governor Gavin Newsom’s $236M program for California’s mentally ill has helped just 22 people in four years: report #Echobox=1769553645" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nypost.com/2026/01/27/us-…
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@zdch I sure hope that throwing Bovino out doesn't get him out of the quagmire. We've really got to get Stephen Miller out of there while the iron is hot.
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@UnburdenedRadno @dccommonsense Whatever excuses you need to sleep at night as you insist on disenfranchisement of our citizens
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@spuuky_ @dccommonsense Lol. “Democracy” as you define it is just Santa Claus for adults. Generations of blood were spilled to form and preserve a constitutional, federalist republic here. If you want two wolves and a sheep to decide what’s for dinner, I’m sure theres another country to meet your needs.
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The people calling me "left" now for doing what I've always done (supporting freedom and the Constitution)and all those who said I was "right-wing" for doing so in the past show how bankrupt those terms are.They're are just terms to divide us now folks!They've lost all meaning.
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@UnburdenedRadno @dccommonsense I was born in this country and I apparently already don't share your values, because I believe the right of everyone to participate in democracy is more important than those things, and that if the people choose to support those positions then that is the will of the people
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@spuuky_ @dccommonsense You know it’s not about that and it IS about lowering the hurdle to socialize healthcare, regulate the 2nd amendment out of existence, and force Roe v Wade on every state. As well as to provide amnesty to the 20 million we’ve let in from countries that don’t share our values.
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@UnburdenedRadno @dccommonsense If it "entrenches permanent political power" to give all citizens of the country the right to vote and have elected representation, then entrenched it must become
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@dccommonsense Dan, you’ll support “freedom and constitution” right through evisceration of the filibuster to pack the courts and install DC and PR as states to entrench permanent political power. And then you’ll claim to be above the very thing you supported.
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@BasicMountain I've kind of never forgiven MTG for moving away from the old card frame, still
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Can’t wait for my first premodern event end of the month
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@zdch It's an argument framework intended to imply that if you didn't pretend otherwise, you'd be forced to accept the self-evident truth of their side. Not a very effective argument framework, but they do seem to like it
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I genuinely don't get where this "pretend not to understand things" criticism comes from. Who started saying that? It's just such a bizarre line to begin with; like in what scenarios could such a strategy even theoretically pay off? Legitimately odd construction.
Zac Hill@zdch
@mattyglesias It’s funny(?) that so many ICE defenders accuse libs of “pretending not to understand” things, as they pretend not to understand how having masked security-contractor-types geared up for combat operations normatively and mechanically escalates the danger of a situation.
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This headline is overstated but it is interesting how comparatively little attention this is getting. The key is that it doesn't really fit into any of the relevant macro-level meaning-providing cultural worldviews.
Noah Rothman@NoahCRothman
Iranian Civilians Are Being Massacred to the Sound of Progressive Silence nationalreview.com/corner/iranian…
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@dccommonsense I think the majority of the replies that do things like attribute to you a position which is directly contrary to your stated ones over the years are probably just a ton of bots.
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No, of course you're correct. This is why I'm an idiot to be engaging here. But I've been that way for a long time…
Old dogs, new tricks, etc.😡
Adriano Oliveira@adri0__
@dccommonsense @Zekatheart Just now my timeline is starting to fill up with reaction from prominent voices (like yourself) reacting to extremely inflammatory replies. It might not be a coincidence. Likely a coordinated AI-generated effort.
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