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I like telemetry because I'm mad at product managers who add bad features and want them to see that I've disabled them.
It's weird that the same culture that sings odes to the global supply chain thinks the take away of Petrov Day should be some weird celebration of individualistic behavior rather than a reflection of the need to build better systems that don't depend on people like Petrov.
"If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it?" is somehow treated as a sane statement, but it's definitely does *not* come from someone honestly considering why they read things.
"Asimov is a famously fast writer, therefore his content is far less worth reading than other writers" is something no one has ever claimed, because we all understand that the value you get from reading isn't "did the author take a long time writing it?"
Well, if we're going to evaluate risks based on who talks about them rather their merits, then I guess we should look up who has spent a long time warning us about impact on cognitive fitness, cybersecurity, etc. and listen to them.
Better for you if you think things through.
Why are the leaders of AI companies saying "Our products are going to extinguish humanity. Invest in us!" They come from an eccentric Berkeley subculture in which this eschatology is a sacred belief. Good analysis in a NYT op-ed by Cal Newport. nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opini…
Some day, my daughter will taste cotton candy and think "oh, it's grape flavored candy!"
And then she'll try "grape" flavored candy and think "wtf is this awful crap?"
The Twitter discourse system trains us to fill in the context, and if you get mad at people for filling in the wrong one, you're mad at the wrong thing.
Many tweets are incoherent (or can be read two opposing ways) unless you know whether the author is left or right..
And that's when the thing is left/right oriented. So many things aren't, so there's less of a clear way to fill in the correct interpretation.
I find it weird when stores put a FB/etc. icons on their signs. I mean, sure it signifies "you can look us up on FB", but that's already assumed.
Just bought a nutcracker a Google+ icon printed directly on it. (Along with FB, IG, and YT, and the company phone number.)
To experiment with improving Opus' writing style, I tried asking it to speak in @KelseyTuoc's voice on a random question I had, and it included "load bearing" (italicized, no less.)
When called out, it blamed her.
Oh, look, a rate limit. Maybe if you didn't randomly route people's Google searches to the LLM you wouldn't have to rate limit people so hard!
OpenAI's talk ending with "We accidentally created a nuclear weapon, which we're selling to the general public. As in industry, we must urgently build missile defense shields also using our technology." is very pikachu surprised face, equally for the first part as well the second
"Strike a deal" = "deal successfully agreed upon."
Other contexts: "Strike" = "delete"
It's a bad language, sir.
