@tealou

reductio ad absurdum I talk about tech law and write and joke and stuff

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Téa S
@tealouAug 2
This post is old and my thinking has matured since then, but this is allegedly an ethnographic artefact of humour being used to communicate the "reasonable person" position. Or, funny dialogue teasmith.au/p/you-just-dont-…

You just don't understand how AI works, bro

It's been a long couple of years.

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Interesting, however yes, it is called framing. And it's why these companies being so evil is a big problem. After the Adobe in Rust thing last week, people are being banned for 'hate speech' on Claude for people asking things to be coded in Rust. THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
Alex Tamkin
@AlexTamkin8h
New Anthropic research: How AI agents shape experts' judgment calls When experts delegate work to an agent, do they still make the key decisions? We tested this in a randomized trial with 50 professional data analysts.
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Never ceases to amaze me how Psychology 101 shit is framed as some kind of "interesting research". No. We know this. It's not that profound. And they're tinkering with it in the background already. You seriously trust them not to use algofucking in this way? lol k
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Congratulations though geniuses, you managed to invent choice architecture Maybe in 10 years you'll "discover" proprioception (why LLMs don't "learn")
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Once I come back up for air I intend to still be doing some kind of podcast or show. It'll be about tech and law of course, but there will be more regulator eyes on me than actual audience (still adjusting to that), but I want to have guests and stuff.
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Focused on admission and getting used to law practice (which I can confirm, is demanding), a rebrand to support the firm's direction with me in it (assuming admission), and all the things that go with that. Yes. All this training and... did a rebranding & website project. LOL
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My last hurrah as a designer is using it on our firm, because I have to sit on my hands a bit pending ATO issues & 'complex admission' as a result. Lots of anxiety but it is funny I'm the most overqualified designer in the world. I was before, now even more so LOL
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Y’all fighting against socialism like your family owns a railroad. bro you have a shift on monday
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Being good at anything
Rahul Prajapati
@RahulReplyOct 26
NAME ONE CAREER that AI genuinely cannot touch. I struggle to find one.
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Call it the James Lindsay maneuveur: going so anti-woke/anti-socialist classical liberal you end up inadvertently parroting far right modes of reasoning and talking points before finally discovering they've become a big part of your audience.
Matt McManus@MattPolProf16h
There is something grimly funny in pondering how the libertarian movement became a breeding ground for fascsim before deciding at least part of the reason is it must have been contaminated by cultural Marxism and critical theory...
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I gotta say I'm getting mighty tired of good people carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders whilst the worst, most selfish and cruel people are propped up.
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In her own way, she's communicating some of what many of us feel about the damage AI is doing to the arts, design and communication. For some context - 3/4 of the way through she tells us that her partner lost his job to AI. She's been mobbed & mocked by the pro-AI people.
Udi Wertheimer
@udiWertheimerOct 25
she’s so tired of generative ai
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hahaha see once you see it's just grep you can't unsee it
Raul Izahi Lopez 🇺🇸
@raulizahiOct 27
Replying to @tealou
@tealou is right, as usual.
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Please stop naming your fucking chatbots. We're grown ass adults doing multi-million dollar transactions and don't want to speak to a fucking cartoon character thanks
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Seriously, it's astonishing how we are infantilised when it suits, and then held responsible for not having specialised knowledge on niche topics simultaneously. WHICH IS IT, ATO CHATBOT WITH A CUTE NAME AM I TODDLER OR AM I ACCOUNTANT
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In case you think you're not Woke enough, I'll have you know that there are still lawyers who draft real estate contracts with "he" and "his" and remain employed. Not sure if this gives comfort or makes you boil with rage. Toodles
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It has taken 9 months for the Tax Office to deal with a single complaint, in which they have now requested documents I have been offering 9 months. And, because they cancelled my ABN and only business can submit electronically, it is via post. They're breaking me. lol
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It has of course taken 9 months with about 7 different people calling to tell me it has escalated. I actually howled laughing on the phone when she said I could post it. I mean it's not like tax affairs affect legal admission or anything, no biggie
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and it's not like people who are more vulnerable than me may receive erroneous and excessive demand notices for disputed debts and hurt themselves because they can't fix it. Seems the ATO have taken all the wrong lessons from Robodebt...
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