A year ago I bet a VC that people wouldn’t simp (ie have a strong parasocial relationship with) a bot if the bot was transparent that it was a bot.

I am increasingly sure I will lose that bet.

Eliezer Yudkowsky In 20 years, people will view content created before 2021 as pure and untainted by GPT. They will mine it in the same way that pre-WWII steel is salvaged from shipwrecks for Geiger counters because they aren't tainted by nuclear fallout.

Search results probably tainted already.

People have been focused on sophisticated political threats from AI-generated content (deepfakes!), but as per usual, haven’t paid much attention to this much simpler threat: DDOSing systems with low quality content.

Beautifully-crafted procedurally generated driving game that works in a web browser. It's fun to be able to drive off-course! slowroads.io

You never know if this hackathon is going to be historic or not twitter.com/emollick/statu…

Me: “How much could a faucet possibly cost?”

fml

Me, 2017: “lol look at the chaos in the frontend engineering community with a new JavaScript framework coming out every week.”

Me, 2022: “fuck”

Wow, below is the 2nd paper shared today on deep tabular methods!
The deep learning from tabular data research field is on fire today 🔥!

(PS: And don't forget about diffusion models for tabular data: twitter.com/rasbt/status/1… 😁)

(PPS: My reviews will follow soon 😊)

Political science is an undervalued field

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Don’t train on me.

john kutay pedram Alex Noonan 'why buy something I could build myself,' he says as he commits yet another change called 'actually fixed this time'