“The End of Naked Locker Rooms - The Atlantic”
The Atlantic
The End of Naked Locker Rooms
What we lose when casual nudity disappears
 Iceland is in many ways a bit of a stereotypical Nordic society, but man are the Americans messed up
“Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’ – Pivot to AI”
Pivot to AI
Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’
Today’s preprint paper has the best title ever: “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models”....
 > They wrote a good headline, and then they faked the scientific process bit.
“The slop layer - by Brian Merchant - Blood in the Machine”
Lost in the slop layer
How AI has encrusted our culture and social sphere in a sedimentary layer of slop.
 > One of the more perplexing things about the AI bubble is how relatively little we have to show for it
So Safari on the iPad randomly and unpredictably reorders all its tabs and I can’t figure out when or why it does it. It’s incredibly annoying
“Desire to Pop”
Smashing Frames
Desire to Pop
Abstractions are powerful tools. Given enough abstraction everything gets somewhat simple. Somewhat clear. Also somewhat wrong. Abstraction turns e...
 > I love the abstraction of the “AI” bubble popping. But the very probably effects haunt me. Been having similar concerns. Except I think things are genuinely worse than most expect. The usual suspects are clearly trying to position LLMs as something being sabotaged by the bubble not its cause and the overall prospects are pretty dire …
Idly remembering the time I recommended “Just Enough Research” where I worked, a book so good I keep buying it again and again, and the only chapter my coworkers read was the one on how to do a minimally harmful survey, because they were dead-set on doing a survey, no matter what