We Taught It to Lie
The chatbot says it doesn't discriminate. It's probably telling the truth. It's also probably wrong. The older version of the bias conversation was tractable. A model trained on historica…
Kicked In the Butlerian
Samuel Butler worried the machines would replace us. They didn't. They just work here now. Notes from the adjustment period.
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Provenance Tracer: an LLM skill for (maybe) not getting played
A claim travels from its original source to your feed through several hands, and at each step it gains distribution and loses epistemic status. Hedges get stripped. Speculation gets reframed as report…
Slopful Things
Most AI tool failures aren't caused by bad intent or bad luck. They're caused by someone who couldn't see the whole board — who didn't model what their tool would do when it met an adv…
Balance Comes to Force Multiplication
A few years back I wrote a post about learning to code. The short version: most people shouldn't, the gold rush is ending, "programmer" is becoming a regular job and losing its shine as…
It's Here (sort of)
I uploaded 50 worldbuilding infographics to NotebookLM, Google's LLM-driven notebook tool, last week and gave it a job to do: * Resolve contradictions between sources * Elevate meaningful diffe…