And thus Poker Face joins Sandman in the āno longer interested in Season 2ā pile, but for different reasons.
The plot of Uncanny Valley centers on āa teenage girl who becomes unmoored by a hugely popular AR video game in a parallel present.ā
So, Tron again, then. But with goggles this time.
āKicked out of a ā¦ group chatā is a peculiar definition of āoffline consequencesā.
One thing Iāve been missing is takedowns of Rationalist ideology about theoretical computer science. The physics, I can do, along with assorted other topics.
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I get it!
In commenting, we did not disclose that an AI was used to write comments, as this would have rendered the study unfeasible.
If you canāt do your study ethically, donāt do your study at all.
Congratulations on your discovery of the concept of web forum moderation. Bye now.
Buh bye now.
OK, this isnāt about AI slop, but it is complaining about Wikipedia. Its article about that kind of āamnesiaā named by gobshite Michael Crichton is shoddily sourced and seemingly in violation of the siteās policies.
Even setting aside the fact that Crichton coined the term in a climate-science-denial screed ā which, frankly, we probably shouldnāt set aside ā yeah, itās just not good media literacy. A newspaper might run a superficial item about pure mathematics (on the occasion of the Abel Prize, say) and still do in-depth reporting about the US Supreme Court, for example. The causes that contribute to poor reporting will vary from subject to subject.
Remember the time a reporter called out Crichton for his shitty politics and Crichton wrote him into his next novel as a child rapist with a tiny penis? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Iām going to take the fact that this was downvoted independently by all three site admins as sufficient reason to escort this commenter to the egress.
That Wikipedia article is impressively terrible. It cites an opinion column that couldnāt spell Sokal correctly, a right-wing culture-war rag (The Critic) and a screed by an investment manager complaining that John Oliver treated him unfairly on Last Week Tonight. It says that the āGell-Mann amnesia effect is similar to Erwin Knollās law of media accuracyā from 1982, which as I understand it violates Wikipediaās policy.
By Crichtonās logic, we get to ignore Wikipedia now!
Also on the BlueSky-o-tubes today, I saw this from Ketan Joshi:
Used [hugging face]'s new tool to multiply 2 five digit numbers
Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours
Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy)
NOT THE (PORK-FILLED) BEES!
Is that the tomato scale guy?
āThe man in the glowing rectangle is Mark Kretschmann, a technology enthusiast who has grown out of touch with all but the most venal human emotions. Mark is a leveller, in that he wants to drag all people down to his. But as Mark is about to discover, thereās no way to engineer a prompt for a map out ofā¦ the Twilight Zone.ā
Vacant, glassy-eyed, plastic-skinned, stamped with a smiley faceā¦ āoptimisticā
I mean, if the smiley were aligned properly, it would be a poster for a horror story about enforced happiness and mandatory beauty standards. (E.g., āNumber 12 Looks Just Like Youā from the famously subtle Twilight Zone.) With the smiley as it is, itās just incompetent.
The only one Iāve met is Carlo Rovelli, at the APS March Meeting in 2019. We work in adjacent topics, but I donāt travel much. I know people who know him better, and I havenāt heard stories of him being horrible, for whatever thatās worth. He does come across as a bit of an eager self-promoter. I can easily imagine him accepting an invitation on the āa gigās a gigā principle.
āColumbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ācheat on everythingāā
https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.bsky.social/post/3lne5zqaxyc2c
Yep, heās been operating in obvious bad faith since the conceptual penis days, at least.
Part 6 quotes a Motteār as saying,
The thudding lack of intellectual curiosity is giving me a headache. Why study Pythagoras? Hmm, how about learning how to talk about a semi-legendary person of whom we have no direct written evidence, only stories written centuries after the fact?