via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

There are always empty words about "human in the loop", that you should always check the work of an LLM. But the entire value of a summary is as a replacement for reading. Nobody uses an LLM to generate a "summary" *and* independently verifies.

I've got a fever and the only cure is for me to get extremely angry about something that ultimately is of no consequence whatsoever and that I will have totally forgotten about in 48 hours

Seeing “AI” boosters loudly and proudly say they don’t have any ideas and that they don’t think anybody has ideas anymore is genuinely funny

Not just because ideas are the easy part, which most of you already know, but because very few people genuinely like new ideas and resist them at every turn

The paradox of our times: everybody in software talks about how “AI” ramps up productivity by an order of magnitude

Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe

A """funny""" thing I've noticed is that if you see a buckwild and totally made up claim on Reddit and then search that claim on Google, trying to source it, the Gemini AI summary will be like "oh, yeah, that totally happened, and my source is that three hour old Reddit thread you were just reading"

I have literally seen shitposts on Bluesky cited by Gemini as factual, in statements screenshotted by the original shitposter themselves and reposted to Bluesky.

Never, ever, ever, EVER trust AI, gang.

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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden).

Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again.

#ScienceMatters

If you need a groundswell of people to change their minds to achieve political goals, but you're going to dunk on them for the consequences of changing their mind, what incentive do people have to change their minds?

I am enjoying "This Way Up" by @markcooperjones.bsky.social and @jayforeman.bsky.social so much that I am forcing myself to savor it. After reading three chapters the day it arrived, I am now on a strict one chapter per day ration. Go get yourself a copy.

I just finished the hard copy version of this book. It's worth a read!

@baldurbjarnason.com FYI - I bought a copy of "The Intelligence Illusion" from Lulu. I'm reading it and enjoying it immensely. I noticed that every chapter in my copy is numbered "1." Thought you might want to know.