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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 12h

Columbia is very good as ruining collective bargaining

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 13h

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A Race-Science Blogger Goes Mainstream

Jordan Lasker, known online as Crémieux, is taking a victory lap after he was mentioned by The New York Times.

www.theatlantic.com

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

The evidence against, of course, is quite good in their telling.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Giving a talk today on industry capture in social media research and incidentally received a peer review stating that all evidence social media causes harm of any sort is shoddy.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

This reproduce results with LLMs thing comes up a lot…

My brother in Christ, please google nix or docker, test driven development and encapsulating code.

Paperpile @paperpile.com · 1d

AI agents can now check published papers and reproduce their results in hours.

This could help resolve the replication crisis in research, provided there are benchmarks for accuracy and fairness, via @emollick.bsky.social

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/real-ai-ag...

Real AI Agents and Real Work

The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints

www.oneusefulthing.org

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

If it’s who I think it is, the anon account, their identity is a wild rabbit hole of what you’d expect.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Right? Like it’s exactly what he’s doing or trying to do.

Of course it’s readily invaded by the strategy “oh fuck off”

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

I get that Yudkowsky coined it and it’s garbage game theory, but I’m curious if anyone flipped the tables.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Ok so who wrote a piece on agi hype as pascals mugging?

Googling returns too much crackpot less wrong stuff.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

(It’s on the list of plausible conservation techniques for over populated feral horses in the west, and someone could certainly make a case for it).

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Horses Laughter tho

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

“I got shit to do” is, completely seriously, remarkably effective.

Implies a volume of things and no time for questions to be asked about what specifically, it’s relatable and doesn’t dismiss the person.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Works even better if you're not eating McDonalds.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

"Let me eat my McDonald's"

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Quantumn logic gates is a real "staring into the void" rabbit hole.

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Just waiting for quantum nobels

Pauly-Y(Nobel) , [[0, imaginary medicine][-imaginary medicine, 0]]

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Horse slaughter is almost certainly the best take of the lot.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

I'd believe it. Impressively roasted, wonderfully sourced.

In my neck of the woods we have Sey, which is equally fantastic (mebbe a bit better) but I've found their in-house brewing to be hit or miss for coffee but espresso drinks are spot on.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

I can't think of any precedent whereby we've invested this much in an industry without a clear route to profit that doesn't involve creating computer god, but here we are.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Of course no reputable scientists or experts take AGI seriously. It's just a cult propped up on SV capital, high on their own supply. Credulous journalists at the Grey Lady and beyond huffed it as well, causing more capital to flow in. What @hankgreen.bsky.social is seeing are the death rattles.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

It's covered brilliantly by @adambecker.bsky.social's book, More Everything Forever. It's no spoiler, but a lot of it boils down to cults formed in Silicon Valley that think they're on the verge of building god. Iff they do, they can pay out.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

More Everything Forever

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

The deeper question raised by @hankgreen.bsky.social's observation is why we're here in the first place. Creating their SlopGenerators cost a *lot* of money, and a ton of capital flowed into building them. Cooler heads warned about the viability and yet...

The answer is humans doing human things.

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 2d

Spooling up GPTs

"Good job"
"Great"
"Nice Sharing"
"You're a wonderful sibling"

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 2d

In Stockholm, I've finally found a coffee shop that makes a better cup than I can at home (Drop Roasters).

It's a great thing I don't live here, I'd go broke.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 2d

They’ve discovered GDP, Gross Domestic Praise.

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