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jeff fossett
@jfoss117.bsky.social
Phd student at Harvard. Research lead at Plurality Institute.

Exploring somewhere in the intersection of technology governance, economics, STS, and plurality. I also like making things.

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e.g. meta-decisions about what to watch (it does give a slight spoiler tho)
December 16, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Unironically pretty good use of LLMs is to get spoiler-free info about stuff you're watching / reading
December 16, 2024 at 9:47 PM
“The luddites were right”
December 7, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Replicating a fairly similar response to the Jon Bois tweet using the "empathy" counterspeech prompt from that paper and the same LLM they use
December 5, 2024 at 11:51 AM
E.g. compare these two:
December 5, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Have you seen this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14986
To me some of these replies look strikingly similar to the "counterspeech" LLM interventions studied in this paper, which finds a backlash effect. So I almost wonder if these could be misguided attempts to do something constructive
December 5, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Local comparative examples
December 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Nature as standing reserve
November 30, 2024 at 4:08 PM
perpetual-mend levis
November 29, 2024 at 12:41 PM