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A recent publication in @pnas.org by Sean J. Westwood at Dartmouth shows that LLMs can now complete surveys with a level of sophistication renders every quality check useless. The bot in this experiment reached a 99.8% pass rate on attention checks 😮

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

there's definitely some self-reinforcing dynamics here between suburbanization, school consolidation, and commute mode

in the cancelled Arrested Development movie, Tobias accidentally joins a Klavern

like the xerox parc lab, the innovations were there, they just couldn't get them to market

(non orthogonal categories)

history doesn't repeat but it often rhymes, as the saying goes

not to turn this into a grand social theory but i think it's part of the thing where nobody is a hobbyist anymore, and leisure is competitive and professionalized

nobody jogs, you're either sedentary or you do ultramarathons

you will be visited by three chatbots

if you really want to make your head spin around in circles read about academic hiring in the postwar period

my role as an educator is to expose young minds to important 30 rock references

I've heard it said you have to "hit the eject button" and try a new instance as soon as something like this happens, because you'll never get it to stop making post-hoc justification for previous errors/hallucinations

Tragi-comic that our entire economy is one giant leveraged bet on this technology

mandatory jail time for not using a divider