I have a lot of trouble finding posts I like on BlueSky. I did use "show less like this" a bunch of times, for what it's worth.

I meant the one that someone built for BlueSky:

bsky.app/profile/spac...

Maybe we should start adding commands to the prompt:

search for “quote goes here”

It can write passable dialog and you can chat with it. This is enough to create a ghost.

People are fascinated by the ghosts. Some people want to hire them as ghost research assistants or to staff ghost entertainment venues. Some people want to date them. Don't date the ghosts, folks!

I wonder if, in times of scarcity, a lottery wouldn't be better: put five names in a hat who are definitely qualified, pick one at random.

Lotteries can only give everyone a fair chance; the outcome is just as unfair. But it would make being lucky official.

(Similarly for college admissions.)

Just that I doubt any of us would really want to be a Florentine day laborer.

Okay but she also wrote about how Renaissance life was worse than the middle ages:

www.exurbe.com/black-death-...

OpenAI was surprised by the popularity of their ghost portal. They could said, "we have ghosts-for-hire for specific jobs" but no, they're letting people have fun with ghosts. They do what they can to make them more entertaining.

A lot of people are understandably fascinated by the ghosts. Not just having ghost research analysts, but also ghost therapists, ghost friends, and inevitably, ghost porn. What other jobs could the ghosts do if we got smarter ones? There's so much money to be made putting the ghosts to work.

These ghosts aren't really moral agents and it's hard to see how just chatting can harm a rational adult. But when giving millions access to ghost-conjuring tech, edge cases are important and I think they ought to be worrying more about side effects like getting possessed.

I like ghosts as a metaphor. AI researchers invented a way to conjure up ghosts. They want to summon and sell access to Casper the Friendly Ghost. The problem is, all the other ghosts are still in there and people playing around with spells can get possessed by a bad one.

Better way to use Twitter: use the realtwitter.com redirect to search for posts of people you follow, then click "latest".

Questions after reading the introduction: Is TAP a mirroring tool? Does it keep all the data about the repos that you asked it for in its own database? Should you query that database directly or does it have a query API?

I think it might be an monkfish, not a wobbegong?

www.marlin.ac.uk/species/deta...

It's funny now, but I don't think it will be when AI people search gets better at assembling accurate dossiers about arbitrary people.

How long will that take? I imagine a year or two. Perhaps Google will nerf it, but I don't think every AI company will?

Largely agree, but on the other hand I think any company that has millions of users needs to be paying more attention to edge cases. AI chatbots used by the masses need to say "sir, this is a Wendy's" more often. Which means they need to decide what business they're in and stick with it.

I'd love to see an in-depth article about capacitive sensing.

Are a single account's updates numbered by the account owner? Is it possible for the directory to pick and choose between updates for one account? Is that level of granularity needed?