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Multiple readings Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Naomi Saphra uncanny AI precipice essay

Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

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Naomi Saphra Ted Underwood Clément Canonne Ryan Moulton
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“I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncann…”

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“So many good points in this post by @nsaphra.bsky.social: only quoting a couple, to encourage you to read the others. "My colleagues and students adopt the writing quirks they read throughout the day, and their own writing becomes more like an LLM’s." nsaph…”

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Naomi Saphra: I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulation…
Ted Underwood: I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulation…
Naomi Saphra: I'm interested to know what signatures felt that way to you. For what it's worth, automated tools disagree with your intuition. I wonder if the unsettling tone, which was deliberate because it expr…
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Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago

Sentence Clarity Script

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Naomi Saphra Djamé 🟥

“I am begging people who write like LLMs to read Style: Clarity and Grace. Or at least this 4 page PDF about character/action sentence structure.”

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Naomi Saphra: I am begging people who write like LLMs to read Style: Clarity and Grace. Or at least this 4 page PDF about character/action sentence structure.
Naomi Saphra: It's not like I hate the words "genuinely" or "honestly". And em-dashes rule. But now they flag an incoming torrent of obfuscatory, mangled, out-of-order grammatical structures. It takes so much ef…
Djamé 🟥: I am begging people who write like LLMs to read Style: Clarity and Grace. Or at least this 4 page PDF about character/action sentence structure.
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
Silicon Valley becoming own worst fear essay

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear

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Naomi Saphra
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Clément Canonne: The "paperclip maximizer" is a silly thought experiment: an entity mistakes an (imperfect) metric for an absolute goal, and proceeds to diverting all resources to producing paperclips. Silly. In ot…
Clément Canonne: (Google too, I guess, but less successfully.) The paperclip maximizers may have been among us for a while, it was never about the "machines."
Joshua Grochow: Don’t you mean 8675309 conjectures? IYKYK
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3 experts · 9 posts · 5d ago
Naomi Saphra SE Gyges Shubhendu Trivedi
Naomi Saphra: Yes, some people are worse at writing than an LLM. Those people are also usually incoherent thinkers. If they learned to write better, they would get better at thinking.
SE Gyges: Yes, some people are worse at writing than an LLM. Those people are also usually incoherent thinkers. If they learned to write better, they would get better at thinking.
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