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9 experts · 63 posts · 1d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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6 experts · 34 posts · 2d ago
angela zhou Cat Hicks lastpositivist.bsky.social Colin tweety fish Matt Darling
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: I don’t understand why people think this isn’t the most obvious question in the world. No, of course not. You don’t know what the distribution of responses will be; that’s why you do the survey.
Matt Darling: I do think there's a case for doing this sort of thing because it's cheap - especially if you are just testing questions before a real survey.
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3 experts · 34 posts · 2d ago
Cat Hicks tweety fish Rafael M Batista
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Cat Hicks: But what it links is just a simulation paper hah: "We will do this by constructing a formal model of an ideal Bayesian user who interacts with a sycophantic chatbot, and simulating their interactio…
Cat Hicks: this piece says ai psychosis is a "real documented phenomenon" I was like, what?? because I pay a lot of attention to the clinical lit on this
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4 experts · 23 posts · 20d ago
Ted Underwood Cat Hicks jake Arseny Khakhalin
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: as a longtime textcel I regret to inform that voice input is really good now and you should try it if you haven't recently
Cat Hicks: In my experience, as I deal with significant hand impairment right now, it's a trainable skill that many of us just haven't trained probably A couple of months ago I was incredibly bad at writing m…
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3 experts · 14 posts · 1d ago
Cat Hicks tweety fish austin
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Cat Hicks: What must it be like to get this much press for causing unmotivated participant dropout on Prolific
austin: 'if it bleeds, it leads' but for arxiv preprints?
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2 experts · 16 posts · 3d ago
Cat Hicks Doll
Shared emphasis Opportunity & adoption · 2
Doll: As a trans femme who works with AI the anti ai side isnt taken seriously because the anti ai side lies to peoples faces about basic things that people can see with their face eyes arent true. Maybe…
Doll: And now your solution you wanna do is become more extreme? Ok good luck we look forward to the moderates you alienate joining our side were more than happy to accomodate them.
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3 experts · 13 posts · 20d ago
Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Laura K. Nelson
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Ted Underwood: The authors of this study do not deserve the vitriol they're getting. If lots of people interact with tech in a certain way, that's behavior worth studying. That's how scholarship works. If you don…
Ted Underwood: Walsh is trying to meet readers halfway. (“I understand that some disapprove of this practice …”) The constraints of 300 chars make it easy to misinterpret—but it matters even more that readers are…
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2 experts · 15 posts · 20d ago
Cat Hicks Alex Gude
Cat Hicks: A lot of people bitching at this thread have never experienced suddenly losing their ability to type. I never expected this to happen to me, but it did. good luck if you are contemptuous of other m…
Cat Hicks: Breaking my Bsky fast just to express that because I feel so strongly about it
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3 experts · 6 posts · 20d ago
Ted Underwood Cat Hicks jake
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: It is actually deeply amusing how the convo about “people are losing their faculty of critical thinking to AI” demonstrates that most people are not presently capable of critical thinking—at least …
Ted Underwood: hey I’m open to lots of problem definitions and solutions; it’s just that I think we’ll make these decisions better if we gather evidence, summarize the evidence correctly instead of making things …
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