The best part of having a doctorate is any time someone asks me to do something I don’t want to do, I write “absolutely not” on a post it and say sorry can’t I have a doctor’s note

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Or just take a note of the link, especially if you auto-delete your browsing history.

A screenshot of a graph in a toot, tweet, twerp, gaggle, post, whatever does not fucking count as factual information WITHOUT A LINK TO THE SOURCE!!!!

In case you were wondering, before this morning's Iran attack, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were first used 24 hours earlier.

Betting prediction websites are national security risks, not Anthropic.

Goodbye Substank. The idea of handing over my biometric data to Peter Thiel is very attractive, but no . . . .

Imagine requiring such comment blocks above each code snippet that AI agents touch.

@bagder adding labels to the medals would be helpful to understand why they should be considered special

"The free market will sort it out" the free market sorted out child labour by saying yes please and we had to pass a law. That's how the free market sorts things out.

If you replace a junior with #LLM and make the senior review output, the reviewer is now scanning for rare but catastrophic errors scattered across a much larger output surface due to LLM "productivity."

That's a cognitively brutal task.

Humans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. Aviation, nuclear, radiology all have extensive literature on exactly this failure mode.

I propose any productivity gains will be consumed by false negative review failures.

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