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🏆 - James Meyers

@coalhog.bsky.social

🎲✂️ Tabletop game designer (sort of...), 📜 genealogist, 🖋️ writer, 👨‍👧 dad. I was apollocontinuum on the bird site.

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🏆 - James Meyers@coalhog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Attempted plant surgery this morning to remove some squash vine borers. 50% of the plants didn't survive the surgery. The other 50% are technically still alive, but I'll likely be clearing the whole bed next weekend and putting in beans. Decent short harvest, but I'll be more proactive next year.

🏆 - James Meyers@coalhog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are going to the Stanley. Cup. Finals. I remember what this felt like 20 years with my parents. Now I get to enjoy it again as a parent. And you better believe the six year old gets to stay up for games. Lets. Go. Canes! 🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥 ⬜⬜⬜⬜

Boring Manager Rob 🅅@bourboninexile.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

science.org

The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Floyd's Warped Mind A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.