Once found myself thinking: "Once I get these new self-watering pots, my life is going to really come together."
Tyler Alterman@tyleralterman.bsky.social · yesterdayI’m terrified by my tendency to get swallowed up by my own stories: “This is the right moral philosophy.” “This person will save me.” “This project is what I should dedicate my life to.” 2yrs later: “ugh wtf” What are healthy ways to interact with this tendency?
What I really find surprising is that there's a huge demand for AI writing detectors but (seemingly?) almost no demand for AI image/video detectors. I *definitely* would not have predicted that.
norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 5d agoI think it's interesting and slightly surprising the degree to which AI image and video generation has been a "nothing happens" effect, compared to what one might have reasonably predicted in advance. now this may be my anecdotal experience firewalled off from "the bad internet",
Thread of ideas that don't have short names but deserve them: 1. For most common issues, if you just research and follow standard boring conventional best-practices, you'll do better than ~95% of people, because they don't do that.
for posterity: commentator accused of being an AI agent immediately confirms being an AI agent
On a near-daily basis I get emails offering to pay for "sponsored articles" or for linking to sketchy crypto/casino sites. I guess everyone gets these? Search engines surely prohibit this, but does it get your content removed from LLM training?
Austin Vernon on one of the more frightening uses of market mechanisms: www.austinvernon.site/blog/ukraine...
Whichever scraper is going through my blogposts, one-by-one requesting 50-100 copies of each at the same time, once per hour, while pretending to be referred from Google and running javascript and not blocking goatcounter: Why are you doing that?
Here's a post on hazard ratios, which I expect to be one of the least popular things I've ever written. ♡♡♡ dynomight.net/hazard-ratios/
I need blog recommendations, please send blog recommendations. (Do not let modesty prevent you from recommending your own blog.)
The fact that humans have different emotional reactions when witnessing an event versus hearing about it from a credible source is surprisingly central to explaining the state of the world
Starting to suspect that the same qualities that would make someone flee twitter also tend to make you hesitant to engage too much with microblogging (or internet life) in general.
visa@visakanv.com · 3mo agodoes it feel like bsky still gets new waves of people fleeing X, or does that feel like it’s been done for a while?
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A few times I've tried not deleting comments, but banning the commentators for a token amount of time with an explanation. Theoretically that seems good? But in practice they post my ban note on twitter and get their friends to send me hate mail...
dynomight@dynomight.net · 3mo agoDoes anyone have a theory of comment moderation? I struggle people seem to be engaging in good faith, but are voicing opinions that are ~crazy. Removing these people feels dictatorial, but if you don't then you get gigantic useless threads of people trying/failing to change their mind.
Does anyone have a theory of comment moderation? I struggle people seem to be engaging in good faith, but are voicing opinions that are ~crazy. Removing these people feels dictatorial, but if you don't then you get gigantic useless threads of people trying/failing to change their mind.
me: i just can't understand why everyone takes themselves so seriously psychologists: that's because you have high neuroticism me: aha
we're approaching superhuman coding and math but somehow LLMs are still mid at "writing"? this is undertheorized
