And so one of the knock-on effects of cognitive abundance is, for something which previously required five minutes of professional labor that was not exactly rocket science, Always Spend The Cognition because tokens are abundant in the universe relative to tax filings.
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Prompt Engineering for Complex Task Instructions
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It is not very useful to send your accountant an instruction: "FYI, I prefer not paying tens of thousands of unnecessary tax. Please scrutinize all tax positions to avoid doing that." It is, on the other hand, easy to put that in a prompt.
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Reflections on LLM Structural Mimicry and Voice
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It's always risky saying "Hmm, Claude sounds like me when it is discussing the finer points of tanning salon excise taxes" and so instead I'll say "Hmm, LLMs structurally mimic the voice they expect to find in closest proximity to a discussion of tanning salon excise taxes."
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Changing Workflows: Using AI for Fact-Checking and Editing
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The _character_ of those hours has changed a bit. Prior to reliable AI it was almost entirely correcting spoken English to be comprehensible in writing. These days I also do a much more robust fact checking process than I ever previously did for spontaneous utterances.
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Impact of AI Transcription Tools on Labor Utilization
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A data point: prior to AI tools being good enough to offload some of the work, my podcast transcripts were ~$250 of transcriptionist labor plus about 5 hours of work from yours truly. The first pass is now AI. So what's the impact on labor utilization for transcripts?
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Impact of AI tools on transcription labor workflows
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As a single data point: prior to AI tools being good enough to offload some of the work, my podcast transcripts were ~$250 of transcriptionist-hours plus about 5 hours of work from yours truly. The first pass is now AI. So what's the impact on labor utilization for transcripts?
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LLMs are now actively impacting software security
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Thomas on LLMs vis software security, or, the thing that has been theorized for years is now, in the judgement of local domain experts, actually happening.
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Roguelike Game Showcases LLM Rules Engine as Art Project
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I’ll be at this event and assuming August productivity stars align will be showing off a roguelike game I’m developing as something of an art project and tech exploration of LLMs as an evolving-during-play rules engine.
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California’s Institutional Priority: Managing Embarrassment Over Competence
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Also interesting how the state of California is institutionally far more concerned with being embarrassed than it is with being incompetent and when it detects it is being embarrassed by incompetence will deploy a sophisticated messaging strategy to quell the embarrassment.
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Moral Mazes: How Organizations Shape Ethical Perception
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It is interesting, in moral mazes, how after enough time in one of them you stop seeing the walls of the maze and start thinking that you’re just out there in the world like everybody else.