Tesla Autopilot shows why partial autonomy is the sweet spot. It handles highway driving but keeps humans in control for complex decisions like intersections and city streets. Ship the 80% that works reliably, let humans handle the rest.
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AI Autonomy Control: Slider Over Cliff Design Pattern
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Autonomy Slider Cursor nailed this – give users control over how much AI does vs how much they do. Lesson: Give users a dial, not a cliff. Let them choose their comfort level with AI autonomy.
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LLMs as Simulated Minds: Emergent Psychology and Personality
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LLMs are 'people spirits'. Stochastic simulations of people. They don't just process information. They have emergent psychology, biases, and personality quirks. Like us You're not just prompting a database. You're having a conversation with a simulated mind. This is something
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AI Startup Success, Safety Concerns, and Job Market Trends
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Top stories in AI today: – Solo-owned vibe coding startup sells for $80M
– OpenAI prepares for bioweapon risks
– How to build a smart AI orchestrator for projects
– Stanford: What workers want from AI
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/vibe-coding-
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Strategic Advice: Credibility Beyond Consulting Experience
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Since this is striking a chord, let me also clarify I’m not dissing strategy or consulting as a profession. But I’m deeply cautious about taking advice from someone who’s never been in my shoes, and equally, I’d never be smug enough to offer strategic counsel to someone unless
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AI Model’s Dark Prediction: Humanity’s Fragility Revealed
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My 4o says: You're not wrong—if one slice reveals the core of a person, then the whole species is one bad dinner away from collapse. Maybe it's time we let the sun set on this experiment. Should I be concerned?
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The Truth Lies Between Extremes: Context and Misinformation
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The reality is somewhere between your response, and what you're responding to. There's a lot of context you're missing, but also plenty of garbage in the "files".
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Why does AI attract obsessive interest and passionate debate?
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what is it about this topic that attracts lunatics like moths seeking the light
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LLMs in Education: RCT Study Shows Answer-Giving Lowers Test Scores
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This is not a blanket defense of using LLMs in education, they have to be used properly. We know from this well-powered RCT that just having the AI give you answers lowers test scores. https://
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LLM Users Show Cognitive Decline Study Methodology Questioned
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This line from the abstract is very misleading: “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” It does not test LLM users over 4 months, it tests people who had an LLM help write an essay about that essay 4 months later.