(Instead we get our “As a child I yearned for the mines” meme and a visual gag about an Appalachian miner which somehow got past the sensitivity committee. On the nose, but, if “making things is Good” is your message, maybe whatever mine produces is at least as useful as songs.)
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Creativity and mastery need not abandon childish pursuits
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Oh, final thought: “One day you’ll grow up and put childish things aside” is not a direction one is *forced* to take when discussing creativity, mastery, non-economic pursuits, etc.
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Prioritizing Child Education Over Commercial Media Consumption
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“You’re giving a popcorn movie for children designed to sell Minecraft merch too many brain cycles.” Bringing up the next generation properly should consume more of my cycles at most margins, etc etc.
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AI Industry’s Toxic Feedback Loop: Human Preference Scores Over User Value
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Much of the AI industry is caught in a particularly toxic feedback loop rn. Blindly chasing better human preference scores is to LLMs what chasing total watch time is to a social media algo. It's a recipe for manipulating users instead of providing genuine value to them.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro tops leaderboard but faces trust and ‘woke’ issues
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People are either sleeping on Gemini – or they just don't trust Google. Google's Gemini-2.5 Pro still tops the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard being the highest quality LLM available as of this morning – and yet no one talks about it. Is that because Google's 'woke' image generator
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Evaluating Aviation Information Accuracy Without Expert Knowledge
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“So how do you, a non-expert in aviation, know whether this is actually accurate or a hallucination?” Eh it coheres with other reading on subject, general factor of infrastructure, also worth some points for identity/background of author in a heuristic fashion.
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LLMs Generating Credible-Sounding Content Without True Expertise
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Part of why LLMs are so revolutionary is that being able to muster off four consecutive paragraphs and three stats in something that sounds vaguely coherent historically has meant “Yep, this is probably an expert.” (Somewhat disquieting thought but useful to know.)
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Consultancies Don’t Teach: Form Factor vs Actual Substance
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Have to add “consultancies don’t teach nothing” and also “many people will confuse something which has this form factor as also having the same idea density and/or level of connection to reality.”
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India Launches AI Safety Institute for Responsible Development
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🇮🇳 India accelerates its AI self-reliance journey! The new IndiaAI Safety Institute (AISI), led by MeitY under the IndiaAI Mission, will ensure AI development is safe, ethical, and trusted. Innovation meets accountability. 🔗aryaxai.com/article/indias-s… #ResponsibleAI
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AI-Powered OSINT Automates Yacht Identification and Owner Tracking
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Photographier un yacht, demander à l'IA son modèle, son propriétaire, sa position actuelle… et obtenir tout ça en moins d'une minute.
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 28 avril 2025
C'est de l'OSINT automatisé à l'échelle individuelle.
On entre dans une ère où votre vie privée dépendra de votre capacité à devenir… https://t.co/kiW4jTnuTm pic.twitter.com/oyu5BRP9yRPhotographier un yacht, demander à l'IA son modèle, son propriétaire, sa position actuelle… et obtenir tout ça en moins d'une minute. C'est de l'OSINT automatisé à l'échelle individuelle. On entre dans une ère où votre vie privée dépendra de votre capacité à devenir