
Ecstatic Disregard
Amateur Enantiodromist
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Bluesky
Stuff I consumed, pondered, and in extreme cases acted upon.
AIEEEEE 🔗The mistakes AI makes are different to the ones humans make:
AI errors come at seemingly random times, without any clustering around particular topics. LLM mistakes tend to be more evenly distributed through the knowledge space. A model might be equally likely to make a mistake on a calculus question as it is to propose that cabbages eat goats.
Stuff I consumed, pondered, and in extreme cases acted upon.
Psychology 🔗What the movies of David Lynch reveal about our minds:
We find that when participants experience that WTF sensation, and can’t figure out what is going on, they are prompted to find other ways to regain a sense of meaning.
Katharine Hayhoe argues that it’s time for climate scientists to ditch the myth of neutrality in the climate crisis: