Dactylo-verification bias: the tendency to count all the fingers on the hands in a picture to ensure it’s not an AI-generated image.
Tag: Micro
This 50-year-old paper by Thomas Nagel on what it’s like to be a bat is for some reason making the rounds recently. Time to read it.
Encroaching Doom pt. 1
Encroaching Doom pt. 2
resist nostalgia
embrace deja-vu
“Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.”
It’s a Cambrian explosion out there.
In LA, bilingual = English, Spanish.
In LLMs, bilingual = English, Chinese
Extracted from https://sonarcalling.com/en/
Nice feature, but not enough attention to the rights of digital entities. It’s always “humans here, humans there”. Here’s the beef: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2023.2196827
This article about mocked-up texts Apple uses to show new messaging features made me think of when at my ex-startup we had to come up with fake chats for marketing purposes. I guess they felt more real than Apple’s hyper-cleaned-up convos.