FriedFishes

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by FriedFishes 22d ago
If I had more time I'd write a shorter letter, a la Pascal. Editing is generally hard work, at the current token price I don't mind spending multiple passes of high effort to get down to a reasonable noise/signal ratio. I&#x2
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by FriedFishes 23d ago
I'll push back a tiny bit, though I agree that we ought not change how we write on the basis of AI-isms, and if I would always prefer something poorly written that a human has thought through than something perfect but vacuous. The em-
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by FriedFishes 1mo ago
Sounds like a perfect opportunity to put in an edit with the Wikipedia page then :)
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by FriedFishes 2mo ago
Considering Weber was publishing give or take a century ago, it not being state of the art isn't surprising. It's still influential because it established a lot of the tools used by modern sociologists, as well as providing a coun
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by FriedFishes 4mo ago
"less research intro trivialities that common sense says aren't worth the public funding" In your eyes, science and research is a linear process, governed by some "common sense", in which important and high impact d
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by FriedFishes 4mo ago
"Recently I asked ChatGPT Pro—which I paid for to summarize financial spreadsheets; I’m not a hater—whether it was capable of viciously dismantling an argument I’d read about the stock market" Huh, parataxis-embedded-in-em-dash-se
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by FriedFishes 4mo ago
> for years now ZCRX is less than half a year old. I'm so tired boss.
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by FriedFishes 4mo ago
I can't quite make out if this is new or not. The attack vector here seems congruent with a similar exploit from a couple months ago [1] But still might be an open threat. On the email thread Jens seems to think that this is already pa