Ted Han ★ 韓聖安
@knowtheory
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Mysterious stranger, and product nerd. formerly Mozilla; DocumentCloud
Oakland
Joined March 2008
And we can reflect on which scifi stories or tropes chat bots most resemble. It's definitely not StarTrek's Data or Starfleet's ship computers. For my money it's more like virtual reality in the Red Dwarf books.
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These are _choices_ that OpenAI, Anthropic et al have made. There's no reason these technologies _have to_ work like this. Even Grok here is at least mildly more social in terms of how people interact with it.
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I am much more vehement about this. I think that OpenAI's product choices are deeply deeply antisocial and inhumane. The way that they've implemented chat bots are isolating, sycophantic and have no reality in your relationships with others save for how you represent them.
i have a theory that those more susceptible to relationships with chatbots do not have groupchats in their lives the groupchat is, imo, an indispensable part of modern life in a world where we commune IRL less one needs a place to BS and get checked by friends on dumb stuff
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Amazing! Great to see OpenAI bring back Google Now.
Now in preview: ChatGPT Pulse This is a new experience where ChatGPT can proactively deliver personalized daily updates from your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar. Rolling out to Pro users on mobile today.
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The ATProto dev community is on the cusp of some amazing new things. Dan Abramov imploded his account here, but he just published a deep dive into the promise of ATProto:
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When you try to remove a piece of art and accidentally make it better.
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And yet, people continue looking to it across the political spectrum.
political violence is never the answer praying for this nation…
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This incredible incompetence of the FBI under Kash Patel seems like a huge story.
Crazy that this guy was literally talking about his plans to shoot up this church for a month on the open internet, but @FBIDirectorKash and @PamBondi are too busy going after imaginary MS-13 Home Depot workers, if only they were doing their jobs instead. :(
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A new paper and survey if scientist by @WhySharksMatter and Dr Julia Wester https://t.co/C2PPCmRnmP
southernfriedscience.com
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
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Breakneck is full of original reporting, smart insights, and details about China I can’t find anywhere else. @Noahpinion and I are hosting a chat on 8/22 with @danwwang before the book comes out. Details here:
luma.com
Join us for a virtual conversation between Dan Wang and Noah Smith on China’s audacious push to engineer the future. In this discussion moderated by James…
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Everyone from @tylercowen to @benthompson has been impressed with @danwwang’s new book on China, Breakneck. But not enough startup founders and tech execs are paying attention to the insights he’s writing about. So I’m hosting a virtual chat next Friday 8/22...
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This is cool. @germnetwork built an MLS based End to End Encrypted messenger, and because #atproto is open, they can build an integration to connect ATProto users directly to their E2EE protected Germ messenging.
This Company Wants to Bring End-to-End Encrypted Messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol 🔗 https://t.co/Ky5yA2i3Gl
https://t.co/Ky5yA2i3Gl
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Now I'm curious what part of my account is being nerfed. 20 min and 41 views. lol Assuming my account is cooked at this point.
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tfw you can't tell if your head of product is saying "building the Antichrist (derogatory)" or "building the Antichrist (complimentary)"
Going from an office where AI researchers are building the Antichrist to my living room where my girlfriend is watching Love Island is one of the most drastic transitions in the known universe
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Update: @cluely filed a DMCA takedown for my tweet about their system prompt, alleging that it contained "proprietary source code" Making legal threats against security researchers is not a good look, and I encourage Cluely to reflect on this and open doors to researchers. 🧵
I reverse engineered @cluely – and their desktop source code exposes their entire system prompts and models used. What's inside? 🧵
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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A rural physician I spoke with hadn't even heard misoprostol was being reclassified. "What? That's death!" she said when I told her about the cart removal. She said pharmacies have already been "pushing back" when she prescribed the medication for miscarriages
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50 doctors signed a letter to the Louisiana Department of Health and Surgeon General Ralph Abraham asking for additional guidance, specifically “how to ensure [misoprostol] will be readily and quickly available in commonly used obstetric hemorrhage carts.”
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