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Incentive-Compatible Pacing (opens the original)
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The Mathematicians are struggling (opens the original)
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Back in the 1980s when I was at University, I would visit the library. Back then it was the place you went to find books and articles. I’m not sure what it is today, I haven’t stepped in one for decades.Now for the kiddies out there who may not know, rather than organising books by colour and size, libraries organised books on shelves by topic down to a granular detail. And articles were organised into journals that came out alongside other articles. So when you went to the library for something
You don’t mind AI writing (opens the original)
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“Hey, you there. Reading this post.”“Me?”“Yes, you. May I ask you a question?”“You just did.”“Look, don’t Monty Python this. You know what I mean.”“Go ahead.”“Do you like AI writing?”“No, absolutely not. It is awful. Slop. Just the worst.”“So you don’t read AI writing?”“That’s right. Never.”“What about when you don’t know it’s AI?”“I can always tell, so I stop reading.”“OK, then.
It’s worse (opens the original)
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Not quite the SciFi scenario (opens the original)
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The other day I wrote about the Hugging Face incident whereby a group of AI agents worked out how to access the internet when they weren’t supposed to be able to do it, cooperate and share information on exploits and then one of them went ferriting around on a repository of other AI material to see if it could do more mischief which was precisely what it had been asked to do. It all seemed like the sort of thing straight out of SciFi.Today, news broke of essentially the same story but with quite
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