dan

poking my head back in, I’ve heard this place has maybe turned a corner twice now in the last few weeks

here for the good stuff, who is building interesting things?

ie
rocket explodes
we say, “never again!”
so we make it really hard to build rockets

FWIW I think this effect is most insidious in healthcare technology research, not rocketry

Maybe

I just think we put too much energy toward preventing the negative scenarios that we see occur, to the point where there is an unseen opportunity cost which may be bigger than the cost of the prevented harms

States/firms should experiment with rolling that back, though maybe this is not that

completely agree

only disagree that that moderation team has to be:

(1) just one team
(2) human

distributed/composable moderation w/ LLMs FTW!

https://bsky.app/profile/danb.bsky.social/post/3juysj2d6mv27

sufficiently obscure != securely random

So maybe they were securely random which would be fine but if they were just uuids or something that’s no bueno

wait lol there was no auth token on the scrape?

about 1/3 of the way between my brain and my phone which is usually about 6 -12 inches outside my skull

What do you mean “without threading”?

at which scale?

You’ll have to explain further because no…

what do you mean by that?

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can you not? DNS or Bluesky limitation?

haven’t opened up twitter today

bsky officially my default and it’s glorious

Holy shit wow nice

Of course the models themselves are biased but… so are people! And I’d rather have an LLM blocking tool controlled by my me and my community than have to beg a centralized moderator with no understanding of my community to block what is to them a seemingly inane image.

Well the example above was just “lamp recognition” which they can do. They can’t do “block all messages that are threatening to me” but they can do “block all images of lamps”, that’s easy.

Yes and I think LLMs would be great for that. You need the community/individual to define what is acceptable and the LLM can go to town.

but also if:
(a) knowledge is a remix of prior knowledge (ie it’s all just abstractions built on prior abstractions/observations)
(b) knowledge exists relative to some observer and not to some global reference frame (ie we’re just labeling abstractions for each other)

then LLMs have what it takes

to be clear I have no major breakthrough or evidence here, just accumulated intuition and many borderline examples

“forthcoming” in that it will be proven or commonly accepted before long by someone somewhere

citation forthcoming

an exploration of the idea from a couple years back:

https://a11i.substack.com/p/synthetic-synthetic-creativity

LLMs can be creative, develop hypotheses, and can create net new knowledge

This sounds optimal for personal block rules.

Would be easy enough to configure an LLM to auto-block/mute any text/images with something seemingly benign to the general public but aggressive to you personally.

Most people don’t care/know about lamps but for those who do lamp recognition is trivial

Wow I mean would a human even pick up on that? Seems like an intractable problem. If some ingroup decides to code their threatening language into basic, every day objects how do you combat that? Do we ban images of lamps? Or only in context? Is the context the sender? Or the receiver?

then go with the most obscure fact that few others know

specific examples of where a tpotr expresses specific opinions about wanting people dead would help I think

bsky is so spicy right now bc everyone is used to only hanging out in their own simclusters and suddenly we’re all in the same room again

good problems