Adi Robertson

lauren came out of the courtroom this morning promising "shenanigans" and this does not disappoint

I can try to offer a technical analysis of the AI vs. human split but ultimately the difference is that I glance at the human graf and can see what it's trying to do faster (which, the AI graf's not "trying" to do anything, so, fair.)

Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (Gift Article) A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

I was prepared to be confused by this (and remembered none of the human passages) but ended up getting 6/6 almost intuitively, which is funny -- closest I can explain is the AI is wordy and the sentences don't have a focus or cadence.

you're in for a wild ride here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_st...

i know this is a cheap shot but this article is so much weirder if you remember ebay would become the company that did reputation management by sending a newsletter writer live cockroaches and a bloody pig mask

I feel like the main weirdness is calling it a convention because it is super clearly a meetup, which makes more sense to me

The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster A dispatch from inside NYC’s ClawCon, where hundreds of OpenClaw and AI aficionados gathered.

Cannot believe this meetup wasted the opportunity to get a white claw sponsorship and make its tagline "ain't no laws when you're making claws" www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I would even find it less weird if they framed it as "here's recommendations for how to write in the style of nilay patel"!

Yeah the "promoting your feature with a real person's name" is what throws me, especially because the "inspired by" caveat comes *after* you've read a prominently labeled name and a paragraph written in a style that seems (albeit awkwardly) written to sound like it comes from them.

i'm not making any firm calls about whether this stuff falls under likeness laws but... at a rhetorical level "if an author is published they cede control over their name and representations of their own work" is an incredibly weird stance to take

by this logic i should be able to make a movie and prominently advertise it as "inspired by martin scorsese"

Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’ Now Claude can nope out of particularly dangerous chats.

Conscientious Objector Claude being assigned virtual potato peeling duty by the model welfare team

A funny thing I just remembered is that under normal circumstances Anthropic allows Claude to terminate conversations it could find distressing, and I assume this is not true of the military version but I'm getting invested in the concept of Conscientious Objector Claude.

Did you play Dispatch? I have no idea if it did true random but it gave me so much "c'mon guys how did i fail this mission with 80% probability of success" frustration

so... when I had a post a little bit back about "we should just have conversations about the option of banning particular consumer tech products..."

I think 4 kinda got there after RPGs reached their compass-point default of "nice/sarcastic/real dick/gotta go seeya"

It also requires some real restraint to refrain from savescumming the speech checks, which I suspect is why they obscured/locked them in later games.

I also didn't love the sheer amount of junk collection the building entailed

I play many RPGs as a Be The Kindest Person Ever Simulator and 3 delivers this in spades.

Not that it would've fixed everything but I'd have loved being able to upgrade bases to "self-sustaining" and occasionally just pop back to watch them grow on their own.

I have a soft spot for 4 because I like its companions a ton, but it has no idea how to pace the late game so just an endless maintenance loop of "i'm deciding the fate of the wasteland but whoops preston needs me to go build sleeping bags in this 3-person homestead"

The weakest part so far is definitely that your dialogue options trend toward a binary of "incredibly sincere angel" or "bratty 10-year-old"

The extended intro and diagetic stats thing def feels like a play for "we're not like those other videogames" cinematicism, but it... still kinda works?

I started Fallout 3 again and while I think it's rightly considered one of the lesser entries, I do find its simplicity kinda fun -- I'm not even convinced karma is *that* much more reductive than "our world clearly assigns good and evil to actions, we'll just launder it through companions"

obviously I cannot make a judgment call on someone's actual relationship but at an aesthetic level I feel like there's a weird genre of "women learning to find their partners treating them like doormats empowering" media these days and it's very uncomfortable

US betting markets under scrutiny following Iran attack bets Prediction markets are under scrutiny in the US, following suspicion of insider knowledge of classified events. Betting platform Polymarket showed six new accounts placed bets the day before the invas...

The Verge's @lopatto.bsky.social on Morning Report re: prediction markets.

OpenAI when someone proposes a "please tell us how you are doing AI safety testing" law: this will KILL american freedom and innovation we're subpoenaing everybody who supports it

OpenAI when the government demands unfettered murderbot access: hey that's just democracy man, our hands are tied

I don't think it's cribbing directly from ghost as much as I think ghost influenced booktok pretty heavily?

i distinctly don't Go Here with the hegemonic female gaze but i feel like simon riley is somehow involved in this?