Last update: 2024-09-18

Carl T. Bergstrom

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Biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b I love ravens and crows: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ym...

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46,567

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Skeets

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Top 5 Most Liked Skeets (14 days)

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Man, what a stroke of bad luck!

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We're so fucked. "Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."

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3.

So I signed up for the new heaven-ban SocialAI social network where you’re all alone in a world of bots. It is so much worse than I ever imagined. It’s not GPT-level AI; it’s more like ELIZA level, if the ELIZAs were lazily written stereotypes of every douchebag on ICQ circa 1999. Sample below.

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An under-appreciated hazard of cybertruck ownership is the risk that your ride gets confused with the apartment complex’s overflow dumpster.

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Ravens at play 🪶

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Top 5 Most Reposted Skeets (14 days)

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We're so fucked. "Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."

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2.

So I signed up for the new heaven-ban SocialAI social network where you’re all alone in a world of bots. It is so much worse than I ever imagined. It’s not GPT-level AI; it’s more like ELIZA level, if the ELIZAs were lazily written stereotypes of every douchebag on ICQ circa 1999. Sample below.

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3.

Man, what a stroke of bad luck!

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4.

School shootings are a "fact of life", get over it, says man with the power to change that, flanked by elite armed guards and hiding inside a bulletproof box.

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5.

An under-appreciated hazard of cybertruck ownership is the risk that your ride gets confused with the apartment complex’s overflow dumpster.

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