Newystats
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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This is a since-deleted LinkedIn post from the marketing agency that created the since-deleted AI-generated McDonalds Christmas ad, and all I can think of is how the energy consumption must've been about on par with a small suburb or heavy industrial load to produce 30 seconds of slop everyone hated
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a since-deleted LinkedIn post from the marketing agency that created the since-deleted AI-generated McDonalds Christmas ad, and all I can think of is how the energy consumption must've been about on par with a small suburb or heavy industrial load to produce 30 seconds of slop everyone hated
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It’s actually awful to pretend to bereaved parents and to worried parents that this “ban” will stop cyber bullying. As this article suggests, it won’t at all, and could just make it less easy to find and manage.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
Australia’s social media ban won’t stop cyberbullying
A technical fix can’t solve a social problem.
theconversation.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s actually awful to pretend to bereaved parents and to worried parents that this “ban” will stop cyber bullying. As this article suggests, it won’t at all, and could just make it less easy to find and manage.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.
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And this little chesnut
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success
36 Months accused ban critics of being paid off by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up sponsorship deals, eyeing global expansion and coming up with its own AI tool to sell.
www.crikey.com.au
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And this little chesnut
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
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ABC's kids news show BTN surveyed 17,000 9-16 year olds about the social media ban:
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
ABC's kids news show BTN surveyed 17,000 9-16 year olds about the social media ban:
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Generative AI is this weird little ferret that is carrying a tall pole with a red flag at the top, and it roots out the worst pre-existing problems in society and plants a little slop-flag in them
eg: how companies have made scientific publishing into a for-profit low quality content mill
eg: how companies have made scientific publishing into a for-profit low quality content mill
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Generative AI is this weird little ferret that is carrying a tall pole with a red flag at the top, and it roots out the worst pre-existing problems in society and plants a little slop-flag in them
eg: how companies have made scientific publishing into a for-profit low quality content mill
eg: how companies have made scientific publishing into a for-profit low quality content mill
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What if I told you that the entire point of the COPs is, at root, to single out their key export
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What if I told you that the entire point of the COPs is, at root, to single out their key export
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"chatbots are just like calculators therefore it's fine to allow them being crammed into every corner of education" is absurdly silly on a million levels, but the most simple imo is that people *actually use them as calculators* - delivering incorrect answers for many millions times the energy use
Chatbot energy scores are welcome - but don't forget the toxic context of AI overconsumption
Julien Delavande , an engineer at AI research firm Hugging Face , has developed a tool that shows in real time the power consumption of the chatbot generating your query, and presents that energy valu...
www.linkedin.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"chatbots are just like calculators therefore it's fine to allow them being crammed into every corner of education" is absurdly silly on a million levels, but the most simple imo is that people *actually use them as calculators* - delivering incorrect answers for many millions times the energy use
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Can you imagine what would be surfaced if anyone embarked on a project to compare the slop they're making decisions on to the actual data
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Can you imagine what would be surfaced if anyone embarked on a project to compare the slop they're making decisions on to the actual data
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Waymo's success is remarkable proof of the power of AI. It's also remarkable proof of its limitations. Waymo's need for limited domains and powerful perception hardware, and the failure of Tesla's "AI-first" approach without them, holds powerful lessons about the limits of probabilistic inference.
It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!
![A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years.
[Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight]
Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4jjekvbxopsdtmezsmycpveb/bafkreigx2n5lhggsvw7swptrklsf5ocp4vwzpufcpuccj5qaxhdqaipf4a@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Waymo's success is remarkable proof of the power of AI. It's also remarkable proof of its limitations. Waymo's need for limited domains and powerful perception hardware, and the failure of Tesla's "AI-first" approach without them, holds powerful lessons about the limits of probabilistic inference.
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"I don't get to draw the line" — you are a wildly influential journalist with an audience of millions, you absolutely do get to draw the line!
IMO, the most revealing part is Klein wrestling with the question of where "the line" is (between acceptable and unacceptable politics). Realizing that what he considered past the line is now the GOP mainstream doesn't make him commit harder to fighting it. He wonders if he needs to move the line.
September 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"I don't get to draw the line" — you are a wildly influential journalist with an audience of millions, you absolutely do get to draw the line!
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It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
September 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
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ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.
also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!
August 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.
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Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...
techxplore.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
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the people who create, amplify, advocate for disinformation do damage in many ways, including distracting people from the root cause
Eg - people fight against a wind farm on easily debunkable health claims, and put all their effort into it when they could be fighting the company for a massive $ cut
Eg - people fight against a wind farm on easily debunkable health claims, and put all their effort into it when they could be fighting the company for a massive $ cut
September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
the people who create, amplify, advocate for disinformation do damage in many ways, including distracting people from the root cause
Eg - people fight against a wind farm on easily debunkable health claims, and put all their effort into it when they could be fighting the company for a massive $ cut
Eg - people fight against a wind farm on easily debunkable health claims, and put all their effort into it when they could be fighting the company for a massive $ cut
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too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation
(how do we stop this disinformation)
when you should really ask a second
(how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)
(how do we stop this disinformation)
when you should really ask a second
(how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation
(how do we stop this disinformation)
when you should really ask a second
(how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)
(how do we stop this disinformation)
when you should really ask a second
(how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)
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TV shows cancelled, people sacked or put on black lists... all for daring to speak the truth about "free speech warrior" Charlie Kirk.
America has plunged head first into some very dark territory indeed.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
America has plunged head first into some very dark territory indeed.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Charlie Kirk death: Report those who celebrate the shooting to employers, Vance says
The vice-president's remarks come amid a wave of firings over posts deemed inappropriate about Kirk's death.
www.bbc.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
TV shows cancelled, people sacked or put on black lists... all for daring to speak the truth about "free speech warrior" Charlie Kirk.
America has plunged head first into some very dark territory indeed.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
America has plunged head first into some very dark territory indeed.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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It's 5 years since the best thing I've ever written and will ever write aired on Mad As Hell
August 31, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It's 5 years since the best thing I've ever written and will ever write aired on Mad As Hell
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There has never been a website feature that required the manifestation of COMPLETELY NEW POWER STATIONS.
In its design, deployment and marketing, this entire industry exists in a category far closer to Bitcoin or SUVs than to netflix and fortnite.
In its design, deployment and marketing, this entire industry exists in a category far closer to Bitcoin or SUVs than to netflix and fortnite.
August 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
There has never been a website feature that required the manifestation of COMPLETELY NEW POWER STATIONS.
In its design, deployment and marketing, this entire industry exists in a category far closer to Bitcoin or SUVs than to netflix and fortnite.
In its design, deployment and marketing, this entire industry exists in a category far closer to Bitcoin or SUVs than to netflix and fortnite.
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August 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I mean, if you’re worried about falling revenue, the govt could just stop giving away $10bn in fuel tax credits, which even the OECD says is just an industry subsidy that should be dumped.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EV drivers set to pay road user charges as record number of electric cars selling in Australia
PM says sustainable revenue for roads is needed as report shows nearly one in 10 new car sales are electric vehicles
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I mean, if you’re worried about falling revenue, the govt could just stop giving away $10bn in fuel tax credits, which even the OECD says is just an industry subsidy that should be dumped.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
