Gene Morrow
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a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect.
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect.
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
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the humans in the "reinforcement learning from human feedback" protocols are incentivized to have the most shallow and easy-to-articulate explanation for why an output is "good" and those people probably don't care at all about any of it
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the humans in the "reinforcement learning from human feedback" protocols are incentivized to have the most shallow and easy-to-articulate explanation for why an output is "good" and those people probably don't care at all about any of it
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i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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She's almost 80. She's never running for office again. Her ideological allies in the Party are dead, dying, or on the way out. Nobody has to give a shit what Hillary Clinton thinks about anything, and the sooner we internalize that, the better off we'll all be.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
She's almost 80. She's never running for office again. Her ideological allies in the Party are dead, dying, or on the way out. Nobody has to give a shit what Hillary Clinton thinks about anything, and the sooner we internalize that, the better off we'll all be.
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Roth. Click.
The conservative grievance business is always hiring: defector.com/the-conserva...
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Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Roth. Click.
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it's funny how the initialism "DEI" gets deployed to obscure its own meaning, by framing it like a policy, like ACA, or an agency, like DHS. if you write "efforts to erase diversity" instead of "efforts to erase DEI," you're describing what Trump is doing much more clearly and truthfully!
when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI. n.pr/4pmCNr2
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
it's funny how the initialism "DEI" gets deployed to obscure its own meaning, by framing it like a policy, like ACA, or an agency, like DHS. if you write "efforts to erase diversity" instead of "efforts to erase DEI," you're describing what Trump is doing much more clearly and truthfully!
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the DHS socials are staffed by actual nazis designed to make posts that appeal to nazis, they want genuine believers in a white state. there is not a single ICE agent that “is just following orders”, they’re all buying into an intentionally fascistic project
hey guys are we ever going to talk about what's happening with DHS on social media
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the DHS socials are staffed by actual nazis designed to make posts that appeal to nazis, they want genuine believers in a white state. there is not a single ICE agent that “is just following orders”, they’re all buying into an intentionally fascistic project
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Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
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Trump is murdering people simply because he likes murdering people and he thinks it makes him look good. defector.com/how-do-you-s...
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Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Monday, on social media, President Donald Trump announced that he had murdered three people—”three…
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September 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump is murdering people simply because he likes murdering people and he thinks it makes him look good. defector.com/how-do-you-s...
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This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
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"It's quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigot, whose career achievements were pushing for hatred and violence toward those he saw as inferior to him." defector.com/this-is-who-...
This Is Who Charlie Kirk Was | Defector
Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a…
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September 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"It's quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigot, whose career achievements were pushing for hatred and violence toward those he saw as inferior to him." defector.com/this-is-who-...
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Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector
Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adam Ra...
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August 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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"'We feel proud,' the spokesperson said. The feeling across the union is one of hope, and joy. She explained that across all of @cupescfp.bsky.social, their goal is to bring back power to unions, and to stand for their charter rights."
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
Strike 'Ends Unpaid Work' As Union Reaches Deal With Air Canada – The Rover
Low wages and unpaid labour led to flight attendants using food banks, sleeping in cars.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"'We feel proud,' the spokesperson said. The feeling across the union is one of hope, and joy. She explained that across all of @cupescfp.bsky.social, their goal is to bring back power to unions, and to stand for their charter rights."
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
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like, this is correct, but the point of course was not to understand an artists intention but to understand art itself as subordinate to datafication
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
Why Genie 3's AI Nighthawks is a massive downgrade of Hopper's masterpiece
Google's 'explorable' painting misses the point of art.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
like, this is correct, but the point of course was not to understand an artists intention but to understand art itself as subordinate to datafication
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
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There are two kinds of Alberta Separatists: conmen who have no intention of ever leaving Canada but need a political cudgel to wave around and get the local base riled up against pronouns or books where kids have two dads, and their marks.
August 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There are two kinds of Alberta Separatists: conmen who have no intention of ever leaving Canada but need a political cudgel to wave around and get the local base riled up against pronouns or books where kids have two dads, and their marks.
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The fact that most on the right think Jordan Peterson is a loser these days leads me to believe that Poilievre genuinely believes Peterson has a “prodigious mind” and isn’t just pandering
Which makes this so much more painfully embarrassing
Which makes this so much more painfully embarrassing
August 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The fact that most on the right think Jordan Peterson is a loser these days leads me to believe that Poilievre genuinely believes Peterson has a “prodigious mind” and isn’t just pandering
Which makes this so much more painfully embarrassing
Which makes this so much more painfully embarrassing
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My policy proposal: It shouldn't be illegal to be a billionaire, as long as it's also not a crime to kill a billionaire. If you think you can make $1B in a way that doesn't make anyone angry enough to want to kill you, good luck!
i guest-hosted the Funbag this week. prepare for a scolding!!!!!!
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OK But What If The Billionaire Is A Cool Guy? | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about le...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My policy proposal: It shouldn't be illegal to be a billionaire, as long as it's also not a crime to kill a billionaire. If you think you can make $1B in a way that doesn't make anyone angry enough to want to kill you, good luck!
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hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
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Elon Musk's Idiot Chatbot Turns Into An Explicit Nazi | Defector
When last we checked in on Grok, Twitter’s supremely grating and corny embedded chatbot, it had spent an otherwise ordinary weekday in May attempting to impress upon Twitter users the seriousness of t...
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July 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, that’s cool too!
the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!
July 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, that’s cool too!
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it’s insane that real antisemitism like this is intensely normalized and endorsed by the most powerful people in the world but you can’t say free palestine without people trying to ruin your life
July 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
it’s insane that real antisemitism like this is intensely normalized and endorsed by the most powerful people in the world but you can’t say free palestine without people trying to ruin your life
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.