I think maybe they were saying that their personal AI slop detector had produced a false positive on "whole personhood", and they felt sad about that? Or perhaps I'm missing it.
It’s not just you. I reread it and it really struck me as odd too lol. I wrote it in bed after just having woken up maybe 5min earlier(note to self what does this say about my internet use habits?).
This does make me wonder if consuming AI writing will cause the style to be subconsciously picked up.
For me it did. I used dashes very often when writing prior to AI, and now I mostly replaced it with semicolon.
I am also actively avoiding the same construct you used (not X; Y). It is particularly annoying as I used this very frequently as a rhetorical tool.
And ultimately, I think this is sad. Communication is now less optimal as one has to evaluate if the other is just regurgitating AI. Ideas are important, but so are their shape.
“Well she was still guilty of something”
“Well she would have spied if she could”
Feeling relieved HN comments sections aren’t responsible for handling death row appeals
Sorry, I don't see anything public. I remember a particular talk he gave in maybe 2018 or 2019 while he was at Uber. IIRC the talk started roughly:
<shows picture> Do any of you know what this animal is? This is a sea squirt. What's interesting about the sea squirt is that it has a brain --but for only part of its life. It starts out mobile, seeking a place to live. But once it finds a place, it fixes itself to a rock and digests its brain. What this shows us is the purpose of intelligence: it is motion. Intelligence is about moving things around. <continues to argue that AI is central to Uber's mission...>
The root comment brings insight and value and stakes out a human position. I don’t see a need to snipe from the hedges
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