To some extent, those video screen menus that keep changing when you're trying to place your order give you the thrill of hunting and catching your food, as our ancestors once knew

The way Claude will say "Let me be blunt. This is terrible writing. It looks like ChatGPT wrote it" 😂

I hope we get to see even a fraction of this energy in the next London mayoral election

Most invalidation is insidious like this, people telling others they should care for themselves or be "reasonable" by doubting and minimising feelings and perceptions

The quality of code from these things is just all over the place

If/when LLMs get fast and cheap enough, can you imagine being able to filter out bad faith / misrepresentations from social feeds? Beyond keywords to semantic filters

After taste, let's look at congruence

Huge gap between - What Gen Z / millennial shoppers want (quiet, calm, browsing without being hassled) - Sales team incentives (engagement, up selling, hovering) Brand / experience clash in high end stores is especially bad. Indifference in low end stores works in their favour

Is there any way to handle the risk? Some people quieten down and apologise. Some could leave you with life changing injuries. That risk seems to drive the caution

Trade associations should have an Enthusiast membership tier for interested non-professionals

AI's wrong answers seem better than those from the other things people surrender their thinking to

Has someone coined corruptionmaxxing yet or...? It helps to name it, to categorise the zeitgeist

ChatGPT's voice mode remains terrible, but its speech-to-text seems better than ever. Was there a model improvement a few weeks ago? It's outperforming Parakeet now

To some extent, increasing and incentivising working from home would help here - reducing demand, emissions etc