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@xlorentzen I think we’re all awkwardly lurching toward some kind of distinction between “pushbutton slop factory” and “occasionally using AI to stitch some things together”

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@xlorentzen Longtime paid subscriber to his blog (and love your stuff in Bookforum), but if you really look, the AI prose tells are right there. I’m not even that mad about it — the underlying thinking if still clearly his — but c’mon.

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@emollick All of the replies are quaintly, artisanally human-generated

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@TheStalwart This could be less "we embrace this for our contributors going forward" and more like "we're covering for our boy but privately we're embarrassed and think this sucks." Time -- and how much readers keep complaining -- will tell

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@Lewis_Bollard I had no idea about this. But the method is this video is clearly not scalable to 250M per day —what is going on in a more typical scenario?

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@liz_franczak @TrueAnonPod “….and I’m producer Skeev Jobs”

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@jaycaspiankang Harold and Kumar type of situation

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@zenahitz While it moves on to other concerns (as all novels surely must), Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower opens with a bravura laundry sequence

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@lionel_trolling This discovery could single-handedly revive the James Bond franchise

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@tszzl When I Consider How My Tokens Are Spent

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@jaycaspiankang Pretty much stuck at 50/50 and keep pulling the lever in a vain attempt to improve...casino logic kicking in

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@rickperlstein Another great one in this genre https://t.co/wXBAO5QYpw

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@cd_hooks I can barely afford my $70,000 subscription

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@CentralUnplan @TheZvi The OP screenshotted a different article than the one he later provided. But as far as I can tell, the only direct statement from Mamdani was “noncommittal” and was issued last week. Hochul is at least as important to this but doesn’t activate the posting center of the brain

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@TheZvi All things equal I would prefer to see robotaxis rolled out in much greater numbers nationally given the recent safety data, but NYC is our most transit-rich city, so it makes more sense to invest in improving that rather than spurring a bunch of induced demand for cars

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@TheZvi If you were more comfortable with his governing ideology, do you think you’d be more capable of building an asesssment over time rather than making blanket good/bad statements based on one policy you disagree with?

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@TheZvi I see! I don’t think speeding the rollout of robotaxis is a line in the sand for all that many New Yorkers, but I respect that it is for you.

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@HeerJeet @paul_jkrause This is Hwæt erasure

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@ChrisPainterYup Whereas I couldn’t give two shits what some phone-scrolling dweeb passively cocooned in the back seat of a Waymo thinks (I say this despite having been said dweeb a number of times)

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@ChrisPainterYup There’s the safety element and then there’s the interpersonal. As a pedestrian, I’m wary of drivers not just because I’m scared of being hit but also because I shrink from being honked at, flipped off, and cursed out by a driver.