@EggerDC Maybe so -- feels like a lot of the "wow, he uses Bible verses in his speeches!" discourse from primary season was at least adjacent to this. But we might be in a different conversation, starting last night ish
I'm trying to think of a parallel to "Talarico went to seminary -- conservative Christians should love him!"
Is it like "Sowell was at the Hoover Institution -- liberal academics should love him!"
I'm not coming up with anything good. But I'm going for a tell that someone is enthusiastically misunderstanding the group they're talking about
Also, post-AAPOR thoughts:
- People REALLY like using AI to code open-ends
- Using AI like normal data science makes a ton of sense (probe weaknesses, be smart, etc.)
- AI hasn't fundamentally changed the polling workflow (it prob will though!)
- There are huge practical and philosophical issues with synthetic respondents
- Some problems, i.e. weirdos disproportionately filling out surveys, prob can't be solved by throwing a bunch of AI at it
ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com/politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.
By popular demand, I've pushed a round of improvements to https://t.co/QHkMZN6uMa
- Tons of deduplications and byline cleanups
- 100s of NYT era articles
- 600+ podcast URLs
- Pub date corrections from the woolly Blogspot days
Let me know what more to fix.
@LoganDobson I think that's one of the best pro-AI messages. We did some message testing on AI/environment stuff last year, and "AI will make stuff cheaper and cleaner" did better than "you are wrong about water, you dummy"
obviously not the messages we tested haha but you get the idea
This is the Echelon poll and the NBC poll that made the rounds
Like in all things polling -- these are both great groups, both can capture true things, etc. It's just one of those interesting things
This was really fun, as always! Be sure to listen! https://t.co/1Ea3ew1nff
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NEW POD: AI has officially entered mainstream politics
From Maine's first-ever statewide moratorium on large data centers passed this week, to the Anthropic/DOD spat in February, AI is beginning to disrupt politics.
@databyler and I talked about it!
I have a new thing on the Orange Newsletter App! It's called "Real Research on Artificial Intelligence" It's an NRG channel where I share, weekly, our original survey research on AI
Latest post: a lot of normal people think AI is a fancy search engine. And if you weigh "the destruction of your job, many humanity" against "great search" you can see why some people might be uneasy
There's lots of other reasons, but that ^ is one of my working theories on the cost/benefit tradeoff at work for people
Also makes sense of people enjoying using the thing, seeing positive personal impact but being really worried about societal impact
Guys I am trying to come up with an inconspicuous but fake AI company name. For a red herring question
And every name is taken. If there is a name, there is an AI company with that name
So I did a whole Claude Code thing. At least 3-5x faster than me doing it myself. It also crashed three times and got some basic directions wrong
So I got both sides of the equation in like the span of half an hour