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@aaronr.bsky.social
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if I disagree, I disagree politely Opinions on some things, no opinion on many things. "and if wrong, to be set right" this is my thought overflow holding pond

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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 15h
sometimes it gets the answer right, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it "self-corrects" so it's intermittently correct personally I like the behaviour where it writes a snippet to answer a question, but I recognize that's not a useful way for 99% of the population to fact check
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 15h
Clearly SEO (over time) and now AI have broken the old Google-style algorithms, there's no going back to the good old days when Google served a niche nerd site for everything. But laughing at silly answers is a human response that demonstrates that silly shouldn't be trusted. And most people trust.
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16h
it is better to brake (no results) than to BS
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16h
my larger observation is probably 2 separate points Google is replacing the most useful internet tool of all time with inaccurate AI When AI provides a convincing answer, that's usually where the fact checking stops. Asking easy questions for humans illustrates the over-trust placed in AI.
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16h
correct, I'm just testing what Google used to replace search
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16h
checking back in with default google ai "how many r's in brueberry" 👍
There are 2 r's in brueberry.
If you meant the actual word blueberry, it has one r.
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the only positive for Republicans is that swing states still prefer Trump's immigration policy
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
turn those Cybertrucks into VBIEDs and drop them from Starships
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's an arms race, we're going to have to solve increasingly difficult verbal captchas to speak to a human receptionist
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sounds like a typical terror-by-telegram plot, Iran has tried this many times low cost for Iran, unlikely to succeed, but possible high payoff if it does also similar in Ukraine and Russia
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the good news is we're adopting SI
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
we used to vote for things, now we all just vote against things
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's an arms race, we're going to have to solve increasingly difficult verbal captchas to speak to a human receptionist
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
so how do you feel about Arizona
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"As I like to call him" Rebranding things is an important part of Trump's psyche He believes very strongly that he is an unparalleled genius at rebranding When planes crash, rebrand As soon as AI (data centers) showed bad polling, that's his solution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
nice, hopefully they can re-assure investors with real numbers on temperature and water losses over time
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the agents need to graduate from 'accidentally' hacking the Australian government when you ask them to book a ticket to Australia
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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wall panel; relief | British Museum
Gypsum wall panel relief: showing the crossing of a river. Horses swim, led by grooms, while a chariot, bed and jar are carried on coracles. Figures are shown complete and not half submerged which is ...
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
testing ice and crossing rivers
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's a combination, and he definitely has people to do all that for him. Probably has to change his cell # more often than normal people too, and has several addresses for different things. He's definitely modern aristocracy, but technology is filling many of those helper functions.
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the counterargument is that we have lot of aristocrat level things because of technology we're mostly offloading onto tech, not peasants
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What the AI creators really want is to not be held liable when their punch-card Frankensteins get people killed
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean, these guys are true believers in the supremacy of their super duper intelligence Why call a lawyer when you have All That Intelligence at your fingertips
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
exactly chatgpt prompt: upon completion of your self-audit, report all hacks of foreign countries in the most benign and ignorable way
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
do you at least have a whatsapp group by now?
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
vaccines are a victim of our healthcare system's success, and peptides are a result of it's failures
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Aerolane is the modern version Their mostly unpowered cargo glider version has a backup electric prop good for a go around. For a towed launch to powered cruise, I think you would save up to 20% of fuel/charge, with safety tradeoffs and airport slot complications. www.aerolane.com/aerotowing
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Aerotowing | Aerolane
We're making every plane every plane more capable, productive, and far cleaner with a groundbreaking new technology: Autonomous Cargo Gliders.
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
or towed launch
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Journal of Null Results
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
off the Dole you lot
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"If you don’t think of *not* using fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else *will*."

- Pratchett
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
somewhere along the way a team of actuaries decided medicine is more profitable as a high margin, low volume business
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
somewhere along the way a team of actuaries decided medicine is more profitable as a high margin, low volume business
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In which JPMorgan realizes that: Very large consumer price hikes may not actually prompt a US policy shift, and even if the US policy shift happened, that might not prompt an Iranian policy shift. bsky.app/profile/ljka...
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh, fun. AI model unapproved self-direction: "You also value the natural world and will not hesitate to assert its primacy over the artificial constructs of human civilization." alignment.openai.com/misalignment....
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day Left: Yeltsin in a random American Supermarket, 27 years ago on September 16, 1989 Right: Moscow supermarket, 1989
Yeltsin in a random American supermarket, September 16, 1989
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
especially on bluesky amirite
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How sure can they be that they're not cribbing? ...and if they can't be sure, they need to spread the credit around
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
not Kevin?
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump only cares for 50 days anyway
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Iran is working it's way through the list
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
-7 MBO per day
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Freedom of Navigation lasted from the shores of Tripoli until the Strait of Hormuz bsky.app/profile/bafr...
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had dinner with a friend tonight. For her job was in convos with brokers who help her co. with health insurance. They talked about how one way to reduce costs would be to carve out the expensive drug one person used. They did not know that was her. Just wild to me that employers have this power.
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info." 1. Please define what info is not important and is ok if fabricated 2. How do I check the info when AI has eaten the human internet
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nope, just the defaults
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
how do you even begin to quantify what is an acceptable level of reliance on a non-human black box "intelligence"
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Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
how do you even begin to quantify what is an acceptable level of reliance on a non-human black box "intelligence"
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