DJP @djpirl.com · 07/05/2026Defaced in under a week. Growing public backlash with more ads using AI art tagged as “AI slop” 020
DJP @djpirl.com · 07/05/2026@olivia.science has a great post on how AI companies influence research and regulation like Big Tobacco as well: olivia.science/before/olivia.scienceWe've been here before!Parallels between AI and tobacco, and other warnings. 064
DJP @djpirl.com · 10/10/2025Article: www.ft.com/content/3474...ft.comThe flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AISerious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence 010
DJP @djpirl.com · 17/09/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a computer and the word and written on itALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a computer and the word and written on it 010
DJP @djpirl.com · 11/07/2025I think the additional nuance is that these two sets of statements could also be true: 1. LLMs have real-world use cases that provide business value 2. Making a foundational model is not a good business 010
DJP @djpirl.com · 29/05/2025Shows whether someone can tell the difference between substance and superficiality, which is telling 020
DJP @djpirl.com · 07/05/2025I think it’s important to note that some proposals to replace humans with LLMs is just degrading service See government workers being cut and replaced with chatbots The qualitative difference with other automation technology is that the end user might prefer it 110
DJP @djpirl.com · 02/02/2025It’s amazing how far presidential norms got us because it seems that’s what kept things from falling apart 010
DJP @djpirl.com · 01/02/2025Agreed that campaign finance reform won’t be easy. I think the issue with simply making it more expensive is that it can still be lucrative For example, increase in Tesla stock price and future SpaceX contracts outweighs ~$300M in political contributions 010
DJP @djpirl.com · 01/02/2025In a world with this much wealth inequality, doesn’t this just increase the cost of playing the game? Seems like the rules need to be amended altogether 110
DJP @djpirl.com · 01/02/2025The silver lining of the egregious mingling of wealth and politics may be enough public outrage for actual campaign finance reform 120
DJP @djpirl.com · 31/01/2025Thing is you get people arguing that Twitter is better now, so seems like more than one 000
DJP @djpirl.com · 31/01/2025It’s wild that people saw his Twitter (mis)management and thought it should be applied elsewhere 130
DJP @djpirl.com · 26/01/2025If you say this enough times, both sides understand what’s being said without conflict (polite unsubscribe) 120
DJP @djpirl.com · 21/01/2025I think stock price will collapse as demand collapses. It’s hard to do a Nazi salute and still sell cars to the people who want to buy EVs Cutting incentives with new administration doesn’t help either 020
DJP @djpirl.com · 18/01/2025The value prop of Threads was pre-Musk Twitter. Now with Zuck bending the knee, there’s an exodus of the early adopters 021
DJP @djpirl.com · 17/01/2025I guess the counterintuitive part is that gaining wealth doesn’t make you any less insecure 2160
DJP @djpirl.com · 17/01/2025In a world where machine learning is commoditized, tastemaking becomes differentiating www.wsj.com/arts-culture...wsj.comThe Playlist Power Broker Who Makes or Breaks New ArtistsSulinna Ong brings a human touch to finding new hits, a shift from the service’s well-known algorithm. 060
DJP @djpirl.com · 17/01/2025The thing about companies that depart entirely from fundamentals is that a correction can happen suddenly and swiftly Market has been irrational for way longer than I expected though 110
DJP @djpirl.com · 14/01/2025I deleted Instagram recently. I’ll try Pixelfed, but if it’s too much like Mastodon, I might have trouble adopting Might need something closer to Bluesky 110
DJP @djpirl.com · 11/01/2025Just been thinking lately how engaging bad faith arguments at face-value isn’t effective Not to convince the person who’s being intellectually dishonest but to persuade those on the fence 010
DJP @djpirl.com · 11/01/2025We need to bring this word back since it explains much of today's public discourse 130
DJP @djpirl.com · 11/01/2025The anti-trust mistake was letting Instagram and WhatsApp get acquired By allowing Meta to own most of the B2C social landscape, the average consumer has few to no alternatives to choose from 060
DJP @djpirl.com · 11/01/2025Discussions about “masculine energy” seem to refer to returning to a world where toxic masculinity went unchecked Fortunately, the genie cannot be put back in the bottle even if the pendulum swings in that direction for a moment 081
DJP @djpirl.com · 11/01/2025One key difference is that the post-war period had more checks and balances against CEO power: stronger unions and stricter regulations 060
DJP @djpirl.com · 10/01/2025I think it’s because Americans have a hard time not seeing wealth as a function of intelligence Probably a byproduct of American dream and rugged individualism 1100
DJP @djpirl.com · 10/01/2025Don’t forget Tesla, a publicly traded company, loaning their full-time employees to Twitter post-acquisition 020
DJP @djpirl.com · 07/01/2025It is surreal to see how post-truth our society has become www.wsj.com/tech/meta-en...wsj.comMeta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech PitchCEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been building ties with the incoming Trump administration, said the move was an attempt to restore free expression on its platforms. 030
DJP @djpirl.com · 03/01/2025If you ever wanted to play Frogger IRL, you can at crosswalks in Vietnam The game is much harder when you have to dodge hordes of mopeds alongside cars 020
DJP @djpirl.com · 02/01/2025#VietJet may be the worst airline I’ve ever flown. Not only do they deny you boarding for not having your middle name on your ticket, they charge you to add it after the fact 130
DJP @djpirl.com · 24/12/2024If it turns out all foundation models converge on performance (including open source models), there is no competitive advantage to make a good business 040
DJP @djpirl.com · 21/12/2024First time spending the holidays in Asia, and the amount of Christmas music played here makes the US look like junior varsity 070
DJP @djpirl.com · 21/12/2024The silver lining to Musk’s blatant use of money to influence politics is that it might create the public backlash necessary for campaign finance reform 040
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