LOOK, THESE ARE DIFFICULT TIMES FOR EVERYONE: A young friend of mine is having problems finding a job. I’ve been watching his attempts. I think he’s being very optimistic about how little he needs. I think he needs three times that. His update has a link to his linked in.
Look, they’ve got the institutions and the international funds. We have each other.
THERE’S NOTHING MIXED. ANY INFRINGEMENT ON FREE SPEECH IS WRONG: Vermont schools send mixed signals on free speech.
THE SINGULARITY IS HERE: In January, ChatGPT Failed The Bar. In March, GPT-4 Exceeds The Nationwide Student Average. We are now witnessing a remarkable growth in ability in a very short period of time.
When you measure AI against humans, it’s important to remember that AI improves rapidly, while humans mostly do not.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE! (CONT’D): Stanford University employee charged with lying about campus rapes. “A Stanford University employee who claimed that she was raped twice on campus was charged with lying about the alleged sexual assaults, prosecutors said. Authorities unearthed alleged evidence showing that Jennifer Ann Gries made up the bogus accusations about a co-worker whom she also falsely claimed to be dating.”
Stanford is looking to be a cesspit of craziness. “In January of this year, Gries admitted to investigators that she lied about being raped because she was angry at her co-worker. Greis said she felt that her co-worker gave her ‘false intention’ and turned her friends against her, according to prosecutors.”
He should sue:
The saga “scarred” him and the false accusations took a toll on him, especially during a time when he was caring for his gravely ill mother who later died.
The man, a victim in the ordeal, was able to also provide evidence that corroborated his whereabouts, authorities said.
He told investigators, “This is disgusting. I don’t feel human. I don’t feel human at all.”
Gries was charged on Monday with two felony counts of perjury and two misdemeanor counts of inducing false evidence.
Just to make a point.
HEH:
@big_country414 #stitch with @carolinebaniewicz #bank #siliconvalley #money ♬ original sound – J.R. Kelly
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Silicon Valley Bank collapse may not be the last: Blackrock CEO warns of “slow-rolling crisis.”
OPEN THREAD: Anything going on in the world?
ARC shows GPT-4 effectively lying to a human to get them to complete a CAPTCHA prompt. https://t.co/Dbr4vjsCjm pic.twitter.com/VRZWKOUTZZ
— Olivia H. Scharfman (@OliviaHelenS) March 15, 2023
Related: Reflections on falling away from unbridled tech-optimism.
SHOCKER: Psych Studies Attract A Certain Kind of Volunteer Which Could Be Skewing Results. “In our studies, we have shown that those who have more personality pathologies are more drawn to studies where they can express their trauma and may be simply more likely to volunteer for studies.”
Or to pursue psychology degrees.
DEPARTMENT OF PRE-CRIME: Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities. “Over the past six years, Allegheny County has served as a real-world laboratory for testing AI-driven child welfare tools that crunch reams of data about local families to try to predict which children are likely to face danger in their homes. Today, child welfare agencies in at least 26 states and Washington, D.C., have considered using algorithmic tools, and jurisdictions in at least 11 have deployed them, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The Hackneys’ story — based on interviews, internal emails and legal documents — illustrates the opacity surrounding these algorithms. Even as they fight to regain custody of their daughter, they can’t question the “risk score” Allegheny County’s tool may have assigned to her case because officials won’t disclose it to them. And neither the county nor the people who built the tool have explained which variables may have been used to measure the Hackneys’ abilities as parents.”
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Woman claims she married herself, then wants divorce 24 hours later. “A Twitter user who goes by Sofi said she bought a wedding dress and baked a wedding cake so she could marry herself, but only a day later, announced she’s divorcing herself because she ‘can’t take it anymore.'”
IN MY SUBSTACK ESSAY ON TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIMISM, I mentioned my Mobius Dick work. But I think the best lyrics I ever wrote were for the Nebraska Guitar Militia.
I mean, my musical talents, like most of my talents, fall into the “not bad, for a law professor” category, but I’m still pleased when things turn out well.
CONTRA-INDICATOR: Inverse Jim Cramer ETF outperforming market trackers after just 2 weeks. “In the two weeks since its launch, the ‘Inverse Cramer Tracker’ exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been outperforming the market by allowing investors to short any stock CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer recommended buying.”
THE “OR ELSE” IS HEAVILY IMPLIED: UN Secretary-General: ‘For Well Over a Millennium, Islam’s Message of Peace Has Inspired People.’
BE PREPARED: VENTURE 4TH Backpacking Sleeping Bag. #CommissionEarned
IT IS UNWISE TO ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, COMRADE: ‘Where Is Proof Of Damages?’: Leo Terrell Comes Unglued Over San Francisco’s Proposed Reparations.
PROGRESS NOW CONSISTS OF FERTILIZING OUR FIELDS WITH HUMAN WASTE: Your poop is useful. Meet the father-son team creating ‘humanure:’ Why does Americans’ poop rot in landfills when it could be fertilizing farms and parks? Okay, the piece is paywalled, so I’m just reacting to the headline. But it does feel like a lot of progress today consists of some sort of return to the medieval.
SOCIAL MEDIA IS HARD: Turns Out Trump’s Truth Social Is Not Very Social. “I write for a certain blog that generates more traffic than Truth’s social media platform does and for another one that’s closing in on it. To put it bluntly, a social media platform can’t thrive with blogger numbers.”
GREECE, SOUTH KOREA, TURKEY, AND EVEN IRAN STILL HAVE SOME IN SERVICE: Why the F-4 Phantom Is Such a Badass Plane.
WIDOW-ON-WIDOW ACTION: Black widow populations drop as spider falls prey to brown widows.
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