Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Pangram_detects_an_AI_passage.jpg}}|thumb|Welp]] Today I ran into a story I thought was funny. {{HackerNews | url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185556 | author = harper | title = I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words |...

Roshan: Wikipen I read a recent thread which I think is fairly typical of a kind of motivated reasoning common in the US<ref name=in-us/>. == Home Cleaning == {{Tweet | name = Nicholas Decker | username = captgouda24 | text = Something I really like about America is how uncomfortable we are about servants. People...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Huggies_Overnight_Diaper.jpg}}|thumb|Huggies overnight diapers - a marvel of modern science]] Modern materials are amazing magical devices to create a prosperous society. They are ever-present to a degree that we have normalized their existence but they have transformed the...

Roshan: I recently read this article about a physician's husband who died of suicide after being denied care in what's described as a resort-grade facility. {{HackerNews | url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981496 | author = Jimmc414 | title = My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US...

Roshan: I saw an interesting tweet today about who-marries-whom, that is which races in the US marry which other races. {{Tweet | name = Crémieux | username = cremieuxrecueil | text = Here's a big chart of the latest data on interracial marriage in America. It's an ethnicity-by-ethnicity breakdown of who marries who...

Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Citation Laundering - An Example Flowchart.png}}|thumb|An example of how you might do this]] [[Citation Laundering]] is the practice of taking a low-likelihood statement and citing it through an increasingly more reliable chain of sources until the claim looks like it is reliably...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:ChatGPT_Image_Gen_-_Dyson_Sphere_in_Construction.jpg}}|thumb|ChatGPT's conception of what a Dyson sphere might look like. It would be dark in a cosmological sense but it has to radiate. And obviously the direction of observation counts.]] It struck me the other day that I have...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Nano_Banana_rendition_of_Seattle's_Port_By_The_West_Seattle_Trail.jpg}}|thumb|The parking lot where I was stopped with my busted-up tire. The penny-farthing guy was there, yes]] I dropped by a friend's place to pick up some more Blackwell GPUs and everything seemed to be going...

Roshan: Wikipen Today, [https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ a GPT-5.x prototype escaped containment on HuggingFace's servers using a 0-day it came up with] which is both phenomenally cool and a little bit scary. In January, I experienced a funny similar case where the agent...

Roshan: Wikipen [[The Inscrutable Success Heuristic]] refers to a situation where someone makes apparently stupid decisions which always pay off. If this happens often enough and the ideas seem particularly unlikely to work then it's useful to consider whether one is as smart as the person who seemingly keeps...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Sync_Duration_-_Skybright_ETL.jpg}}|thumb|The view into my ETL system]] Now that we have agents that can analyse our data for us, the question becomes whether to retain our dashboards or not. I think it's pretty clear that the standard answer is right: we need both these...

Roshan: Wikipen Teenagers have always been reflexively "too cool to care". But now, contemporary media also adopts this reflexive detachment to its own detriment<ref name=teens/>. When Joss Whedon popularized the "moment of gravitas; silent beat; ironic comment" technique, it was perhaps novel, but now it's...