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🔗 Honestly, Stop Saying Honestly
We already killed the slop in our writing . The em dash, “delve,” “tapestry,” “in today’s fast-paced world” - the measured lexicon of words that spiked in published text the moment the models got loose on it. “Delve” alone rose about 1,500 percent in scientific abstracts between 2022 and 2024. These words are not wrong. They are tells. A reader sees three of them and stops trusting the page, even when the substance is fine.
💬 Adventures in Claude
Two Thoughts
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Very self aware 😂 and interesting to see how anyone can control the LLM’s output if they spend time on the problem - something which we don’t typically do - used as we are to our world of ‘instant gratification’.
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Just a couple of months ago 🖇️ I wrote: “but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them ( (em dashes) ) since LLMs turned up.
Jeremy Keith [ @adactio ] writes 🔗 here and quotes 🔗 Time
What is being mechanized by AI is our tastes - our ability to discern quality (or originality)
💬 Ray Nayler
Might I suggest that we have been doing that all by ourselves for decades - if not forever?
Tech accelerated it and now AI is certainly moving it into hyper drive - because that is what AI does.
🔗 Scripting News: Is Bluesky on the web?
But it doesn’t work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to send them away. Sending people away is a sensitive concept to Bluesky’s investors. Why would you do that? This is not a new point where the web and silos disagree. The web says “let them go” and the silos ask “do we look like idiots?”
💬 Dave Winer
I am clearly missing the nuance here.
I syndicate to BlueSky - and in Bluesky I see …
I click on that link and am taken to my blog
Question
What is not happening?
🖋️ Caveat - Not My Words ...
… but there for the grace of whatever power you hold true - do we all go. Sometime sooner. Sometimes very much later. But go we do. Few have the power to control ‘when’.
In case you were wondering where 🖇️ this quote came from …. the answer is 🔗🎵📼 Ren - he is just so good. This one is a kind of 🔗📼 Musical Gary
If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video might me giving an 'error'. That is generally because the creator wants you to go to YouTube to watch it. To do that - click on the link above.🖋️ The Myth of Maslow
I’ve always taken the 5 levels to be more a series of ongoing processes .. not necessarily that you achieve them … more to reflect the focus at a moment in time .. also the triangle pinnacle is misleading in that the work going on in there is likely inversely proportional to the shape’s area … and finally you are almost constantly working on multiple levels at the same time.
But that’s my take - might not be what Abraham meant?
🖋️ They Buried Smiths. Now They Might Have To Bury TG Jones
The rebranding of WH Smith to TG Jones led to large and rapid declines in revenue - which means that the buyer of the brand did not actually undersatand what they were buying.
Meanwhile - over on 🔗 Blusky
Before ATmosphere
After ATmosphere
No doubt the old one is too overpowering and ‘all logo’ - no message. BUT - not a fan of the new one either.
🏗️ Need to find where that layout can be changed.
🔗 Anthropic, AI and The “Numbers” Problem.
A $40 billion run rate with 40 percent net revenue retention is a different company from a $40 billion run rate with 130 percent net revenue retention. From outside, the two are indistinguishable. The valuation gets the same multiple in both cases. The first company is worth a fraction of the second. This is not a small problem. It is the entirety of the problem.
💬 Om
It’s not an earth shattering observation. Anyone in ’the business’ knows this. So it isn’t ignorance - it is deception.
Also important … Om gets to it in a paragraph to get to where Ed Zitron arrives after a 20 minute monologue. Am I wrong?