Scott Alexander (Astral Codex Ten)

Sometimes there are big empty white spaces and occasional red dots.

And then sometime around 2016, the intensity increases.

It seems to increase again in 2018 and stays at roughly that intensity, which is much more intense with clearly posts every day for the most part.

And then by 2023, or just before the start of 2023, the posts go much, much denser.

It's a big, dense line.

And that last shift to the much higher intensity is marked Musk buys Twitter.

We also notice looking at this graph the period of time with the least posts every day, so it seems to be a thin white line as if someone has gone through and lightened the gradient of the dots in that area, and it seems to be between about 2 and 3 in the morning up until about...

11 or 10 in the morning, and we notice that that's quite a clear or relatively clear lighter patch before about 2020 or 2022, but then afterwards it's really getting eaten into by the red on either side of it, and it seems that there are very few fully uninterrupted nights of sleep, or at least the Twitter account is posting during those hours.

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Intrinsic perspective wants a law saying AI-generated text must be watermarked.

I was most interested in the article's claim that there is now, quote, semantic watermarking.

Watermarking which operates on the level of ideas and can't be defeated by rephrasing an AI-generated text in your own words.

I've skimmed the paper explaining this and I think I vaguely understand what's going on, but it still boggles me that this is possible.

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How did OnlyFans leap over all of its predecessors and achieve an unprecedented level of success?

Ayla discusses many factors, but one stands out.

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