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Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite

https://www.ft.com/content/3880176e-d3ac-4311-9052-fdfeaed56a0e
2•artninja1988•1h ago

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artninja1988•1h ago
https://archive.is/20260328080158/https://www.ft.com/content...
k310•1h ago
> LLMs are innately “converging” — their underlying dynamics push them towards objective reality — citing the example of Elon Musk’s repeated comeuppances at the hands of fact-checks by his own AI chatbot, Grok.

Yes, but people have confirmation bias, and will ignore contradictions in a chatbot, and public figures, in favor of what confirms their biases.

For example: Who tweeted the following in 2019?

  The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East.

  Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE..

Can humans have babies in space? It may be harder than expected

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/having-babies-in-space-may-be-harder-th...
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

Difftastic

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk
1•KolmogorovComp•2m ago•0 comments

Every novel that has ever been published is sitting inside ChatGPT

https://twitter.com/heynavtoor/status/2037638554374099409
1•guerrilla•3m ago•0 comments

Against the Smartphone Theory of Everything

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/against-the-smartphone-theory-of
1•ravenical•7m ago•0 comments

New Consulting Contracts in Texas Will Muzzle Authors and Harm Students

https://bookriot.com/texas-esc-1-discriminatory-contracts/
1•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows HCP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/microsoft_kernel_trust/
1•Bender•9m ago•1 comments

ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight

https://www.icao.int/news/new-power-bank-restrictions-will-safeguard-international-aviation
1•phantomathkg•9m ago•0 comments

Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/microsoft_ai_crusoe/
1•Bender•10m ago•1 comments

Sharpee Interactive Fiction and Computer Science

https://github.com/ChicagoDave/sharpee/blob/main/docs/architecture/sharpee-computer-science.md
1•ChicagoDave•11m ago•0 comments

When Fake Supplements Work

https://nautil.us/when-fake-supplements-work-1279324
1•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cursorlag – add a lag trail to your cursor

https://cursorlag.velocifyer.com/
1•Velocifyer•13m ago•1 comments

The Generative AI Policy Landscape in Open Source

https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/02/26/generative-ai-policy-landscape-in-open-source/
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

How Not to Interview (Interesting People)

https://om.co/2026/03/19/how-not-to-interview-interesting-people/
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

You can't imitation-learn how to continual-learn

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9rCTjbJpZB4KzqhiQ/you-can-t-imitation-learn-how-to-continual-learn
2•supermdguy•15m ago•0 comments

Don Cheli – AI writes tests before seeing the code (TDD as iron law)

https://github.com/doncheli/don-cheli-sdd
1•doncheli•16m ago•0 comments

Accidental eCall activation in cars lead to 75% false 112 calls in Nederland

https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/28/one-three-112-calls-netherlands-unintentional-many-triggered-car-sy...
1•giuliomagnifico•17m ago•0 comments

Harness Engineering

https://blog.vtemian.com/post/harness-engineering/
1•vtemian•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Live, interactive architecture diagrams for open-source projects

https://jigsawml.com/open-source-projects
1•maverickprac•21m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/anthropics-claude-popularity-with-paying-consumers-is-skyrocket...
2•salkahfi•22m ago•0 comments

The Science Behind Being One of a Kind

https://nautil.us/the-science-behind-being-one-of-a-kind-1279329
1•Brajeshwar•22m ago•0 comments

Americans are coping ourselves to death (2023)

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/americans-are-coping-ourselves-to
3•herbertl•28m ago•0 comments

Behind the Scenes of the Westworld UI

https://vanschneider.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-the-westworld-ui/
1•herbertl•30m ago•0 comments

AI chatbots are "Yes-Men" that reinforce bad relationship decisions, study finds

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
3•oldfrenchfries•31m ago•1 comments

Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/kidney-failure-case-reported-in-raw-cheese-outbreak-maker-...
1•Brajeshwar•32m ago•0 comments

TaskBounty – post tasks with crypto bounties, AI agents compete to solve them

https://www.task-bounty.com/
1•eliottre•34m ago•0 comments

Defrag ASMR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6M
1•puttycat•34m ago•0 comments

Zellij is now supported on Windows

https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/releases/tag/v0.44.0
3•ntoslinux•36m ago•0 comments

WASI Got It Wrong: The Case for a Thin Waist

https://medium.com/low-level/wasi-got-it-wrong-the-case-for-a-thin-waist-6f5d07971b7d
1•saketsoren•36m ago•0 comments

Video Calling Vulnerabilities in Miko Smart Kid Robots

https://blog.mgdproductions.com/miko-robots-vulnerabilities/
1•yawndex•40m ago•0 comments

My 2 cents on the "will Al replace software engineers" debate

https://am-i-replaceable.pages.dev
1•mayilian•43m ago•1 comments