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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 3m

Goal 3: Your entity is mentioned in topics you care about grounded
Goal 4: Your entity is mentioned in topics you care about ungrounded
Goal 5: Your entity recommended in decision making grounded
Goal 6: Your entity is recommended in decision making ungrounded

2/N

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 4m

Generally agree.

1. Grounded vs ungrounded.
2. Ungrounded and brands are in the answer
3. Grounded and brands are in the answer.
4. Some prompts where brands are not in the answer.

Goal 1: Your entity is accurately portrayed ungrounded
Goal 2: Your entity is accurately portrayed grounded

1/N

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 16h

👀https://www.uschamber.com/co/about-us/authors

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 18h

I'm very glad that the ?hints=search&q= hack to force QFO doesn't directly jailbreak the protections built into ChatGPT.

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 3d

Recent-ish skills acquired/re-acquainted to:

Playing chess
Solving a Rubik's cube
Juggling a soccer ball 5x times
Overhead tennis serves
Double stop exercises on the violin
Being a piano accompaniment

Because of my kids.

At least two of these I actually enjoy.

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most gutsy thing I've seen all day.

kayak.ai

Check out the robots.txt and sitemap to get a flavor of what they think the premise is how the web will evolve.

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 4d

TIL AI Psychosis

That switch from 4o to 5 has that on full display.

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 4d

Feel the inflation > feel the AGI

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 4d

IMO, live the simulation to the fullest of transparency, joy, and good vibes over secrecy, fear, and anxious vibes.

As always, it's the friends we made along the way.

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 4d

If AI can create simulations, what's to say we're not in the matrix in a simulation, or that we don't become capable of creating simulations where there are entities unaware that they are in a simulation?

An old question revisited in the age of AI.

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 5d

ADAPT OR BE REPLACED BY SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS EVOLVED WITH AI

Me: Chill with the caps. It's a good idea to keep a few colleagues whose role is to play devil's advocate because group think is dangerous.

Actually, you're right. I give up.

Let them create a devil's advocate agent.

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 6d

4. He taught himself divination from ancient texts. All of his grandchildren's destinies were determined upon birth and name. Our names all sound terribly non-standard.

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 6d

Some (tall?) tales:
1. He was top of his class - selected to go to Japan to further serve the Japanese empire.
2. He'd swim between Kinmen and Xiamen to co-ordinate trade deals. Swim.
3. He turned knowledge into wealth, and wealth to charity. A big donor to a Mazu temple.

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 10d

Today is 10/10🎆

1. It marks the uprising against the Ching Dynasty, which ended in 1911

2. It's the national day celebrated in Taiwan, the sovereignty at the core the AI boom cause TSMC makes your AI chips

3. The fireworks celebration on Taipei 101 always looks like a terrorist attack aftermath

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 10d

Oddly satisfying.

Less Dismal Moments in Economics History @economicsmoments.bsky.social · 10d

MIT Economists Amy Finkelstein and Benjamin Olken with their matching "Supply" and "Demand" numberplates.
#econsky

Two number plates one saying "Supply" and one saying "Demand"

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 11d

Some fun questions:

1. Can we detect LLM agents and goad them to site search when they hit a 404?

2. Can we detect existing users and provide "this is where you last left off?"

3. Can we double-down and just ask... "most people complete X or Y after where you left off?"

Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 11d

If we serve a 404 page that actually is a 404 http status code...

But we infer a confidence score using personalization and cookies... to implement a meta refresh..

That then gets you to a 200 status page with noindex on it...

I think we could spin up a better 404 user-experience.

Am I crazy?

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Victor @panvictor.bsky.social · 12d

On my father's deathbed, the tale of how a family of "communist" spies were provided safe haven during the 228 incident unraveled.

To my grandfather, they were neighbors first over political thought. To my father, it was a memory of my grandfather's greatness.

A greatness he chased his whole life.

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