thomas

Open any popular/trending Twitter post related to geopolitics or international affairs right now, and you’ll see dozens of replies along the lines of “@ grok, is this true?” or “@ grok, what are the implications for someone like me?”.

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Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

It’s striking how fast LLMs have become arbiters of truth for so many consumers of social media. And while it’s refreshing to see people use such tools to critically parse, understand, and verify social media claims, it’s also placing enormous trust in those models. Trust which can, and will, be manipulated.

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is already being manipulated tacitly through system design

not-knowing ✹ 🍕-fan ✹ productive discomfort + idk ✹ Marseille / Singapore / Auvergne ✹ The Uncertainty Mindset (2020) ✹ now: vaughntan.org/now-ish

I suspect it’s going to be much, much more so

totally. already here and literally unimaginably more to come — even as critical evaluation skills erode