This is known as the Peter Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Thanks :)

I guess what I'm wishing for is better awareness of areas of strength and weakness when making such decisions.

I can think of people who should never have been promoted to, say, a strategic role or a team management role, but would have been excellent to be promoted to an expert individual contributor (i.e. 'fellow', or 'expert scientist') role.

The industry has those roles now, and I know people in them. They're not wide spread, but they do exist and I do work in games. This is something that has come as the industry has matured.

Authors use humour as a form of connection with their audience. It's a way of saying hey I'm a human and I have the same human experiences as you dear reader. Take the first paragraph for example:

> Wednesday, 11:15 AM. I'm at the PureGym entrance doing the universal gym app dance. Phone out, one bar of signal that immediately gives up because apparently the building is wrapped in aluminum foil

It says, "Hey I'm a human who goes to the gym and experiences the same frustrations as you do". Now imagine for a second this paragraph was written by AI. The AI has never been to the gym, the AI doesn't feel impatience trying to pass through the turnstile, the AI has never experienced the anxiety of a dodgy internet connection in a large commercial building. The purpose of any humour in this paragraph is completely undermined if you assume it was actually written by AI.

So please don't conflate being anti-LLM with being anti-humour. It's just the opposite. We want humour because we want to feel a connection with our fellow humans and for the same reason we should also want writing that comes from a human, not a machine.

> So please don't conflate being anti-LLM with being anti-humour. It's just the opposite.

I'm not.

I'm trying to analyse, or hypothesise, why this author's particular writing style seemed to trigger people's nascent LLM warning heuristics.

I considered the humour, because, well, other people brought it up. From the surrounding discussion, it seemed that the jocular writing style was one of the points generating suspicion.

I'd be interested to know which if any of the ID verification services were fooled by this.

Could you clarify what you mean by this?

Google's answers were judged by IMO. OpenAI's were judged by themselves internally. Whether it matters is up to the reader.

TheZvi had a summarization of this here: https://thezvi.substack.com/i/168895545/not-announcing-so-fa...

In short (there is nuance), Google cooperated with the IMO team while OpenAI didn't which is why OpenAI announced before Google.

Do you not think social and ethical issues can be approached rationally? To me it sounds like Tao is concerned about the cost of running AI powered solutions and I can quite easily see how the ethical and social costs fit under that umbrella along with monetary and environmental costs.

Not sure why you think that? One of their biggest sales pitches to businesses is the potential for their products to replace certain job roles in the future. Why wouldn't they be actively doing research on real-world usage and impact right now?

Yes indeed the London underground does use regenerative braking on many of their lines. The cool thing about a direct rail power system is that the voltage generated from trains that are braking can be fed back into the power rail to instantaneously power other trains on the same line that are accelerating. No need to carry the extra weight of a battery or flywheel. And like you say, it helps keep the tunnels cooler.

It has to be the same segment, which is a bit of a pain to manage. The amount of power being fed in is getting close to megawatts.

Your source doesn't consider non-plug-in hybrids also known as HEVs because zapmap are a company that sell charging services. The number of HEVs in the UK is about twice the the number of PHEVs so the total number of hybrids is still higher than the total number of BEVs. In 2024, 6% of vehicles on the road were hybrid compared with 3.7% fully electric.

https://www.smmt.co.uk/more-than-a-million-evs-on-uk-roads-a...

I wonder which vehicles that is - is that predominantly the non-pluggable Prius?

There is a wide variety, MHEV is quite popular here due to lack of home charging, as many people live in terraces, etc

We have a selection of smaller popular hatchbacks with MHEV available (ie, the Hyundai i20) that I believe were not released in some markets

The leasing culture for "luxury" cars is quite prevalent here too, and many new cars from popular brands such as Land Rover are at minimum MHEV from new nowadays, in order to get fleet emissions down

This would be best implemented inline with the textbox of the comment form. If you want to give people feedback on their grammar then do it while they are actually writing - not after. Otherwise you just make an already hard to follow thread even more noisy.

And you will because "entrepreneurial" chains like Hyatt will lower their prices thanks to the additional revenue they get from this and other unexpected charges in order to attract more customers.