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  3. Jun 2025
    1. What if the dignity of being human is not to stand forever outside the machine, but to insist, even as the boundaries blur, on those things that remain untranslatable—mess, longing, grief, awe, strangeness?

      heavy hitting

    2. the “Human Instrumentality Project” offers to dissolve all suffering through perfect togetherness.

      random tangent: this HIP v human interactive proof

      cf siphonophorae, Bataille on eroticism

  4. May 2025
    1. Once multiple accurate students enter the same tag for a new image, the system wouldbe confident that the tag is correct. In this manner, image tagging and vocabulary learning can becombined into a single activity.

      is this not how CAPTCHA is evaluated too?

  5. Jan 2025
    1. Data can be valuable. It can also be debris, abundant and unwelcome clutter generated by organic activity. Data is essential for operating a system, but it rarely needs to be the primary focus of the system.

      cf capturability, rhetoric of maximum vision in my captcha essay (2)

  6. Sep 2024
    1. when a open AI developed a gp4 and they wanted to test what this new AI can do they gave it the task of solving capture puzzles it's these puzzles you encounter online when you try to access a website and the website needs to decide whether you're a human or a robot now uh gp4 could not solve the capture but it accessed a website task rabbit where you can hire people online to do things for you and it wanted to hire a human worker to solve the capture puzzle

      for - AI - progress trap - example - no morality - Open AI - GPT4 - could not solve captcha - so hired human at Task Rabbit to solve - Yuval Noah Harari story

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    1. This might not be the most user-friendly solution. But it’s certainly creative and something different from your typical captcha systems. Pennyauth aims to verify your users by asking them to pay $0.01 per login. Payments are processed using QUID — and users can submit payment in as little time as it takes for them to grab their credit card.
    1. Turns out that this new algorithm can also be used to read CAPTCHA puzzles—we found that it can decipher the hardest distorted text puzzles from reCAPTCHA with over 99% accuracy. This shows that the act of typing in the answer to a distorted image should not be the only factor when it comes to determining a human versus a machine.
    1. In order to combat these form spam BOTS, websites often employ a series of textual or picture quizzes to the user submitting the form such as CAPTCHA. These tests are somewhat effective for standard BOTS, but are annoying to website visitors and often lead to abandoned contacts or site sales. In addition, BOTS are evolving to the point where these measures are becoming obsolete and ineffective.
    1. For years, the most used solution was to add an ugly captcha to the form, with some hard to read letters, numbers etc on an image. The user had to type these in an input field. The spambots have a hard time reading these images: problem solved!But this solution is not very user-friendly: it’s ugly, and annoys users so much you might lose conversions.
  12. Nov 2019