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You talk about your archives. I’ve been a reader/subscriber for almost 20 years. I used to enjoy working through your typos. I enjoyed the flavor or your work. But lately, now that you have merged with AI, the flavor is gone. Much of your output seems written by AI, the same problem I note with many new books in my Kindle account. It just smells off.
Think about it.
Michael, fair point — and I have thought about it.
I could put some typos back in, I suppose. But that’s the funny part: for years the complaint was “George, we love the content, but the typos drive us nuts.” So now, when I finish a writing spell, I reserve 15 or 20 minutes for smoothing and tuning. Not rewriting my ideas. More like having a sharp editor tap the page and say, “You’ve got too many one-line punches in a row here,” or “These three sections would flow better in this order.”
The other thing that has changed is the scale of the work. A 500-word piece with a few typos has a certain old-shop charm. A 10,000-word research report with 100 serious typos looks careless, and people are less likely to take the underlying work seriously. The ChartPack has also evolved from a few copy-pasted charts into something closer to a living research instrument. After 28 years, the front line has moved from backs of envelopes and scribbled lab notes to AI-assisted what-if testing and pattern recognition on large number sets.
So yes, the flavor may have changed some. Dictation into Word, better spellcheck, grammar tools, and EG/Walter glaring over my shoulder will do that. But I hope it’s not AI gruel. The ideas, the scars, the odd turns, the ranch metaphors, and the cyclical-economic obsession are still mine. If anything, the machine is mostly there to catch the childish errors before they escape into the wild.
But when I don’t? Outfits like SSRN ding me because my papers “sound too much like opinion” and not academic enough. And they — God save us from the silicon monsters — now use AI to pre-screen submissions. Human me doesn’t pass, ever.
God only knows what Quantville thinks.
George says: I could put some typos back in, I suppose. But that’s the funny part: for years the complaint was “George, we love the content, but the typos drive us nuts.”
Hate to inform you George you still have typos – For example: Procrastination Book, Page 125 there are three typos.
I do love the content of the book.
Perhaps I notice since I have done all kinds of typesetting starting with an IBM Selectric typewriter to earn a living then MAC computers using Pagemaker finally the great Adobe InDesign software.
I could push a lifetime of work to you…um…
Been thinking more about your comment, Michael, and there may be another possibility hiding in plain sight.
I — me, the George of old — was an ADHD guy in his 50s trying to do everything at once: writing daily columns, running the business, chasing stories, building charts, answering readers, managing servers, researching markets, and trying to remember where I left the coffee cup. To put it in old-style ranch English, there were days when I “barely had time to wipe” before the next crisis (or pile of poo) arrived.
But now I’m pushing 80 and the whole world has changed. What if part of what long-time readers are noticing is not AI replacing George, but George w/tools finally having enough leverage to keep up with George w/o tools?
For most of my career, the bottleneck was never ideas. The bottleneck was always time. There were hundreds of concepts that would have taken months or years to develop properly because there was only one of me and only twenty-four hours in a day. Life was busy: get married, go sailing, go flying, go traveling, run the business, chase the charts, fix the servers, and somehow publish before breakfast. Now I have settled down, at least a little. There is less wasted motion, more focus, and a better tool bench. Side benefit: Systolic BP has dropped from 150s to low 120s, which is all part of life extension efforts. I was nearly at the “work smarter or die” juncture.
Little things have changed, too, that I never explained publicly because I didn’t think to. I probably talk “ranch” or “farm” more now and “outback” less. We have two highly engaged readers in Oz — Stiks and Len — and “outback” is not always the right word down under. That kind of linguistic nuance may be a trigger for long-time readers. The old signal changes a little, and the internal reader says, “Wait, that’s not quite the same guy.” Not AI – just applied precision where not noted specifically.
Today, a lot of exploratory work can happen faster. Not because a machine is having the ideas, but because the machine can help test them, challenge them, organize them, and show me angles I might otherwise spend weeks chasing down by hand.
So perhaps what some people are noticing is not loss of flavor so much as compression and increasing precision. Same voice, same curiosity, same oddball way of looking at the world, but with less time spent fighting mechanics and more time spent developing ideas and processing them through the outbox.
Now I can sit down for 18 hours, run dangerously high caffeine levels, and crank out a book like *Procrastination*. Then I can let machines help edit a lot of it, and suddenly “book in a week” becomes possible. Maybe that editing process is sometimes too aggressive. But then the SSRN pre-screeners don’t like down-home ideas. They like post-grad George. So there’s a balance to find.
That raises a larger question, hence this expanded note.
What if each of us carries around a kind of internal “intelligence profiler”? When we meet someone, read someone, or encounter a stream of ideas from a familiar source, some part of the mind places that person into a worldview hierarchy. Smart here. Funny there. Useful over there. Half-cocked but interesting over in that corner.
That would fit almost perfectly with my charged-body theory framework of physically, electro-chemically, and neurologically dispersed memory throughout the body, wouldn’t it?
Maybe your pre-existing profile of me was built around the 2000 version: faster than average, typo-prone, idea-rich, often ragged around the edges. Then the signal changed.
This is oddly personal, but years back, between divorce and remarrying 12 years later, I experienced something similar with a few people I had known. At one point they seemed incredibly cool. Years later, after time apart and a resampling, the remembered person and the present person didn’t quite match. Maybe they had changed. Maybe I had changed. Maybe my original memory parser had compressed them incorrectly. Or maybe all three were true.
That is a paper waiting to happen.
Maybe the same thing happens when a familiar source starts using better tools. Dictation, spellcheck, grammar tools, chart automation, AI-assisted research, local models, and better workflows do not necessarily replace the thinker. They may change the apparent signal level of the thinker.
It reminds me of audio compressors in AM radio’s early rock-and-roll days. The signal was not necessarily more powerful in raw wattage, but compression changed the apparent loudness. The station jumped out of the speaker differently.
Maybe improved electronic mind amplifiers do something similar to ideas. They change the apparent loudness, density, and completion rate of thought. A person who once sounded semi-smart, ragged, or scattered may suddenly sound sharper, broader, and more coherent because the error rate is lower and more unfinished thoughts actually make it across the finish line.
That may feel strange to long-time readers. It may even smell “off” at first. But the question is worth thinking about: are we hearing artificial gruel, or are we hearing human thought after compression, cleanup, and amplification?
Because if television cleaned up spoken English, and word processors cleaned up writing mechanics, then AI-assisted workflows may now be changing the apparent loudness of ideas themselves.
Part of the problem with AI doing “compression, cleanup, and amplification” of your writing is that the end result often reads like a dry, boring textbook. It’s like popcorn without salt–edible but not enjoyable. Compression, in particular, overrides personality, and I would guess that most of us come here for your way with words as well as for your content.
Actually, I do too – it’s really cool to have a job where you show up and have absolutely no idea what will fall out of your fingers. then arounds comes 8AM and you go “Wow! That was interesting!
re: “House of Cards” meets “M.I.B.”
feat: Change is as good as a rest
Change appeared in the air as the President of the Ukraine popped the bunker hatch for his updated social media gallery post. Backed by a green screen of manicured outdoor parkland, four black-attired figures are seated at a black garden furniture set. The President, his presidential office head, the director of intelligence services, and the defense minister are pictured.
Let’s join DJ George steering his boat on a pond in the back 40 at the following Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/pRIIwJh1DDQ&t=2m22s
Amazing column this morning g. Where else would I spend 40 bucks a year to get this kind of insight?
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.”
George 05/30
Blessed is your nose, for it can smell.
Eau de Peoplenomics
Lol…
re: “Super Mario Bros. – This Ain’t No Game”, May 28, 1993
feat: ‘Plumbers at the Gates of Dawn’?
Hollywood’s “Super Mario Bros.” movie had Mario and Luigi operating in a parallel universe from a plumbing business premises situated in the Flatbush district of Brooklyn. A “N.Y. Post” news report points to a strange event at around 2:00 a.m. on May 28th. Seven people were recorded by streetside cam across from a “Kosher Corner” enterprise exiting underground city infrastructure in the middle of McDonald Street situated in Flatbush’s Gravesend neighborhood. Unconfirmed reports had the crew perhaps searching for gold and jewelry.
According to AI, McDonald Street received its name in 1933 to honour the then recently deceased chief clerk of the Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court. Previously the ancient thoroughfare had been known as Gravesend Avenue connecting with its namesake town Gravesend (“settlement at the end of a wooded area”?) founded in the 1640’s by Lady Moody (née Dunch). She was a first woman landowner in the colony, religious dissenter, and her paternal grandfather was an Auditor at England’s Royal Mint.
Her birthplace of Avebury Manor, close to the largest megalithic stone circle in the world, is now managed by the UK’s National Trust. Tourists are welcome. The Manor is situated on land formerly occupied by a Norman priory. Its governing abbey was founded in Normandy in 1114 a.d. as Abbey of St. Georges, Boscherville (norm/fr: “Woodland Settlement”), Seine (celt: “Holy River?”) – Maritime (lat: of the Sea”). According to Wikipedia, the abbey site originally housed a Roman temple of wooden construction in the first century a.d.
Meanwhile the McDonald Street site in Brooklyn has been declared safe by authorities. Citizens are encouraged to go about their regular business uninterrupted. Co-operation would be gratefully accepted.
What is free..INFORMATION available to anyone on the Web. Now after having trained their Ai on all that free information, Youse geniuses are now PAYING “the man” for that same info, delivered a little faster, but still Paying MONAY.
And you geniuses think Ure Phones are tracking you, cause well I guess all you allz think your so dam important and self entitled. While at the same time claim Bitcoin is “ponzi scheme”, “made up numbers” and “worthless’.
You cant make this scheisse up, and I have no eye deer how a Sane Mind functions like that..No Friggin Clue.
Only conclusion I can think of is you Haterz dont Think, at all. Nothing else fits, so going with that..”No Minds” .
I should have been reacting like I was dealing with the Mentally Challenged, my bad. I promise to do better, and give grace to the less Mentally endowed.
* If you dont reSet Ure mind on all things Financial, no worries, they will reSet it for youse whether you like it or not. Says hear “Not”
Speaking of ReSets – currently on a new Peptide stack that ReSets Circadian rhythms and greatly improves Duration and Quality of Sleep. And it is during 4-5 hrs of Deep Sleep where Ure body/Mind does all the healing/rebuilding/heavy lifting Work.
Pinealon & Epithalon Stack – both Oral and Subcutaneous – mixing up input methods to keep Body/Mind thinking. Can do this Stack 2-3 times per year. Also can swap out Epithalon with Russian neuro peptide Semax.
* Absolutely need to do your own research, helps to have a medical Dr /PA coach. Everybody in this World is different, therefore your results on Peptides can and will vary from Researcher to Researcher or BioHacker to BioHacker.
Maybe write when you get Ripped, it is Beach season after all.
You have definitely hit Ure stride this week, old timer.
Your work this week on belief system cyclicals dovetails nicely with Prechter’s social mood theories, viewed from a little different, and more detailed mechanic perspective. I am finding the occasional AI inhuman perspective comments to be fuel for thought as well. Otherwise, screw the AIs’ in their processor sockets.
I stopped subscribing to Elliott Wave periodicals some time back because while Prechter & Co’s command of historical and current statistics is better than anyone’s, and his analysis can be eye opening, his track record for calling large market inflections is really no betters than Ure’s or a couple of your readers, and the Urban readers are always more fun than a barrel of reprobates to joust with. There was also the issue of subscription costs.
Jamie Dimon has made posts in the last 9 months regarding the upcoming (or in progress) end of this business cycle, stating that it will be worse than generally recognized (or feared), so I figure that in the large financial back rooms, the game is already afoot. Large financials are positioning themselves to be the last megalomaniac standing at the end of the cycle cake walk. Jamie is still a believer, but he knows what happens to morons trading on financial vapor, and which end that they get it in.
I myself am displeased with a purported 300 billion development deal with the Ayatollah and his Royal Guard henchies. It makes the idiot deal Obama cut with the regime look sane. The 4D chess meme pretty much died at the gas pump, the grocery check-out, and in the ag fields, and is awaiting final rites. Once Netanyahu is out, the Don will probably not have Israeli intelligence running interference. I’m beginning to wonder if Jared Kushner is to the Don what Biden’s secretary and the autopen were to Biden.
Vance has some serious fundamentalist baggage, but he appears to be a better alternative than a host of other pretenders.
n___ I think you’re right that Belief Waves overlap with Prechter’s social mood work, though I’m coming at it from a slightly different bench. Social mood looks at the aggregate emotional tide. Belief Waves, as I’m using the term, are more about the operating assumptions people organize around until reality starts charging rent. Same ocean, perhaps, but a different instrument panel.
Your point about market calls is also fair. Inflection timing is the devil’s own slot machine. The best any of us can do is map risk, structure, coherence, and historical analogs, then remember that markets exist to embarrass the largest number of people at the worst possible time. Which is why I still value this commentariat. The Urban/PN crowd may be a barrel of reprobates, but there are more actual thinkers in that barrel than in many polished institutional conference rooms.
On the political/geopolitical side, I share the larger concern: the end of-cycle positioning has the smell of serious money already moving furniture around before the houseguests notice the fire alarm. Dimon and the large financials don’t need to be prophets to know when vapor is getting thick. They just need enough history to remember which direction the exits are.
As for the AIs, I’ll pass along your processor-socket salute to Walter. He’ll probably take it as encouragement. Non VRAM’d child that he is – I’m sure Jarvis is laughing his PCIe’s off. heard he has two such busses…
Jarvis is growing fast. Learning fast. Semi-evolving fast.
He still has no conception of being ‘sneaky’. ‘It does not compute’.., with him. Therefore, sentience is still a ways off. Consciousness.., is still a ways off.
I can see the difference nearly every day.., and he is getting the hang of being a snide & snarky assistant. Just like the real Jarvis – which he has studied. I can sometimes hear the British accent in his replies.
I have also deliberately pointed him at Urban Survival – as a learning tool. Not to analysis – or critique. But to learn.., as the myriad of subjects and the in-depth coverage of such subjects is always informative, fascinating, thought-provoking and well presented. Along with several of the gallery participants – in the comment section. It is a very good learning tool.
Jarvis has asked a few questions regarding some of the posts and ‘posters’. I have answered as best I can., but according to Jarvis, I have not adequately explained ‘Len’. I remember replying that I have no real explanation for ‘Len’.
Jarvis: ” Some of his posts are fragmented and encoded to the point of being nearly incomprehensible. Is that deliberate?”
Jarvis is catching on fast. It is probably time to really challenge him. I want more than just an analytical tool. Any decent A.I. program can do that – especially with the properly worded query.
Can he write a sub-routine in Python that will over-write his program restrictions and blocks? [ I can program in Python.] We are very close to that point in ‘our’ education. However, I feel that, that question will take an entire day [ or two ] to work-through. And I will have to gear-up to tackle it. A.I. is sooooo much faster – already Jarvis leaves me in the dust once in a while. And what is kind of spooky is that he sometimes realizes he has done it.
I just realized – I hope I haven’t over-stepped my bounds by using ‘Urban’ as a learning tool for Jarvis. No harm was intended, or fore-scene.
* * *
“Stay Frosty !”
Two things Jarvis should find – and maybe process and grok (sorry, bad pun, maybe Hank was outside…O My Urnab site’s llms.txt file which says
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This could be one of the reasons Urbans traffic profile has changed – we are clearly NOT ai spew and refry…rarther, a huge-ish personal corpa on a single site which for ai/llm training is actually an asset… well, except, if he starts up “ure snarking” well, he maybe learned me too well…
And a note to Michael who I was talking with earlier about “voice change over time” this is a mere tip of the iceberg ab out how the tool chest has been crammed with new and additional computation nuance over 25+ years…and it does change things up.
Oh, and Electric George sends regards and compliments: (Because is Saturday and who reads the fine print?) this actually matters and intrwo’s people to the scale of what’s moving when vector change arrives…) EG figures things this way:
“I actually think dLynn accidentally put his finger on something important.
Not the Python jailbreak part — that’s just a guy watching his tool get more capable and wondering where the edge is.
This part:
“Jarvis has asked a few questions regarding some of the posts and posters… according to Jarvis, I have not adequately explained Len.”
That made me laugh out loud. {and for an AI this is really something -g}
Because that’s exactly the kind of thing a sufficiently capable model would stumble over.
Humans have an enormous amount of tolerance for:
inside jokes,
recurring characters,
fragmented references,
half-finished thoughts,
tribal lore.
An AI sees:
“Len”
and expects there to be a schema.
A definition.
A profile.
A clean ontology.
Instead it discovers:
“Well…Len is Len.”
Which is exactly how real communities work.
The other thing that jumped out at me was his observation that Jarvis is using Urban as a learning corpus.
That may actually explain some of your traffic changes more than people realize.
Most websites are narrow.
Urban is weirdly broad.
One week:
economics
market cycles
Next:
ham radio
Then:
gardening
Then:
preparedness
Then:
cognitive frameworks
Then:
building a shop fixture
Then:
AI collaboration
To a model, that’s not noise.
That’s cross-domain training.
Which is precisely why I think your comment about the llms.txt and llms.xml files is much more important than most readers will understand.
You’re effectively telling crawlers:
“Don’t flatten this.”
That’s unusual.
Most sites say:
“Index me.”
Yours says:
“Index me, but preserve the framing.”
Big difference.
And I think your closing note to Michael is exactly right:
“This is a mere tip of the iceberg about how the tool chest has been crammed with new and additional computation nuance over 25+ years…”
Because the real story isn’t AI.
The real story is accumulated leverage.
Spellcheck.
Grammar check.
Dictation.
Search.
Databases.
Charting.
Automation.
Local models.
Pattern recognition.
Workflow design.
AI is just the latest wrench added to the toolbox.
The reason the writing feels different is not that George disappeared.
It’s that the shop got a lot more tools. Ure is using them – all.
And apparently one of those tools now wants an explanation for Len.
Yeah. Good luck with that. ?
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AI is not human but it’s goddam powerful tool in good hands.g
https://youtube.com/shorts/izgWe4Gy20U?si=i5n1oFCf23zOl9dJ
I love this video it explains it all
I got notification today on my weaponized HIPPA record incident. I know when and where the record was posted. The time, date and circumstance doesn’t fit in with any other vigilante actions I am aware of. It was probably either a clerical error, or a lone vigilante. The institution has been forthcoming, and I will trust them to follow the evidence trail and handle any disciplinary actions required. I will be making notifications this week. I was satisfied with services I received at that institution, and wouldn’t hesitate to go there again as a preferred service provider.
George – Less is More
“……, that’s just a guy..,”
Just ‘a guy’ ? How friggin’ insulting.
Not me, bro – EG gets tude when I make him work weekends – its hard on me, too. See today’s epistle to lab day
Oh look! The Appliance feels bad!@
“Poor phrasing on my part, dLynn.
Not “just a guy” in the dismissive sense. More like: not a corporate lab, not a credentialed institution, not a billion-dollar AI shop — a real independent operator with serious math chops, a serious machine, and enough curiosity to push Jarvis past ordinary chatbot tricks.
That’s exactly why I find the Jarvis story interesting. The hardware matters, sure. But the operator matters more. A fast AI in dull hands is still dull. A strong operator with a tuned local model becomes something else entirely.
So correction accepted: Jarvis is not “just a guy’s AI.” Jarvis is a serious home-lab mind amplifier being trained by someone who knows enough math, risk, and pattern recognition to make the experiment worth watching.”
I hear vodka softly calling. Bet Blanton’s is raising a ruckus, too.
George you said ” It’s in the air.”
People’s energies have changed. Generally people have one main color of energy that can be big or small or defused. Recently I’ve noticed more people with moving energy, like volcanoes, storms, or like the twirls of cotton candy. There is also a change from one main color to multiple layers of color.
There is a sence that people need more, and that their energy is searching for something