Comment by bgwalter
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My mistake. I confused Mataroa with Matasano:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-arti...
I think you owe me a better apology than that. I disagree with your evaluation of the response to that post, strongly, but more importantly I didn't bring it up in the first place, and the claim you made about it (intentionally or not; awfully weird to land at my company's name) was personal and scurrilous.
Your call! I'm moving on.
I emailed you about two hours ago based on the last email exchange we had, about 7 years ago. I included the email addresses I had for you at the time, which included Matasano. Presumably this is why someone mentioned it in a comment to you.
did you get my email?
refulgentis mentioned your fly.io article as evidence that the "AI" science is settled.
I remembered quite a bit of a blowback and unfortunately saw the Mataroa article last week. It contains a reference to Matasano; I didn't look closely at the URL and mentally classified Matasano as a classic informal hacker company with extreme free speech blogs, where you could criticize the founder with a typical hyperbolic article.
That is all there is to it.
I assumed based on your post and the post you replied to that it is literally impossible to prove any AI is involved, and I trust both of you on that.
Given that, I'm afraid all the interlocution I have to offer is the thing you commented on, the mind of a downvoter, i.e. positing that every downvoter must have details, including details we[1] can't find.
Past that, I'm afraid to admit I am having difficulty understanding how the slides are related, and I don't even know what Matasano is -- is that who owns fly.io? I thought they were "indie" -- I'm embarrassed to admit I thought Monsanto at first. I do know how much I've used AI to code, so I can vouch for tptacek's post.
[1] royal we, i.e. I trust you and OP so completely on what it findable vs. not findable that I trust we can't establish with 100% certainty any sort of AI-based thingy was used at all. To be clear, too, 100% is always too high of a bar, I mean to say we can even't establish at 90% confidence. Even 1% confidence. If all we have is their word to go on, it's impossible.
What does "even at Matasano" mean? Matasano hasn't existed for over 12 years.