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  • It's like a one-and-a-half-page article that also comes in audio and video form, don't be lazy.

  • Oh no, you must have missed the surprise incelism, let me fix that:

    And as the world learned a decade ago, I was able to date, get married, and have a family, only because I finally rejected what I took to be the socially obligatory attitude for male STEM nerds like me—namely, that my heterosexuality was inherently gross, creepy, and problematic, and that I had a moral obligation never to express romantic interest to women.

  • Modern move money between pockets for profit economics seem to give The Hitchhiker's Guide bistromathics a run for their money.

  • I wonder what this means for US GDP

    Don't worry, unchecked inflation and increasing housing costs will keep the GDP propped up at least for a while longer.

  • Zitron taking every opportunity to shit on Scott's AI2027 is kind of cathartic, ngl

  • He has capital L Lawfulness concerns. About the parent and the child being asymmetrically skilled in context engineering. Which apparently is the main reason kids shouldn't trust LLM output.

    Him showing his ass with the memory comment is just a bonus.

  • I feel dumber for having read that, and not in the intellectually humbled way.

  • This hits differently over the recent news that ChatGPT encouraged and aided a teen suicide.

  • Not who you asked, but both python and javascript have code smell as a core language feature and we are stuck with them by accident of history, not because anyone in particular thought it would be such a great idea for them to overshoot their original purpose to such a comical degree.

    Also there's a long history of languages meant to be used as an introduction to coding being spun off into ridiculously verbose enterprise equivalents that then everyone had to deal with (see delphi and visual basic) so there's certainly a case for refusing to cede any more ground to dollar store editions of useful stuff under the guise of education.

  • AI innovation in this space usually means automatically adding stuff to the model's context.

    It probably started meaning the (failed) build output got added in every iteration, but it's entirely possible to feed the LLM debugger data from a runtime crash and hope something usable happens.

  • When I was at computer toucher school at about the start of the century, under the moniker AI were taught (I think) fuzzy logic, incremental optimization and graph algorithms, and neural networks.

    AI is a sci-fi trope far more than it ever was a well-defined research topic.

  • Anyone who said this about their product would almost certainly by lying, but these guys are extra lying.

    For sure, blockchain based agentic LLM that learns as it goes is sounds like someone describing a flying elephant wearing an inflatable life jacket.

  • Nobody's using datasets made of copyrighted literature and 4chan to teach robots how to move, what are you even on about.

  • Risk checks for financial services: $1M saved annually on outsourced risk management

    Since I doubt they had time to use the tools for a full year, this is probably just the month they saved ~85K$ from firing/ending partnership with humans involved in risk assessment multiplied by twelve.

    In the long run I'm betting that exclusively using software that not only can't do basic math but actually treats numbers as words for risk assessment isn't going to be a net positive for their bottom line, especially if it their customers also get it in their heads that they could ditch the middleman and directly use a chatbot themselves.

  • That's about what I was thinking, I'm completely ok with the weird rpg aspect.

    Regarding the second and third point though I'll admit I thought the whole thing was just yud indulging, I missed that it's also explicitly meant as rationalist esoterica.

  • SneerClub @awful.systems

    Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformation

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    "If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altman

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

    NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    New article from reflective altruism guy starring Scott Alexander and the Biodiversity Brigade

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    It can't be that the bullshit machine doesn't know 2023 from 2024, you must be organizing your data wrong (wsj)

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Generating (often non-con) porn is the new crypto mining

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    SBF's effective altruism and rationalism considered an aggravating circumstance in sentencing

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    Rationalist org bets random substack poster $100K that he can't disprove their covid lab leak hypothesis, you'll never guess what happens next

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    Hi, I'm Scott Alexander and I will now explain why every disease is in fact just poor genetics by using play-doh statistics to sorta refute a super specific point about schizophrenia heritability.

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    Reply guy EY attempts incredibly convoluted offer to meet him half-way by implying AI body pillows are a vanguard threat that will lead to human extinction...

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    Existential Comics on rationalism and parmesan

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk.

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    Rationalist literary criticism by SBF, found on the birdsite