V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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today I learnt that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you shoveling hot shit into your mouth. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles

No it doesn't though. Like it literally doesn't. Who says it does? Proton isn't even publicly listed so there's literally no reason for that.

This is just a con by Big Growth to sell more charts with lines going up.

How hard is it to actually have a company that provides a useful product and doesn't veer off into insanity at the first possible occasion. Why does it always end up like this.

I think you're severely overestimating how much the bigwigs even think about this. You're assuming they have some connection to what these tools do and how employees use them, or even that they understand what is entailed in the work their employees do.

It's shiny, "everyone" says you can just fire 30% of your workforce if you "go AI", so you tell one of your subordinates to "go AI" and the HR to reduce the workforce by 30%, and then go golfing. Maybe think to yourself how much time you saved at having those two emails get autogenerated instead of having to vomit your usual word salad about "synergy" and "opportunity", and "digital transformation" or whatever.

Eliezer is nearly incapable of writing characters that people actually dislike

Wait wasn't the whole point of Harry that he was an insufferable know-it-all who fails to say Hermione because of how insufferable he is?

That wasn't even subtext, that was the text

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So there are some positive downstream effects of this entire bubble, huh. Didn't have this in my predictions.

Likewise, flipped-number ("little endian") algorithms are slightly more efficient at e.g. long addition.

What? What are you talking about? Citation? Efficient wrt. what? Microbenchmarks? It's certainly not actual computational complexity. Do you think going forward in an array is different computationally from going backward?

Buddha, just seconds before enlightenment:

-you know what actually fuck those guys heavenly light

(in the objective sense that his comments score very highly on the toxic-bert scoring system)

That's an ML model. Like I searched and toxic-bert is just a github repo.

"objective" go fuck a cow

Feels like overlooking the same issue as with every other AI use

When a human makes a mistake and is called out, they can usually fix the mistake. When genAI outputs nonsense, it's fucking nonsense, you can't fix something that's fundamentally made up, and if you try to "ask it" to fix it it'll just respond with more nonsense. I hallucinated this case? Certainly! Here's 3 other cases you could cite instead: 3 new made up cases

I expect the last step in that is you slapping him?

The billionaire initiation ritual is that scene from Kingsman where

It's extremely annoying everywhere. GitHub's updates were about AI for so fucking long that I stopped reading them, which means I now miss actually useful stuff until someone informs me of it months later.

For example, did you know GitHub Actions now has really good free ARM runners? It's amazing! I love it! Shame GitHub only bother's to tell me about their revolutionary features of "please spam me with useless PRs" and... make a pong game? What? Why would I want this?

I wanna be software The best design Infinite princess Computer mind

Substituting this for the text whenever I see Sammy Boy say something again

hot AI girls are on track to remove a lot of men from the mating pool.

Wasn't the "problem" that there's too many men in the mating pool and women are "alphamaxxing" or whatever the fuck to get the highest quality dick? Shouldn't this be a good thing for incels like Hanania.

Missed opportunity to call it "Live Free or Fail Hard"

This is such a wild example to me because sitting at beach is extremely boring and takes forever whereas doing calculus is at least engaging so time flies reasonably quick.

Like when I think what takes the longest in my life I don't think "those times when I'm actively solving problems", I think "those times I sit in a waiting room at the doctors with nothing to do" or "commuting, ditto".

That's wrong on both counts.

The complaints about NFTs were also that they were unethical - consumed a shitton of electricity for no reason, sustained themselves mostly by scams and rugpulls. The chief use case of crypto has always been crime and money laundering.

The complaints about AI are that it fucking sucks and results in a truly insane waste of resources towards something that doesn't solve literally any problems, like NFTs squared. The unethical aspect of it all is just a cherry on top that makes using LLMs a no-go even if it happened to kinda work for your problem.

I’m not surprised by the results, but it’s hardly a fair assessment of the usefulness of AI.

It's a more than fair assessment of the claims of usefulness of AI which are more or less "fire all your devs this machine is better than them already"