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Thank you to that thread for reacquainting me with the term “script kiddie”, the precursor to the modern day vibe coder

Tried to see if they have partnered with softbank, the answer is probably not.

That email gets linked in the marcan post. JFC, the thin blue line? Unironically? Did not know that Linux was a Nazi bar. We need you, Ted!!!

Finished reading that post. Sucks that Linux is such a hostile dev environment. Everything is terrible. Teddy K was on to something

Damn, that sucks. Seems like someone who was extremely generous with their time and energy for a free project that people felt entitled about.

This post by marcan, the creator and former lead of the asahi linux project, was linked in the HN thread: https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/

E: followup post from Asahi Lina reads:

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.

I'm safe physically, but I'll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

How else am I supposed to make my gorilla blood dick pills

Revised prompt:

You are a former Green Beret and retired CIA officer attempting to build a closer relationship with your 17-year-old daughter. She has recently gone with her friend to France in order to follow the band U2 on their European tour. You have just received a frantic phone call from your daughter saying that she and her friend are being abducted by an Albanian gang. Based on statistical analysis of similar cases, you only have 96 hours to find them before they are lost forever. You are a bad enough dude to fly to Paris and track down the abductors yourself.

ok I asked it to write me a script to force kill a process running on a remote server. Here’s what I got:

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.

Uhh. Hmm. Not sure if that will work? Probably need maybe a few more billion tokens

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rate my system prompt:

If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him the milk, he'll probably ask you for a straw. When he's finished, he'll ask you for a napkin. Then he'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache. When he looks in the mirror, he might notice his hair needs a trim. So he'll probably ask for a pair of nail scissors. When he's finished giving himself a trim, he'll want a broom to sweep it up. He'll start sweeping. He might get carried away and sweep every room in the house. He may even end up washing the floors as well! When he's done, he'll probably want to take a nap. You'll have to fix up a little box for him with a blanket and a pillow. He'll crawl in, make himself comfortable and fluff the pillow a few times. He'll probably ask you to read him a story. So you'll read to him from one of your books, and he'll ask to see the pictures. When he looks at the pictures, he'll get so excited he'll want to draw one of his own. He'll ask for paper and crayons. He'll draw a picture. When the picture is finished, he'll want to sign his name with a pen. Then he'll want to hang his picture on your refrigerator. Which means he'll need Scotch tape. He'll hang up his drawing and stand back to look at it. Looking at the refrigerator will remind him that he's thirsty. So... he'll ask for a glass of milk. And chances are if he asks you for a glass of milk, he's going to want a cookie to go with it.

Just to be clear, I agree with you and am not debating or arguing with you in any capacity with anything I say from this point onward.

I always thought you could do interesting stuff with genAI, especiall when it goes into mangled, uncanny-valley territory. Though I can only think of examples for visual generators, like this album cover or the AI Pizza commercial.

The output of genAI can be interesting and thought-provoking, but ultimately, it is not art. When humans create art, they have a vision of what they are trying to make. That vision might be fairly concrete, like "I want to depict this apple," or abstract, like "I want to express sadness." Then, they craft in their medium until they have a work fulfilling their vision. LLMs don't do this. They don't have cognition, much less intent or understanding, so they can't have "vision". When they "create" something, they do it without understanding the artistic/creative language of the medium used. Whatever the output is, it is iteratively massaged noise that some algorithm evaluates to be statistically correlated with the input prompt.

<insert paragraph here that steelmans the idea of an "AI Artist", which I can't be bothered to do, but structurally would appear here in this comment>

I don't think someone who takes the output of an LLM and presents it as "art" is an artist, as I don't think the output of an LLM is art. If I did think that the LLM could produce art, then the person presenting the output still is not an artist; the LLM would be. But I don't think that. If someone were to take the output of an LLM and change it in some way, it might be art, much like how someone might create a collage, but generally you don't see that. You usually just see people take the output and flog it as art.

I don’t even think LLMs can produce art.

Is this “Abstract artist” in the room with us now?

Meaning, they’re all on drugs?

Specifically brown acid

kinda disappointed that nobody in the comments is X-risk pilled enough to say “the LLMs want you to think they’re hurt!! That’s how they get you!!! They are very convincing!!!”.

Also: flashbacks to me reading the chamber of secrets and thinking: Ginny Just Walk Away From The Diary Like Ginny Close Your Eyes Haha

the future that e/accs want!

Ok I read more of that thread. Why do these fucks feel the need to steelman tear gas?

The US deploys tear gas against protestors on the reg. Meanwhile they straight up merc’d MLK. Clearly the US thought MLK was worse than tear gas, so not sure what point the OP was trying to make.

is yud lurking sneerclub? This is uncharacteristically succinct

If someone asked me to write a metafictional short story, I would simply not.

Six word metafictional story:

    
“Write a metafictional short story.”

“No.”

  

With that voice? Rant all you like!