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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 18 points 4 days ago

Baldur Bjarnason has given his thoughts:

I mean… yeah.

Also, between this and seeing tech types link glowingly to a crazypants “colonise the light cone by exploring latent space” type of delusional bullshit and I’m staring to worry that computers, as a concept, might not be salvageable after these clowns have run the show into the ground

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

colonise the light cone by exploring latent space

Can someone explain what this is referring to? I don't understand it.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

(related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is"

like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?

[-] dshan@mastodon.au 6 points 4 days ago

@BlueMonday1984 I never thought I'd say this but, bring back Clippy!

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

Whilst we're at it, bring back Tamagotchi - they don't ruin the planet, and also they're cute

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago
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