[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago

The machine I love can't be dumb, I love the machine and I can't love what is dumb.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago

I'm sure the man who sleeps with his secretaries on company time has great ideas on how much time I should be in the office.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
  1. My big robot is really expensive to build.

  2. If big robot parts become cheaper, I will declare that the big robot must be bigger, lest somebody poorer than me also build a big robot.

  3. My robot must be made or else I won't be able to show off the biggest, most expensive big robot.

QED, I deserve more money to build the big robot.

P.S. And for the naysayers, just remember that that robot will be so big that your critiques won't apply to it, as it is too big.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago

I must've read the words "Jevon's Paradox" a hundred times today, I didn't realize that many people had their livelihood predicated on NVidia going to the moon forevermore.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago

The conspiracy theorist who lives in my brain wants to say its intentional to make us more open to blatant cheating as something that's just a "cost of doing business." (I swear I saw this phrase a half dozen times in the orange site thread about this)

The earnest part of me tells me no, these guys are just clowns, but I dunno, they can't all be this dumb right?

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago

Meta's happy to give away models for free, so models are evidently worth $0.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're correct that I can't stop them from making pants on head stupid decisions, but I'm not going to stop making fun of them.

very likely making it economically viable…

They're going to fund currently economically nonviable nuclear plants to power their currently economically nonviable genAI schemes? Over the time horizon of ~~25 years~~ a decade (edit: misread the article) before they scale up energy capacity at all past the rnd stage? Maybe pants on head is too generous.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly, its a natural conclusion of accepting commodification as the One True Path. Words don't mean anything if they don't make a profit, and clearly you're a bozo who can't Make It (and the bar of Making It is always rising because Number Go Up), so you should join the borg and let my buddy Claude speak for you.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

This is 10000 words to promote being a garbage person, what the fuck.

When the average rationalist screed looks like this, I assume the reason they're so absolutist for freedom of speech is because they never actually read each other's speech.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

Wait, the thin frames in the first picture are the "sound barrier". Good lord.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631663

Orange site post with a bunch of people saying burnout is a learning experience and that its okay to be perpetually depressed because it makes you more disruptive.

I don't have anything clever to say about this.

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