[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

I mean it's presumably still standing, just with a slightly cheaper set of owners ;)

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.

So more "hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise" rather than "we used LLMs to develop"

OTOH "these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them" is a bit of a weird sell

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

"[a] cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction"

I mean, that could be anyone.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

slop "fact checking" is coming to LW:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/shortform-1?commentId=fE5cg6pmWrChW8Rtu

wonder what model/prompt they will use. Prolly Grok

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

Here's a post purporting to be from the bot's operator

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html

choice quote

Yes, it consumes maintainer time. Yes, it may waste effort. But maybe its worth it?

AI boosterism in a nutshell

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055424

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

more proof that crypto scammers have metastasized to AI scammers

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

I believe it's the evil megacorp in Bladerunner

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We have reached the era of late-stage capitalism where there's not one but multiple "wealth management stocks"

Also not sure why one trucking "company"[1] reporting success would sink all the others. Surely if they could replicate just a fraction of this company's results, they would become massively more productive, and thus profitable.

Traders are dumb.


[1] gotta say though, "Algorythm" is a great name for an ex-karaoke company.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

Again, the lobsters in Accelerando are the bad guys. They traffic in conciousness, the less uploaded the better. Don't make your social network emulate them.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago

Last megathread I posted about some LWer writing about "demographic collapse" in Japan (indistinguishable from anyone with any ambition leaving for greener pastures). I've read the comments to see if there's any pushback, and found this absolute doozy

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse?view=postCommentsNew&commentId=Gbfu5BGaZMwXFey7h

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

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“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas, hmmmmmm??????

Maybe it's just my newness antennae needing calibrating, but I do feel the extreme energy requirements for what's arguably just a frivolous toy is gonna cause AI boosters big problems, especially as energy demands ramp up in the US in the warmer months. Expect the narrative to adjust to counter it.

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