This almost reads like tptacek doesn't understand why lucidity's piece a year ago was so effective and tried to write it from the opposite angle by punching down instead of punching up.

I'd have thought that a guy who writes on the internet like it's a competition sport could recognize the obvious problems of this, but maybe I'm just a vibe coding Youtuber.

Being the worst and the biggest studios aren't unrelated concepts, they're the biggest because they're the worst.

I don't get it, how is every one of the most touted people in the AI space among the least credible people in the industry.

Like literally every time its a person whose name I recognize from something else they've done, that something else is something I hate.

Reminds me something F.D. Signifier said on a music podcast.

Progressives are losing the cultural war in a lot of ways, but they'll always need us because we're the ones pushing the boundaries on art, and it turns out, no matter how ghoulish people want to act, everyone has genuine love of fucking awesome art. The true loss condition is being captured by the tools of the master.

Listen, I'm just saying that this never would've happened with hg.

If you're referring to genetic algorithms, those work by giving the computer some type of target to gun for that's easy to measure and then letting the computer go loose with randomly changing bits from the original object. I guess in your mind, that'd be randomly evolving the codebase and then submitting the best version.

There's a lot of problems with the idea of genetic codebase that I'm sure you can figure out on your own, but I'll give you one for free: "better code" is a very hard thing for computers to measure.

This was a year before the stuff with the Zizians happened too.

Hey that's unfair, us North Americans are as normal about bikes as we're normal about cars.

At first I was skeptical of the guy who told me, but they seemed rich and therefore trustworthy.

I don't want to see grummz anywhere near AI ERP discourse.

I'm just glad all my friends are such smart rational independent thinkers that we've all independently come to the same conclusion that the status quo is perfect!

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

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/50 and of course we already have chatgptfriends on the case of stopping the mean programmer from doing something the Machine doesn't like. This person doesn't even seem to understand what anubis does, but they certainly seem confident chatgpt can tell him.

Posting cringe, even intentionally, has little artistry.

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.

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.

There are companies doing "cool-sounding" things with AI like Waymo. "Good" would require more definition.

If they can convince the money hose that they just need one more OOM of compute bro, they can keep vacuuming infinity dollars. The incentive is obviously there for any amount of lying, but at some point, I assume even the most braindead investors will start asking around if this really is the only game in town.

Or maybe they won't, which would be an admission against the core tenet of capitalism, but this has been a crazy year, and it's only january. :/

https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/ And the companion piece on his blog.

What I didn't wager was that, potentially, nobody was trying. My mistake was — if you can believe this — being too generous to the AI companies, assuming that they didn’t pursue efficiency because they couldn’t, and not because they couldn’t be bothered.

This isn't about China — it's so much fucking easier if we let it be about China — it's about how the American tech industry is incurious, lazy, entitled, directionless and irresponsible. OpenAi and Anthropic are the antithesis of Silicon Valley. They are incumbents, public companies wearing startup suits, unwilling to take on real challenges, more focused on optics and marketing than they are on solving problems, even the problems that they themselves created with their large language models.

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.