V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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This is a bundle which originated out of anti-Calvinist polemics written by Catholic and royalist Anglican writers during the early modern period, was picked up by 19th century romantic reactionaries to build the foundation of the emerging Counter-Enlightenment, got carried into the 20th century by various counter-modern literary movements seeking a third way against both capitalism and socialism which could justify the continuing relevance of the traditional humanistic disciplines against the new challenge of the social and psychological sciences, transitioned from being primarily of the political right to the political left because of the ideological aftermaths of WW2 and 1968, and took on its modern form in environmental and anti-globalization activism in the 90s

Parkour! So nazis weren't left-wing but they switched after the war, brilliant.

It is the actual source of the post-60s ideological transformation against the ideas of rationality, science, objectivity, and progress on the left

Pfffffff, lol, what? xD Ye, the left, famously anti-science, unlike the rational thinkers that reside in the White House right now

Relational

As in a database? What?

Autodidact, Polymath

Why did you skip the funniest part?

Can anyone explain to me why tf do promptfondlers hate GPT5 in non-crazy terms? Actually I have a whole list of questions related to this, I feel like I completely lost any connection to this discourse at this point:

1. Is GPT5 "worse" in any sensible definition of the word? I've long complained that there is no good scientific metric to grade those on but like, it can count 'r's in "strawberry" so I thought it's supposed to be nominally better?
2. Why doesn't OpenAI simply allow users to use the old model (4o I think?) It sounds like the simplest thing to do.
3. Do we know if OpenAI actually changed something? Is the model different in any interesting way?
4. Bonus question: what the fuck is wrong with OpenAI's naming scheme? 4, then 4o? And there's also o4 that's something else??

I hate the fact that now someone might look at me and surmise that I do something related to blockchain or AI, I feel almost like I need a sticker, like those "I bought it before we knew Elon was crazy" they put on Teslas

"I learnt to code before this stupid bubble"

The worst are slop-generated recipes that you only realise are fake halfway through reading when they tell you to add half a cup of table salt to your cake batter

today I learnt that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you shoveling hot shit into your mouth. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles

No it doesn't though. Like it literally doesn't. Who says it does? Proton isn't even publicly listed so there's literally no reason for that.

This is just a con by Big Growth to sell more charts with lines going up.

How hard is it to actually have a company that provides a useful product and doesn't veer off into insanity at the first possible occasion. Why does it always end up like this.

I think you're severely overestimating how much the bigwigs even think about this. You're assuming they have some connection to what these tools do and how employees use them, or even that they understand what is entailed in the work their employees do.

It's shiny, "everyone" says you can just fire 30% of your workforce if you "go AI", so you tell one of your subordinates to "go AI" and the HR to reduce the workforce by 30%, and then go golfing. Maybe think to yourself how much time you saved at having those two emails get autogenerated instead of having to vomit your usual word salad about "synergy" and "opportunity", and "digital transformation" or whatever.

Eliezer is nearly incapable of writing characters that people actually dislike

Wait wasn't the whole point of Harry that he was an insufferable know-it-all who fails to say Hermione because of how insufferable he is?

That wasn't even subtext, that was the text

💀

So there are some positive downstream effects of this entire bubble, huh. Didn't have this in my predictions.

Likewise, flipped-number ("little endian") algorithms are slightly more efficient at e.g. long addition.

What? What are you talking about? Citation? Efficient wrt. what? Microbenchmarks? It's certainly not actual computational complexity. Do you think going forward in an array is different computationally from going backward?

Buddha, just seconds before enlightenment:

-you know what actually fuck those guys heavenly light

(in the objective sense that his comments score very highly on the toxic-bert scoring system)

That's an ML model. Like I searched and toxic-bert is just a github repo.

"objective" go fuck a cow

Feels like overlooking the same issue as with every other AI use

When a human makes a mistake and is called out, they can usually fix the mistake. When genAI outputs nonsense, it's fucking nonsense, you can't fix something that's fundamentally made up, and if you try to "ask it" to fix it it'll just respond with more nonsense. I hallucinated this case? Certainly! Here's 3 other cases you could cite instead: 3 new made up cases

I expect the last step in that is you slapping him?

The billionaire initiation ritual is that scene from Kingsman where

It's extremely annoying everywhere. GitHub's updates were about AI for so fucking long that I stopped reading them, which means I now miss actually useful stuff until someone informs me of it months later.

For example, did you know GitHub Actions now has really good free ARM runners? It's amazing! I love it! Shame GitHub only bother's to tell me about their revolutionary features of "please spam me with useless PRs" and... make a pong game? What? Why would I want this?