V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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Where's that person who was arguing with me last time that AI doesn't actually use that much energy and the corps missing their climate goals was not AI related

I got this AMAZING OPPORTUNITY in my inbox, because once your email appears on a single published paper you're forever doomed to garbage like this (transcript at the end):

Highlights:

• Addresses me as Dr. I'm not a doctor. I checked, and apparently Dr. Muhhamad Imran Qureshi indeed has a PhD and is a lecturer at Teesside University International Business School (link to profile). His recent papers include a bunch of blockchain bullshit. Tesside University appears to be a legit UK university, although I'm not sure how legit the Business School is (or how legit any Business School can be, really).
• Tells us their research is so shit that using wisdom woodchippers actually increases their accuracy.
• One of the features is "publication support", so this might be one of those scams where you pay an exorbitant fee to get "published" in some sketchy non-peer-reviewed journal.
• One of the covered AI tools is Microsoft Excel. If you were wondering if "AI" had any meaning.
• Also, by god, are there so many different ChatGPT clones now? I haven't heard most of those names. I kinda hope they're as AI as Excel is.

I'm not sure which would be worse, this being a scam, or them legit thinking this brings value to the world and believing they're helping anyone.

I need a dummy's guide to this entire thing, yesterday I didn't know about Mullenweg's existence and today I learn wordpress is suing wordpress for not being legit wordpress or something

Wait, did OpenAI claim somewhere they will "solve language"?

Thank you for the Dasani video, fucking amazing.

What the hell does "spunk" mean in the US??

dipshit who was massively involved in “solving language”

"In the what now?", he said, voice trembling with a mixture of horror and excitement

The only one I'm aware of is the ages old "chess is too simple" and I feel like that one was stupidity distilled in such a high concentration I don't ever need to hear any of his other opinions on chess, or games in general to be honest.

You know that famous Keynes quote, right. To paraphrase: "the tech sector can remain irrational for longer than the planet can remain habitable".

So this is what he meant when he said "funds are SAFe"

AaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAA!

tangible and lasting benefits for billions of people.

call me when I can actually tange them

David took it as a personal challenge

TSMC was probably right to dismiss Saltman as a loony.

Anyone would be right to dismiss Sammy as a loony for much less.

Shame people rarely do.

“You’re a VP of customer success?” he asked another attendee. “Congratulations on your position that did not exist five years ago!”

Okay what the fuck is a "VP of customer success" though, that's a title so made up money laundering has to be involved, no?

No, a tent is a shelter made out of fabric, you're thinking of Tencent

The alternative was ceding it to the people that are True Belivers iirc? Say what you will about Sammy boi, I'm pretty sure at least he doesn't fucking believe in the lies he says, something that cannot be said about Ilya or some other (former) high profile people there.

Turns out those so called "wallet inspectors" just want your money!

Governor Newsom, are you seeing this?

Congress, are you seeing this?

World, are you seeing this??

These people even take drugs wrong, that's an impressive human experience to fuck up

wallpapers are in a publicly accessible s3 bucket

How are we still doing this, how