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Shumer credits Glaive AI — a company he invested in — for its LLM special cases, like telling which number is bigger or how many times the letter “r” appears in the word “strawberry.” Those are the two examples Shumer named to VentureBeat.

I quite often pondered how cool it'd have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago, you know, one of the pioneers, people on whose shoulders the entire tech sector rests now.

Think about all the advantages! Maybe I'd get to talk to Turing! Maybe I'd invent a foundational algorithm that would be in textbooks forever! Maybe I would've fucking died before this absolute blight on our domain happened!

I got mad at this last time I saw Nate Bronze assign percentages to the 2024 US election.

Like, my dude, what the fuck does that mean? Is the election result a random variable? What is its PDF? What maths could you have possibly done to arrive at a crisp [0, 1] probability value?

How did you go from "predict the future", an obviously wildly fuzzy and inaccurate vibes check, to a concrete real number??

So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?

Seems he resembles RFK Jr. more than a Democrat.

I didn't seek out the video before, I read about all the glaring problems, but one thing that no one pointed out was... why is the entire thing slow motion?

Like, you know Doom? The game where the brisk pace and constant movement are a core part of its DNA? Witness it running at 0.5x speed and like 5FPS in the year of our acausal robot lord 2024.

My trajectory of learning about this Newsom fellow was amazing.

• First heard of him existing when some Very Serious People were floating him as a replacement for Biden like two months ago
  • Infer from that that he's progressive maybe?
• Like right after that a big story how he forcefully cleared homeless encampments like a fucking cartoon villain
  • So he's actually a weird little conservative in disguise?
• Now this fucking nonsense.

How do you keep producing people like this, America?

So the NFT novel is a step up.

BTW 9th of September is not a Sunday lol

Also he's a programmer? You can find a Python job that isn't, you know, this bullshit.

https://xcancel.com/HeyMichaud

This is certainly... something

I always half-ass my captcha and try to pass in as many false answers as possible, because I'm a rebel cunt.

steph also spends 20 minutes calling everyone involved a c*nt

I mean, that's every single episode, really

the whitepaper keeps acting like cooling all this computing shit will be easier in orbit and I feel like that’s very much not the case

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The US famously does not use FPTP for presidential elections, but instead uses an electoral college.

Which is objectively worse, but apparently Yud thinks it's better than FPTP? Since FPTP is "the worst".

in late 18th century France ended the dynasty of their Chief Executive

Famously: below 60% approval!

Hey, we now know that you can even become a VP pick if you grift hard enough, there are real prizes to be won now

(ChatGPT was incapable of understanding the question.)

Love that even the bullshit word salad machine gets confused by Yud's level of bullshit word salad.

Parliamentary Republic is a government system not a electoral system, many such republics do in fact use FPTP.

AT LEAST IT'S A REPUBLIC NOT A, TFU, DEMOCRACY

sorry I just love how those people cannot understand literal primary school level political science

Which just adds to my point that this ordeal with giant graveyards is entirely unnecessary, just do whatever else.

Maybe go back to funeral pyres on boats? That was at least cool.

Can you ‘abuse’ a toaster

Of frakkin' course you can't! They're not human!