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See, I feel like the Democrats have had a pretty strong technocrat wing that is much more in synch with Neoreaction than people care to acknowledge. As the right shifts towards pursuing the pro-racist anti-women anti-lgbt aspects of their agenda through the courts rather than the ballot box, it seems like the fault lines between the technocratic fascists and the theocratic fascists are thinner than the lines between the techfash and the progressives.

The active hostility from outside the tech world is going to make this one interesting, since unlike crypto this one seems to have a lot of legitimate energy behind it in the industry even as it becomes increasingly apparent that even if the technical capability was there (e.g. the bullshit problems could be solved by throwing enough compute and data at the existing paradigm, which looks increasingly unlikely) there's no way to do it profitably given the massive costs of training and using these models.

I wonder if we're going to see any attempts to optimize existing models for the orgs that have already integrated them in the same way that caching a web page or indexing a database can increase performance without doing a whole rebuild. Nvidia won't be happy to see the market for GPUs fall off, but OpenAI might have enough users of their existing models that they can keep operating even while dramatically cutting down on new training runs? Does that even make sense, or am I showing my ignorance here?

I think there was a report saying that the most recent quarter still showed a massive infusion of VC cash into the space, but I'm not sure how much of that comes from the fact that a new money sink hasn't yet started trending in the valley. It wouldn't surprise me if the griftier founders were looking to cash out before the bubble properly bursts in order to avoid burning bridges with the investors they'll need to get the next thing rolling.

Pretty sure that's canonically done to "Damn it feels good to be a gangster" and not RATM. Could have been an air conditioner though.

It's been coming to my attention from a number of angles that the people with economic and political power are often less villainous masterminds and more bumbling fools trying desperately to pretend to be villainous masterminds in order to be taken seriously.

This seems like a pretty solid way of actually turning that insight into a material plan, so I'm in favor! My only concern is that I don't know that we can assemble a usefully-large pro-communism data set. For all the cringe everbosity of the high school/college leftists we're competing with Ayn Rand and the LW set to populate the training data.

No, see that would be way cooler than this.

He does mention that you'll need a military to defend your borders, though of course he's more concerned about opportunistic "legacy governments" taking his iceborne super country away from him rather than pirates showing up to fish anything valuable out of the sea as it all predictably and rapidly falls apart.

The idea of this actively chasing decent developers away from the field is honestly scary. On one hand it probably means good job security for my ops-adjacent position since I swear a solid third of the customers I work with are trying to work around some nonsense app design or behavior. On the other hand I loathe those cases and everyone involved seems actively miserable, even compared to the people who are actively on fire.

But just focus on the vibes. This diverse group of young mutants getting an education in the overgrown ruins of this university.

Not sure how it ties into robo-feyman at all but the vibes

No, it wasn't a massive impact by numbers but that superior euro genetics has been floating around waiting to be born like the Kwasitz Haderach.

Look, the spec just said that you should be able to use the app to get a man with a gun to show up and make someone dead, it did not specify what he should be wearing at the time.

I mean, tindr for hitmen would obviously be murdr.

Even Yanukovich had been trying to push for EU membership, AKA the guy who was the target of the so-called coup you're bitching about. He had to shift gears when Putin's attitude changed and he could no longer split the two, but the whole "euro" part of Euro Maidan was about the sudden shift away from the EU.

Nah, the extra absurdity of using Microsoft SAM might unintentionally make something actually funny.

On the other hand, by the time you're spelling billion with a "B" any appreciable fraction of that is still going to be enough money to functionally remove you from the normal economy. Too big to fail in that even if all the bullshit collapses they'd still probably have more money than God.

Is he more divorced than Elon these days? I didn't think that would be possible

Gee, I wonder if there were any major shake-ups in the Ukrainian government circa 2014 that could have explained this change in tune.

Ukraine wasn't able to join NATO because of active territorial disputes regarding Russia's 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea. The 2022 invasion and intervening Russian-backed fighting in Donestk and Luhansk were naked imperial land grabs trying to force Ukraine back into the Russian sphere of influence despite their democratic processes repeatedly trying to move towards the EU.

Or in simpler terms, imperialism is actually still bad when Russia does it and it's weird that you don't seem to understand that.

Just reminds me of this:

https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/06/19/britains-conservatives-are-losing-as-they-governed-meekly

Like, if the current world isn't giving you sufficient free reign to change the world with your money then the problem isn't that you need more freedom the problem is that you keep demanding even more power.

Dumpster Fire Elemental?

C:// Monkey?

NPNC (Nonplayer Noncharacter)

It's weirdly open about its nostalgia for the good old days when you could throw around racial slurs and watch porn at work with no consequences.