He's really sold the bit, hasn't he?
Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as "generic English aristocrat."
People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.
I used to think that comparing LLMs to people was dumb, because LLMs are just feed-forward networks--basically seven bipartite graphs in a trench coat--that are incapable of introspection.
However, I'm coming around to the notion that some of our drive-by visitors have a brain that's seven cells deep.
With all due respect, a counterpoint:
Protip: If you give a hackernews 25 candies, it evolves into a programmingdotdev.
Maybe I'm being too cynical. It wouldn't be the first time this week that someone drew a spooky picture, would it?
Oh no, are you mad at me? (j/k!!)
CRITIHYPE, thank you! I couldn't find the word!
If I had to guess a motive, it would be to bring mirror biology out of the obscurity of pure research (who funds that anymore?) and to instead plant it firmly into the popular zeitgeist as a "scary thing" that needs to be defended against. This can lead to it becoming a trendy topic, and therefore fundable by grant-awarding agencies.
The basement in Caanan House if God were Cajun.
Us ADHD people really have to get our rejection sensitivity under control, I tell ya what.
Casting Harlan Ellison as the Acausal Robot God is just the best.
I read the headline yesterday and thought, "This is 100% fundraising bullshit."
This strikes me as being exact same class of thing OpenAI does when they pronounce that their product will murder us all.
What do we call this? Marketerrorism?
If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?
as someone who grew up in an "old timey" baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.
ain't nobody got time for that
Edit: on reading the newer posts on this thread...oof
Big Yud is the all-time champion of shooting his mouth off from the hip.
BTW, there is evidence emerging that all of this is a downstream consequence of chronic pain from a back injury. As a lifting-things enthusiast who mildly tweaked their back once, whew, I can see this being a thing.
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione
Character dot AI continues to be contemptible.
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/12/10/tech/character-ai-second-youth-safety-lawsuit/index.html
On the flip side, this gives American doctors a new way to explain child birth in terms of hamburgers.
Posted in r/nashville by u/Crafty_Barracuda7720 • 195 points and 55 comments
Looks like a local boy did good.
I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.
I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.
EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive
EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page
Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. The idea of a system that can be an autonomous administration in some areas while operating--possibly legally--in parallel with a nation-state government in others is something I find very appealing.
I'm having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works in detail. I think this is largely due to a language barrier.
Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading for beginners? I've procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it's always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven't had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.
"Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"
John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.
In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.
When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!
(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)
Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:
I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi
"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect
Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:
tldr; got $40k drained just now
i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.
o7___o7 @awful.systems [redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas