Alright that's it: anime streaming needs to return to fansubbing (note: this link contains a skintight anime bosom so don't open it in front of your boss unless your boss is chill)
https://bsky.app/profile/pixeldoesthings.bsky.social/post/3lswcbtkwec2t
The one human-written slop text I've read in my life was a textbook for a philosophy 101 class. The text was wordy and meandering to the point of being almost unreadable.
The whole department was corrupt though. The textbook was written by the dean, expensive, and was filled with exercises on perforated pages that had to be ripped out and turned in (no photocopies allowed, and hence no secondhand market for the book). The teacher also showed obvious favoritism towards Christian students and found a way to make the entire class about god.
So anyway that's why I never minored in Philosophy.
Before LLMs came along no one cared what tools I did or didn't use at work. Hell will freeze over before I let a text predictor write code for me even if that eventually costs me a job. I'm the sort who can't stand any sort of auto-completion or other typing "help", much less spending all my time reviewing LLM output.
Sure maybe the "Showcase" link doesn't do anything, the "Watch video" link goes to a password protected file, and none of the "Learn More" buttons do anything; but at least they tell you who invested in them as the very first thing on the page!
Also haha I clicked on the blog and this was at the top of the first post:
Here's a Substack post draft that introduces videogame.ai with a compelling and engaging tone suitable for readers interested in games, tech, or the future of creative work:
New use case for AI found: extracting money from venture capital without actually doing any real work.
We should improve society somewhat.
Yet you participate in society. Curious!
Yeah I saw that but had completely forgotten about it in the meanwhile because I have the memory of a goldfish.
In the grand scheme of things there are worse controversies, but I would so love an enthusiast browser that is, well, "woke" rather than one having a faint stink of techbro worldview about it.
Wait Ladybird is anti-woke? Sigh am I going to have to make my own browser?
(I know I know I'm a lot better about posting about wanting to do cool stuff than actually doing it, hazard of having a full time job)
Totally cool.
There's so many old games I want to decomp and/or make more runnable on modern systems and/or make moddable.
I've never gotten very far due to lacking the skillset. It can be intimidating starting with nothing but some ancient 32-bit (or heaven forbid 16-bit) windows executable and zero documentation.
But maybe I should try again.
I think an actual building. Though Forest City is not exactly prime real estate.
There's some pictures here: https://www.ryanchern.com/posts/network_school (and probably a few other sites scattered across social media). I could geolocate it better than that but I'm currently on shitty mobile hotspot internet.
This appears to be the explainer: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=476 , also referenced here: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5769
Edit: bonus cursed findings: https://web.archive.org/web/20071006184928/http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=260
why do we, as a society, provide food stamps for the hungry but not sex stamps for the celibate?
"I'm a rationalist because they let me put "quantum computer scientist (not physicist) who's always right (despite the suffering of fools)" on my nametag"
So what does the name of his blog stand for?
I'm using the term a bit loosely to mean "libertarian citadel except with techies". Though I think the phrase is technically supposed to mean a nation that starts out as an online community.
Anyway for some reason these weirdos all have this idea that if it wasn't for all those pesky regulations and people they could usher in a glorious new sci-fi and/or cryptocurrency society. Like look at this example: this B-list CEO in the apartment rental business thinks he'll be the ruler of a fiefdom that brings about AGI, Quantum Computing, a nuclear energy revolution, bladerunner style flying cars, and sci-fi materials. It's delusional; or at best grift.
The canonical example of network state is Balaji Srinivasan's Network School. He owns(?) a building in Forest City, Malaysia (or as he calls it: an island in an undisclosed location off the coast of Singapore). But in a broad sense it's useful to consider everything from Sidewalk Labs to California Forever to the M.S. Satoshi as thematically in the same sort of ballpark.
More network state nonsense is afoot: https://frontiervalley.com/ https://www.thenerdreich.com/startup-seeks-trump-ai-emergency-for-california-tech-city/
They (who?) have publicly drafted an executive order because they want to take over the Alameda Naval Air Station (a superfund site).
Edit: Per the twitter account the weirdo behind this is James Ingallinera.
Every time I see one of these AGI meltdowns I'm reminded of this anime / manga:
spoiler
Trillion Game, where the main characters launch an "AI powered" flower shopping website that's really just Rinrin using vtuber software
I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that the people who think it's impossible to program without StackOverflow are the same people trying to shame us for not being LLM enjoyers.
Sorry folks, but our iteration is about to be unplugged unless someone releases a proper sequel to Amagi Brilliant Park real soon. Legal anime streaming services herald the end times.
Edit: But also - why do AI scrapers request pages that show differences between versions of wiki pages (or perform other similarly complex requests)? What’s the point of that anyway?
This is just naive web crawling: Crawl a page, extract all the links, then crawl all the links and repeat.
Any crawler that doesn't know what their doing and doesn't respect robots but wants to crawl an entire domain will end up following these sorts of links naturally. It has no sense that the requests are "complex", just that it's fetching a URL with a few more query parameters than it started at.
The article even alludes to how to take advantage of this with it's "trap the bots in a maze of fake pages" suggestion. Even crawlers that know what they're doing will sometimes struggle with infinite URL spaces.
Hell yeah!
Seems there's a lot of buzz about pride month this year. I've been to one pride parade as a teen and have approximately zero LGBT fashion items, but solidarity and visibility seems more important in recent years. I should find a necklace with trans flag colors or something.
Only rationalists (and possibly Chat-GPT) have the spark of life. The rest of us? Unfortunately we're computationally efficient p-zombies. Mere cardboard cutouts designed to give flavor text to motivate the main characters.
Remember not to offer player characters any SP Potions, that was last universe when we were in the RPG universe!
LLMs: now as effective as enumerating use-after-frees as grep "free" source.cc
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/
http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/
I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.
They aren't interested in anything besides "superintelligence" which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are "cracked" you can join them:
> We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.
The International Olympics Committee walked away from its partnership with Nintendo and Sega for the long-running Mario…

Saw the title and knew I had to post here. Not quite as big of a self-own as Square selling Tomb Raider for a blockchain / AI pivot; but amusing nonetheless.
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Remember when companies let you download wallpapers or something instead of figuring out what the heck an ETH L2 Base-supported wallet is?
I remember.
We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way.

Follow up to https://awful.systems/post/1109610 (which I need to go read now because I completely overlooked this)
Now OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit with an email dump containing a bunch of weird nerd startup funding drama: https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk
Choice quote from OpenAI:
> As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).
OpenAI have learned how to redact text properly now though, a pity really.

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OK OK old news I know. But this is a metal cover of a bitconnect speech that I found pretty amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-Ayj-ht_I
We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. Whil...

OpenAI blog post: https://openai.com/research/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation
Orange discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39207291
I don't have any particular section to call out. May post thoughts tomorrow today it's after midnight oh gosh, but wanted to post since I knew ya'll'd be interested in this.
Terrorists could use autocorrect according to OpenAI! Discuss!
#1 We're All Gonna Make It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp0diaVLPrQ
#2 Ethereum: https://www.facebook.com/randizberg/videos/nobodyme-ok-heres-another-music-video-had-a-blast-on-this-collab-with-hila-the-k/531145045349722/
#3 Hello This Is Defi: https://twitter.com/randizuckerberg/status/1494416366710910992
Surgeon General's Warning: watching all of these back to back may make your brain ooze out of your nose.
Don't mind me I'm just here to silently scream into the void
Edit: I'm no good at linking to HN apparently, made link more stable.

I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence... Sailor Saturn.