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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time

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  • I didn’t really know what they wanted in part 2, so…

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

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    • what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)

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  • One too many poop pills

    • the dead end grift that is lab grown meat

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  • "I'm going to double down on not reading this article herpa derpa gerpa poop" that's you. Please fuck off

    • Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time

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    • Are we going to see prediction markets enter mainstream journalism? Taylor Lorenz says yes

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  • FWIW, I read this somewhat charitably: I didn't read this article as "I want there to be prediction markets in journalism" as much as "The right-wing fuckos are very into this shit, so expect for it to froth up out of the sewers in 2025." That being said, as discussed elsewhere, many of the finer points are questionable.

    N.B: I am not aware of Lorenz's shit opinions.

    • the dead end grift that is lab grown meat

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  • Techbros: “I’m hungry for that Lab Grown Meat!”

    Labs:

    • SF tech startup Scale AI, worth $13.8B, accused of widespread wage theft

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  • It's probably worth 14B in the way a fire that you feed 14B of cash into is worth 14B

    • Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time

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  • Day 13, day 13 of shirking other responsibilities.

    • Are we going to see prediction markets enter mainstream journalism? Taylor Lorenz says yes

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  • Oh yeah, haha. I often face the dilemma dilemma in which I have to choose between ignoring the 'incorrect" usage (i.e. not a choice between two things that are difficult to choose between) and seethe OR mention the correct usage and look like a pedant. Sometimes it's a trilemma, and I'm all over the shop. But more seriously, I usually let it slide and let people use it to mean "a situation".

    I doubt that Lorenz has a dilemma in line with the correct usage. I couldn't fight the urge to steelman, spoilered below, which I suspect this is nothing near what Lorenz had in mind. ::: spoiler exhausting Steelman within. I only tried to come up with something, it's not a good steelman. I'm so sorry about this. In the world that Lorenz posits, where prediction markets somehow represent accurate news reporting, either a journalist participates in the market whilst reporting news (conflict of interest), or they don't, and they are bad at their job (and not performing at your job is unethical, I guess?) :::

    • Are we going to see prediction markets enter mainstream journalism? Taylor Lorenz says yes

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  • sorry, what exactly is the dilemma here? how is it an ethical dilemma to have an unethical way to make money?

    I'm guessing what's being said is that in this fictional scenario with an ethically neutral prediction market, you could do insider trading but with fake news? Like, you predict that they will find cheese on the moon, and then you make a story about cheese on the moon.

    Either way, it is a moot point since prediction markets are bunk, ethically or otherwise.

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  • Nah my neighbour, Steve Tesla. He’s real smart. Found a way to get free cable

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

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  • This is great. The “diaspora” framing makes me want there to be an NPR style public interest story about all this. The emotional core would be about trying to find a place to belong and being betrayed by the people you thought could be your friends, or something.

    • EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.

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  • It’s my pleasure!

    • the dead end grift that is lab grown meat

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  • That’s the power of not saying anything interesting, you can’t contradict it

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  • We’ve actually already done that. KFC can’t legally call itself kentucky fried chicken anymore because they don’t serve “chicken”. Instead it’s a GMO non-chicken animal that fits all the criteria you mentioned. Open your third eye

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  • tired: lab grown meat

    wired: worm filet mignon

    hired: eat the rich

    • "Defining AI"

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  • Ah yeah the folding mechanism which just appeared one day out of nowhere, invented by nobody for no reason.

    • "Defining AI"

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  • I’ve said what I said came here to say. Meanwhile, you haven’t said anything at all.

    • "Defining AI"

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  • AI is a garbage generating plagiarism machine. It’s not political

    Yes. Think about what it is plagiarising. Datasets are biased; this is like statistics/ML 101.

    outside of a single country where everything has to look political to prevent people from voting independent,

    You can just say the country, and also, this doesn't really make any sense. Am I to infer that, if things weren't political, people would vote (a famously political action) for independents?

    and the only regulation AI ever needs is one declaring all it produces a derivative work of all the material it used for learning.

    I'm pretty sure there's a lot more wrong with LLMs than just plagiarism.

    Any attempts to ascribe further properties to that remixing machines are just natural intelligence equivalent of slop.

    I'm not 100% sure what you mean here.