Well no more pebkac at least

I don’t know how true this still holds but two years after 9/11 70% of the US thought Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. My guess is that number continues to be higher than 30%.

Zuck the Cuck can’t handle reality and so is pushing lies, as usual.

You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.

The Social Network had it right.

Funny, I’m tired of my civil rights being violated, but I guess the people who don’t give a fuck being tired of hearing about it is more important.

o7

Thank you for your service.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Why are people so fucking trash?

I don’t even smoke or drink and I need a fucking bottle of whiskey and a cigarette.

I fucking knew this story was bullshit, and the scientist emailing a random plebe at Google (like some low level employee would know or be allowed to be honest about AI shitfuckery) all shocked was a joke, too. Pretty disappointed with a scientist feeding into this horseshit.

When it first ran, I posited that if they had emailed their documentation to someone with a Gmail address, it might have been up for grabs for sucking down the maw of Google’s AI monstrosities.

Finally, even when it comes to the “right” answer there is no way to know if it hallucinated it’s way to such an answer! Which makes it getting the “right” answer effectively pointless.

I know we stole all of Bibliotik, a private torrent site for pirated ebooks in the books3 corpus, and that we used that to train our first models… but this is entirely different! This is theft of intellectual property!

-Sam Altman probably.

Narrator: It was not actually different at all.

One becomes a beginner when they can see the thing. You become a novice martial artist when you can differentiate a punch from a person’s arms flailing around.

One becomes an expert when they can define the thing. When they can lock down what a punch is, and can systematically separate it from other things that aren’t it.

One becomes a master when they can intuit the thing. When you can use, identify, and understand the thing no matter what shape or form it takes.

One becomes enlightened when they can apply their specific masteries as generalization. When they have mastered the art of mastery itself.

Thank you for sharing that concept, that’s really good and I will keep that for future reference. It’s a quality way to describe beginner to master and the difference at each stage.

Good thoughts here

doing so would require facing a reality that is too painful to face.

This ties in directly with his belief that we’re all in a simulation but despite that, somehow he is the only “real” person. It’s also why he hides behind plausible deniability for dumb shit like cheating at games. He thinks reality doesn’t matter, which is why he dangles it in everyone’s faces that he’s totally cheating in games and using alts on twitter, but “nyeah nyeah you can’t prove it.” It also lines up with the person he visited with at Auschwitz who stated it’s worse than Musk being a Nazi, he literally just does not care. He was unmoved. He just genuinely thinks he’s the only thing that matters.

The comparisons to Trump are apt. All Musk knows is that as long as he can lie to people he can make money, and he can use that money to obfuscate what he is doing to the courts and make them tied up for years in court to just prove the basics. He thinks none of it matters and is all a joke. He doesn’t understand that other people don’t have the means (nor the desire) to live life the way he does, because he doesn’t understand us as real at all.

His inability to believe anything is real probably is manifesting as some kind of public humiliation fetish where he gets off on people knowing he’s doing it but not being able to prove it. The Nazi salute and jokes are another aspect of this, treating reality as a total false, and treating truth and objectivity as things to be torn down because in his mind: it’s not real so nothing matters.

It’s all fucking solipsism with extra steps and he hasn’t even done the philosophical legwork… He’s just playing Polytopia and claiming it’s more rigorous than it actually is because he’s too much of a dumbfuck to know any better.

I think perhaps you’re right about it being too painful to face, and a psychologist might describe his descent into solipsism as an avoidance technique. He would then argue to that psychologist “bUt YoU cAnT pRoVe iTs ReAl!” because as someone who is so averse to therapy, he thinks he can philosophy his way into proving he is always right.

He is a deeply, deeply unwell man.

side note, beating a game’s developer is nothing to brag about, by the way. most game developers are terrible at their own games.

Also, didn’t turn out real hot for Stevie “Killcreek” Case… I feel bad for that woman and how she was treated by Romero and men in the gaming/game development space in general. Not a single one of her relationships with other folks in the industry worked out, and it all started because she was a Quake champ and beat Romero at a deathmatch. I still remember when she was on the cover of PC Accelerator… it’s a testament to how badly the industry treated and viewed women at the time, nothing but a sexist trope grossly sexualizing her.

So, let’s go over this shall we.

Humans were always the weakest link in the security chain. Why? Because humans aren’t logical and can be tricked with words and ideas.

So we’ve developed this new type of computer program that “thinks” and speaks naturally like a human, right? Responding naturally to human conversation with it.

The issue is (as I’ve said before) that we’ve essentially created a computer program that is just as fallible as humans.

In other words, no shit simple prompt engineering works. There’s no way to “secure” a human brain from dripping out things it shouldn’t on accident, and by extension, there’s no way to “secure” an LLM “brain” because they operate in a somewhat similar manner (or at least appear to). Prompt engineering is just social engineering for computers. We’ve created a computer that can be tricked with words and ideas, just like a human.

Humans were the weakest link in security and we just made computers as weak of a link as humans. Who really thought making computers as bad at everything as humans was a good idea?

Very astute observation about how we’re a very language oriented species and that essentially AI is a perfect vehicle for confidence men. I’ve said before all LLMs have really done is create a computer that is as inconsistent as a human, and in a way, that works in the favor of these things as confidence trickster tools.

When scammers make their scams, they often aim them at the simplest people possible, and what folks like us see as obvious mistakes that give away the game immediately are actually there because they don’t want people like us wasting their time. They want the easiest of easy marks, and the easiest don’t know how to read so good.

An AI is in many ways the ultimate confidence man, always speaking in confidence and authority without understanding behind the words. Literally just empty words, like a real live conman.

But more importantly, like the scams that pull in the weakest, the mistakes AI makes may make it seem more human to them. This could potentially aid it as a tool for confidence men, both big (Sam Altman) and small (email scammer).

I personally am of the opinion that as a society we shouldn’t just being letting the most vulnerable being taken advantage of at all times, and we certainly shouldn’t be financially rewarding fools for making the tools to do so easily accessible.

…and then you start singing All Star by Smash Mouth at the judge.

A reminder, they started with books3, a dataset that was always very honest that it was entirely pirated material from the private torrent tracker Bibliotik.

They always knew, they never had any intention to pay a dime to any of the creatives they stole from.

When you steal big enough, they let you do it and say it’s just business. When you steal small potatoes like The Pirate Bay, they lock you up.

Oh get fucked. This was exactly my fear, as AI use ramps up, the web will quickly be designed to cater to AIs over real humans.

Get double fucked, mattwojo of Microsoft. Take that stupid handlebar mustache and shove it up your ass.

40+ year old unpopular opinion: MTG has always been pay to win.

I was too poor to dump money into the game as a kid and an adult.

Whatever critcisisms about “enshittification” this game was born to enshittify based on being pay to win.

Who the fuck wants celebrities here?

This is a good thing.