Oh look, it’s literally “we’re still early”, I missed the classics

My completely PIDOOMA take is that if you’re self-interested and manipulative you’re already treating most if not all people as lesser, less savvy, less smart than you. So just the fact that you can half-ass shit with a bot and declare yourself an expert in everything that doesn’t need such things like “collaboration with other people”, ew, is like a shot of cocaine into your eyeball.

LLMs’ tone is also very bootlicking, so if you’re already narcissistic and you get a tool that tells you yes, you are just the smartest boi, well… To quote a classic, it must be like being repeatedly kicked in the head by a horse.

Oh for fuck’s sake

Ye it’s called a “grift”

What brilliant observation, your mom must be proud

They clank when you hit the gpu with a big hammer

“If you said something different you would’ve said something different” what brilliant rhetoric, your mom must be proud

I think everyone can agree on “this is a slur that we took from StarWars to be derogatory and justify our distaste and opposition to genAI”, it’s just that some people think that’s a bad thing?

Like it appears some people think using the n-word is bad because it’s Bad™, not because there’s an actual dehumanising effect on a group of people. What’s your argument, that we’re dehumanising Grok? Ye because it’s not a human! “But if it was about the Jews it’d be bad” ye and if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike, what the fuck is your point?

As for the origins I also think it is very important that the word is “clanker” from StarWars, since their droids are not sentient, whereas both “toaster” and “skinjob” are actually used as a hateful term towards sentient beings. BSG goes out of its way to drive in the fact that genociding Cylons would also be bad, actually. The sentience of “skinjobs” is like the whole point of Blade Runner.

Isn’t it insane that there is a separate special fapcircle of open-source contributors that are also untenable human beings?

Unrelated note but why is fashtech even a thing and why did no one warn me about it before I made my career choice, I could’ve been a happy person

the fash papertrail for Ladybird really shouldn’t have to go much farther than them receiving money from fascists in a group that included other fascists but here’s more anyway

https://possum.city/notes/a504c0e7vwdj000h

That link goes to a post that links to 4 Twitter posts, the first one of which is just a screenshot of a PR (?); then a post “basically @BrendanEich right now”, name I haven’t heard before but apparently that’s the guy that made Brave (how the fuck does that project still exist) so at least this one tracks; then there’s a donation from ProtonPrivacy so I’d need receipts for them being fashy, I know they were doing that stupid AI bot but that’s all; and finally some talk by a guy I’ve never heard of at a conference I’ve never heard of for FUTO which the only bell it rings for me is the university in Nigeria but that doesn’t make sense

I need a fucking codebook to read these receipts, what is going on

At both unis I was at (U of Warsaw, TU Munich) courses with heavy loads contract out grading to students of the university. E.g. during my M.Sc. I was grading submissions for one of the B.Sc. courses I already completed. You get a small amount of money for that.

Contracting out to a company sounds extremely USA-pilled, as in “the university does not have enough resources so, instead of increasing their budget, we use THE FREE MARKET BABY and have a company whose whole existence is dependent on that resource hole continuing to exist.”

Weinstein released his Geometric Unity paper on April 1, debuting it on Joe Rogan’s podcast

Okay, like, you could’ve just started with this, this Weinstein person is clearly an idiot and cannot be taken seriously

His Geometric Unity proposal, therefore, has all the hallmarks of an outsider attempting to revolutionize physics, casting him as an Einstein-like figure toiling alone at the patent office.

I hate this framing so fucking much, Einstein wasn’t an “outsider”! He was known and respected! He talked to other prominent physicist all the time! Where does this myth even come from.

Hey I’m not an artist or really familiar with film and I also could’ve told you this

It’s not even that hard to grasp, ChatGPT is trained on all of human textual output it can be and it can’t write a coherent story, Copilot is trained on all of open-source code in existence and it can’t write a correct line of C++, obviously a film model is not gonna be any better

I have no idea about Ruby or the politics behind the scenes, but I do know who DHH is and so it seems like literally none of this would’ve happened if not for point 2. on the list?? Just like, don’t platform the rancid toxic cesspit of a man and you’re fine??

God, we had so much fun doing this at my uni when creating an example DB table for an exam (only it was fake song/band combinations). Are you sure your coworker isn’t a robot themselves?

That’s interesting, because in Poland 95% of all history you are taught is “and then they grabbed guns because they were just so fed up with their* shit” and from modern history it’s mostly anti-commumist worker movements that were all about general strikes and loud, disruptive protests.

*Russians’, Germans’, Austrians’, king’s, …

Quantum computers are in fact (believed to be) more powerful than classical digital TMs in terms of efficiency,

Importantly though, not crazily so. We know they can do factorisation quick, and we believe classical cannot. But we also believe they can’t quickly solve NP-hard problems.

(In each instance, believe means it’s not proven, but the implications of it being false would be so weird and surprising we think it’s probably true and are trying to prove it so)

Not sure if analog turing machines provide any new capabilities that digital TMs do, but I leave that question for the smarter people in the subject of theorethical computer science) did.

Capabilities in the sense that they can compute problems that digital TMs cannot? No, they cannot Capabilities in the sense they’d be more efficient at computing some problems than digital TMs? Hard af to prove or disprove.