this is a good post and some of y’all may enjoy it too: https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter

watching the saltman interview (in this frame) is…so much worse

I was planning to get drunkwatch it but I haven’t really had the headspace to get that mad this week

it’s amazing what knowing even a lick of history can do, hey?

……snrk

I’ve heard of it, including in some outlets that (at the distance I am to it) seemed to pass the sniff test

but I’ve also seen it kick around TPOT

so I’d definitely want to seek out the advice of an expert if I cared about it

found a paper that may be of interest and review interest to some here

linked via this toot that hit my feed

Missed this when it was first going around

Leave it to fucking zuckco to figure out the worst way to make They Live happen

seems unlikely, see here for reference

well would you look at that, some consequences

“posting from the slop hole” is probably the best description possible for this, brb stealing

me here still steelman-following casey and masnick and such all like 😬😬😬

god this sounds exhausting

accountability sink go brrr

(and to step on my pedestal for a moment: turns out “flat file” semantics for reasoning about and managing computer instructions is kinda fucking terrible, who knew?! (gods I wish we could have had some of the alternatives… worse is better is why they won out, but we could do so much better with modern compute capacity…))

lol, lmao even

I wonder what will happen if people still continue (and I’m sure a few can afford to…)

but holy shit talk about absolute desperation…

^ this

all the other stuff around it is bloody unhinged, including how kent reacted when someone promoted his bot to reply in a manner that didn’t fit his deluded conception of it

from a distance, it looks like the kind of unhinged that doesn’t take much to progress into being dangerous

and the W is for “wailing”

just 100 more billion bro please bro just 100 more billion bro, we’ll solve statistics bro you’ll see bro just 100 more billion bro

(and then in a year it’ll be 500b…)

ye, and they only notice when e.g. food production (that impacts them) is interrupted. outside of that you get a brief fascination with disaster porn, but never enough to do anything concrete

there’s a couple chairs I’ve seen where they’re designed for a different style of sitting, stuff coming from medical and similar worlds. I’m not familiar enough with them to have picked a specific example, but I’ve seen a couple of baytypes pick these up because someone else had one