Additionally, we are exploring how technology, like savory vapes and cocaine, can help me kick my meth habit.

Google also said something similar in one of their reports. Something along the lines of sure AI wrecked their sustainability report this year, but just you wait until it optimizes the data centers! As if the robots could find holes in thermodynamics or something.

Anyway it's not that great but here's my attempt at the sneer you asked for:

"Additionally, we are exploring how attaching flame-throwers to the bottom of private jets and flying over the tree-tops of forests can further increase the accountability and traceability for our Scope 3 carbon emissions."

Like a century of science: yeah we’re pretty sure where carbon emissions come from. Everyone needs to slow the fuck down. There’s no need to pontificate about the specifics, especially if that somehow produces even more emissions. That would be catastrophic, you see.

MSFT: hold my beer

It's remarkable to me how far and how rapidly this guy swerved outside of his initial lane, all while having absolutely terrible voice and diction for being a long-form interviewer. He's worked on that, but it's clear that his initial success was based off of targeting high-level professionals who otherwise wouldn't very often be sought out for the type of interviews Lex does. I'm thinking of guys like Jim Keller and Chris Lattner, who would probably only make such public appearances in the form of keynotes at conferences for their specific niches.

But you can't convince me that you're really the world's best technical interviewer if you're also uncritically sitting down with Donald fucking Trump, or deciding that you're suddenly enough of a historian to take on Gibbon with your fucking podcast. Who's financing this guy, anyway? Is MIT actually kicking him cash, or is it just an RMS scenario where they give him space because they're concerned about where he might end up otherwise?

some nutter in the xhitter thread hoped the real reason the Empire fell would be “inflation”

Someone's been watching too much Tuttle Twins (Warning: link to fascist propaganda youtube channel).

The locals might get ornery about this, and I'd be willing to make the trip to help.

There are some steam turbine power plants (like coal-fired) (on smaller side) with power output like that

I immediatelly knew who and what you were talking about without even clicking.

May the fact that he also lives inside my head rent-free be some solace to you.

If only all my snark could elicit such absurd perfection.

Every day? I dont think I have read that post at all. (This is both a joke and not a joke, as I had not read it, I did now and I was amused, so thanks).

Some of my favorite reactions to this paradigm shift in machine intelligence we are witnessing:

bless you Melanie.

Mine olde friend, the log scale, still as beautiful the day I met you

Weird, the AI that has read every chess book in existence and been trained on more synthetic games than any one human has seen in a lifetime still doesn't understand the rules of chess

^(just an interesting data point from Ernie, + he upvotes pictures of my dogs on FB so I gotta include him)

Dog tax

Would there ever be a way to tell that they didn't just feed the answers into the training data?

I've clowned on Dan before for personal reasons, but my god, this is the dumbest post so far. If you had a superhuman forecasting model, you wouldn't just hand it out like a fucking snake oil salesman. You'd prove you had superhuman forecasting by repeatably beating every other hedge fund in the world betting on stock options. The fact that Dan is not a trillionaire is proof in itself that this is hogwash. I'm fucking embarrassed for him and frankly seething at what a shitty, slimily little grifter he is. And he gets to write legislation? You, you have to stop him!

You have to let it predict things that will happen before 2019, duh.

BRB training an LLM to be a super-goalpost-mover

Percentages are cheating, especially percentages below 50.

I'll predict a 49% chance Mont Blanc erupts tomorrow, covering half of Europe in chocolate.

I got mad at this last time I saw Nate Bronze assign percentages to the 2024 US election.

Like, my dude, what the fuck does that mean? Is the election result a random variable? What is its PDF? What maths could you have possibly done to arrive at a crisp [0, 1] probability value?

How did you go from "predict the future", an obviously wildly fuzzy and inaccurate vibes check, to a concrete real number??

'This tool can do X at a superhuman level' is often quite an embarrassing thing to believe. (in before somebody says computers can do calculations at superhuman levels). Saying your tool can do that is also pretty cringe.

quoted because this is fucking gold and paraphrasing isn’t doing it:

Do you have any references/examples of this?

tons

rapid7 for example use LLMs to analyze code and identify vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, XSS, and buffer overflows.

Can you point me to a blog or feature of them that does this? I used to work at R7 up until last year and there was none of this functionality in their products at the time and nothing on the roadmap related to this.

must've been another company then which i got confused with the name

Good thing you have tons of examples.

Right?

e: you’ll never guess what a bunch of DEI Steve’s other posts are about

Awful.systems can get a pass since the domain name is just that good.

a new source of anxiety has formed

in all seriousness, a backup domain name might not be the worst idea one day. I don’t think Lemmy’s federation particularly likes being ripped out of one FQDN and migrated to another, but it’s probably preferable to shutting down cause the owners of our TLD thoroughly shit the bed

the original post is fucking amazing

here in the future, nothing fucking works

Fuck it, we're going back to bang paths. ficix!hetzner!awful!self please add support for this.

I liked this comment on the HN post:

Our computer security analogies are modeled around securing a home from burglars, but the actual threat model is the ocean surging 30 feet onto our beachfront community. The ocean will find the holes, no matter how small. We are not prepared for this.

2026-2027: Blockchain Revolution

• Widespread adoption of blockchain for secure, transparent financial transactions
• Development of industry-specific blockchain solutions
• Smart contracts automate complex financial agreements

ah good, we're still on schedule for that I guess

I have to admit that I wasn't expecting LinkedIn to become a wretched hive of "quantum" bullshit, but hey, here we are.

Tangentially: Schrödinger is a one-man argument for not naming ideas after people.

Somebody played cookie clicker.

you left the best one:

First successful experiments in "temporal arbitrage" using quantum prediction models

not only they know about "temporal arbitrage experiments" but they also already know that these were successful. that kinda defeats purpose of experiment

From the reactions:

“With enough garbage the model will become sentient”

"I mean thats how humans are raised tho"

AAAAAAAAAAAA

(There is a tendency among promtfondlers to, in their attempt to hype up their objects of affection, diminish humans and humanity).

As my little 2 year old said, after listening to a white noise generator for days. "Holy shit, I think therefore I am!"

how's the nix drama going these days? I need more spilled tea to sip, anywhere I can read a recap? did everyone just gave up on not being sponsored by border surveillance drones?

Lix fixed it last month of course

the very first thing I thought of as I started reading this is this track by a small ZA artist I discovered a while back, and I started it to play as backtrack for reading

This person is as correct as they are committed to the vibes. Great sneer.

The terms, concerningly, don't give a firm data retention time frame, and say that LineLeap may be "unable to fully delete or de-identify" user data due to "technical" or "other operational reasons."

My villain arc is going to be turning into Thanos and collecting them stones just to enforce GDPR forever into cosmic law with a snap of my fingers.

tbh i don't see a single sane way that genai could be used for anything like they say it can be, if it works it's gotta be something more or less custom. but ms doesn't care, because they're selling shovels so it doesn't matter if their shit doesn't work as long as someone's buying. it sorta starts looking like cryptobros in 2020-ish trying to insert themselves as middlemen everywhere where there's already some money

Pay no attention to the three LLMs stacked together behind the curtain!

My heuristic is basically: until we can easily control the environment of earth, terraforming will not be on the horizon. Given that we are hell-bent on driving off of as many cliffs as we can, I’m pretty happy to continue thinking that we’ll never get off this rock proper within the ol’ lifespan

You could build a whole library of articles like this: here's one from early last year

this is a fun read

another I ran into earlier (via an outfit from these parts) is this piece from The Conversation. I wish I could get as irked about linear extrapolation as I usually do, but in lieu of guardrails arresting (and clawing back!) all that shit from all these ghouls...

(Edit: I based parts of this post on misremembered/misinterpreted tweet from musk, so reader beware, I'm being wrong about Musks stated plans here, see my later reply in the thread. Not sure if I should leave the post up, edit it (eurgh effort), or just delete)

Made a decision for the don't waste time common good.

Why do I get the feeling we're gonna see a colossal tech crash

is this the bad place?

@self I wonder what "popular demand" and "overwhelming number of requests". Are there actually a lot of people asking for this? Are there more than there are people begging them not to? Maybe I just live in an anti-AI bubble, because I sure don't encounter a lot of pro-AI views.

@self @zogwarg
Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

Who isn't huffing this nonsense?

@self @john_chu *sigh* cross another one off the list

@self @zogwarg highly recommend migrating to posteo

To be clear: Cohost did take funding from an anonymous angel, and as a result will not be sharing their source code; quoting from your link:

Majority control of the cohost source code will be transferred to the person who funded the majority of our operations, as per the terms of the funding documents we signed with them; Colin and I will retain small stakes so we have some input on what happens to it, at their request.

We are unable to make cohost open source. the source code for cohost was the collateral used for the loan from our funder.

Somebody paid a very small amount of money to get a cleanroom implementation of Tumblr and did not mind that they would have to build a community and then burn it to the ground in the process. It turns out that angels are not better people than VCs.

i used (and use, until the shutdown) cohost as my primary social media site. i'm not surprised, but i can't say it hasn't been disappointing. for all the issues it has (and it did have a lot) it was pretty much the only site that felt somewhat cozy to use for me. stings quite a bit

I'm not shocked.

Their radical idea of building a social network that did not require a either VC funding or large amounts of volunteer labour has come to a disappointing, if not entirely surprising end. Going in without a great idea on how to monetise the thing was probably not the best strategy as it turns out.

I never used Cohost, but I know a couple people who do and fuuuuuuuck this sucks. 'Least Newgrounds is still going, though that's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Tennessee has a new law against making LLM clones of performers without permission. It would be great to see our bullshit strike a blow for the side of righteousness, for once!

Yes, it is called the ELVIS Act. I'm sorry.

https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2024/3/21/photos--gov--lee-signs-elvis-act-into-law.html

SwiftOnSecurity (spoiler: probably not actually Taylor Swift)

it's some US infosec guy working at a corp, identity was figured out a couple years ago

With the private jet and all.

A story I heard, one of the problems with private jets (and private jet trackers) is that often private jets cannot be stored at normal airports. So after delivering the rich people to the airport it needs to take off again, and go to a smaller airport to stay there. This drives up the environmental costs to insane levels (now each trip is 3 takeoffs), but this also causes weirdness with the people tracking the planes of celebs, as they now overinflate the actual flights they are in, which annoys weird pedants (like me). I wonder if the celebs taking these flights are even aware of it. Anyway, remember this if you hear a story of 'celeb X took their private plane to skip traffic' stories, there is a chance they were not actually in this plane. (So put down those surface to air launchers you lunatics).

Not that the usage of private planes isn't insane and should be banned/heavily regulated.

so for posting it's definitely less than ideal (not pictured: the 15 second delay before typing and the comment text being filled in), but it actually renders lemmy with shockingly few issues

I find the polygraph to be a fascinating artifact. most on account of how it doesn't work. it's not that it kinda works, that it more or less works, or that if we just iron out a few kinks the next model will do what polygraphs claims to do. the assumptions behind the technology are wrong. lying is not physiological; a polygraph cannot and will never work. you might as well hire me to read the tarot of the suspects, my rate of success would be as high or higher.

yet the establishment pretends that it works, that it means something. because the State desperately wants to believe that there is a path to absolute surveillance, a way to make even one's deepest subjectivity legible to the State, amenable to central planning (cp. the inefficacy of torture). they want to believe it so much, they want this technology to exist so much, that they throw reality out of the window, ignore not just every researcher ever but the evidence of their own eyes and minds, and pretend very hard, pretend deliberately, willfully, desperately, that the technology does what it cannot do and will never do. just the other day some guy way condemned to use a polygraph in every statement for the rest of his life. again, this is no better than flipping a coin to decide if he's saying the truth, but here's the entire System, the courts the judge the State itself, solemnly condemning the man to the whims of imaginary oracles.

I think this is how "AI" works, but on a larger scale.

that dude advocates LLM code autocomplete and he's a cryptographer

like that code's gotta be a bug bounty bonanza

Criticizing others for not being perfectly exacting with their language and then jumping in front of the LLM headlights all at once, truly the human mind has no limits.

Valsorda was on mastodon for a bit (in ‘22 maybe?) and was quite keen on it , but left after a bunch of people got really pissy at him over one of his projects. I can’t actually recall what it even was, but his argument was that people posted stuff publicly on mastodon, so he should be able to do what he liked with those posts even if they asked him not to. I can see why he might not have a problem with LLMs.

Anyone remember what he was actually doing? Text search or network tracing or something else?

Some ok anti-AI voices in that thread. But mostly a torrent of shit

• sleep( math.rand(15,20));
• print("I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that question.");

I call it HonestGPT, and will accept my billions in VC money now.

Honor Levy

someone tell me it isn't just me who always parses this person's name as "honour tax" and has a doubletake first thinking "..yeah, accurate" before remember it's actually their name-name not and not a byname

"They would like you to believe that their indecision reflects a particular attunement to ambiguity and nuance. But in truth they just won’t know where they stand until they’ve figured out where you do."

This is exactly why these people always feel so weird. Like, have you considered not hanging out with assholes?

Yeah, just give it to the feller who reviewed Guy Fieri's restaurant. It's better to just rip the bandaid off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html

I think Zizek is a super nice guy, despite disagreeing with 90% of what he says. I still think he's a great person with a nice soul.

The sentences these people post, man.

Anyway, it's great that he chose a cryptofascist crank who tries to pass himself off as a communist to show how open minded he is. Damn, you respect Habsburg, Orban and Zizek, let me guess how you feel about Putin.

oh boy, some of the comments there

I think that the people in the breadline would have better things to do than be rude on twitter. Or maybe not, it is a fun way to pass the time for some.

how to instantly identify someone with a social circle barely stretching past their own nose. and I’d bet there’s some “work = moral” thinking held there, too

Maybe it's because I've started reading a book about Germany and Austro-Hungary in WW1 (Ring of Steel) but I've suddenly started pattern-matching a bunch of pro A-H comments in HN. "It was a peaceful multi-national nation" well yeah until they pointlessly insisted on invading Serbia (and fucking that up twice before being bailed out by Germany) thus setting of the wider war. And when refugees from Galicia had to flee the Russians they were not happily accepted by the rest of the Empire.

Anyway, A-H was teetering on the edge before WW1 and signed their own death warrant willingly.

As always in HN you can find links to new horrifying examples of fascism: https://theworthyhouse.com/2021/06/17/the-foundationalist-manifesto-the-politics-of-future-past/

Hillary is going to assassinate him for sure this time for revealing the hidden dog lore.

Another fine AI lawmaker for our collection.

• Lex: https://www.lex.tec.br/

• AI Steve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2vtKT9RrrI

• Virtual Integrated Citizen: https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/tech/openai-shuts-down-ai-mayor/index.html

• Det Syntetiske Parti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Synthetic_Party_(Denmark)

• AI party (performance art, unclear how much of this was actually serious): https://www.centerforeverything.com/history/constitutive-meeting-of-the-ai-party-fi/

• AI Mayor / AI Party: https://www.ai-mayor.com/, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI党 (their(?) earlier iteration also had a lady robot because AI Mayor AIn't sexist yo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KomiEpEik-Q)

That is just the average The Sims/Rimworld player.

It looks like a media prop making a soft parody of buzzword laced sites that don't actually say anything. 'we provide business solutions and services' lol

And of course, due to my browser being slightly locked down (or the whole site being broken) the whole 'check it out' button does nothing.

The animated button that looks like it might direct you to a chat option (but actually just scrolls you back up to the start of the page for some unknown reason) is also great. (This is isn't really their fault btw, it is that wordpress themes one (if you image search on the people being happy with the services provided you will find a few other sites with the same theme, and same stock image).

Hello world!

quantum finance

I extremely briefly looked into it earlier when I saw the headline drift by on lobsters or something, and found a venturebeat presser

so it seems we're at that stage of the LLM grift cycle

It sucks to have to decolonise your darlings. It sucks that a lot of our most enjoyable stories are copaganda. Even the most redeemable stories about cops have probably inspired people to become cops.