Next step: "I'm sick of having to press the 'new prompt' button, why doesn't ..."

I heard the same complaint from leftist metal fans.

Nazi entanglements

That's why none of the quantum computers work

I'll tell you what, it is fantastic to be clean and sober today

I was tempted to gawk but then I realised... the guy's just going to see some shapes in the light and it's going to be boring as shit

Someone needs to offer Erin Patterson a Suicide Squad deal

Chasing links landed me here:

Grimes used to come to my club nights in Vancouver, and one time a guy who didn't know who she was saw her dancing like an attention starved, crystal-gripping idiot, and he said to me "That's the kind of chick who would take a shit on your chest if you asked."

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:mpc62tgblkwndximirue5dxg/post/3lh7kznna3k2y

Btw, im a bit afraid to ask, as I should actually have googled this first (but I'm also becoming weary of google, tried to find some code related things yday and it was giving me wild results, it used to be better at that), but is there a sort of guide on blacksky, like what does joining one of those sites imply (I think I should join the 'blacksky for non-poc' variant, at least I got that was a thing) but how well does it interact with the main bsky, how easy is it to switch, consequences for interactions/follows/followers, etc etc. Anybody have a guide on that? In an attempt to migrate away more from bsky which is making a few questionable moderation decisions. (I also know that due to how the whole system is setup, migrating doesn't actually get you away from those decisions, so I'm also asking out of curiosity, so take that into account regarding how much effort to put into my question, also means ignoring/not reacting is fine. Just shooting a shot, and trying to be clear about intentions, and my feelings re reactions).

The CIA wouldn't be able to torture this kinda shit out of me. Jesus, Linehan.

What the fuck

oh no

He followed his friends Andrew Doyle and Martin Gourlay, formerly of GB News, over here. They were hired by US comic actor Rob Schneider’s production company and put in a word for Linehan. He moved in March and works for Schneider too. Having co-created Father Ted in the 1990s and created The IT Crowd in the 00s, Linehan is co-creating a sitcom called Tenure – “Our academics are like Father Ted academics: they’re very old and musty” – with Doyle, Gourlay and British comedian Jonathan Kogan. They’ve written eight episodes.

Yeah thats a kink. There prob are a bunch of sexworkers he could hire who could help him with that.

E: forgot to mention, a sexworker even confirmed this is a kink.

most well adjusted terf

TIL I take the same medicine as Glinner

I think we already lost the plot when we started relying on a centralized entity (Google) to "index the world's information and make it useful". Ad-tech already fucked up all of the incentives, making recipe sites fill their pages with bullshit in hopes of wiping my eyeballs with messages from third parties hungry for attention. I fucking hate this world.

I saw this food on social media the other day which was allegedly caused by a Chat-GPT recipe: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/1p60tfw/my_wife_tried_a_chatgpt_crockpot_recipe/

JFC, man. Fuck this snivelling weasel. I read the whole thing. How dare he even suggest he has a fleck of humility in his being. He goes in saying he submitted his changes as an RFC instead of a pull request, but goes balls deep on trying to defend his work as worthy of submitting. Utter bullshit.

Some quotes:

My explicit statement of having "no desire to actually learn about the Mesa code-base" was not seen as a gesture of honest humility,

“I have no intent on understanding this codebase that I’m 100% sure I’ve created a good change for, be grateful, peasants.”

also, him, explicitly not a developer, spake thusly:

This sentiment exposes the raw nerve of the open-source world: developer burnout.

vibe codes once I am become jeff, coder at google

Finally, this massive turd:

The Mesa project's updated contributor guidelines, which now demand that any submitter of AI-assisted code must understand it as if they wrote it themselves, has been lauded by some as a pragmatic solution. I contend it is a policy of convenience, a blunt instrument designed not to solve a complex problem, but to legislate it out of existence. It is a fortress wall built to protect the status quo, and while it may offer the illusion of security, it does so at the cost of innovation and by silencing a new and potentially valuable class of contributors. The discussion should not end here, with a policy that prioritizes procedural purity over measurable progress. The true challenge has been misdiagnosed; the pathology is not the "user with an AI," but a rigid, legacy process that lacks the antibodies to handle a new form of discovery.

Honestly this guy should just start his own fucking codebase where him and his promptfondling circlejerk buddies can vibecode bricks together.

@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 jesus. zero understanding. zero will to understand, only grandstanding.

the obnoxious self-aggrandizement is dripping all over the text, not the least of which when he conceptualizes himself as a part of a "new and potentially valuable class of contributors", as if the addition of a slop-generator can transform the layperson into someone capable of contributing to a complex software project. but that's old news. here's what's getting me now:

For a project like Mesa, which uses the permissive MIT license, accidentally incorporating a snippet of code that carries the "viral" obligations of the GPL could potentially trigger a legal catastrophe. Faith Ekstrand drove this point home with a chillingly practical example: "If we piss off Nvidia and they sue us, the project is over. It doesn't matter whether or not we can theoretically win."

this is a legal issue -- this should be Seyfarth's home turf! obviously he can't code and has a sneering contempt for anyone who learns to do so, but in this micro-instance, giving an informed legal opinion on how this issue could be handled would actually be in the Mesa project's best interests! let's see how he

However this is a hypothetical scenario and there are several ways to mitigate such legal risks. Most projects already shift the legal burden to the contributor. The project still has to reject any code that openly violates the licensing terms, but if such violations are not obvious, there is little legal risk to the project itself.

"it wouldn't happen, and even if it did, you could just try to sacrifice your individual developers to NVIDIA one at a time and hope that makes them go away." great cool thank you. this is the best you've got with your legal background. fantastic. what an utter tool

what i got from reading this is that it's not X, but Y.

ooh, just found out he has a post tripling down. it's a rather rich text, maybe could stand to be its own post on techtakes

for what it's worth schestowitzes don't seem to understand that they lost a defamation case and should stop digging.

I never heard of Techrights before, they seem rather unhinged, but I had a good laugh when I saw this article about Lunduke. Not even the floss fundamentalists like Lundukes flavor of racist Linux "journalism".

people out there signing off shit like that with their online presence that wouldn't be waterboarded out of anyone 15 years ago

Oh wow, that's gloriously terse. I agree that it might be the shortest. For comparison, here are three other policies whose pages are much longer and whose message also boils down to "don't do that": don't post copypasta, don't start hoaxes, don't start any horseshit either.

and it made it to being an actual content guideline, not just an essay!

@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 I love the term Inhuman Centipede for stochastic parrots ingesting their own slop.

Lmao imagine reading a Stephenson book and being peeved that it ends

(His sex scenes are far far far worse than his endings, those are a mercy)

@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 Sub-hypothesis 1B: the AI was fed the whole book but the input was truncated because whatever toolchain they used wasn't made to handle 160k words at a time.

Best part is the footnote:

About 20 years ago, some spammers came up with a bright idea for circumventing spam filters: they took a bootleg copy of my book Cryptonomicon and chopped it up into paragraph-length fragments, then randomly appended one such fragment to the end of each spam email they sent out. As you can imagine, this was surreal and disorienting for me when pitches for herbal Viagra and the like started landing in my Inbox with chunks of my own literary output stuck onto the ends. Come to think of it, most of those fragments actually did stop in mid-sentence, so I guess if today’s LLMs trained on old email archives it would explain why they “think” I write that way.

@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 please do not insult the noble machine consciousnesses thus. It was probably written by a venture capitalist.

@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 The only thing that could have made that article better is if he'd literally ended it mid-sentence.

@gerikson @BlueMonday1984

Hypothesis 3: As some people seem to insist, "literally" has recently morphed into a contronym, and now it figuratively also means "figuratively".

...sorry, I meant it literally also means "figuratively".

...no, wait, that's just the same thing. 🙄 It *actually* also means "figuratively".

(Really? People couldn't find a better new word to provide emphasis than "literally"? What word do they want to unambiguously represent that concept now? Do they care? Ugh...)

kinda impressive that "Factor Fexcectorn" shows up twice, imagine how many credits were offered on the pyre of context management

There's a PubPeer thread.

"K9: scom", just need to figure out what scom is.

But my favorite part is in the upper left, the brain that just says "Autism" and "Autism" around it.

Good day to remember the rat dck pck.

And this is not the first time Scientific Reports has been sneered.

The article's abstract made me die a hundred times

I'm the left leg clipping through the table. Also, i like how x axis on lower left chart is out of order

I'm "LIne storee" babyee.

Tołalbottl

I'm "medical fryrmlal".

That’s pretty long and you should definitely repost it in the next sack. I lightly skimmed it and will read it in full later.

RE, the LLM of it all: Wonder how many times this has already happened:

“AI, please invent a new project management ideology for me, improving on agile and waterfall!”

“Certainly. Here’s AgileFall, a linear combination of the two. What the fuck were you expecting here?”

She wants to be a martyr so bad, doesn't she? She desperately needs to be punished for the sake of her beliefs (and the things she did made others do). All for the great cause of… uh… y'know, the important thing she's being silenced for. Things like that.

I have some thoughts about this goober (Simon Willison) that I need to get out of my head:

First the positives:

• I think he's actually an experienced software engineer.
• I think he care to check and test the LLM output.

But, by his own admission:

• He uses LLM for tasks he knows well (So easier to check and little negative impact on learning)
• He works mostly on hobby projects (so no obligation to actually maintain the stuff)
• He can choose to not use new libraries (which in a professional setting is not always a luxury you can afford)

Tl;dr: an experienced dev who uses clankers to churn out tons of technically functional hobby software and thinks this gives him right to speak for all software engineers.

@swlabr

I do think this is the optimal way for the couple to be referenced in media.

This bounced off of the earlier stub about LLM recipes to create a new cooking show: Chef Jippity. The contestants are all sous chefs at a new restaurant, with the head of the kitchen being some dumbass who blindly follows the instructions of an LLM. Can you work around the robot to create edible food or will Chef Jippity run this whole thing into the ground and lose everyone their jobs? Find out Thursday on Food Network!

In French, ChatGPT sounds like « Chatte, j'ai pété » meaning "Pussy, I farted".

Finally had a chance to listen, continuing to enjoy it greatly and commenting here in liu of having patreon money.

I feel like some of what you talk about with Powell's libertarian economics contrasting with his racist cultural chauvinism seems to tie in with our good friends in silicon valley and the way their libertarianism seems to have moved so swiftly into technofascism and getting on board with The Guy. Being openly racist appears to have been almost like the missing piece that ties it into an internally consistent political project.

Yeah Dare has been plausible deniable all in on AI for a while now.

What's more plausible, that I made a bad assumption in my fermi estimation or that all the world's governments have been undertaking the most wildly successful coverup for nearly a century with no leaks or failures? Clearly the latter.

Also credulously reiterating Trump's stupid "Department of War" rebrand... makes me think his writing is narrowly targeted at a certain group

Whats your P(Yakub)

Hanson into conspiracies, Goertzel into parapsychology, going well on the rational/transhuman side.

E: seems ssc is pushing miracles now as well : https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-fatima-sun-miracle-much-more

The fucking bubble is bursting.

Doubt it, like cryptocurrencies, it will be kept on life support a lot longer and even more and more parts of the economy will be sacrificed to it.

Not that I disagree with the rest of the article btw. Im just annoyed at people claiming the bubble is bursting every time nvidia has 5% stock price reduction that is back to 0 the day after. So im lashing out due to that.

BB and BCS were both kinda slow burns IMO. That’s not to say the new show is worth holding onto (haven’t seen it), just commenting on the trend.

FFS so many promptfondlers and gish-gallopers in there. Echoes of pro-crapto (can't criticize if you don't buy in, use case is coming bro, it's actually decentralized)

Edit the worst thing isnt't the number of fondlers, it's the upvotes they're getting.

@BlueMonday1984 i see that deactivating my lobster account was the best decision i made this week. (what triggered the decision was, of course, ronacher who wasn't even slapped on the wrists for his very open support of a white supremacist.)

Stuff like this is particularly frustrating because this is one of they places where I have to grudgingly admit that llm coding assistants could actually deliver… it turns out that having to state a problem unambiguously and having a way in which answers can be automatically checked for correctness means that you don’t have to worry about bullshit engines bullshitting you so much.

No llm is going to give good answers to “solve the riemann hypothesis in the style of euler, cantor, tao, 4k 8k big boobies do not hallucinate” and for everything else the problem then becomes “can you formally specify the parameters of your problem such that correct solutions are unambiguous” and now you need your professional mathematicians and computer scientists and cryptographers still…

He somehow did an ad read in the middle of a substack post. Sign of the times.

Based Linux is another non-Woke option if you want a Debian based system that supports systemd, Wayland, XLibre and the GNU tools.

Do... do you think he realizes that Debian is "woke"?

Also I wonder what his beef with Rust is? Is Rust woke?

this is very fashtech coded, happy to be proven wrong though.

Looking at their Twitter and it's apparently going to use GNOME. Wonder how that's going to work with GNOME removing X11 support.

Well, at least the website isn't vibe-coded. Considering the creator's an out-and-proud promptfondler (as seen on his Twitter), that's genuinely shocking.

Twitter adds default country tags. Immediately finds a whole bunch of foreign bots agitating about US politics. Promptly ignores that in order to be racist.

cryptobro on rationalist gambler on attention farmer violence

So I'm not double checking their work because that's more of a time and energy investment than I'm prepared for here. I also do not have the perspective of someone who has actually had to make the relevant top-level decisions. But caveats aside I think there are some interesting conclusions to be drawn here:

• It's actually heartening to see that even the LW comments open by bringing up how optimistic this analysis is about the capabilities of LLM-based systems. "Our chatbot fucked up" has some significant fiscal downsides that need to be accounted for.

• The initial comparison of direct API costs is interesting because the work of setting up and running this hypothetical replacement system is not trivial and cannot reasonably be outsourced to whoever has the lowest cost of labor due. I would assume that the additional requirements of setting up and running your own foundation model similarly eats through most of the benefits of vertical integration, even before we get into how radically (and therefore disastrously) that would expand the capabilities of most companies. Most organizations that aren't already tech companies couldn't do it, and those that could will likely not see the advertised returns.

• I'm not sure how much of the AI bubble we're in is driven even by an expectation of actual financial returns at this point. To what extent are we looking at an investor and managerial class that is excited to put "AI" somewhere on their reports because that's the current Cutting Edge of Disruptive Digital Transformation into New Paradigms of Technology and Innovation and whatever else all these business idiots think they're supposed to do all day.

I'm actually going to ignore the question of what happens to the displaced workers here because the idea that this job is something that earns a decent living wage is still just as dead if it's replaced by AI or outsourced to whoever has the fewest worker protections. That said, I will pour one out for my frontline IT comrades in South Africa and beyond. Whenever this question is asked the answer is bad for us.

what i actually want to see in space are billionaires doing extended evas. not necessarily suited up, too.

I'm going to laugh if they try to spin it as "we're not being racist, we just wanted to get as much institutional clout as possible and avoided prominently featuringanyone from other institutions!"

@BlueMonday1984 @techtakes

New York Magazine, not NY Times.