You know things are going well when you have to threaten to overturn elections in Alaska. I'm also sure that Alaskans, well known for their obedience, will take this cue to vote for the right guy.

It's not even an exaggeration. A few of my coworkers have it as a backup for when their cables go down and I have proof that never once has it worked when they needed it lol

Agree with the sentiment but this is slop.

I don't think it proves anything, and I don't think it even set out to prove anything. I think it is trying to establish bounds on the problem by distinguishing between intelligence and consciousness.

But if you're specifically interrogating my comment, the answer is pretty simple: an LLM mimics intelligence, but not consciousness; a fruit fly is conscious but not intelligent, and achieves this without an inner monologue.

As long as you're practicing decent hygiene and keeping the place reasonably tidy then fuck it, sounds like a killer long weekend.

What about deciding to listen to something and then realizing you're already listening to something? I do this at least once a day.

I think there will come a time when that's what he wants too.

If we wanted to compare LLMs to actual intelligence, we might say it's like the voice in your head. It doesn't solve math problems, or express emotions as art, or plan your motion to climb a ladder; it merely surfaces these things in a way that is observable across your conscious mind and communicable to others.

Some people don't know that their consciousness is more complicated than a linear thread of words, so the idea that some other linear thread of words might be conscious is sincerely plausible to them.

Uh, why the fuck would such a device ever be allowed on school property?

Our lad just starched the richest man in the world in his own office.

To date, the only countries that have made progress in blocking VPN traffic with some success are authoritarian regimes with ISP-level surveillance.

You know you're on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.

We need to all be eyeing the break glass solution: a general strike. If Trump subverts the elections, then we turn off the economy until fair elections are held.

My company has been trying a new model when product folks cut through the red tape of "engineering" and just describe what they want to a powerful LLM pipeline and review the app in a beta env. Sounds perfect, right?

Dear reader, in the couple months this has been going on, these people have caused a dozen high profile SEVs due to extremely poor app performance, networking / kubernetes configuration bugs, bad scaling, observability oversights, supply chain attacks, leaking sensitive information, and cost overruns (on practically every resource they provision).

Some very well-paid people are scrambling to figure out the value that was generated by this pilot program; I'm heating up popcorn rather than holding my breath.

I wasn't sure what to make of claims that this random techbro is a fascist, so I decided to look for clues. I found this article from last month in minutes, and after reading it, I require no further convincing. Guy's a Nazi whether he knows it or not.

Holy hell, the fact that those slack messages and that chatbot history ended up in court is mind blowing. I guess we should be grateful that this time, the bad guy and his hamfisted "Project X" got put in the spotlight.

If a complete stranger reaches out for help, do it. Your future self will thank you.

Wait, so the DNA found near the rifle they found in the woods was inconclusive until they added someone else's DNA, and there were previously rumors that the rifle they found in the woods was not a match for the ballistic evidence recovered from the scene?

I'm not saying one way or another about the defendant, but the FBI and state are fucking the dog on this investigation.

Google's behavior in this debacle has been utterly shameful. They got caught with their dick in the pie and have spent 8 fucking years arguing that it was for the good of society.

Every place I've ever worked has tried to play cute with security researchers. I've never understood it. I've always called it out. But I keep fucking running into it!

Isn't it weird how when billionaires make more money "a rising tide raises all boats", but when the poorest make more money, suddenly there's extreme resource scarcity?