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I was getting excited to read this but seeing the word "hyperstition" used three times in the abstract put a bit of a damper on things hahah

AI Singularity Fantasies : Tracing Mythinformation from Erewhon to Spiritual Machines

That title is a banger

Ugh, I'm so fucking tired of this shit.

I can imagine that an LLM can find bugs. Bugs often follow common patterns, and if anything, an LLM is a pattern matcher, so if you let it run on the whole world of open source code out there, I'm sure it'll find some stuff, and some of it might be legit issues.

But static code analysis tools have been finding bugs for decades, too. And now that an AI slop machine does it, it's supposed to bring about dystopian sci-fi alien wars?

Why are people hyped about that?

(Also this poster makes wrong claims about every exploit being worth millions and such, but the rest of it is so much more ridiculous, it drowns out the wrongness of those claims.)

til that youtube now features "posts"

....sigh

I like this reply on Reddit:

I do my PhD in fair evaluation of ML algorithms, and I literally have enough work to go through until I die. So much mess, non-reproducible results, overfitting benchmarks, and worst of all this has become a norm. Lately, it took our team MONTHS to reproduce (or even just run) a bunch of methods to just embed inputs, not even train or finetune.

I see maybe a solution, or at least help, in closer research-business collaboration. Companies don't care about papers really, just to get methods that work and make money. Maxing out drug design benchmark is useless if the algorithm fails to produce anything usable in real-world lab. Anecdotally, I've seen much better and more fair results from PhDs and PhD students that work part-time in the industry as ML engineers or applied researchers.

This can go a good way (most of the field becomes a closed circle like parapsychology) or a bad way (people assume the results are true and apply them, like the social priming or Reinhart and Rogoff's economic paper with the Excel error).

I regret to inform y'all that the target of the blog post is a rat, or at least rat-adjacent

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

I think there’s a lot to say about the object level issue of how to deal with AI agents in open source projects, and the future of building in public at all.

One of the few benefits of AI is that nowadays some PR threads are very entertaining to read.

Yeah he is trying to build his own EA movement. He also wrote a book (which I have not read) which basically argues that people in general are good not evil actually. (Fair enough, but not relevant).

Im still trying to meet him and shake is hand, the resulting matter antimatter explosion will take out the country.

but I do know that what's available now is just f*cking impressive - and it will only get better.

Another victim of the proof-by-dopamine-hit fallacy it seems.

It's telling that the example he brings is that Claude can do pretty much decently what he was about to buy a 100$ voice controlled app for. As someone who aspires to the art of making great software, it's so infuriating to see how non-techies were conditioned into accepting slopware by years of enshittification and price gouging. Who cares if the tech barely works right? So does most anything, right?

@TinyTimmyTokyo

'This post is for "members" only'

Oh, I'm sure it is.

@BlueMonday1984

@TinyTimmyTokyo @BlueMonday1984
The Romans answered that one : live donkey.

"Best" for what purposes, and for whom?

Fuck, I was just about to post that. You beat me to the sneer

chatbots doing normal chatbot things

@TinyTimmyTokyo @BlueMonday1984

No mention of swede suppositories?

Edited the post after it came to my attention I got duped, I got had, I got bamboozled by a liar

@V0ldek Mathematicians.

Tell me you have no idea what mathematicians do by publishing an absolute mockery of mathematics purporting to explain that mathematicians are likely to be replaced by LLMs.

before you order the cavalry charge, fwiw this skeet misrepresents the actual study topic rather badly, as another bluesky commenter notes.

"these ai girls with 3 boobs really puts strain on the fashion model industry"

CNC Tool Programmer is a good one and shows that Microsoft, a company that probably has paid for someone to run CNC tooling for prototyping AND supposedly makes software, didn't do the bare minimum to understand complexeties involved by talking to that someone.

Yeah, you can make mistakes with programming this thing, it'll happily destroy hundreds of thousands of dollars in tooling as well as potentially maiming or killing anyone standing too close while the machine is actually physically crashing. It will friction-weld your nice, expensive carbide cutting tool with cooling channels to your work piece (even if they are dissimler metals) by taking too big of a cut because it does exactly as it's instructed.

Even if you've never heard of him before and know nothing else about him... this short tweet alone tells so much about what kind of person he is.

Interesting first job your mind goes to there Yud. Might spend a little bit less time around people who regularly use the word goon but who never talk about the mob.