it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.
I am firmly on the side of it's possible to pay attention to more than one problem at a time, but the AI doomers are in fact actively downplaying stuff like climate change and even nuclear war, so them trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room is a legitimate problem.
Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.
That Yud is the Neil Breen of AI is the best thing ever written ~~about rationalism~~ in a youtube comment.
this seems counterintuitive but... comments are the best, name of the function but longer are the worst. Plain text summary of a huge chunk of code that I really should have taken the time to break up instead of writing a novella about it are somewhere in the middle.
I feel a lot of bad comment practices are downstream of javascript relying on jsdoc to act like a real language.
Managers gonna manage, but having a term for bad code that works that is more palatable than 'amateur hour' isn't inherently bad imo.
Worst i've heard is some company forbidding LINQ in C#, which in python terms is forcing you to always use for-loops in place of filter/map/reduce and comprehensions and other stuff like pandas.groupby
My impression from reading the stuff posted here is that omarchy is a nothing project that's being aggressively astroturfed so a series of increasingly fashy contributors can gain clout and influence in the foss ecosystem.
Definitely, it's just code for I'm ok with nazis at this point.
pro-AI but only self hosted
Like being pro-corporatism but only with regard to the breadcrumbs that fall off the oligarchs' tables.
We should start calling so-called open source models trickle-down AI.
and actually use an AI that cites it’s sources
make the hallucinotron useful with this one weird trick
Zitron catching strays in the comments for having too much of a bullying tone, I guess against billionaires and tech writers, and being too insistent on his opinion that the whole thing makes no financial sense. It's also lamented that the entire field of ML avoids bsky because it has a huge AI hostility problem.
Concern trolling notwithstanding, the eigenrobot stuff is worrisome though, if not specifically for him about how extremely online the ideological core of the administration seems to be, as close to the lunatics running the asylum as you'll get in a modern political setting.
Micrsosoft will be adding numbers on total meetings summarised, total hours summarised, and various classes of prompts.
So the manager types are also affected? This might be interesting.
Governments are toppled, not opted out of, is all I'm saying.
Also not sure I agree that all consumer activism is inherently in vain.
This wasn't a pro-spotify post, it was a your government isn't something you can just boycott away post.
Like, your taxes are already paying for ICE directly.
What's a government backstop, and does it happen often? It sounds like they're asking for a preemptive bail-out.
I checked the rest of Zitron's feed before posting and its weirder in context:
Interview:
Later at the jobsite:
She then proceeds to explain she just meant that the government 'should play its part'.
Zitron says she might have been testing the waters, or its just the cherry on top of an interview where she said plenty of bizzare shit