EFreethought

joined 7 months ago
[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How did Lex Fridman's podcast become so popular? He has no affect, always seems like he is about to fall asleep, and most of his guests are horrible people. He is a less intense Joe Rogan.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This isn’t some special class of attack; it’s a fundamental designed-in flaw of the system.

Will it ever not be a flaw in LLMs? Or will they always be this way?

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps we should page Dr Goblin.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

The irritating part of all of this is that after 20 years we finally have a (very) few companies that sell machines with Linux pre-installed. The only thing I ever learned from installing OSes is that I hate installing OSes.

I would love to boycott all software that accepts garbage [1] contributions, but I do not think that is practical. I think I might have to settle with just refusing to use it myself, and wait until everyone realizes that gen AI is just a bad idea.

Note 1: Satya Nadella said he did not want people referring to AI as "slop", so I will grant his request and refer to it as "garbage".

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's hilarious that his twitter handle has "real" at the front. Who would want to pretend to be that guy?

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Facebook CTO is one of those fake lt Colonels the DoD commissioned a while back.

This guy was CTO while Facebook/Meta was burning all that money on the Metaverse. Now they are, as Mr Gerard put it, pivoting to AI, and burning millions there. Those Meta stock options must be really good to work for someone as dumb as this guy.

Plus: He went to Harvard. I guess those schools will take anybody.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

In hindsight, it is pretty funny that he called his fund "Situational Awareness" and still lost money.

Maybe someone should start a hedge fund and call it something like, "Maybe This Will All Work Out LLC." That way there is no disappointment.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

to sell your soul writing screeds

Thanks to gen AI, you don't have to.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Years ago I saw a memorable tweet: Zero Hedge readers upset passing asteroid did not destroy earth.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

yet another autodidact with a cushy job in the Effective Altruism grantland

How do I get one of these cushy jobs?

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Here is the first sentence: "You can see the future first in San Francisco. "

I feel like I already know everything I need to know about him.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

The AI shills would say: Are you still using the models from six months ago? Because the new models are sooo much more powerful.

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