antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

The right to bodily autonomy includes doing incredibly dangerous/untested shit to your body that will hurt you until you die; but it does not include posting through it (that is that secondary right to free expression, which also allows us to point and laugh).

Anyway, gg Johnson, maybe one day you’ll realize we are all tiny sparks trapped in decaying bags of flesh and the only thing that matters is what we do with that.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

But it hurts our minds all the same

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

Oh don’t worry, it’s slop-generated anyway. You can ask the LLM to summarize it for you.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you let openclaw do everything else, why not also let it register a domain name

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

This kind of humanity-affirming infrastructure work is illegal in most western jurisdictions

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I choose to read this as “you have to choose which to destroy”

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

~~Ah, so I guess the reports of increased datacenter water usage driven by AI deployments ... weren't a lie?~~

~~Jeff Bezos, quoted in MSN:~~

~~Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place. Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down~~

Ah, apparently this quote is a fabrication that doesn't appear in the transcript. Source: https://bsky.app/profile/davidcrespo.bsky.social/post/3mootuvppjs2c, Transcript with correction: https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta love it when people who try to cause problems for others run into the consequences of their actions and then try to make these consequences everyone else’s problem.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 4 weeks ago

Someone saw the infinite orgasming shrimp idea and decided to pivot.

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

I see a bunch of people riffing on how The Art of War is obvious etc etc, but it seems few people keep in mind that this is advice for very powerful people of the time, the kind of guys who would be kicked in the head by a horse every day.

People who understand how power and lack of resources fucks with a person don’t usually get to tell armies to go fight a war, so those who do need to be told by a guy they’d let execute their favorite wife. (Also, probably the whole Seinfeld Is Unfunny trope…)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Here’s a pretty extensive rant/critique of how specifically GitHub is awful to use (and compares it to gitlab and also forgejo/codeberg).

Code forges render an empty repository using less than a million bytes challenge level impossible, etc etc

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

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