froztbyte

....why does that username ring bells in my brain

did it show up here somewhat recently? (I ask right before checking search)

(e: nothing immediately in search but I could swear I've seen that name somewhere in the last few months (and not in a good context))

sidenote

you have so many of these! it's amazing! are you going to publish soon? it seems like it might need a whole guide of its own!

moderately barbed jesting aside, a serious question: have you spoken with any programmers/artists/researchers/.... ? so many of your comments have "part of me feels" parts hitting pop-concern-direction things and, like, I get it, but. have you spoken with any of them? what were those conversations like? what did you take away from them? what stuck with you that you want to share?

maybe that means something like this should be a linkblog/{atom,rss,...} feedsite on its ace?

Being paid 90s tv ad money has to suck donkey nads :<

look if you give them one bit of satisfaction imagine how much extra they'll go

"give an inch, they take a mile", etc etc

I'm curious, do you get paid for being a multiprotocol rss repeater?

in today's world? too many possible answers to that question

some UN-associated ACM talk I was listening to recently had someone cite a number at (iirc) ~~$1.5tn total estimated investment~~ $800b[0]. haven't gotten to fact-check it but there's a number of parts of that talk I wish to write up and make more known

one of the people in it made some entirely AGI-pilled comments, and it's quite concerning

this talk; looks like video is finally up on youtube too (at the time I yanked it by pcap-ing a zoom playout session - turns out zoom recordings are hella aggressive about not being shared)

the question I asked was:

To Csaba (the current speaker): it seems that a lot of the current work you're engaged in is done presuming that AGI is a certainty. what modelling you have you done without that presumption?

response is about here

[0] edited for correctness; forget where I saw the >$1.5t number

read to the tune of, naturally

yep exactly - the plant alone is only part of the infra spend, and there's so much else that matters too

it's just such a fucking terrible way of doing this, and it sucks

imagine how fucking terrible it must be to be in this room

(and I won't lie: there's definitely a moment that Inglorious Basterds briefly flashed to mind)

ADQ any% speedruns

(A = assholes)