gerikson

joined 2 years ago
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

I mean it's presumably still standing, just with a slightly cheaper set of owners ;)

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.

So more "hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise" rather than "we used LLMs to develop"

OTOH "these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them" is a bit of a weird sell

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

"[a] cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction"

I mean, that could be anyone.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

slop "fact checking" is coming to LW:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/shortform-1?commentId=fE5cg6pmWrChW8Rtu

wonder what model/prompt they will use. Prolly Grok

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Here's a post purporting to be from the bot's operator

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html

choice quote

Yes, it consumes maintainer time. Yes, it may waste effort. But maybe its worth it?

AI boosterism in a nutshell

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055424

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

more proof that crypto scammers have metastasized to AI scammers

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

I believe it's the evil megacorp in Bladerunner

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We have reached the era of late-stage capitalism where there's not one but multiple "wealth management stocks"

Also not sure why one trucking "company"[1] reporting success would sink all the others. Surely if they could replicate just a fraction of this company's results, they would become massively more productive, and thus profitable.

Traders are dumb.


[1] gotta say though, "Algorythm" is a great name for an ex-karaoke company.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

Again, the lobsters in Accelerando are the bad guys. They traffic in conciousness, the less uploaded the better. Don't make your social network emulate them.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Last megathread I posted about some LWer writing about "demographic collapse" in Japan (indistinguishable from anyone with any ambition leaving for greener pastures). I've read the comments to see if there's any pushback, and found this absolute doozy

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse?view=postCommentsNew&commentId=Gbfu5BGaZMwXFey7h

 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

 

Sorry for Twitter link...

view more: next ›