gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Surprise level: zero

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

The second screenshot goes to a chart where the Y axis is labelled

Task duration (for humans) where logistic regression of our data predicts the AI has a 50% chance of succeeding

So they're just extrapolating an exponential, not actually measuring it.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Check out this epic cope from an Anthropic employee desperately trying to convince himself and others that actually LLMs are getting exponentially better

https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/

Includes screenshots of data where he really really hopes you don't look at the source, and links to AI 2027.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's been on the vibecoding bandwagon for quite some time on lobste.rs.

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

What book is that?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Not sure if a LessWronger extensively quoting Accelerando as a blueprint for a singularity takeoff is complimentary to Charles Stross:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xp9ie6pEWFT8Nnhka/accelerando-as-a-slow-reasonably-nice-takeoff-story

Worht noting is that the novel is 20 years old...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

The UK public being skeptical about AI must be good news for Big Yud.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Usual suspects weighing in.

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

Remind me: why is Hyprland bad? I don't doubt it is, I just need it to add to my mental list of stuff to avoid.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

Harvard Business Review: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

[...] Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. On social media, which is increasingly clogged with low-quality AI-generated posts, this content is often referred to as “AI slop.” In the context of work, we refer to this phenomenon as “workslop.” We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Cloudflare sponsors Ladybird and Omarchy, techfash workfare

 

“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...

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