Soyweiser

Thanks!

According to this https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lyj2o4cuvc2g , and I think a fox news news report he is dead.

He was shot while he was trying to blame gun violence on trans people and gang violence basically. In a moment of weird poetry.

But I just posted this here to warn people. A tip if you see something traumatic: https://bsky.app/profile/baroness.bsky.social/post/3lyj32qx2os2f go play some videogames to not sear it into your mind.

Anyway, doubt they will make the diaper guy the new Horst Wessel.

E: a awful.systems relevant lol: https://bsky.app/profile/lasergiant.bsky.social/post/3lyixmkzfuc2r

Word of warning, if you are squeemish, Charlie Kirk got shot, and closeup videos of him getting shot are over social media and people have not put warnings up. Managed to avoid it myself, but careful with autoplaying gifs, and use this link https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3lyiw3vi3yc2c for instructions how to turn that off.

E: and it was a groyper, stop your bets ladies and gentlebots. The winner of the bet is, acausalrobotgod! Again! What a predictive streak. (E2: im just making a joke here on betting markets and how ACRG would win them all because acausal magic, don't bet on peoples lives and don't use betting markets).

E: while im editing this post with corrections, turns out that Kirk was a lot worse than I thought and he wasn't just a garden variety propagandist like a Shapiro/Crowder etc. (yeah I know they both also try to branch out into more media). He was doing a lot of shit work on the ground, and one of those guys who was really influential with younger people. Read that this might also explain the extreme rightwing reaction, as he was seen by some as a next big political player. To me, very online leftwinger from europe, he just was the worst joke from a line of other propagandists, but I was wrong on that.

$30 mil budget

From what I heard that is twice the budget of a Studio Ghibli movie. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind cost 1 million to make in 1984. (No idea what that would be adjusted for inflation).

Just give the birthrates a cane or a walker if they keep falling. I don't see why we should care more than that.

And a good writer. Verbosity being the soul of wit.

“AI researcher blogger”

From the second link

first, I've seen that one of the most common responses is that anyone criticising the original post clearly doesn't understand it and is ignorant of how language models work

And

PS: please don't respond to this thread with "OK the exact words don't make sense, but if we wave our hands we can imagine he really meant some different set of words that if we squint kinda do make sense".

I don't know why some folks respond like this every single *time

Lol.

And of course Yud doubles down in the replies and goes on about a "security mindset". You can see why he was wowed by ceos, he just loves the buzzwords. ('what if the singularity happens' is not a realistic part of any security mindset, it gets even sillier here, as the recursive selfimprovement here just instantly leads to a undetectable AGI without any intervening steps)

It gets even better, in defending himself he points out that using the wrong words is fine and some people who do research on it actually say loss function at times, and as an example he uses a tweet that is seemingly mocking him (while also being serious about job offers as nothing is not on several levels of ironic online) https://xcancel.com/aidangomez/status/1651207435275870209#m

Remember, when your code doesn't compile, it might mean you made a mistake in coding, or your code is about to become selfaware.

Certainly a lot more money in that, than scouring github for code you can put into urbit.

Tbh, from looking it up it seems to have just been a Muslim rights org who complained it wasnt great (which seems fine), reading between the gossip lines. Also seems that the AI images were from the people who hired K3 to play not them themselves.

Nobody seems to have been mad enough to firebomb openAIs offices.

Belgian AI fails. So there is a big kids pop group popular in Belgium/The Netherlands, called K3. They used genAI images for their show. And apparently it created images of them with with both bikinis and headscarfs at the same time. According to this article https://www.nu.nl/muziek/6368424/k3-geschrokken-van-ongepaste-ai-beelden-tijdens-optreden-jammere-fout.html (in Dutch sorry) lot of people apparently were mad. (I have not seen mad people myself, so not sure if it actually was a problem, and how many people are mad over the four main reasons to be mad possibly (being, 'islamisation', immodesty, being insulting to Muslims, and feeding genAI crap to kids while you are one of the biggest acts around (and can certainly afford professional artists), so take into account this is likely a nothingburger))). I was amused to read first that they had shown inappropriate images, and then read it was just headscarves and bikinis.

e: also note for context, nu.nl is a news site, but usually the quality of their articles isn't the greatest, not a lot of actual journalism, and a lot of bias towards the establishment and a tendency to mainstream pro the current social order stuff no matter how out there. (They had articles going 'no the inflation isn't due to companies rising prizes, as not all inflation is because of that) and a tendency to post a lot of gossip like shit. (nos.nl is our big main news site). And their source, shownews is worse. It is basically on our fox news style tv channel. (they have an eveningshow 'vandaag inside' which is basically causing the people who watch it to become nuts in the fox news style way, esp elderly people. Weird transphobic rants, anti-woke shit, contrarian idiots who don't realize they are idiots but are brave truthtellers, all brought in a 'bar style' sort of setting. Watched some of it (really funny to hear them say leftwingers don't watch their shows) and every hour of it would require several ours to explain why almost everything they say is wrong)). I'm trying to provide context for where my poor country is going.

Lol at the critihype from the BussyGyatt person in that post. Come on LLMs will not become AGI, and that leaves LLMs 'predicting shutdowns will be bad for their goals' which is only so because people like this have kept saying it an the LLMs have trained on it. If you really worried about this, you'd stop feeding that data to it.