YourNetworkIsHaunted

Also, when less than a fifth of your salespeople are making their targets you need to take a very long look at what that fifth is doing, because with a product like this they have to be lying about something that's going to give Legal headaches down the line.

Can I just take a moment to appreciate Merriam-Webster for coming in clutch with the confirmation that we're not misunderstanding the "6-7" meme that the kids have been throwing around?

Yeah. If I wanted to perfectly reproduce the original series in a different time and location I would use a machine rather than trying to get my local theater troupe to do it, I guess. Therefore AI completely and blatantly fucking up a totally different task isn't a monumental waste of time and energy?

Jesus. This being 2025 of course he had to clarify that it's definitely not DEI. Also it really grinds me gears to see hyperfocus listed as one of the "beneficial" aspects because there's no way it's not exploitative. Hey, so you know how sometimes you get so caught up in a project you forget to eat? Just so you know, you could starve on the clock. For me.

Much like when the Voyager passed warp 13, our AI development is moving too fast with potentially magnitudinous consequences.

It's fascinating to watch Hanania try and do politics in a comment space more focused on academic inquiry, and how silly he looks here. He can't participate in this conversation without trying to make it about social interventions and class warfare (against the poor), even though I don't know that Bessis would disagree that the thing social interventions can't significantly increase the number of mathematical or scientific geniuses in a country (1). Instead, Hanania throws out a few brief, unsupported arguments, gets asked for clarification and validation, accuses everyone of being woke, and gets basically ignored as the conversation continues around him.

This feels like the kind of environment that Siskind and friends claim to be wanting to create, but it feels like they're constitutionally incapable of actually doing the "ignore Nazis until they go away" part.

1. From his other post linked in the thread he credits that level of aptitude to idiosyncratic ways of thinking that are neither genetically nor socially determined, but can be cultivated actively through various means. The reason that the average poor Indian boy doesn't become Ramanujan is the same reason you or I or his own hypothetical twin brother didn't; we're not Ramanujan. This doesn't mean that we can't significantly improve our own ability to understand and use mathematical thinking.)

Honestly I'm kinda grateful for people who dig into and analyze the actual data in seeming ignorance of the political context of the people pushing the other side. It's one thing to know that Jordan "Crimieux" Lasker and friends are out here doing Deutsch Genetik and another to have someone cleanly and clearly lay out exactly why they're wrong, especially when they do the work of assembling a more realistic and useful story about the same studies.

...so it's not a Dr Who thing.

No, no. I'm not mad. Just... disappointed. Existentially speaking.

they’ve already got a contract with Crusoe AI to deliver 1.21 gigawatts.

Does that number feel suspiciously memetic to anyone else?

The new "Radio didn't work and I never heard the order to shovel forty tons of shit, sir" is going to involve some suspiciously direct damage to Corporal Chatbot's output devices.

Sounds a bit like a Swedish heiress to Lillian Gilbreth. My wife has had some mobility issues and has lamented that the work that went into designing more ergonomic and accessible kitchens in the 40s and 50s was largely abandoned and ignored in more recent homes.

I'm slightly disappointed they didn't take a page from David and use the only valid photo of Jensen Huang for the relevant page, but the fact that he was encouraging us to sign a literal deal with the devil more than made up for it.