froztbyte

that was my first read, yeah... and then I realized that's probably not what the poster meant

on the one hand, I want to try find which ~~vendor marketing material~~ "research paper" that paragraph was copied from, but on the other... after yesterday's adventures trying to get data out of PDFs and c.o.n.s.t.a.n.t.l.y getting "hey how about this LLM? it's so good![0]" search results, I'm fucking exhausted

[0]: also most of these are paired with pages of claims of competence and feature boasts, and then a quiet "psssst: also it's a service and you send us your private data and we'll do with it whatever we want" as hidden as they can manage

my post: "Created: Monday, February 3rd, 2025 at 7:44:32 PM GMT+02:00"

wikipedia article: "11:58, 3 March 2025"

worst game of internet sweepstakes ever

thanks, I'll go check in the archives :)

since the name popped up elsewhere: what's the feel on venkatesh rao?

(I often see the name in 🚩 places, but dunno if that's because the areas or because the person)

Musk assured

(aeration? irunno I'm not a chem person. this is where skillsissuer will come Drop Knowledge)

if one presumes the money is gold and thus the scrolls were thin-film heavy metals, aerosolisation of that would explain quite a bit of the current situation

nah, not yet, imo. reasons: you overestimate how much & how many people care, and the complexities of doing such blocks well

I run the hosting of some small (by global standards) media setups and I've floated crawler defense there and had fairly little bite so far despite the issues the crawlers have caused. engagement brain is still extremely fucking prevalent

using it to source data in the meantime. I can tell you with absolute certainty that openai lies about its sourcing

see the funny thing is that ms et al are walking back/scaling down their deployment plans, but that's all partial on the whole. microsoft isn't going to completely explode overnight the moment everyone groks llms are trash, even though they're gonna take a hit

the entities like coreweave whose entire existence is predicated on the fairy tale, however...

(I am still worried about the multi-industry downstream impact of when this shit finally pops though, it is going to be nasty)

it's possibly a distinction without a meaningful difference, but I wouldn't say they're selling shovels - this shit is more like renting out shovels. or maybe timeshare?

I'd love to see a postmortem on deals and development... I have some suspicions on how it all got in this mess to start with (largely "if we sink piles of capex now to corner the market on the magical future, we can totes make it through 5y!" type variations), but I want to see if I'm right

google stepping up their quest to disorganize the world’s information