gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 8 hours ago

Show me someone who admittedly seems to know a lot about Japan, but not so much about East Germany:

But the most efficient of these measures were probably easier to implement in the recently post-totalitarian East Germany, with its still-docile population accustomed to state directives, than in democratic Japan.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse

So... East Germany ceased to exist 35 years ago. Even if we accept that the people affected by the degrowth discussed in this article are the ones who grew up during the DDR regime, it doesn't rhyme well with the fact that East German states are hotbeds for neo-Nazi parties, which by all accounts should be anathema to a population raised in a totalitarian state dominated by the Soviet Union.

And if there's a population almost stereotypically conformist to the common good over the private will, isn't that the Japanese?

I'm open to input on either side, I admit I don't know too much about these issues.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 9 hours ago

FWIW here's Scott v.5's LW contribs: just 3 comments, latest 5 years ago

https://www.lesswrong.com/users/scott-shambaugh

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

Don't feel bad, it's gonna be harder and harder to avoid being duped in the future.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I regret to inform y'all that the target of the blog post is a rat, or at least rat-adjacent

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

I think there’s a lot to say about the object level issue of how to deal with AI agents in open source projects, and the future of building in public at all.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

"The n-word is a shibboleth" is ... a choice of words.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

don't try this dickhead's suggestion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975742

(btw added the Anthropic string to my blog site's footer last week)

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

someone on HN or LW posted a piece about how they'd tried to get chatgpt to design a machine part, and it had hilariously failed (impossible machine paths, too thin material etc)

some nimrod suggested skilled machinists be outfitted with pressure sensing gloves and cameras and patiently explain eahc machining step so the LLMs could take their jobs

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

Passenger Attendants

Hosts and Hostesses

Just what you want when you pay for a nice travel experience or night out, a fucking ipad on a stick rolling up to you and trying to be of service.

LLMs came up with this list, prove me wrong

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

2034 eh?

I recently purchased a couple of decent red wines with the intent to age them appropriately. Vendor said 8 years was good, so I Sharpied "'34" on the label and felt really really old when I did so.

Anyway, 18 Jul 2034 is as good a date as any to uncork one of them to enjoy. Marked my calendar!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (7 children)

strong echoes of the (probably fictional) reddit tale of the anarcho-capitalist who gets beaten up by real anarchists in Greece.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is this really Big Yud’s account ? Different nick than previous screenshots.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wasn't Musk financing people who were gonna "hack the simulation" at one point?

 

current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
 

Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
 

The previous thread has fallen off the front page, feel free to use this for discussions on current problems

Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

 

This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

 

“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.

 

The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

 

HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas, hmmmmmm??????

Maybe it's just my newness antennae needing calibrating, but I do feel the extreme energy requirements for what's arguably just a frivolous toy is gonna cause AI boosters big problems, especially as energy demands ramp up in the US in the warmer months. Expect the narrative to adjust to counter it.

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