Questioning the nature of human intelligence is step 1 in promptfondler whataboutism.
gerikson
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I regret I have but one upvote to give to this
This is such a pivot, from "you can soon fly between capitals in half the time" to "this screaming jet engine will soon be disturbing your sleep 24/7"
Old Man Stallman comes out swinging against ChatGPT specifically, adding it to the long long list of stuff he doesn't like. For some reason HN is mad at this, as if RMS saying slop is good actually would convince anyone normal to start using it
Having a SAN stat act like an INT (IQ) stat is very on brand for rationalists (except ofc the INT stat is immutable duh)
Yud explains, over 3k words, that not only is he smarter than everyone else, he is also saner, and no, there's no way you can be as sane as him
Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity
(side note - it's weird that LW, otherwise so anxious about designing their website, can't handle fucking apostrophes correctly)
pity it is slop, I'd enjoy a good ESR dunk
2 links from my feeds with crossover here
Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Data Center Backlash
Techdirt: Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric
Unfortunately Techdirt's Mike Masnick is a signatory some bullshit GenAI-collaborationist manifesto called The Resonant Computing Manifesto, along with other suspects like Anil Dash. Like so many other technolibertarian manifestos, it naturally declines to say how their wonderful vision would be economically feasible in a world without meaningful brakes on the very tech giants they profess to oppose.
Thing I realized: if GenAI really is the game-changer the fondlers say it is, it should have broken through to the consumer now, in the form of better goods and services at lower prices. But that's not what I'm seeing. So either GenAI doesn't work as advertised, or the companies deploying it are keeping the surplus profits to themselves. Neither scenario makes me want GenAI more.
I'm too fucking old to care about hipster terminals, so I had no idea ghostty was started by a (former) billionaire. If forced to choose a new terminal I will certainly take this fact into consideration.
the base use for LLMs is gonna be hypertargetted advertising, malware, political propaganda etc
well the base case for LLMs is that, right now
the privacy nerds won't know what hit them
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We don't even have Universal Basic Income yet but libertarians are already arguing it's too large
(arnoldkling.substack.com)
Jane Street has an interesting cachet in at least my nerd circles because they require everyone they hire to learn Ocaml[1]. It would not surprise me if they are fash-adjacent, but only because I believe everyone in Wall Street is fash-adjacent.
[1] I think - maybe it's only the technical staff