gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Forget Quillete, he's a supporter of ESR???

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have any foundation for that model of human sentience, apart from feels?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago

They’ll use AI! /s

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno, you want shady people willing to do your money laundering, and murdering those that are caught is a bit of a disincentive to recruiting more.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the backstory with Devuan? I first heard of it from someone licking Andrew Lee's boots after the Freenode debacle, and that instantly branded it as really suspect. But it might just be Debian minus systemd?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ESR hasn't blogged for ages,no? I believe his old blog was offline for a long time because lack of TLS/backup or something.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Googling the blog name brings up this delightful interview

https://www.jollyheretic.com/p/bad-science-vs-based-science-cremieux

Crémieux was kind enough to grant me a podcast, where we covered all manor of things Based, from the IQ of the Ashkenazis, why the Vikings were violent, the effect of selection events, and the need for anonymity in Based science.

Ah yes, anonymity, a cornerstone of the scientific method.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It got submitted to lobste.rs too and there are some insane takes there too

https://lobste.rs/s/ph5o0a/openai_gpt_4o

this model has lower latency, and they’ve priced it at half of the previous model’s price, despite it having comparable or better performance. If this is not a dumping price,[...]

Yeah it's totes more efficient, it's not like Altman/MSFT are desperate to goose subscriber numbers

I’ve seen first-hand how it helps non-programmers write programs to solve their problems (with “bad” code, but bad code is still empowering people), and I think that’s important given that software has been eating the world.

Couldn’t the thousands of people now free from mundane work, work together now on solving climate issues or issues that require physical human labor?

if LLMs/AI can run byrocracies (and whole countries) more efficiently, there are potential energy savings there too.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

You need the whiteboards to schedule the orgies.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah milesrout made a fool of themselves on lobste.rs and got banned.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some rich investor/math nerd croaks (from old age), HN's resident mod team declines to add a black bar to the site, leading fans of licking rich boots to wonder if "the community" should decide which dead rich guys get commemorated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327812

Bonus for the dude still salty Terry Davis didn't get one.

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