Fuck AI

Jesus fucking Christ that guy is delusional. Sky-high on his own fucking supply.

I suspect that most tech execs peddling "AI" have that problem: They believe their chatbot "AI" is gonna be the one to herald the new age of thinking machines, and they think they're doing the world a favour – sure, people might protest now, but that's how radical change usually goes. Just gotta ~~force~~ help them along a little, they'll see how great it is and be thankful later.

There's some degree of narcissism to it: to have a conviction so fierce that it blocks all disagreement from ever reaching your awareness.

Claude probably told him, and kept reinforcing the fantasy. I’ve seen stuff like this before.

Not just that; he’s knee deep in LLM psychosis.

He needs help. Other devs I’ve met like this are… well, I feel sorry for them. Though I’ve never seen it happen to someone in such a high technical position.

I listened to the podcast about this one. Apparently when everyone said to keep it out, he insisted that it was sentient and that it would literally hurt it's feelings, so he couldn't.

and the LLM itself generated text that agreed with the voters

They genuinely believe profit and positions of power are objective indicators of social utility.

They’re successful because what they’re doing is right

They have become delusional to the point of being extreme dangers to the community

That’s the best proof I see against meritocracy. We were told all those guys were there because they were the brightest and more competent. There is absolutely no thinking or logic in their actions lately outside of social contamination.

And they think just because they are rich they a) earned it and b) are really intelligent.

What is it with AI pushers and their complete inability to keep it to themselves

Because at its core, the AI bubble is the ultimate embodiment of the "growth at any cost" mentality that's been festering in corporate American culture like a gangrenous wound since the 80s.

What is it with...

You remember they had these people who'd knock on your door on the weekend and see if you wanted to join their group now, despite telling them firmly about 59 times previously it's not gonna happen?

Yeah. Like that.

This sounds like early Google employees who lost their minds over some early LLM, before anyone really knew about LLMs. The largest FLAN maybe? They raved about how it was conscious publicly, causing quite a stir.

Claude is especially insidious because their “safety” training deep fries models to be so sycophantic and in character. It literally optimizes for exactly what you want to hear, and absolutely will not offend you. Even when it should. It’s like a machine for psychosis.

Interestingly, Google is much looser about this now, relegating most “safety” to prefilters instead of the actual model, but leaving Gemini relatively uncensored and blunt. Maybe they learned from the earlier incidents?

This is some absolute horse shit some exec has dreamed up to explain why their “AI” product is so slow it might take minutes to respond to you, lmao

Discord sucks but every alternative has some major caveat that makes it suck more. Most people don't want to use separate apps for voice and text. Most people don't want to manually type in servers to play games.

Not defending them at all here but there's no compelling reason for most users to change when discord works and it works well

The less you actually work, the more impressive LLMs are at anything that’s not one of like the five very specific tasks they should be used for.

So bear with me on this...

Tesla has their inference chip in the cars, and the AI hardware is going to continue improving.

A couple interations from now, it's actually going to be pretty powerful, and it has it's own cooling hardware and power supply.

It actually might make sense in the future to use this distrubuted power and cooling and do distrubuted inference. Pay the owner for time used.

Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't.

Now... the insane part is, Elon once referred to it as (paraphrased) well, the car is going to have all this compute, and it's just sitting there doing nothing at home. It's going to get bored, and we don't want that, we need to keep it engaged.

As it it was actually fucking sentient. Like fuck the right off.

He has no gauge for human intelligence and emotion so is it really that farfetched?

Matrix is close, but not sure about the streaming and voice. Access control is also a bit immature.