FredFig

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[–] FredFig@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A worldview where one's worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the phases of the moon.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

The real damning thing is the speed that the true believers abandoned this garbage fire. You used to be able to string these guys along for years, and now they can barely keep the trend going for a week. Gonna be real weird when the scammers realize they've finally burnt out all the good will.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

We've been begging people for 17 years to understand that reality matters.

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

Crosslinking SRD: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1p88k7d/guys_were_gonna_be_okay_maybe_not_today_maybe_not/

Observing AI psychosis from a distance is so fascinating. "Valentine just got nerfed for me." What???

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Hank Green has been one of my barometers for the moderate opinion and he's sounding worryingly like Zitron in his last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0TpWitfxPk

The attention black hole around nvidia and AI is so insane, I guess it's because there's everyone knows there's no next thing to jump onto.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

if there isn't, I'm calling it muskware, its conceptually close enough to vaporware.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

The truth is that we feel shame to a much greater degree than the other side, which makes it pretty easy to divide us on these annoying trivialities.

My personal hatred of tone policing is greater than my sense of shame, but I imagine that isnt something to expect for most.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

I guess keeping in theme, "vibe replying"

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

Go off, Alsup.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

I think it's a piece in the long line of "AI means A and B, and A is bad and B can be good, so not all AI is bad", which isn't untrue in the general sense, but serves the interest of AIguys who aren't interested in using B, they're interested in promoting AI wholesale.

We're not in a world where we should be offering AI people any carveout; as you mention in the second half, they aren't interested in being good actors, they just want a world where AI is societally acceptable and they can become the Borg.

More directly addressing your piece, I don't think the specific examples you bring up are all that compelling. Or at least, not compared to the cost of building an AI model, especially when you bring up how it'll be cheaper than traditional alternatives.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

At the risk of doing some "founder mode" idiot's homework for them, impermanence is inherent to a lot of artforms, and I can see some insane and vague pitches to use quantum to "capture the magic moment". Or maybe they tie it back into NFTs with quantum technology that comes up with every variant of the bored chimpanzee at once.

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