gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 11 hours ago

The best thing an unpopular regime can ask for is the enemy they have been bigging up as literally The Great Satan starts dropping bombs and missiles on the populace that hates it.

"If we bomb people and show their government can't protect them, they will turn against the government and we will win" has been tried by the Germans on Londoners, the Allies on Germany and Japan, and the US on Serbia, and it didn't work.

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

Interesting link but it moves into AI hype near the end.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

I mean it's presumably still standing, just with a slightly cheaper set of owners ;)

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

It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.

So more "hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise" rather than "we used LLMs to develop"

OTOH "these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them" is a bit of a weird sell

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

"[a] cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction"

I mean, that could be anyone.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

slop "fact checking" is coming to LW:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/shortform-1?commentId=fE5cg6pmWrChW8Rtu

wonder what model/prompt they will use. Prolly Grok

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Here's a post purporting to be from the bot's operator

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html

choice quote

Yes, it consumes maintainer time. Yes, it may waste effort. But maybe its worth it?

AI boosterism in a nutshell

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055424

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

more proof that crypto scammers have metastasized to AI scammers

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

I believe it's the evil megacorp in Bladerunner

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We have reached the era of late-stage capitalism where there's not one but multiple "wealth management stocks"

Also not sure why one trucking "company"[1] reporting success would sink all the others. Surely if they could replicate just a fraction of this company's results, they would become massively more productive, and thus profitable.

Traders are dumb.


[1] gotta say though, "Algorythm" is a great name for an ex-karaoke company.

 

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.

 

Years ago (we're talking decades) I ran into a small program that randomly generated raytraced images (think transparent orbs, lens flares, reflection etc), suitable for saving as wallpapers. It was a C/C++ program that ran on Linux. I've long since lost the name and the source code, and I wonder if there's anything like that out there now?

 

Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up as we go along.

Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one here) or code section in a comment.

 

The wider community is still on Reddit, I wonder if there’s an interest to have a small alternative?

If not, what’s a good Lemmy instance for these things?

 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

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