swlabr

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

The satan thing makes a certain kind of sense. Probably catering to a bunch of different flavours of repressed: grindr republicans, covenant eyes users, speaking-in-tongues enthusiasts, etc.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

an artifact with no art in it?

an ifact

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Part of me wants an Ito-created body-horror metaphor for LLMs. The rest of me knows that LLMs are so mundane that the metaphor would probably still be shite.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

I think I’ve heard Rationalism described as a cult incubator

Aside from the fact that rationalism is a cult in and of itself, this is true, no matter how you slice it. You can mean it with absolute glowing praise or total shade and either way it’s still true. Adhering to rationalist principles is pretty much reprogramming yourself to be susceptible to the subset of cults already associated with Rationalism.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

In the last couple of years I have noticed that people have been using single purpose phone holders/straps (as opposed to a multipurpose thing holder like a handbag etc.), so I understand this as apple coming in a little late trying to cash in on a trend. That being said: Apple don’t try to make their soft material products to last, so I expect this to be hot garbage.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

tangent: I’ve seen people using this Bubblegum Slop (BS for short) in their social media stories. My guess is that fb/insta has started suggesting you use their slop instead of using music licensed from spotify, or something.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Brb gonna go collect a trillion dollars for my startup idea that makes babies grow a malignant style parasitic twin that is actually a compute farm

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

this has increased the comedy

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Either they're right, and the bubble pops soon, or they're too early and it's another hilarious Softbank L

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Definitely been seeing the pattern of: “if you don’t like AI, you are being x-phobic” where “x” is a marginalised group that the person is using the name of as a cudgel. They probably never cared about this group before, but what’s important to this person is that they glaze AI over any sort of principle or ethics. Usually it’s ableist, as is basically any form of marginalisation/discrimination.

E: read the link. Lmao that’s… not xenophobia. What a piece of shit

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

Speaking this into existence. In an interview, Saltman suggests soul gems as the next phase in energy production for LLMs

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m too tired to read this properly but it looks like MIT’s suggestion for better vibe coding is just… repackaged software design? Anyway, article.

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