antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rødes of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

My favorite meme message board on the internet keeps putting out bangers, but this one is extra good and relevant http://www.b3ta.com/board/11416629

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

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

Also he wrote borderline anti-woke stuff back when doing that could still appear edgy and icky.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

So many projects and small websites I’m aware of are being overtaxed by shitty LLM scrapers these days, it feels like an intentional attack. I guess the idea of ai can’t fail, it can only be failed; and so its profiteers must sabotage anything that indicates it’s not beneficial/necessary.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

This “insight” tool gives a very incisive critique of the opinion-page journalism we’ve been seeing lately. Oddly enough, not the kind of critique you’d see printed on an opinion page.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Just a couple more GPUs bro, I’m sure it’s around the corner

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Ah, yes. The implication.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Thanks. I simply switched to Fastmail over this bullshit. (“Simply” mileage may vary)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

They’ll react to it … by swerving further right.

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

Very normal tech persona behavior, but it’s made very special by the presence of that channel on yammer of all places.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

I have some positive news, someone did the math: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

Drawing on recent empirical evidence, we show that ending poverty and ensuring decent living standards (DLS) for all, with a full range of necessary goods and services (a standard that approximately 80% of the world population presently does not achieve) can be provisioned for a projected population of 8.5 billion people in 2050 with around 30% of existing productive capacity

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

 

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

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