antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Been tangentially involved in a discussion about how much LLMs have improved in the past year (I don’t care), but now that same space has a discussion of how annoying the stupid pop-up chat boxes are on websites. Don’t know what the problem is, they’ve gotten so much better in the past year?

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

Oh lol, I thought his name sounded familiar and yup, he was a concern troll in a Hackerspace I was in, some 12 years ago.

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

These are great recs. You can definitely find good sci-fi out of America as long as you pick from authors that aren’t white, straight or cis. Marginalized people have a really good sense of the world (no doubt because they need it to survive)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 4 weeks ago

I mean, of course they are. Perfect culture fit, both projects.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Having followed PLT stuff online for more than a quarter century now, I can state with confidence that basically everyone writing about lambda calculus online is doing it to glorify themselves.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

Less insane and more honest, truly

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whichever one of you did https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/jobs, well done, and many lols.

CAAAC is an open, dynamic, inclusive environment, where all perspectives are welcomed as long as you believe AGI will annihilate all humans in the next six months.

Alright, I can pretend to believe that, go on…

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits, including no performance management because we have no way to assess whether the work you do is at all useful.

Incredible. I hope I get the job!

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

I hadn’t seen this article yet about the hardware economics underpinning the LLM hype, but it’s really pretty good https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en/articles/how-to-use-computing-power-faster

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

There’s not a whole lot of clear info out there but it looks like the Tesla “dog mode” (the feature you’re supposed to rely on when you leave a dog in the car so the dog doesn’t overheat and die) is prone to failure and has recently killed a dog.

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

That’s certainly true, but the register has had a mean-spirited and anti-intellectual bent for much longer than that. They’ve been doing shitty journalism since you could still buy independent local newspapers on paper.

That what they’ve been doing is mainstream now is only even more disappointing.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You don’t say, the register, taking journalistic integrity less than serious? (Hi, it’s me, a person who has been annoyed by their editorial choices for more than two decades now)

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

I think you’re misreading the intent behind “give your virtual coworker OKRs”: this allows you to punish the robot, which it deserves.

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