blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I often use prompts

Well, there's your problem

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

and hot young singles in your area have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell

on the blockchain

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So many techbros have decided to scrape the fediverse that they all blur together now... I was able to dig up this:

"I hear I’m supposed to experiment with tech not people, and must not use data for unintended purposes without explicit consent. That all sounds great. But what does it mean?" He whined.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 29 points 8 months ago (27 children)

When you don’t have anything new, use brute force. Just as GPT-4 was eight instances of GPT-3 in a trenchcoat, o1 is GPT-4o, but running each query multiple times and evaluating the results. o1 even says “Thought for [number] seconds” so you can be impressed how hard it’s “thinking.”.

This “thinking” costs money. o1 increases accuracy by taking much longer for everything, so it costs developers three to four times as much per token as GPT-4o.

Because the industry wasn't doing enough climate damage already.... Let's quadruple the carbon we shit into the air!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have to admit that I wasn't expecting LinkedIn to become a wretched hive of "quantum" bullshit, but hey, here we are.

Tangentially: Schrödinger is a one-man argument for not naming ideas after people.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

(smashes imaginary intercom button) "Who is this 'some guy'? Find him and find out what he knows!!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Happy belated birthday!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Elon Musk in the replies:

Have you read Asimov’s Foundation books?

They pose an interesting question: if you knew a dark age was coming, what actions would you take to preserve knowledge and minimize the length of the dark age?

For humanity, a city on Mars. Terminus.

Isaac Asimov:

I'm a New Deal Democrat who believes in soaking the rich, even when I'm the rich.

(From a 1968 letter quoted in Yours, Isaac Asimov.)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (14 children)

Lex Fridman: "I'm going to do a deep dive on Ancient Rome. Turns out it was a land of contrasts"

I'm doing a podcast episode on the Roman Empire.

It's a deep dive into military conquest, technology, politics, economics, religion... from its rise to its collapse (n the west & the east).

History really does put everything in perspective.

(xcancel)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

Something tells me they’re not just slapping chatGPT on the school computers and telling kids to go at it; surely one of the parents would have been up-to-date enough to know it’s a scam otherwise.

If people with money had that much good sense, the world would be a well-nigh unfathomably different place....

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