gerikson

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

If you don't get it, LLMs don't either, and David's work here is done.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Managers: "AI will make employees more productive!"

WaPo: "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings" https://archive.ph/ejC53

Managers: "not like that!!!!"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's English, but British, Jim.

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

The Myrdals are probably entirely discredited nowadays, both for being the quintessential social engineers and their son Jan happily destroying their legacy. As you'll no doubt have learned, fertility has fallen everywhere in the developed world, both in countries with shit welfare for parents (Italy) and quite good (the Nordics). Realistically, the only way to reverse this is to enable draconian abortion laws coupled with a systematic repression of sex ed and contraception. Of course this is congruent with today's fascists' goals...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

I have 3 kids, 1 bio and 2 bonus, and man it's a lot of work. (youngest is technically an adult but de facto...)

I also feel there's insane pressure nowadays not just to have a kid but to have the perfect kid - great childhood, great education - and if you miss just one PTA meeting you're branded for life

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Frankly surprised to see something this funny on LinkedIn.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Micro-sneer, inspired by this article on Swedish public service broadcasting

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/anna-bjorklund-folk-uppfattar-barn-som-valdigt-jobbiga

The background is that the center-RIGHT gov of Sweden is gonna put up an investigation ("utredning") into why people aren't getting (the RIGHT kind of) kids. Nothing new there, simply the same culture war fretting already percolating in the anglosphere.

Finland already has an investigation ongoing, and the spokesperson there raises the point that one societal change that's happened in the last 25 years is... social media.

Wouldn't it be delicious if it could be proved that Facebook and Twitter and Tiktok are the reasons people don't get into relationships and have kids? Eat that, Elon!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This titbit by Molly White about how whales have captured Polymarket's "dispute resolution" mechanism had me chuckling

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114779592623569008

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wrong thread, buddy?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think they're different people but may be in communication out of band.

edit a search for "HandofLixue" on Google only gives one hit, an old profile on LessWrong now renamed to "The Dao of Bayes":

https://www.lesswrong.com/users/the-dao-of-bayes

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe instead of worrying about obscure wiki pages, Habryka should reflect why a linkpost titled Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism is on the front page of his precious community now, with 48 karma and 22 comments.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure Altman is gonna get away with settling with Iyo. Hopefully they demand cold hard cash and not weird-ass OpenAI company scrip.

 

After several months of reflection, I’ve come to only one conclusion: a cryptographically secure, decentralized ledger is the only solution to making AI safer.

Quelle surprise

There also needs to be an incentive to contribute training data. People should be rewarded when they choose to contribute their data (DeSo is doing this) and even more so for labeling their data.

Get pennies for enabling the systems that will put you out of work. Sounds like a great deal!

All of this may sound a little ridiculous but it’s not. In fact, the work has already begun by the former CTO of OpenSea.

I dunno, that does make it sound ridiculous.

 

"Oh no! - Anyway" meme intensifies.

 

Pretty soon, paying for all the APIs you need to make sure your Midjourney images are palatable will be enough to pay a human artist!

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