istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

This is, sadly, pretty unsurprising, as carrying forward the anti-FDR/anti-New Deal movement was a foundational pillar of the libertarianism that Trump co-opted. Heavily promoted by the LewRockwell.com/Mises.org crowd.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But how are they going to awkwardly cram robots in everywhere, to follow up the overwhelming success of AI? Self-crashing cars are a gimme, but maybe a "sealed for your protection" Amazon locker with a robot arm that handles the package for you?

I was in LA this time a couple years ago, and some robot delivery startup had already left their little motorized shopping carts littering the sidewalks around Hollywood. I never saw them moving, they just sat there almost like they were abandoned.

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

I've seen conspiracy theories that a lot of the ad buys for stuff like this are a new avenue of money laundering, focusing on stuff like pirate sports streaming sites, sketchy torrent sites, etc. But a full scraped, SEOd Wikipedia clone also fits.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

They're doing it with cryptocurrency right now.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or their cooling design stinks, or they/Nvidia are just telling the fab we don't care about yields, just send us everything that powers on and we'll figure out which ones are good in production

[–] istewart@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Very true. I think one of the possible low-key outcomes of the bubble is a rise both in open-source driver hacking and manufacture-on-demand PCBs to accommodate what would otherwise be high-dollar e-waste.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Somebody gotta adapt them to boards with actual video outputs tho

[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

Apparently linkedin’s cofounder wrote a techno-optimist book on AI called Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future.

We're going to have to stop paying attention to guys whose main entry on their CV is a website and/or phone app. I mean, we should have already, but now it's just glaringly obvious.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago

I listen solely to 12-hour-long binaural beats tracks from YouTube, to maximize my focus for ~~prompt~~ context engineering. Get with the times or get left behind

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I like my sanity and don't want to delve far enough into the concept of "awarenaut" to form an opinion, so we're just going to enact a default-deny policy on all that as well

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

For the record, none of these generated clips thus far have featured an appearance by Omega Tom Hanks

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