V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems Posts 6Comments 623Joined 1 yr. ago
The only remarkable thing is how fucking easy it is to convince the median consumer that vaguely-correct-shape sentences are correct.
This has been said multiple times but I don't think it's possible to internalize.
The VC/MBA class thinks all communication can be distilled into saying the precise string of words that triggers the stochastically desired response in the consumer. Conveying ideas or information is not the point. This is why ChatGPT seems like the holy grail to them, it effortlessly* generates mountains of corporate slop that carry no actual meaning. It's all form and no substance, because those people -- their entire existence, the essence of their cursed dark souls -- has no substance.
- batteries not included
(see this for some others)
This article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords. (July 2011)
WP:LOL. WP:LMAO even
Xml also used to be a tech hype for a bit.
Wha... What?
I'm trying to imagine a news anchor hyping about XM-fucking-L and I'm drawing a complete blank, is this a zen riddle
Only in the philosophical sense of all of physics being a giant stochastic system.
But that's equally useful as saying that we're Turing machines? Yes, if you draw a broad category of "all things that compute in our universe" then you can make a reasonable (but disputable!) argument that both me and a Python interpreter are in the same category of things. That doesn't mean that a Python interpreter is smart/sentient/will solve climate change/whatever Sammy Boi wants to claim this week.
Or, to use a different analogy, it's like saying "we're all just cosmic energy, bro". Yes we are, pass the joint already and stop trying to raise billions of dollars for your energy woodchipper.
Okay but "Elon is not smarter than me" is a universally true statement in the exact same way as "dumb as a rock" is a universally applicable idiom.
Why the fuck is there a gigantic 1000-year-old oak blocking the entire pavement. Also why is that one in autumn colors.
This response from her. Lol. Lmao.
can you and all your anti-ai bots just block me? we get it, you hate ai art
What a misunderstood wee lil smol bean, waah
‘a man writing on a woman’s bare back and, next to her, a stage prop in the form of a cartoonish racial caricature’
Again, what is the connection to LIGO?? Did he want to do something so grossly inappropriate it would generate gravitational waves with its sheer denseness?
I think a couple of people noted it at the start, but this is truly a paradigm shift.
We've had so many science fiction stories, works, derivatives, musing about AI in so many ways, what if it were malevolent, what if it rebelled, what if it took all jobs... But I don't think our collective consciousness was aware of the "what if it was just utterly stupid and incompetent" possibility.
From the linked article:
Restricting the Nobel Prize in physics to only three winners in a given year is only one of its problems, though, and Barry Barish is indicative of another. Barish gave a public talk in which he opened the presentation with a slide featuring both racist and sexist imagery.
This was a presentation about LIGO. How? Just fucking how does your INTRO to a project on GRAVITATIONAL WAVES get to be sexist and racist? Did he just casually throw in a slide saying "btw I just hate insert groups here"??
TIL Roblox is listed on the fucking stock market.
including Tonal, an early attempt to promote hexadecimal
I am so happy I've seen this, it's so bad.
I will now forever pronounce $2^{16}$ as bong.
He did, it's the Turing Award.
Okay sure, but this is comical. A Turkish nationalist will be a Turkish nationalist with or without this idea. It's the equivalent of saying that Turkish people have naturally less odorous farts and thus TURKIYE SHALL RULE THE WORLD!
This operating system has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.
This but about Windows and unironically.
like people thinking that all languages come from turkish
This is amazing, I fucking love this. People striving to create the lowest stakes possible conspiracy. I struggle to think of something that would have less impact on the world no matter it were true or false.
A shadowy cabal of powerful people guarding the secret of "actually, it was [rolls die] Turkish people who invented [rolls another die] language!"
My commitment is that maximalism or strict binary assumptions won’t work on either end and don’t satisfy what anyone truly wants or needs.
What's truly lovely about GDPR is that it is maximalist, strict, and binary. For any "but..." of a corporation the GDPR answer is "fucks given: 0, this is YOUR problem, comply or perish."
Which makes it so baffling every time a techbro fails to understand it or claims "GDPR doesn't apply to me." Just don't fuck around with PII and don't collect any without explicit permission from the user! How is this difficult?!