David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems Posts 487Comments 1,172Joined 2 yr. ago
c/techtakes is n-gate now
If this is true, then it’s a remarkable bit of SF foresight
who'd think a commie could see right through a billionaire's PR hype
ya know the Nicole the Fediverse Chick spam? this poster thinks it's a revenge Joe job:
the user has been given a month to consider things
yeah, you can fuck off now
HN is a site for temporarily embarrassed billionaires who desire nothing so much as the blessing of Paul Graham and Garry Tan, so there's a lot of competitive bootlicking
Hacker News, one of the sites this specific discussion community is about, per the sidebar
MOD NOTICE: we're not putting up with debate club rubbish in this thread. If you don't have the reading comprehension to understand the problems with those threads, you shouldn't be posting here.
the poster has been helped to post elsewhere
I did this one today too:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/19/ai-coding-tools-fix-bugs-by-adding-bugs/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzkgDt-d3o - video
Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them
This is proof lesswrong needs more biologists!
last time one showed up he laughed his ass off at the cryonics bit
well that was a waste of frickin time. i spent this evening making a lovely vertical video and it can't be a youtube short cos it's over 3 minutes. same limit on instagram/facebook reels.
i put it up unlisted for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91MXv2MthMk
i mean it misunderstands the assignment, but hopefully it amuses
at least I can avoid for a bit longer having to contemplate lines like
ffmpeg -i out-sq1.mp4 -lavfi "[0:v]scale=1920/1080*iw:1920/1080*ih,boxblur=luma_radius=min(h\,w)/40:luma_power=3:chroma_radius=min(cw\,ch)/40:chroma_power=1[bg];[bg][0:v]overlay=(W-w)/2:(H-h)/2,setsar=1,crop=w=iw*1080/1920" -crf 10 -x264-params keyint=10:scenecut=0 out-vert1.mp4
^-- statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged
tiktok's limit is 10 minutes but the edit has to be completely different (no title cards or branding) and not clear i can say the website url in the video. also UK monetisation kicks in at 10k followers and 100k views in the past 30 days. i am unconvinced as yet.
Leo certainly didn't gatekeep his app's security, hem hem
coding with vibes
ChatGPT as the Sybian of coding
because they sell that! e.g. Kagi resells Google's actual-search-results API
I'm an "is it art?" maximalist. But I think it's the wrong question about generative AI. The right question is the corporate incentives.
especiall when it goes into mangled, uncanny-valley territory
GPT-2 was the peak of LLMs, because it was interestingly broken shit
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-qL88Wfk5w
I get very ranty
an old phone without a SIM and with wifi switched off
Race science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestors
I find absolutely consistently that gen-AI advocates are literally unable to tell good output from bad output. They think people who say their output is garbage are just lying to have a go at them.
Tom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts now
