David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Red

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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

It was a Jimmy Wales personal project, not an official WIkimedia project, and no, it didn't go anywhere

I believe in the necessity of wallet inspection, because the experts - the inspectors of wallets - tell me that wallet quality control is the future and is vital to society

a pile of people have said of Scoot using 10,000 words when 14 would do

LLMs are a development from machine learning of the sort that works, and translation was always squishy. Just a straight LLM can do surprisingly well at translation, though if I run "surprisingly well" through a translator it comes out as "impressive demo, not so great product." Tools like Google Translate are a complex array of stuff, not just one approach.

lol i can replicate this glitch for glitch

that second last para is why Sam's AI metafiction is so fucking terrible

we don't shove rationalists into lockers any more since we all read Worm

this is notes, not a thesis, i have the links to hand

What the fuck is wrong with you?

the blog tagline is "Dysgenics, forecasting, machine learning, sociology, physiognomy, IQ, simulations", so he tells us straight up what's wrong with him

wot i got so far:

Current “artificial general intelligence” researchers have a repeated habit of using a definition of “intelligence” from psychologist and ardent race scientist Linda Gottfredson. The definition looks innocuous, but was from Gottfredson’s 1994 Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Mainstream Science on Intelligence,” a farrago of race science put forward as a defense of Charles Murray’s book The Bell Curve — signed off by 52 other race scientists, 20 of whom were from the Pioneer Fund.

Gottfredson’s piece was cited in Shane Legg’s Ph.D dissertation “Machine Super Intelligence,” in which he called it “an especially interesting definition as it was given as part of a group statement signed by 52 experts in the field” and that it therefore represented “a mainstream perspective” — an odd way to refer to Pioneer Fund race scientists. Somehow, this passed Legg’s dissertation committee.

The definition made it from Legg’s Ph.D into Microsoft and OpenAI’s “Sparks of AGI” paper, and from there to everyone else who copies citations to fill out their bibliography. When called out on this, Microsoft did finally remove the citation.

I have a half written text about working definitions of intelligence in the AI field and whoops, it's all racism!

not if i can avoid it

enterprise dildomancy

figure 1: the loved one whacks a keyboard with a dildo, thus reproducing Tumblr

"coded by dildo" coined in this post and I have a whole tag here going back nearly 10 years

previously known as "coding by whacking the keyboard with dildos"

i've changed my mind, cursor is now the best ai coding tool

(just writing this up as today's Pivot)

wikipedia articles: hey this is pretty good!
wikipedia talk pages: what is wrong with you people

it's not actually any more painful than any wikipedia talk page, it's surprisingly okay for the genre really

remember: wikipedia rules exist to keep people like this from each others' throats, no other reason

I've just realised:

this reads just like a neoreactionary trying to be literary

e.g. the Dimes Square literary astroturf crowd

same problem as gen AI output: too much style, zero understanding of basic structure, you cannot get that fine detailed in structure and be that bad at the basics.