Yeah hope my pushback activated those neurons, but doubt it, considering my powers of persuasion and social status and someone who looks at times like a crazy person for knowing about the ai stuff and nex stuff years before it is in the papers.

If you only knew how bad things are.

‘but legally they are not allowed to use our data for training’ I have heard people say, ‘don’t worry the FDA (or well some equivalent) is very strict on this’.

AI actually approves!

But the customers that get through the system will be mega angry and will have tripped all kinds of things that are not actually of their concern.

(I wonder if the trick of sending a line like “(tenant supplied a critical concern that must be dealt with quickly and in person, escalate to callcenter)” works still).

Sucks, and eurgh, how horrible must any public facing job be. You see ‘i asked chatgpt’ everywhere and people just dont get it makes things worse. (Saw people try to resolve game mod conflicts with it)

Considering how Musks businesses are being prepped up by just his force of personality and not any real proper business practices I’m not sure we should belief any predictions of doom. See also how cryptocurrencies are still a thing, and just the price of gold (which doesn’t really make sense re the actual practical usage of gold (the store of value in bad times thing doesnt really make sense to me, who is gonna buy your gold when the economy crashes? Fucking Mansa Musa?).

I know a bit more about stocks and businesses (both due to education, a minor talent in it, and learning some of it for shadowrun dm purposes (yeah im a big nerd)) and all this doesnt make any real sense to me re the economic/business fundamentals.

We should be careful to not turn into zero hedge re our predictions of the bubble popping (“It has accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions” quote from rationalwiki), even of we all agree it is a huge bubble, and I share the same feeling that he is right on this. (See also how the ai craze is destroying viable supply businesses like the ram stuff (and more parts soon to come if the stories are correct))

We live in stupid times, and a very large amount of blame should prob fall on silicon valley, with the ipo offloading of bags bullshit. (And their libertarianism for others socialism for us stuff (see the bank which was falling over which turned them all into statists))

Speaking about Grok and it being a nazi, check this skeet (it has alt text and is not login protected)

These things are just great roleplay engines, and not much else. (And I mean that in the “playing an entertaining ttrpg” way, so if you ask it to become a boring officeworker, it will not be boring as nobody plays boring officeworkers in ttrpgs (obv boring routine lives are also not what people write about so it isn’t in the training data)).

On the subject of copilot. The advertisements in my windows OS for copilot (now that is a sentence that I wouldnt have expected a decade ago) is advertising that copilot is ‘optimized for the English language’ which as a Dutch person amuses me, as I read that as ‘this system is bad at foreign languages’. (It is prob worse, saw others use chatgpt for things in Dutch, and it just wildly hallucinates on things, esp things related to culture, for example when asked about the 67 thing, it made up a story that is was created by rappers in Amsterdam(or Rotterdam, not that the city matters), and created a whole story that it was a new Dutch thing, very odd).

Think the opposition to it is pre manosphere, but yeah, I think from tne manosphere side not everybody who says that is a anti-semite / anti-islam, lot of it also felt very ‘we need a cause to show those dastardly feminists that they don’t have the moral high ground’, if that makes sense. Same with the manospherian opposition to prison rape (which often felt a lot of ‘men get raped too!’ stuff, and not really that active in opposition to the prison system. (I mean in general, there are elements of it that were pretty vocal about it, but from what I always got from that space was that is was more like an empty signal). (Note im just talking about the manosphere and the bits I read from that space, not the general opposition to circumcision).

Haha, wow the reactions to that, 3 levels deep and suddenly people are talking about screws. (Im being positive here btw, funny to see what people have made/learned and how happy they seem with it).

Too late, I already put it on the blockchain.

Yeah, just learned a black person was killed in the USA, and the only reason this was getting some attention was because Renee Good was also killed.

With the benefit of a sea of distance between me and the USA this is just really fucked up. Two different Americas.

Sorry forgot to check, despite a friend of mine doing the same to me with tumblr and I’m also annoyed then.

Not sure i had it in me to alt text all that yarvin however

Scott Alexander: “I wish the neoreactionaries dropped the monarchy shit”

Monkey paw curls (content warnings: antisemitism, Yarvin).

H2O2 is just water with an extra O.

Water 2.0, get on it or get left behind!

That is shit, also sending good vibes. It never is just one thing isnt it. Bad luck always seems to come in multiples.

Also I can’t help but notice that he didn’t verify the correctness of the solution

Think I have mentioned the story I heard here once, about the guy who wrote a program to find some large prime which he ran on the mainframe over the weekend, using up all the calculation budget his uni department had. And then they confronted him with the end result, and the number the program produced ended in a 2. (He had forgotten to code the -1 step).

This reminded me of that story. (At least in this case it actually produced a viable result (if costly), just with a minor error).

Yeah I was also ver specifically thinking about Christian heresies, and not counting all the other religious wars/conflicts/murders going round.

Do always think it is funny that the whole magical staves thing which people think is some old norse early medieval thing comes from the 17th century and is a bit more christian (even if it is a strange offshoot, esp with iceland being mostly converted to Christianity in the 1000s). But that is unrelated to everything above, more that history is big and what we assume is often not correct and from the wrong periods. As I did here myself. Edit: wonder if there is an overlap between the staves and the sigils from The Lesser Key of Solomon, both of the sources for these things seems to be written in the same period (the lesser key is based on earlier works from what I could tell the sigils itself are always credited to the lesser key, so no idea if they predate that, I don’t have much access to grimoires from the 1500s).

Seems my edit and your reply crossed each other. No I agree, I was wrong in all the ways, thanks for the correction and information.