Yeah, seeing that gave me the black pill. I chose Common Lisp for personal projects to avoid techbro bullshit.

The fake research company listed Dr. Elena Vasquez, one of the most commonly made-up AI names, on its staff page. I guess Elara Voss was too busy.

Lacan by way of Land.

Some years ago (2018-ish?) there was a fad on Fedi for making MYNAME_ebooks accounts that posted markov chain generated mashups of your previous posts.

In some ways, it’s a lot like the cut-up technique used by the Dadaists and William S. Burroughs, though much less efficient. Maybe Markov chains are a happy medium. Going to run M-x dissociated-text on my ePub collection.

He also argues somewhere for strong longtermism, so I’d say there’s something significantly wrong with his jib somewhere, even if he’s right about decision theory and contrarianism.

I recently switched from borg to btrbk, not because of this, but because of speed, but now I have even more reasons.

I’m guessing it’s because their existing line of business (image generation) has been commoditized by the hyperscalers’ image models, and there’s no longer any reason for anyone to pay for Midjourney.

we don’t actually need human-like AI for paperclip maxxing

This bit is true though; capitalism is already doing a fine job of paperclip maxxing.

Probably 2 in 5 ddg searches are worthless for me, but trying again on Google rarely if ever helps. Usually, both are returning SEO slop or Product™️ rather than the thing I was looking for.

All of complainer’s posts on that issue are clearly LLM-written.

I don’t think it’s actually going to be doing a lot of LLMing. It has a coprocessor for inference type stuff, but only 8GB of RAM on the SOC. So I assume they just stuck this in for marketing.

Personally, I enjoy talking about goblins.

Dimethylmercury is extremely toxic and dangerous to handle. Absorption of doses as low as 0.1 mL can result in severe mercury poisoning.

The symptoms of mercury poisoning may be delayed by months, resulting in cases in which a diagnosis is ultimately discovered, but only at a point in which it is too late or almost too late for an effective treatment regimen to be successful.

• Wikipedia, “Dimethylmercury”

A Twitterer tweets a challenging game-theory question:

The incentive structure makes it not a challenging game theory question - the game-theoretically optimal solution is both very obvious and obviously morally depraved (selecting red). It’s actually a Voight-Kampff test.

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As long as there are unjust laws, I would like to have untraceable crime money. Overall, I would rather not have unjust laws, though.

I mean, it’s a banger of a song.

Over here, measles hits mostly kids, but if anything, the new measles epidemic seems to have made antivaxxers double down.

I will say that Yogthos seems to be unique—the Marxist-Leninists I observe elsewhere seem to pretty much universally despise LLMs, and on the Red side of the fediverse his posting is usually met with confusion.