antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The self-fulfilling prophecy machine will ensure that engorgement will become a household term

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

It doesn’t matter. Vim is an emacs under the Finseth definition (which is my favorite way of riling up both vim and emacs people trying to keep the irrelevant editor war going). Those folks oughta find something else to center their entire personality around.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Here’s a pretty good sneer at the writing out of LLMs, with a focus on meaning https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing

Maybe that’s my problem with AI-generated prose: it doesn’t mean anything because it didn’t cost the computer anything. When a human produces words, it signifies something. When a computer produces words, it only signifies the content of its training corpus and the tuning of its parameters.

Also, on people:

I see tons of essays called something like “On X” or “In Praise of Y” or “Meditations on Z,” and I always assume they’re under-baked. That’s a topic, not a take.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, three of the worst people alive today talking about how objects are indistinguishable from women.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Guess we’re doing stupid identity verification orbs now: https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/01/this-is-like-black-mirror-sam-altmans-creepy-eye-scanner-project-launches-in-sf/

Instead of this expensive imitation of a voigt-kampff test I would suggest an alternative method of detecting if a personoid is really a human or an instrument of an evil inhuman intelligence that wishes to consume all of earth: check if their net worth is closer to a billion dollars than it is to being broke.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago

They insist on putting ever more important things (now it’s our souls and minds! lol and lmao) into ever more complex and failure-prone systems, none of these motherfuckers have built or maintained a computer in decades.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

I’m sure whoever put money into that venture will see dramatically amazing returns, now there’s a founder that will not take the money and run.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

It’s kind of a distinction without much discriminatory power: LLMs are a tool created to ease the task of bullshitting; used to produce bullshit by bullshitters.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rødes of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

My favorite meme message board on the internet keeps putting out bangers, but this one is extra good and relevant http://www.b3ta.com/board/11416629

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Also he wrote borderline anti-woke stuff back when doing that could still appear edgy and icky.

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