dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 hours ago

even the Nazis can't stand these fucks

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago

because they cribbed their ideas from deathnote, and they're stupid

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago

oh yeah that was obvious when you see who they are and what they do. also, one of the large opensource projects was the lesswrong site lololol

i'm surprised it's as well constructed a study as it is even given that

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

wonder if that's why they tried and failed to change it to "squiggle maximizing"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

the comments are wild "yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

it should be, but he's been actively promoting the stuff

 

‘an expensive slot machine that outputs slop 98% of the time’

podcast and blog post tomorrow, i am ill

yes that's a clothes hanger at the back i forgot to put in the hall, we only reveal our clean laundry here

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

all the stock sites are. use case: an image that's almost perfect but you wanna tweak it

LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

you should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about "Hooked"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the psychology of loot boxes?

yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900

the book is "Hooked" and it's Don't Build The Torment Nexus I'm Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, i've heard about it widely

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those "open source" projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.

Here's a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI

I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they'll be making a mistake

dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool

so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn't all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.

around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it's about AI becoming superhuman

the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great

 

this podcast guy talks like sephiroth but the title is perfect and the content is largely correct

 

watch the video first, it's the point here

text version

podcast version tomorrow!

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