jaschop

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[–] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, the same thing struck me. I'd guess they were jumping on the buzzword, but x-risk just was deemed gaudy and unserious.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Might be semi-related: the german aerospace/automotive/industrial research agency has an "AI Safety" institute (institute = top level department).

I got a rough impression from their website. They don't seem to be doing anything that successful. Mostly fighting the unwinnable battles of putting AI in everything without sucking and twiddling machine learning models to make them resilient against malicous data. Besides trying to keep the torch of self-driving cars alive for the german car industry. Oh, and they're doing the quantum AI bit.

They're a fairly new institute, and I heard rumors they're not doing great. Maybe the organization resists the necessary insanity to generate new AI FOMO at this point. One can dream.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I was going to shitpost that Trump is the least neo-colonial president cuz he cut all foreign aid, but I realized I kinda believe that unironically. I'm in the anti-death-and-suffering camp of course, but a hundred kinda self-serving national aid programs might just not cut it.

(This might be inspired by the Merz government planning to roll the special development aid office into the foreign affairs ministry, partly to tie it more strongly to national interest.)

Maybe we need to bring back the UN bigly.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ja geschenkt, ist nicht wovon ich hier rede. Sie hat 2024 ein Buch Gute Energie veröffentlicht.

Was wenn Depression, Ängstlichkeit, Unfruchtbarkeit, Alzheimer [...] haben die selbe Wurzel Ursache? Die Wahrheit ist, sie haben.

Darin hat sie erzählt dank "pflanzlicher Medizin 🍄" die Liebe gefunden zu haben, und alles mögliche andere Geschwurbel.

Hat für mich auch was kooptiertes: "Ich glaube dass wir mit guten Vibes die Welt heilen können, bin rechts btw ☺️"

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Rechte lieben es die Ästhetik von Linken zu kooptieren. Funktioniert leider auch oft, weil eine Ästhetik von den meisten nur oberflächlich verstanden wird.

Etwas verwandt: die neue Sanitätsinspekteur Generalin von Präsident Trumpf ist ein Hippie und wirbt für Magische Pilze Therapie.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wer mit Software arbeitet, weiss dass 10mal mehr Code nichts ist was als Firma sehr erstrebenswert ist. Und dass ist ungefähr alles worin LLMs gut sind. Unmengen an gerade-so-nutzbarem slop.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

Alles in allem ist es recht angenehm, aber beim Modulimport hat FF einen Fall wo's ohne vernünftige Fehlermelldung abraucht. Ich schreib vielleicht einen Bugreport...

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ich iel wenn ich nach 3 Tagen 0 Features gebaut habe, aber dafür obskures Firefox-spezifisches Wissen über modulbasierte Worker-Threads gesammelt habe.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The comment section seems to be 50% that dude by word count. He must be a perfectly healthy amount online.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're certainly hitting some nails on their heads here. The normalisation of AI is absolutely happening, mostly because the buttons start showing up on Google/Microsoft/etc. products with massive market share.

Also the manlyman blogs bitching about beaver hair brushes. I was looking up safety razors in german ("Rasierhobel" btw, totally unaware of that until now), and Wikipedia was referencing one such archived blog, bitching about pig bristle brushes being "drug store" garbage. I might still get one. (The razor that is, not the brush. Spray on foam will do for me.)

Not so sure about the scythe/mower thing. My battery powered mower & motor scythe slap. (Stihl btw)

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