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...fields oriented around neurology are scientific, but fields oriented around psychology are pseudoscientific.
When a good man gazes into the palantir and sees L Ron Hubbard looking back
Tired: Ned Ludd
Wired: Joe Butlerian
Can Adam ruin something so much that he can't ruin that particular ruination?
It's supervisors all the way down!
101 Dalmations reboot, but Cruella is radicalized by the extropian mailing list
Look, AI will be perfect as soon as we have an algorithm to sort "truth" from "falsehood", like an oracle of some sort. They'll probably have that in GPT-5, right?
It's alright! There's a multibillion dollar advertising operation working to convince us that generative AI can do these sorts of things. Plus, it's always tough to go through someone else's work, much less mods from a decade ago that were written by ambitious amateurs. I couldn't read my own code after a couple of months if I wasn't such an absurd over-commenter.
If you want a chill intro to the real situation, I highly recommend this episode of On the Media that had Ed Zitron on. You could knock it out over a commute or two no problem: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brooke-talks-ai-with-ed-zitron
A funnier and angrier thing that explains why this won't work can be found here: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
No one:
Absolutely nobody:
Klarna: What if we financialized buying burritos using AI?
(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)
Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:
I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi
"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect
Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:
tldr; got $40k drained just now
i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.
Noice!