swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The saying “there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire” springs to mind. Who did they, or their families fuck over, in order to garner that sort of wealth?

There’s a running joke/working theory I’ve heard that in order to become billionaire, you have to have killed someone. (The reality is almost definitely worse)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

yeah, so we agree, EA, which is predicated on the wealthy actually giving away their money, is a flawed concept as that is something the wealthy cannot be compelled to do without force

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Nah dawg it’s the fact that his “incredible solid and well argued” moral framework finds it impossible to unequivocally denounce a fucking genocide that means that maybe it’s not nearly as solid as you say.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Not sure on that but I think he’s related to Sabrina Carpenter. Source, this line from Espresso:

I'm working late, 'cause I'm a Singer

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

mating pool

probably on par with the other stuff you might see at a rationalist poly compound

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It’s almost as if the wealthy by and large don’t actually care about doing good or improving society!!!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (14 children)

It’s somewhat non-trivial to create a billionaire, let alone an EA variant; what other ideas do you have for improving EA?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (10 children)

who is this peter singer fellow? Sounds like a great and unproblematic man. Please tell us more of his teachings.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A random thought occurred to me that Veo is probably “better” at being prompted with something like “the scene from X movie but with Y instead of Z” as it is a plagiarism engine first and foremost. I will never investigate this hypothesis, nor will I hold onto it past typing it here.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

think of all the rug you could have pulled...

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Musk objects to the "stochastic parrot" labelling of LLMs. Mostly just the stochastic part.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

oh, absolutely. I mean you could sub out "LLM" with any bullshit that management can easily spring on their understaff. Agile, standups, return to office, the list goes on. Management can get fucked

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

 

Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.

 

Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.

 

Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.

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