gerikson 7h ago • 100%
They’re not cheering. Evangelical anti-abortion activists have long targeted IVF and it’s been practically banned in at least one US state.
gerikson 2d ago • 100%
Just amazing that he worked for a YC-backed startup ("Warp, accounting and payroll for founders") whose social media team (prolly this dude) just handed out affiliation icons to all manners of like-minded twitter racists.
gerikson 2d ago • 100%
Thank for letting me know there are other people indifferent to dark mode. Sometimes I feel I am the only one.
gerikson 2d ago • 100%
Still unclear how OpenAI declaring they've created an AGI (and getting this adjudicated as "true") and thus being released from their MSFT partnership helps OpenAI. They're just lost all their compute, and will have a worse negotiating position from which to get more compute. What's the upside?
gerikson 2d ago • 100%
It was an interesting read, thanks for posting it.
gerikson 2d ago • 100%
NYT: "Microsoft and OpenAI’s Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying" (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/technology/microsoft-openai-partnership-deal.html)
Archive: https://archive.ph/Bas23
HN link from whence I got this, have not mined this for sneers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878281
edit oh wait found one
OpenAI's revenue isn't from advertising, it should be slightly easier for them to resist the call of enshittification this early in the company history.
Can't enshittify that which is already shit
Twice in the last week I've had Claude refuse to answer questions about a specific racial separatist group (nothing about their ideology, just their name and facts about their membership) and questions about unconventional ways to assess job candidates. Both times I turned to ChatGPT and it gave me an answer immediately
Just a normal hackernews, testing if the models they use are racist
Well, at this point most new data being created is conversations with chatgpt, seeing as how stack overflow and reddit are increasingly useless, so their conversation logs are their moat.
gerikson 2d ago • 100%
Worldcoin has been around for longer than OpenAI. Sama is the OG pivot-from-crypto-to-AI.
gerikson 3d ago • 100%
Kinda surprised World(Coin) was still ongoing, thought saltman would have quietly buried the project now he's busy shilling ChatGPT
gerikson 4d ago • 100%
Our local Swedish right-wingers in gov have a chubby for nukes too[1], because their main motivation besides hating on brown people is pissing off Greens. But in the Swedish way they handed this off to a researcher ("utredning") who found out that to get the industry on board you need a) rock-solid political promises (so need to get the Social Democrats at least on board) and b) have a price guarantee for power for at least a decade, along with massive government loan guarantees.
It's gonna be hard to get voters interested in 10 new reactor sites (NIMBY gets supercharged when it comes to nukes) if it slightly pushes up lending rates and power bills.
[1] the right-wing part of the opposition social democrats like them too to be fair
gerikson 4d ago • 100%
Thanks for posting this good collection of links. HN has as hard-on for SMRs and as a first-order approximation that means they're wrong, but it's good to have something more than vibes backing it up.
gerikson 5d ago • 100%
Yeah, I'm no longer worried that LLMs will take my job (nor ofc that AGI will kill us all) Instead the lasting legacy of GenAI will be a elevated background level of crud and untruth, an erosion of trust in media in general, and less free quality stuff being available. It's a bit like draining the Aral Sea, a vibrant ecosystem will be permanently destroyed in the short-sighted pursuit of "development".
gerikson 5d ago • 100%
oh hey that would be my comment 😁
gerikson 6d ago • 100%
this demented take on using GenAI to create documentation for open source projects
https://lobste.rs/s/rmbos5/large_language_models_reduce_public#c_j8boat
gerikson 6d ago • 100%
the lobste.rs thread is a trash fire too.
of note is that the Stallman defenders from about 3 years back (when he waded in unprompted in a mailing list meant for undergrads at MIT and was pretty damn sure that Marvin Minsky never had sex with one of Epstein's victims, and if he did, it would have been because he was sure she wasn't underage) have registered https://stallman-report.com which redirects to their lengthy apologia. Could be worth taking into account fi you want to spread the original around
gerikson 7d ago • 100%
Matt fires back: https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/
(I haven't read any of these peices, to be honest. There's so much else that's crazy and only so many hours in the day)
gerikson 1w ago • 100%
yeah, there's a stench of desperation from the defenders
of course, as with crypto, there are uses (in the case of crypto , nothing legitimate). And it will be going to be a fallback for fondlers to point them out (for example, I believe that auto-generated audiobooks are viable, if they're generated from actual books)
gerikson 1w ago • 100%
Any mild pushback to the claims of LLM companies sure bring out the promptfondlers on lobste.rs
https://lobste.rs/s/qcppwf/llms_don_t_do_formal_reasoning_is_huge
Plenty of agreement, but also a lot of "what is reasoning, really" and "humans are dumb too, so it's not so surprisingly GenAIs are too!". This is sure a solid foundation for multi-billion startups, yes sirree.
gerikson 1w ago • 100%
To my mind, the cover of "researchers" using the public internet to seed products commercialized by OpenAI and friends is the biggest betrayal of fair use in recent memory. The big companies cynically exploited the research exception to fair use and possibly destroyed in the future.
gerikson 1w ago • 100%
I really really doubt it. It's a pun on his name.
gerikson 2w ago • 100%
he used to distribute a Bitcoin client that censored addresses belonging to an early gambling service, people were mad
he's fractally weird
This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.
> “It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.
The grifters in question: > Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...] Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/ The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/
HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas, hmmmmmm?????? Maybe it's just my newness antennae needing calibrating, but I do feel the extreme energy requirements for what's arguably just a frivolous toy is gonna cause AI boosters big problems, especially as energy demands ramp up in the US in the warmer months. Expect the narrative to adjust to counter it.
Yes, I know it's a Verge link, but I found the explanation of the legal failings quite funny, and I think it's "important" we keep track of which obscenely rich people are mad at each other so we can choose which of their kingdoms to be serfs in.
Apologies for the link to The Register... Dean Phillips is your classic ratfucking candidate, attempting to siphon off support from the incumbent to help their opponent. After a brief flare of hype before the (unofficial) NH primary, he seems to have flamed out by revealing his master plan too early. Anyway, apparently some outfit called "Delphi" tried to create an AI version of him via a SuperPAC and got their OpenAI API access banned for their pains. Quoth ElReg: > Not even the presence of Matt Krisiloff, a founding member of OpenAI, at the head of the PAC made a difference. > The pair have reportedly raised millions for We Deserve Better, driven in part by a $1 million donation from hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who described his funding of the super PAC as "the largest investment I have ever made in someone running for office." So the same asshole who is combating "woke" and DEI is bankrolling Phillips, supposed to be the new Bernie. Got it.
Anyone else have this problem? It’s been bothering me for a while and is the last thing keeping me using mobile Chrome. On the login page , after entering username and password, the “login” button does nothing. It might slightly change color but I am not directed to the site logged in, nor do I get an error. platform: iOS The username and password are entered automatically via either Firefox’s password store, or iOS’.
Years ago (we're talking decades) I ran into a small program that randomly generated raytraced images (think transparent orbs, lens flares, reflection etc), suitable for saving as wallpapers. It was a C/C++ program that ran on Linux. I've long since lost the name and the source code, and I wonder if there's anything like that out there now?
Rules: no spoilers. The other rules are made up as we go along. Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one [here](https://github.com/topaz/paste#readme)) or code section in a comment.
The wider community is still on Reddit, I wonder if there’s an interest to have a small alternative? If not, what’s a good Lemmy instance for these things?
In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote > For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents. Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott! The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence > I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person. What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?
[this is probably off-topic for this forum, but I found it on HN so...] *Edit* "enjoy" the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233810
Title is ... editorialized.
Title quote stolen from JZW: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/10/the-best-way-to-profit-from-ai/ Yet again, the best way to profit from a gold rush is to sell shovels.