Yeah seems that for llms a linear increase in capabilities requires exponentiel more data, so we not getting there via this.

Also all the top results for most searches are blatant autoplag slop with no informational value now.

I just encountered a thing like this. A subject where no matter what you asked about it this one site was in the top 5 with just incomprehensible posts. Like every sentence on its own made sense, but there was nothing more than that. It read like constant promotional ‘before the actual meat of the article’ stuff but forever. Was really weird.

yeah I tried looking up his writings on the subject but substack was down. Counted that as a win and stopped looking.

Also, I assume it gets even worse, traffic is I think one of those hard problems, those complex coordination problems which we are not great at solving using tech, if either people are their own free agents like cars, or like cars have a mass (that is why you just can’t use tcp/ip like stuff, but trains/public transport and the global goods transportation network works a lot better apart from the last mile sort of stuff). AI is not going to be able to do shit. Hell, this is prob going to be a problem like ‘im going to make sex simple’ (See also the alt text). Just pure AI magical thinking stuff.

Also, use bicycles you cowards. Death to the cult of car.

Also hard to show a rich inner world when you are constantly in trouble financially, possessions wise, mh and personal safety and interacting with someone who could be one of the bad people who doesnt think you are human, or somebody working in a soup kitchen for the photo op/ego boost. (This assumes his interactions go a little bit further than just saying ‘no’ to somebody asking for money).

So yeah bad to see hn is in the useless eaters stage.

Still sad the SMRs will not work out but good you posted it here. Lol at the HN guy going ‘these are strawmen’, buddy you build websites perhaps the guy in the field (with a physics phd) knows a little bit more.

I have no idea where he stood on the bullshit bad faith free speech debate from the past decade, but this would be funny if he was an anti cancel culture guy. More things, weird bubble he lives in if the other things didn’t get pushed back, and support for the pro trans (and pro Palestine) movements. He is right on the immigration bit however, the dems should move more left on the subject. Also ‘Blutarsky’ and I worried my references are dated, that is older than I am.

I actually missed it myself. I had seen here face a few times, wasn’t that interested so the suggestions went away, and later I heard about her going into the anti-woke stuff. (The most recent thing, her support of the ‘war on science’ book (no not MAGA, the wokes!) was funny in a ‘read the room/news, endless screaming’ way).

I’m a Millenial (even if I think these labels are dumb) and I find these kinds of things fascinating. Esp when they describe things I do not recognize in any way in my peers, re them talking about the causes of people disliking capitalism. Sure I’m in a more progressive/leftwing bubble (of which I’m prob the most extreme nowadays in various ways), but I know a lot of people who are looking into buying houses/have bought houses who still are not fans of musk/tesla etc. Seems like they forget people can have principles, and just look at a simplistic view of ‘material conditions’ (I hope people paid attention to the recent bsky shit on what this actually means in historical context). Flashbacks to r/ssc talking about ‘leftwing polticians not thinking about X’ while the leftwing politicans I knew irl were actively talking about it. Feels very like im looking at an alternative world. (Prob also quite true as im Dutch, and this is about the US (with right wing fan fave Poland having a honorable mention)).

Do think it is amusing Millenials get blamed for everything still. The punching bag generation. Poor Gen Z, for which this is now starting up.

Watched it this weekend, and tbh I thought it was fine. Like didn’t blow me away, parts of it I liked parts of it I didn’t (My big (not mentioned here) annoyance was personally the high tech tie fighter, which 4 years before a new hope just breaks the tech continuity a bit (ep7-9 are worse in this regard, not only that but suddenly the massive industrial capacity makes no sense at least KOTOR had a star forge)). Think they seem to be going with ‘revolutions are hard, will come at big costs, and very messy, but necessary (second annoyance, them mostly packing weapons and not food/meds which for a supposed to be leftwing coded revolution is a bit odd, esp looking at more modern protests)’ which is fine (even if it isn’t the best message). Visually they did some obvious but enjoyable things showing the character of places by just how they are decorated. Compare the farm hideout messy lived in ness vs the empires sterile panopticon empty-ness. Not a huge fan of the SA plotline however, even if the guy played it well, I’d just rather not see it every time they want to make something ‘edgy’. But it was fine to me. Not as great as a lot of people make it out to be, but my exp wasn’t as bad as yours. I didn’t do a rewatch however, perhaps I’m just not that invested in it all considering I also am feeling like im a bit less blown away by Andor s1 than most (I did still enjoy it a lot btw).

Agree with you on the hype bit btw. But then again, I have often been disappointed by the hype in a lot of recent things. For example, (I know he is now revealed as an ass) but I wasn’t the biggest fan of all the series made out of the Gaiman works. Never finished good omens, a lot of the additions to american gods had me go ‘euh wtf’ (the lynching and the weird forced feeling god of firearms stuff), and despite being a big fan of the comics I wasn’t blown away by the sandman (that prob was my expectations, as a lot of things were very good still, the casting felt on point for example). So in a way the problem is also me. (I did really enjoy the Foundation series otoh, which I know a lot of people hated)

Yud must be happy the AGIification of the world is slowing down. Not today TITANS, not today.

Now I wonder if your creation ever halts. Might be a problem.

You know what they say. Great minds repost Tante.

He was the ‘race and IQ’ guy on the slatestarcodex reddit. He posted A LOT about race and IQ. He also famously made it to the ‘quality contributions’ thread of that place. Describing his ideal world. A small quotation: (there is more, a lot more):

• Mandatory abortions of the congenitally ill.
• Corporal or capital punishment for adultery.
• Adultery as a civil crime.
• Mental illness/having mental health medication prescribed disqualifying voting.
• Lower tax rates across the board for more fertile people.
• Paid sterilisation (i.e., trading your fecundity for a basic income).
• National genotyping and IQ scoring as part of using any sort of public health subsidisation and education.
• Allowing insurers more room to discriminate on any quality they wish, including genotype, education, and IQ (i.e., no more disparate impact or genetic discrimination laws at all).

Nice guy, no issues, normal type of quality contribution.

“T*PornO is one of our most prolific and high quality contributors, and his eccentricities don’t do anywhere remotely enough bad to overcome the good he does by being around here and posting.” Salt the earth.

Wow TP0s (I think we prefer to not use his full name here, because of the slur) posting freq has dropped off a lot in the past years. At the same time as creamyitch (sorry, I don’t know how to properly pronounce his name and Crémieux was made into the dutch CremeJeuk (jeuk = itch)) joined twitter. Odd coincidence.

Via Tante on bsky:

"“Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs”

People would rather buy older processors that aren’t that much less powerful but way cheaper. The “AI” benefits obviously aren’t worth paying for.

https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-admits-what-we-all-knew-no-one-is-buying-ai-pcs/"

Yeah and as follows are chronological and limited, it was somewhat recent. So soon the ‘both sides of the iq question debate’, with a lot of content from our big friend Emil.

E: i do wonder how much she was love bombed by far right people after her bad video

Also not shocked to learn that Sabine Hossenfelder is an AGI-bro (also, she follows Crémieux), and involved enough in this wider community to think she should give her 2 cents. (for those not in the know Sabine Hossenfelder made a video about trans kids (??? y tho??) and it wasn’t that great (badly sources for one, or only sourced using one side on some subjects), so it got some pushback, and there was the predictable non-apology (also lowkey blaming your researchers for the video is very classy, esp when you then take no responsibility at all)).

I think unrelated to the attack above, but more about prompt hack security, so while back I heard people in tech mention that the solution to all these prompt hack attacks is have a secondary LLM look at the output of the first and prevent bad output that way. Which is another LLM under the trench coat (drink!), but also doesn’t feel like it would secure a thing, it would just require more complex nested prompthacks. I wonder if somebody is just going to eventually generalize how to nest various prompt hacks and just generate a ‘prompthack for a LLM protected by N layers of security LLMs’. Just found the ‘well protect it with another AI layer’ to sound a bit naive, and I was a bit disappointed in the people saying this, who used to be more genAI skeptical (but money).