SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 7d ago
The more I see of the US AI industry, and the folks surrounding it, the more "These are not very bright guys and things got out of hand" plays in my head on repeat. Yes, the Google folks who kicked this whole thing off are brillia
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by SwellJoe 8d ago
Maybe if you put some mushrooms in it.
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by SwellJoe 9d ago
"I would find it strange for anyone who's seriously interested in AI to have never heard of Yudkowsky or Scott Alexander or the Rationalist movement." But, it would be pretty surprising for most folks to have gone to the same
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by SwellJoe 10d ago
You gotta have something to aim at. And, presumably, the benchmark is not part of the training data, it is the test against which the model is tested at each stage; is behavior moving in the right direction?
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by SwellJoe 10d ago
It's not obvious to me. What's the tell?
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by SwellJoe 12d ago
Mastodon isn't all that complicated. But, obviously it's not where people went when people fled Xitter, by and large. The funny people and journalists mostly went to Bluesky and the normal people mostly went to Threads because the
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by SwellJoe 12d ago
Putting a big X on the Ellison photo in the rogue's gallery of tech elites will be satisfying. In an industry chock full of despicable men, Ellison is a real standout.
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by SwellJoe 12d ago
I was using Copilot Code Review pretty religiously for a while, as I get access for free (the $10 plan) due to my Open Source work, but it recently introduced a monster of a misfeature that caused a massive increase in complexity over time,
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by SwellJoe 12d ago
"Why we are opening Pion" Followed by: "please sign up on our waitlist to get access" So, they're not opening Pion.
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
Slop as a service.
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
Sure, but that doesn't make it true.
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
Well, someone could, theoretically, do something about it, instead of letting him ignore the law and decency just because he's very rich and has no ethics.
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
Given how little effort has gone into addressing climate change, doom seems more likely to me, but I doubt it'll be the autocomplete machines that do us in.
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
The gas generators Elon Musk is illegally running 24/7 to run Colossus 2 (and, AI power usage in general, though some are more destructive than others) might contribute to the climate situation, though.
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by SwellJoe 13d ago
I mostly agree with you, but this one: "- so controlling they are the only US company blacklisted by the US government" They were blacklisted by the US government because they didn't bribe Trump. While all the rest of the tec
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by SwellJoe 16d ago
So far, I've seen no evidence AI wants anything. So, I'm not saying the AI won't take over, but for now, the threat is that the people with the most AI capability might decide to skip the middleman (everyone who isn't th
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by SwellJoe 16d ago
I don't play games for them to "transfer to real life". I play games for fun. Chess can be fun, it has an interesting history and the strategy of various kinds of play open up to you as you play/learn more, it has a stru
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by SwellJoe 16d ago
Even a single person can now build/maintain native apps. It's literally a day of effort for an experienced dev working with the best current models to port an app to a new native platform. Maybe another day or two to walk through
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by SwellJoe 16d ago
It's been said before, and it remains a concern, that if AI reaches a point where it can do/build/launch anything without a huge amount of human labor, the AI companies have no reason to let you or I extract that value. And,
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by SwellJoe 16d ago
What role in government do you believe Hunter Biden holds?
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by SwellJoe 17d ago
Sure, but, even with AI and the technical competence to steer it, it's still a pretty big lift to switch from, e.g. WordPress with billing and various other stuff to some ad hoc other thing. Even when I decided I was done with managing
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by SwellJoe 17d ago
There really are a lot of things that they could do it with it, but they've already done a lot of things over the years; you can't say they haven't tried things, though I can't say they've always delivered a fun exp
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by SwellJoe 17d ago
WordPress dominance of the web has certainly peaked, but history indicates there will be several years in which to continue to extract comfortable profits while riding it down. e.g. Oracle, a database that almost no business has actually ne
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by SwellJoe 17d ago
The best things about the game (and it is a good game at this point, they continued to add to it at a steady pace since launch) are the human written stories. But, once you've exhausted those human stories, it's like wandering aro
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by SwellJoe 18d ago
C'mon. Be serious.
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by SwellJoe 18d ago
I dunno, man. Bin Laden's words: "Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to
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by SwellJoe 18d ago
I didn't say anything about what al-Qaeda wanted. I said, "Bin Laden wanted to destroy America". Am I wrong for believing the evidence of his actions supports that assertion?
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by SwellJoe 18d ago
It's hundreds of billions of dollars in personal self-dealing, so far. So, yes, the corruption of the Trump administration vastly outstrips all prior administrations in scope, and I can't believe I need to point that out. It is, a
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by SwellJoe 18d ago
Did they need the real estate under the World Trade Center to establish a caliphate?
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by SwellJoe 18d ago
They've never witnessed functioning policy on any front. Bin Laden wanted to destroy America, and he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. The current administration is the logical result of fear and ignorance and xenophobia being eleva

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