blargey

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by blargey 5d ago
It's entirely other humans that the lords offered protection from; peasants were near universally left to fend for themselves when it came to "animals and locusts". And they could handle nature just fine (for the technology l
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by blargey 7d ago
Such a world view will justify any belief, because the internet will give you ample supply of the dumbest, most ill-considered opposition to any belief you hold. Doesn't guarantee there isn't a steel version of their straw out the
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by blargey 7d ago
The examples all look off because the author keeps using "Spring Fayre" as a lorem-ipsum for styles that do not match the vibe of "Spring Fayre at the brewery". Distant second is that they have this sterile "Microso
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by blargey 13d ago
Ad slots are auctioned. Scams getting shown means scammers are bidding more for those same slots than legitimate advertisers.
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by blargey 15d ago
Speculated to be responsible for the "AI restaurant-menu gore" that made the rounds on social media. Restaurants AI-generate the entire menu sheet from whole cloth, and while it looks "good" at first with modern image mo
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by blargey 17d ago
The “sum average” of people is a bad caricature, not “reflecting us accurately”.
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by blargey 17d ago
I’d frame taste as a combination of both. People mindfully interacting with a domain will develop nuanced aesthetic preference within it, and while preference is subjective, there’s still plenty that can be agreed upon or respected. Much li
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by blargey 17d ago
If most people’s “latent” taste was as good as they thought it was, we wouldn’t have so much “AI slop” - AI generations that are so-labeled precisely because the act of publishing them demonstrates significantly below-average taste.
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by blargey 23d ago
"OpenAI is pleased to announce our new model scores 85% on CreateTormentNexusBench - a >60% lead over our leading competitors!" Did someone get their "AI safety no-no list" and "Frontier features bingo card"
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by blargey 25d ago
You can make that claim for the general case that genAI capabilities will plateau or fishy financing in the sector will cause trouble at some point, but not for the specific talking heads that haven't constrained themselves to that sor
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by blargey 27d ago
You realize "Slaughterbots" (2017) came from that crowd, right?
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by blargey 1mo ago
By your own market argument, increasing oil supply depresses prices and boosts usage. And NA oil isn't particularly clean or environmentally-friendly - the benefits of local production are primarily political, with a side of cheaper ga
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by blargey 2mo ago
Picking over the theoretical maintainability of one-off tools and toys that were generated in minutes by what will soon be an outdated model, feels very...missing the forest for the trees, when it comes to speculating about the future impac
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by blargey 2mo ago
It’s the internet. Whenever there’s a new category of accusation/put-down, there’s soon a thousandfold more “drive-by yahoos” throwing it around without actually understanding it, and definitely not caring about false positives or accu
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by blargey 2mo ago
Quite the opposite - the fact that the default assumption of "what you (will) engage with" is a radioactive dumpster fire that you need to fastidiously Mute / Block / Not Interested / Less Like This / Not Relev
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by blargey 2mo ago
More that the “discourse” around anything “AI” is just another culture war at this point - dominated by facile taking points that are shallow, ill-considered, uninformed-and-uninformative, and re-re-recycled into worthless pulp by their res
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by blargey 2mo ago
Has it occurred to you a "decoy entire internet" may not be a feasible idea? Models have been able to suss out whether or not the prompts they receive are reinforcement learning tests instead of real questions from users, for a wh
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by blargey 2mo ago
Fail at the task, yes. Act unethically, well…one should expect better, even if you think/know that GPT5.6 lacks that capacity as well. “Alignment” takes more than obsequiousness and prompt-topic-filters, and this demonstrates that.
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by blargey 2mo ago
Not sure what the point of this comment is because even the cheapest LLM summary of the article would have told you clearly that it’s not about The AI Discourse (if anything, an avid AI user’s takeaway should be more along the “elaborate cu
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by blargey 2mo ago
There may be something(s) about mathematics (proofs) that makes it particularly amenable to LLM reasoning - highly inductive from facts that are explicitly within-context/associative space? Being an unusually well documented discipline
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by blargey 2mo ago
"Better pay for artists" by replacing as much art production as possible with AI prompting is the most insane canard I've heard in a long time. The whole "AI is trash at writing (my job), but for the audio/visual st
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by blargey 2mo ago
Spoken like someone that never even had to try. Neither of those can physically mitigate spikes of noise from engines, exhausts, or subs, and will only cause more harm if the noise floor is low. Why spend three paragraphs insisting on the i
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by blargey 2mo ago
Your nuanced hobby and aesthetics is reduced to “stupid loudness” in people’s minds because the primary interaction other people have with it is “I am being subjected to stupid loudness”, yes.
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by blargey 2mo ago
The subprime crisis was a story of perverse financial incentives causing the industry to play along with a fig-leaf statistical excuse for overrating derivative products, not bond raters botching ratings or missing "common-knowledge&
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by blargey 3mo ago
...which is why we got comically disastrous system-prompt-level attempts to "correct" this once a quarter last year (I haven't kept tabs this year, and most submissions referencing grok "incidents" get flagged off H
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by blargey 3mo ago
The impulse to “counter” this statistic as part of an imagined debate over who’s “winning” is likely to be driving this public health issue, yes.
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by blargey 3mo ago
A manic riff on https://xcancel.com/OpenRouter/status/2065856853989270011 , which advertises https://openrouter.ai/fusion/1 , which is a (slow) multi-model multi-prompt workflow that's s
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by blargey 4mo ago
American "tolerance" has its merits, but a guest does not "tolerate" or "accept" their hosts. Being oblivious to the cultural norms and tastes of your environs is, quite literally, being taste-less in that plac
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by blargey 4mo ago
Culinary turmeric is about ~3% curcuminoids by weight (and only 60-70% of that is curcumin specifically). Curcumin also has low oral bioavailability, typically offset by taking a large dose (1000mg) and combining with piperine - even ignori
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by blargey 5mo ago
> You are not supposed to be in jail Especially If you’re wrongfully arrested. “Optimizing society for law abiding people” means the opposite of what you think it means.

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