timmytokyo

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by timmytokyo 6d ago
Not sure there's a better avatar for the absurdity of AI slop imagery than the "cowboy on horseback". That's a pony with a child's saddle on it, and they've composited a grown man on top of it.
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by timmytokyo 7d ago
The Venn diagram has huge overlap.
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by timmytokyo 9d ago
Exactly. And companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are disproportionately populated by people deeply connected to Effective Altruism or the Bay Area rationalist movement.
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by timmytokyo 9d ago
War and Peace is shorter than HPMOR. Anyone who knows anything about Harry Potter fandom in those years knows that its readers were always thirsty for something new in the Potterverse to read or be exposed to. By latching onto that universe
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by timmytokyo 9d ago
I don't think the argument is that their sexual practices inherently make them part of a cult. Rather, the argument is that it's very common for cults to include communal sexual practices that fall outside typical social norms. Co
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by timmytokyo 9d ago
Is it really a satire if the same woman in the photo (Aella) went on to have a "birthday gangbang" with numerous men, some of whom are present in the photo?
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by timmytokyo 14d ago
Ok, iPhone.
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by timmytokyo 15d ago
Effective Altruism. Also the related Bay Area group known as the "rationalists". Effective accelerationism, while seemingly opposed to EA, is in fact the flip side of the same coin. Look up the term TESCREAL. Members of these grou
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by timmytokyo 15d ago
The problem with your counter-hypothetical is that not only is it unrealistic, it's utterly impossible. No human would be able to do in such a short timeframe what the LLM did. Part of what makes the OpenAI move so egregious is how bul
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by timmytokyo 20d ago
A shortcut that isn't visible in any of Finder's menus. Which makes it virtually undiscoverable. Finder is full of these kinds of hidden secrets.
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by timmytokyo 27d ago
One must also consider the well-known biases and motives of the authors. They are going to do everything they can to create hype around threats posed by AI. METR is a cog in the effective altruism machine. It was spun off from Paul Christia
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by timmytokyo 1mo ago
You forgot [INCOMPETENCE]
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by timmytokyo 1mo ago
"The project is in no way consumed by politics." https://bsky.app/profile/aly.codes/post/3mttrv3hjcc27
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by timmytokyo 1mo ago
https://bsky.app/profile/artcandee.bsky.social/post/3lgdvykc...
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by timmytokyo 1mo ago
The "About" page basically admits the entire site is written by AI. https://reinvently.co.uk/about/
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
>AI hasn't suddenly sent the quality of creativity off a cliff. It's commoditised the low standard of most previous hand-made work and made it easier to access. Yes. That's why it's called slop. And now we're abs
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
His good friend Dwarkesh should have him back on the podcast.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Consider that HN is not a single person with a single point of view.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Trump claims that. So his cult does too.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Poe's Law. Look it up.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Counterpoint: linux owns the server space.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
This sounds to me like a demand that engineers fully submit to their future as reverse centaurs [0]. "Submit to the slop tsunami, become a glorified and burnt out button pusher!" [0] https://pluralistic.net/2025&#x
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Fascinating take from OpenAI. It really gives the lie to the idea that they see AI leading to a better life for all. "One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China propo
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
I can't count the number of times I've heard people here say the frontier models are 6 months or more ahead of the open-weights models. That's not true anymore. So the goalposts are shifting.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Moore's law also applies to memory. With personal computers, we've gone from ~16KB in the late 1970s to ~640KB in the mid-80s to ~512 MB in the late-90s, to ~1GB in the early 2000s, to ~64GB today. If you look at the memory per do
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
It's not like the salute is a singular event. Just look at him on X. Most of what he talks about today is his support for racist political movements (like Reform UK and AfD). That's when he's not tweaking grok to insert &quot
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
"Solution architect" sounds like a fancy term for a glorified button-pusher. At this point you're making yourself interchangeable with a bunch of other low-skill button-pushers.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Why should anyone ever hire you? We'll just hire the LLM you use.
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by timmytokyo 2mo ago
Why does anyone need you then?
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by timmytokyo 3mo ago
Point taken. But it's interesting that the example you give is one of exponential decay rather than exponential growth, which is the context of this discussion. Where in nature has anything ever grown exponentially in perpetuity? Bacte

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