I assume possible memory usage also wasn’t that high

ye iirc we can remember like 7 things so that might be hard /s

$60 an hour? You could hire someone to be your girlfriend at that rate.

I can be your girlfriend at that rate.

I remember back in 2017 I was commuting somewhere via a tram in Warsaw and I got out near the city center. In front of me there was a gigantic ad on a building, I’m talking like full 6 stories high, and wider still. It was for some brand new smartphone, with 1/3 of the space being taken by the picture of its back, and the rest displaying in large, proud letters “AI POWERED CAMERA”.

It was at this point a shiver down my spine told me it was the end. We were all doomed. Nothing meant anything anymore. Has anything felt real since then? Maybe all the weirdness, all the uncanniness, traces back to that time. Maybe I fell asleep at the tram and never woke up. Maybe someone put me into an Inception-style dream sequence. If you can write that, if you can spend money on having that written and shown to thousands of innocent people, as if it meant anything, fucking anything at all, as if the word “AI” there had any value or, indeed, strict meaning for everyone reading it. Do you think the marketing people that came up with it knew what it meant? Do you think the graphic designer, forced to type those letters with his bare hands, knew what they meant? Do you think the people hired to put it up knew what it meant? Such a long chain of people, starting from some insane exec shitting out “AI GOOD SELL”, and then everyone dutifully rolling that turd along the way until it fell right through my pupils. Such a waste of time, resources, dignity. And for what? And for what.

What is the original requirement? I’ve never seen this and I feel a mighty sneer that I’m missing. A Fear of Sneering Out if you will.

You know he also did.

Now this is the shit. This right here. The only usecase for genAI - massively uncanny shitposts meant for consumption at 3AM in a dark corner of YouTube while on vibes enhancing substances.

This is what god wouldn’t have wanted and therefore is what we must pursue.

Oh, look. There’s a Basilisk! You probably can’t see it. Get closer.

Welcome to the Aperture Science AI Welfare Debate Week! [confetti]

Are you a self-proclaimed smart person? Do you need to share your shower – [sarcastically] thoughts – with the world? Do you struggle to make friends with other non-robotic entities? Our facilities are an ideal place for an – [pause] exceptional – member of society as yourself.

In our open and legally nonliable environment you will be able to discuss and share all of your ideas, fears, delusions, and otherwise intrusive thoughts with a wide range of AI cores, objects, turrets, failed experiments, and/or garbage compactors. Here you can freely throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks. (Please do not actually throw spaghetti at our walls. The portal-conductive surfaces emit deadly neurotoxin when in contact with tomato sauce. I always wondered who designed them that way. Oh well.).

You also need an extremely well ran, integrated, well-trained, well-supplied army to run modern system warfare. Russia’s army is hardly modernised, and I suspect they wouldn’t be really willing to run a command model that gives a lot of authority to the lower ranks.

Hey, GitHub might be shitty in the browser, but did you consider that it’s also shitty as an Android app?

the mythical Amazon scale

Ah yes, Amazon, the company with literally the shittiest front-end of all in existence. AWS is downright unusable outside of the CLI, but hey, at least they scale??

That’s such a weird notion. My personal projects are the cutest, most groomed pieces of code I write, cause I do it out of my own volition. The code at work? Just any shite that passes the review so that I don’t have to look at that codebase or think about it lest eldritch worms consume my sanity.

Hey, he didn’t update the website to include his research interest in AI, huh, wonder how long he’s been a samurai of that

I know essentally nothing about the US education system but…

If you’re gonna pull credentalist bullshit, maybe at least have the credentials? You took us there mate, I wouldn’t be pulling your degrees up if you didn’t first talk about how formally educated you are…

If only there was any large active warzone that has largely devolved into positional warfare for two years now to disprove that claim, damn.

1. Sure, I’m not even going to verify this one since it’s so low stakes.
2. This is ill-defined.
3. Again ill-defined, and I need dates on this, we’ve been sequencing DNA for like 50yrs at this point.
4. Lol, Neuralink kills monkeys, there’s zero indication of its “inevitability”.
5. Lol^2, none of that shit works mate. Name one person whose life was extended with cryonics.
6. AI is ill-defined, plus dates please.
7. And how well did that go?
8. First of all, that’s called Moore’s Law after the actual guy who made this prediction, you can’t credit someone else than Moore for Moore’s Law, wtf. Second, this hasn’t held for at least a decade now; we’ve been focusing on completely different things than raw CPU speed to actually increase compute.
9. “Answer questions” there is a load-bearing term. Did he mean search engines? Is this deriberately vague?
10. I’m sorry? First, a 3D printed prosthetic is not an exoskeleton, what kind of a logic leap is that. Second, citation needed on “3D printable prosthetic limbs” actually being in use right now on any scale.

The US doesn’t have a functional healthcare system yet, and they’re like a century behind on that at this point.

searches for who tf this is

Wikipedia:

Lol, this is the most passive-aggressive way of saying “known for absolutely nothing of value to anyone or anything” I’ve seen.

Jesus cinnamon crunch Christ. At least the blog posts are mercifully short. He somehow manages to have antivaxx nonsense there as well??

This is doubly funny because that already exists, at least in Computer Science, and is called a vision paper. You still need to put in a lot of work, perhaps more, into the bibliography and, you know, actually having compelling stuff to say.

It’s called a function plot for a reason!