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@JadedBlueEyes @glyph yeah, and then you're no longer talking about what's happening to you, you're trying to coordinate alignment with someone else's social cognition and trying to solve a social problem around THEM.

Your regular reminder that as bad as you think things currently are living in a country run by an incompetent and corrupt group of racist grifters, it’s going to get worse.

Look out for yourselves and your community.

Jake, 24, said buying in Sydney wasn't that hard. "I cut down on avocado toast, walked to work, and my grandmother passed away leaving me $1.2 million in a trust. Anyone can do it if they really want to." This story sponsored by news dot com dot au.
"Have I told you about my new idea for an AI-enhanced gardening spade? It measures temperature, moisture level, and nitrogen content, all as you dig! Think Theranos, but for potting soil."

I want to be clear that this is pretty divorced from my own views of likely scenarios, even likely nightmare scenarios, so they're not getting this from me.

If you're reading this and you're involved in LLM hype, I'd really like you to take a moment to pause and examine the fact that this is the commonly accepted peer wisdom in a 2nd-grade classroom right now. That their parents' generation is actively involved in betraying them to a distant and inscrutable machine-god of pure greed.

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I am... really tempted to pin this to the top of my account... Print it and put it on my office door... send it as my email signature... wear it around my neck at conferences....
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180727-mansplaining-explained-in-one-chart
Edwin Starr - War (What is it good for) + Lycris HQ!!

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like... the cost of a single "state-of-the-art" llm training run would be a permanently institution-changing amount of money for your average computer science department (to say nothing of depts in CS-adjacent fields, especially in the arts and humanities). the claude mythos result, even if you take anthropopo's claims at face value (which: don't) seems indicative of this, like, yeah if you toss nine figures at security research, you're gonna find some exploits?

i guess fundamentally i'm not convinced that whatever amount useful functionality has emerged from generative AI (and i think the jury's still out on whether that amount is non-zero) couldn't have been achieved in more cost-effective, equitable and sustainable ways by having taken the money and resources we've shoveled into gen AI and investing them elsewhere

("sustainable" in the sense of environmentally sustainable but also "can we keep this in a working state" sustainable)