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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
@awfulwoman German or autistic?
TRANS PERSON: please don't press the button that makes children kill themselves
CIS PERSON: but it's such a pretty button
TRANS PERSON: yes but it kills children
CIS PERSON: it looks so fun to press tho
TRANS PERSON: uh huh it kills children
CIS PERSON: you don't understand this button reminds me of my own childhood
TRANS PERSON: i feel like I need to remind you - dead children
CIS PERSON: *sweat pouring down their face* but i can separate the button from the person who made the button!
TRANS PERSON: good for you, the button still makes children kill themselves
CIS PERSON: *straining from the effort of not pushing the button* but i want my children to enjoy the button
TRANS PERSON: the button that kills children
CIS PERSON: you just don't want anyone to enjoy things
TRANS PERSON: again...dead children
CIS PERSON: *pushes the button*
This post is about JK Rowling.
You know, it isn't even that tools like this are useless. There are absolutely things they could be good at. I've personally seen Claude find stupid little bugs you'd spend an hour figuring out and hating yourself for afterwards with great efficiency. I tried the first iteration of Copilot, back when it was just an aggressive autocomplete, and while I had to stop using it because it was overconfidently trying to finish my programs for me without being asked, it was great for filling in boilerplate and maybe even a couple lines of real code for the basic stuff. We have models nowadays that are actually trained to find bugs and security issues in code rather than having the entire internets thrown at them to produce something Altman & Amodei can sell to the gullible as AGI.
But there's the problem. The technology has been around for a while, we have a good idea of what it's good for and, more importantly, what it's not. "Our revolutionary expert system for finding bugs in your code" isn't nearly as marketable to the general public, and the CEO class especially, as "our revolutionary PhD level sentient AI that will solve all the world's problems if you only give us another couple trillion dollars, and also wants to be your girlfriend." And so we get Claude and ChatGPT and RAM shortages and AI psychosis and accelerated climate change instead of smaller, focused models that are actually good at their specialist subjects. Because those don't produce as much shareholder value.
As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I thought it would be a disaster, but it wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.
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Wow, u/DeeZett made a 3D version of my "We do not test on animals, we test in production" sticker. I love it!
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1s6r5tc/we_do_not_test_on_animals_we_test_in_production/
Model on Makerworld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2587482-we-do-not-test-on-animals-we-test-in-production#profileId-2854614
Thing on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7323159
#3dprint #makerworld #thingiverse #devops #infosec #sticker #wedonottestonanimalswetestinproduction
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