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In the comments to a submission about a private company trying to design a new supersonic airliner(!) this gem appears
Can we get LLMs to design the engine?
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793848 if you have showdead)
The rest of the comments range from the realistic (it's hard to design an airliner, and the market for fast ones is not big) over the inevitable Elon-fluffing (SpaceX is just like an airliner, duh!) to the above insanity.
I’m actually at a loss of words for this. What the actual fuck …
From here. The article is pretty interesting, though.
“AI is jet planes for the mind,”
incredibly polluting?
We eventually figure out that the don't need to be that fast and make slower models?
Or, the doors will fall off if you let the finance people run it?
Or a place for strangers to use computers to inspect your private parts? Right, def that one.
Larger expenses in a month than earnings in a year. AI going great. Capitalism going great.
automated narcissism maintenance machines. maybe if we can heavenban the promptfans into a room with just their roided clippies, they'll be happier for it
He claimed a new, faster version of the Stable Diffusion image generator released earlier this month could generate “200 cats with hats per second.”
Pointless. The set of any type of funny cat picture on the Internet is already infinite.
The Financial Times reported Friday that the company made $5.4 million of revenue in February, against $8 million in costs. Several sources said there are ongoing concerns about making payroll for the roughly 150 remaining employees. Leadership roles have gone vacant for months amid the disarray, leaving the company increasingly directionless.
"... the AI-ristocrats!"
a lesswrong: Modern Transformers are AGI, and Human-Level
Modern NLP systems can do most things you would want an AI to do, at some basic level of competence.
For example, drawing mutant rodent dicks of unusual size
you know
it's worth trying to get jon oliver's attention on this shit
"this shit" being the examplar majestic rodent penises, and maybe also the causal source. sorta. might be able to spend some minutes on that
tasty tasty dead dove, yum yum
The sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried is humbling. I remember researching his rise to power many years ago, with some care, over a few weeks. Listened to a lot of his interviews, etc. I remember feeling deeply impressed, almost saddened by my own relative inferiority. I thought he was very cool. I really did. I thought he was a legitimate genius, bold, independently-minded, and admirably risk-tolerant: A paragon of contemporary, accelerated, cultural and technological entrepreneurship. His initial rise to power was the kind that often makes me wonder "What is wrong with me? Why can I not be smarter, sharper, bolder, and more successful with my own projects?" Since I admired him, I know that I am in no way above him; I could have very well made all of the same mistakes he made, if I had been given the power that he accrued. "There go I but for the grace of God," as they say. Ultimately, you never know what someone is really doing and you never know what will happen to them. You just cannot know whether someone's life and work are enviable until after they have died. With his sentencing today, I am at present just as awestruck as when I learned about his rise to power, but in the exact opposite direction—the envy I felt toward him I now feel toward my own life, and I'm beyond grateful to have achieved such tremendous success compared to him. If comparison is all too often the thief of joy, for the same reason it can also be a multiplier of gratitude and humility. I pray for Sam Bankman-Fried.
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you'll be pleased to know that Justin used to think SBF was the smartest man inna worl', but now he realises that he himself is
Guy who was previously featured here for championing the merits of dropping the n-word when meeting new (white) people in order to judge them worthy had an extensive twitter rant about how scott alexander may be an actual prophet, while quote-twitting another similarly afflicted person.
If you bother, which I barely did, this is what you're in for:
Trace says Scott has given up his will to power. but it's not a giveaway, it's a trade: if you don't seek power you retain the ability to seek unpolluted truth. here's this tradeoff explained by Curtis Yarvin, another reluctant prophet, whom Scott has definitely read:
Man I do NOT fuck with TracingWoodgrains. I assume that most of the people who interact with Hannania - and his ilk of wordy r9k robots and reply guys - is a a crypto-reactionary. But I think Tracey just really really likes tweeting and culture war fence straddling? Somehow it's still obnoxious.
Scott Alexander is one of the most gifted and prolific writers of our day—compelling and strikingly original on any number of topics.
An assessment of a writer's skill, with no regards to prose. This is what happens when the only text you consume come from techie microbloggers
Fucking Hetzner:
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112161019007879382
i am deeply disappointed and annoyed
also billing cycle is 1 April lolollllllll
also where does one find a webhost that's any better? hetzner are great otherwise (a proper company, not a personal project), I used to strongly recommend them.
also they hate crypto
AWS: you will pay. also, shit works. also, you get customer service.
Azure: you're running Windows, you hate yourself, probably both
Google: you have transcended beyond such earthly requirements as "customer service" or "functions that don't get deprecated in three years"
Hetzner: you run a herd of carefully groomed pets and not cattle
OVH: wot is dis "uptime" ov which u speek
Oracle: lol
Some Guy LLC: I would rather sign up with Oracle
OVH is Some Guy LLC At Scale
and Google Cloud is Some Guy LLC At Scale At Scale
I guess there's still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.
I've been using DigitalOcean for years as a personal VPS box, and I've had no complaints. Not sure how well they'd scale (in terms of cost) for a site like this.
this is one part of the problem, yeah - pretty much all the VPS offerings are extremely painful cost-wise if you need chonky hosts
rootservers (or things off the serverbidding market) are way better bang for buck (i.e. my all-the-things gremlin box is dual-4TB 64GB i7-something, at ~38eur/mo)
I really, really hope they sort this shit out
fuck sakes this is aggravatingly disappointing to see from them
I'd been a bit sour already because of the power and IP pricing pushes, but I know the former is bc putin. the latter fucking sucks, it's aggressive and feels like trying to get additional revenue for nothing (although I haven't compared RIPE pricing to see if this feeling bears out (and even then, fucking hello? fucking RIPE going on continual price ballooning is some other fucking shit too. but I digress...))
but what the fuck at this. I've had hetzner boxes with other people's shitty php getting content injected and growing coinminers and shit, and none of that has ever had a response like "you need to get rid of that domain/customer". it's had the usual temp-IP-blackhole crap (which I get)
note that this instance is also on hetzner (cause I was also fairly happy with them til now, other than a bit of missing functionality), so suggestions of reasonably-priced alternatives that don’t suck and will let us run NixOS are appreciated
though I might need a bit of convincing if those alternatives take the form of “OVH doesn’t suck now” or “go ahead and put your human flesh near Larry Ellison”
i really really hope Hetzner can get their shit together here because this is a fucking pain to even think about. I got shit to do ya know.
every BOFH thinks they could do their own AWS with gaffer tape and paperclips. i actually thought "oh i could just" and then had to whack myself on the head with a newspaper and say NO
i have not the time any more for Some Guy LLC and especially not for being Some Guy LLC, there is good reason to go with the inhuman corporate behemoth and it's because i'm tiiiiired
you will always need your bofh skills in good order and a bugout bag of last night's fresh backups to hand, but given that one can camp out on Inhuman Corporate Behemoth for years
there's comp sci experiments and then there's services, but services are work and if i wanted to work i'd get a job
@dgerard @froztbyte I always tell people that the reason so many systems nerds (I don't use BOFH any more as that's.. not really an attitude I like identifying with, it hasn't aged well) use Macs. It's because once you get back from work, frankly, the LAST thing you want to do is system administration on your home machine and OS X is just *nix enough.
Update: Hetzner gives a non-apology that does not address the actual systemic issue
SBF sentence gets announced this week. Over/under on 15/45/75 years?
I'm guessing the prosecutor gets something like the 45-50 they were asking for. Madoff got 150 years, though.
(excuse the ignorance, haven't been following this close enough on account of spoons)
40-50y req from prosecutor, wat - what's the story there? were they unsure they could secure more if they asked for[0]? is there some kind of fuckery around max sentencing because of charge class?
[0] as in: since sbf was declared guilty, the sentencing is going to happen regardless, but the value of assigned years is variable, and the assigned value could be below prosecutor request for $legalsystem reasons?[1] [1] I am not a US legal system enjoyer, so I don't have comprehensive knowledge on the minutae of that demented clusterfuck operates
That's a question for PopeHat, wherever he hangs his hat these days. He's a former Federal prosecutor.
Courts to Elon suing to protect Twitter's honour: fuck off (PDF). And fuck off a second time (PDF).
Buttcoin "miners" literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.
A Stronghold spokesperson said in a statement that its operations actually clean up land and water in the area by using waste coal left behind by historic coal production in the region.
cryptobro going full on "it's free real estate" without thinking twice why it's waste in the first place
Idk if this even meets the lowest-quality bar, but I just saw something on Reddit's Buttcoin sub, and the fact that this is a real headline is making me question my sanity. The future of finance, everyone.
And the AI-generated image is the cherry on top.
Decrypt has been trying a desperate pivot to AI, and even essayed a few LK-99 pieces in superconductors' two weeks
Aah, the smell of second-tier dipshits fomo-farming on meme stocks by people who likely absolutely insist they “were there for the critical r/wsb moments”, such a unique aroma
one hour forty five minutes of Mars Review of Books contributors discussing culture
uncut purestrain abyss, could kill a newbie sneer in one minute thirty or less
Awful at a technical level, tedious at a textual level, overall baffling that there is an audience for this. Everyone seems at times politely humoring to openly bored. The least interesting conversation happening at the worst party you've ever been to.
Please regard this video as a performance of No Exit.
Thank fuck this is on twitter, narrowly avoiding the psychic damage
Courtesy of r/programmingcirclejerk