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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

oh! was he the guy doing a search engine archiving as much of the fediverse as possible, over the objections of the people being indexed?

yeah that tracks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

that dude advocates LLM code autocomplete and he's a cryptographer

like that code's gotta be a bug bounty bonanza

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I liked this comment on the HN post:

Our computer security analogies are modeled around securing a home from burglars, but the actual threat model is the ocean surging 30 feet onto our beachfront community. The ocean will find the holes, no matter how small. We are not prepared for this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not gold, but some countries do work to an officially restricted money supply! Those that have officially dollarised, e.g. El Salvador and Ecuador.

I'm familiar with .sv. The government is horribly constricted - because they can't print money and the populace doesn't trust them to print money - so every year it's more sovereign bonds. Then a fuckwit like Bukele comes along and thinks that bitcoins will make anything better and not worse.

So yeah, turns out past 1930 that not being able to do monetary policy fucking sucks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the original post is fucking amazing

here in the future, nothing fucking works

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

this is Nvidia, they'll come up with a torturous source-available license made of poison pills

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

if only the article addressed this precise point and its relevance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

my taxonomy of nazis expands beyond tie nazis and boot nazis to guys like this, shove into a locker nazis

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the original gag was that it was Taylor Swift moonlighting as an infosec advisor

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

mandatory gym too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no, it's Taylor Swift

this is like claiming dril was identified. no he wasn't. that's not true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

quantum finance

 

skeet: https://bsky.app/profile/kezz.io/post/3kpzm7ya6tb2g

from back when AI hallucinations were hallucinatory

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

 

does not include the AI section that's over in MoreWrite, that'll probably be next time

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This is just a draft, best refrain from linking. (I hope we'll get this up tomorrow or Monday. edit: probably this week? edit 2: it's up!!) The [bracketed] stuff is links to cites.

Please critique!


A vision came to us in a dream — and certainly not from any nameable person — on the current state of the venture capital fueled AI and machine learning industry. We asked around and several in the field concurred.

AIs are famous for “hallucinating” made-up answers with wrong facts. The hallucinations are not decreasing. In fact, the hallucinations are getting worse.

If you know how large language models work, you will understand that all output from a LLM is a “hallucination” — it’s generated from the latent space and the training data. But if your input contains mostly facts, then the output has a better chance of not being nonsense.

Unfortunately, the VC-funded AI industry runs on the promise of replacing humans with a very large shell script. If the output is just generated nonsense, that’s a problem. There is a slight panic among AI company leadership about this.

Even more unfortunately, the AI industry has run out of untainted training data. So they’re seriously considering doing the stupidest thing possible: training AIs on the output of other AIs. This is already known to make the models collapse into gibberish. [WSJ, archive]

There is enough money floating around in tech VC to fuel this nonsense for another couple of years — there are hundreds of billions of dollars (family offices, sovereign wealth funds) desperate to find an investment. If ever there was an argument for swingeing taxation followed by massive government spending programs, this would be it.

Ed Zitron gives it three more quarters (nine months). The gossip concurs with Ed on this being likely to last for another three quarters. There should be at least one more wave of massive overhiring. [Ed Zitron]

The current workaround is to hire fresh Ph.Ds to fix the hallucinations and try to underpay them on the promise of future wealth. If you have a degree with machine learning in it, gouge them for every penny you can while the gouging is good.

AI is holding up the S&P 500. This means that when the AI VC bubble pops, tech will drop. Whenever the NASDAQ catches a cold, bitcoin catches COVID — so expect crypto to go through the floor in turn.

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