Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
But wait, there's a 40 minute version! (pray for me)
https://twitter.com/jasonjoyride/status/1784638854798123241
This one is less deliberately misleading than the teaser, but a bit of a bore. Based on the sections ("E/acc vitality", "Doomerism"), there might be some fun stuff in there.
They are wearing the clean room masks below their noses. I wouldn't trust them with regular computers.
There will come a time when the economic tide has receded and we notice that not only were a lot of people swimming naked, they were very very high on drugs too.
More of a Woodstock mud puddle than anything else
... trying to view the whole universe as a big simulation ...
Ding ding ding! We got another simulation hypothesis techbro! All who got bingo raise your hands. Everyone else, better luck next time.
If you're trying to embed physics into computation, it's very natural for you to embed AI into the physics of the world.
I can't tell what this is supposed to mean even viewing it through rose-tinted tech optimism goggles. Embed physics into computation? Bro, that's called "electricity". Embed AI into physics? OK now you've completely lost me.
[noise is] also a problem if you're trying to go low power on [illegible] computers, and so what these devices do they use the noise from heat-- the jitteryness of the elctrons-- as an asset rather than a liability.
But seriously what the hedge is he talking about?
It's just some vague buzzwords about using quantum computing (or thermodynamics?) to ~~embed intelligence into the universe in the most efficient way possible~~ solve unspecified classes of machine learning problems.
embed physics into computation
Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?
Embed physics into computation? Bro, that’s called “electricity”.
I think this is even worse as it's backwards! "Computation" is not a thing, you can't embed something into it. You can embed computation into physics -- that's what we do, we figured out how to compute stuff in the framework of transistors and electric currents and built a CPU.
As a physicist whose current specialization is quantum information theory, reading those quotations hurt.
Embed AI into physics? OK now you’ve completely lost me.
so true bestie
E = mc^2 and E = mc^2 + AI
mc^2 = mc^2 + AI
0 = AI
Therefore AI is worthless.
Ugh, at least some scams are novel or entertaining.
Frankly I'd be more impressed if they had a lab of non-thermodynamic devices.
finally, the guy who willingly named himself BasedBeffJezos and posts the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever seen has pivoted his startup to the grift that you can replicate faster and more reliably on a Commodore 64
how have I not heard of sigbovik before, this is excellent
The recent one was also posted on !notawfultech iirc