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.
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looks like perplexity misbehaves in a way that’d allow them to hide
quick whois on the ip from that log snippet says ec2, so they’re probably doing scaleout via dynamic instances (I’ve been wondering about this for a variety of the services)
full fucking parasitical, again and again
I kinda want to go read the old Singularity fic and enjoy any Zeerust that pops up.
At last, a compelling reason to use Chat-GPT: https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1801360053045497942
ChatGPT is dying Use Apple to make it die faster
Tim cook is an absolute hustler
bit of a combo-sneer this morning
CNBC put out an article uncritically repeating yet another round of lieboy pulling the exact same shit. I don't recognize the authors immediately, not sure if they're typical bootlickers or not
openai is going in hard, hiring ex-NSA person that was appointed by the walking talk racist mop (via dan gillmor). for the .... safety role! ah yes, I'm sure we'll all be so very surprised by this attempt consolidation of power.
to their credit, they did manage to get past the editor:
This is all far-out stuff even for Musk, who is notorious for making ambitious promises to investors and customers that don’t pan out — from developing software that can turn an existing Tesla into a self-driving vehicle with an upload, to EV battery swapping stations.
yeah, fair call on that. I just live in hope that we can get to a point where “lying fucker with history of failures and grandiose statements has made another ridiculous grandiose statement probably composed of lies” can be the actual type of headline, instead of this constant simping bullshit
Or just, you know, not write a headline on that in the first place? Who the fuck is in a dire need to know the last stupid thing a pathological liar said?
publishers who demand clicks
Rare moment of clarity on EA forum: the fuck are we giving $100k to a video game for
But wait, the game developer wrote a story called Singularity 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20240302011145/https://singularity1999.tv/
I'm not sure I'm brave / bored enough to read.
The sim city clone looks like it could have been neat with some more love, it has a bit of a Streets of SimCity / SimCopter vibe to the aesthetics which was my jam back in the day. Though from the reviews it looks like it made the decision of shying away from low level management aspects or angry headlines yelling at you for your dumb city building choices (so I wouldn't have played it for that reason, is it even sim city without being told "you're going to regret this"??)
Someone else played simcopter?
I enjoyed it for what it was (helicopter crimes simulator), but lemme tell you the real fun to be had was in Streets of SimCity.
From the level editor, to the soundtrack (I considered it to be edgy at the time), to the bugs (if you don't create launchers by self-intersecting bridges in SCURK then what are you even doing?), to the ridiculous campaigns and the ability to blow up a nuclear reactor. I didn't even mind that the graphics looked like sawdust.
Come to think of it I always liked blowing up the nukes as a kid, so I also considered Recoil (the tank game) to be the peak of entertainment.
Everything Maxis did is remake worthy.
wait, we have a SimCopter & Streets of Sim City subthread now? fuck yes. I’m here to attach missile launchers to cars my dad fondly remembers, jankily load my simcity2000 game into the level editor and play the resulting broken mess, and crash (both my car and the game engine)
Just gonna leave these songs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkFmwT7MZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyXwJWbUoY
lol at the “delved” there. Wonder if it’s some intentional contrarian
The response of the grant evaluator is even worse. Just excuses, no admission that they fucked up. Barely even a consideration that this is the sort of thing people have done with flash games, and created in literal weekends at game jams
Obviously the most effective of altruisms is whatever is most likely to create more paperclip believers. The EA games (it's in the game!) philanthropic singularity will allow us to reach the next stage of human evolution: all economic output devoted to mosquito nets and button press simulators.
The EA games (it’s in the game!)
I actually heard this in my brain, you monster. well done.
challenge everything
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Nah man we had so much fucking dosh flowing in we had no idea what to even do with it! I mean, how could I possibly resist not allocating some of it to my friends?
(Well, this goes some way to explaining "AI" "art")
Who? Is that some indie movie director?
Andrej Karpathy is a former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI
So just a rando with a stupid opinion. Go back to your totally-not-naive AGI vision board.
This has got to be some sort of sucker filter, like it's not that he particularly means it, it's that he is after the exact type of rube who is unfazed by naked contrarianism and the categorically preposterous so long as it's said with a straight face,.
Maybe there's something to the whole pick up artistry but for nailing VCs thing.
It really is as simple as that. The dude got a fair bit of attention from his LSTM blog post and got addicted. Turns out, you can't churn out awesome blog posts that often so you gotta switch to the harder stuff.
I also hate movies where I can see the actual action going on and it isn't all shaky cam and cuts cuts cuts.
according to modern film scholars, this cultural shift was brought about by the lasting audience impact of that scene in Speed (1994) where the bus fucking noclips across a gap while pretending there’s a ramp it’s using to jump (or Keanu made it pop a wheelie?)
Wasn't 1994 right about when they stopped making movies in black and white?
"Are you telling me I can jump a bus across a 50 foot gap at 67 miles per hour?"
"No Neo, I'm telling you that when you're ready, you won't have to."
I bet that guy watches anime on 2x speed and skips parts without dialog to feel more “productive”.
Anime has dialog? Nani?
ANTA BAKA?!*
*translator's note: baka means "plan"
YCombinator startup moves fast, uses ChatGPT, and breaks things[1]
(original post removed, hence the archive link)
[1] HN quickly deduces the real problem is deploying to production with insufficient monitoring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627558
