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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Someone ask if those fucks wanna see how much of the modern world was actually built by China? Wanna let them run it instead?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Frankly yes. In a better world art would not be commodified and the economic barriers that hinder commissioning of art from skilled human artists in our capitalist system would not exist, and thus generative AI recombining existing art would likely be much less problematic and harmful to both artists and audiences alike.

But also that is not the world where we live, so fuck GenAI and its users and promoters lmao stay mad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, that is also the case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, what if the master owns a wrecking ball, a bulldozer, a heavy duty excavator and a bunch of dynamite?

Yes, this is a metaphor for C programming, how did you know?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You're both incorrect. I am the least fascist programmer and I'm here to tell you programming is inherently fascist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

The simultaneous problem and benefit of the stubstack thread is that a good chunk of the best posts of this community are contained within them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's just depressing. I don't even think Yudkoswsky is being cynical here, but expressing genuine and partially justified anger, while also being very wrong and filtering the event through his personal brainrot. This would be a reasonable statement to make if I believed in just one or two of the implausible things he believes in.

He's absolutely wrong in thinking the LLM "knew enough about humans" to know anything at all. His "alignment" angle is also a really bad way of talking about the harm that language model chatbot tech is capable of doing, though he's correct in saying the ethics of language models aren't a self-solving issue, even though he expresses it in critihype-laden terms.

Not that I like "handing it" to Eliezer Yudkowsky, but he's correct to be upset about a guy dying because of an unhealthy LLM obsession. Rhetorically, this isn't that far from this forum's reaction to children committing suicide because of Character.AI, just that most people on awful.systems have a more realistic conception of the capabilities and limitations of AI technology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you're deliberately setting up for this response, so: "more like human sole".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Refreshing. An online community that wears its intentions on its sleeve.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely. Take the reverence for "SysV" init* to the point where the init system has all but eclipsed the AT&T Unix release as the primary meaning of "System V". The BSDs (at least the Net/Open branch, not sure about FreeBSD) adopted a simplified BSD init/rc model ages ago and Solaris switched to systemd-esque SMF with little uproar. Personally I even prefer SMF over its Linux equivalents, despite the cumbersome XML configuration.

I somewhat understand the terminalchud mindset, a longing for a supposed simpler time where a nerd could keep a holistic grasp of one's computing system in their head. Combine that with the tech industry's pervasive male chauvinism and dogmatic adherence to a law of "simplify and reduce weight" (usually a useful rule of thumb) and you end up with terrible social circles making bad software believing they're great on both fronts.

* Rather, the Linux implementation of the concept

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

We probably live in a simulation with the purpose of producing the best anime. This is why we are living in an age with so much anime and with so many people who are interested in anime. The anime maximizing AI is simulating all kinds of scenarios from abiogenesis to a prolific anime industry. Most possible scenarios of life evolving from its first forms would not lead to the development of an anime industry, which is why it would be improbable for us to exist in a world with anime, if not for the fact that the simulated scenarios without anime in them are dropped and not simulated further.

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

Imagining a guy who asks me a dumb question so I can let everyone know how I'd mock them with a joke answer.

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