Not gonna lie got a bit jump scared by woke Peter Thiel here. Of course Iām pretty sure his actual solution involves giving young people houses confiscated from those perfidious brown people of one stripe or another. The problem canāt be an inherent injustice in a system that allows for both Peters Thiel and (insert your favorite broke person here) to exist in the same market.
I will never forget a conversation in High School where our resident young conservative sneered about how āsure $Welfare_Program sound nice, but youāll be paying for it with your taxesā and we all responded with some variant of āI mean, yeah? Thatās how that works, isnāt it?ā
āThe first time I ever suffered offline consequences for a social media postā- Hey Gang, I think I found the problem!
The AI bubble has more than enough money sloshing around that Iām bracing for some more significant knock-on effects from the pop. Tech as a sector has been on some level supporting the rest of the economy in some areas, it seems, and a big employment downturn there could have enough impacts on aggregate demand to cause a recession.
Please note I am not an economist etc. etc please trust basically anyone who contradicts this analysis to know more than me.
I think everyone has a deep-seated fear of both slander lawsuits and more importantly of being the guy who called the Internet a passing fad in 1989 or whenever it was. Which seems like a strange attitude to take on to me. Isnāt being quoted for generations some element of the point? If you make a strong claim and are correct then you might be a genius and spare people a lot of harm. If youāre wrong maybe some people miss out on an opportunity but you become a legend.
Remember the ~two weeks when Sabine was a vaguely respectable science communicator? That was wild.
Yeah. The whole Gel-Mann effect always feels overstated to me. Similar to the āfalsus in unusā doctrine Crichton mentions in his blog, the actual consensus appears to be that actually context does matter. Especially for something like the general sciences I donāt know that itās reasonable to expect someone to have similar levels of expertise in everything. To be sure the kinds of errors people make matter; it looks like this is a case of insufficient skepticism and fact checking, so Hank is more credulous than I had thought. Thatās not the same as everything heās put out being nonsense, though.
The more I think about it the more I want to sneer at anyone who treats ādifferent people know different thingsā as either a revelation or a problem to be overcome by finding the One Person who Knows All the Things.
Just gonna go ahead and make sure I fact check any scishow or crash course that the kid gets into a bit more aggressively now.
I mean, it feels like thereās definitely something in the concept of a Where Is Everybody style of episode where Mark has to navigate a world where dead internet theory has hit the real world and all around him are bots badly imitating workers trying to serve bots badly imitating customers in order to please bots badly imitating managers so that bots badly imitating cops donāt drag them to robot jail
ChatGPT finally achieved profitability due to unintended money laundering at unprecedented scale.
It really aggressively tries to match it up to something with similar keywords and structure, which is kind of interesting in its own right. It pattern-matched every variant I could come up with for āwhen all you have isā¦ā for example.
Honestly itās kind of an interesting question and limitation for this kind of LLM. How should you respond when someone asks about an idiom neither of you know? The answer is really contextual. Sometimes itās better to try and help them piece together what it means, other times itās more important to acknowledge that this isnāt actually a common expression or to try and provide accurate sourcing. The LLM, of course, has none of that context and because the patterns it replicates donāt allow expressions of uncertainty or digressions it canāt actually do both.
I tried this a couple of times and got a few āAI summary not availableā replies
Ed: heh
The phrase āany pork in a swarmā is an idiom, likely meant to be interpreted figuratively. Itās not a literal reference to a swarm of bees or other animals containing pork. The most likely interpretation is that it is being used to describe a situation or group where someone is secretly taking advantage of resources, opportunities, or power for their own benefit, often in a way that is not transparent or ethical. It implies that individuals within a larger group are actively participating in corruption or exploitation.
Generative AI is experimental.
about cool technology and how it relates to society
My dude Iāve got bad news for you about what Black Mirror is about.
LMFAO, best known for āParty Rock Anthemā, is actually a failed leftist yodaist sect, standing for the warning āLeopards, my face, ate offā
@David Gerard could probably throw the actual numbers and sources at us to back it up. I donāt really have the background to put the numbers in context and have largely trusted his and othersā reporting on the subject, but my understanding is that especially if you consider the volume of actual USD liquidity rather than trusting Tether and other stablecoins to actually be backed then itās truly dire. Even if you take the numbers at face value, however, I donāt think thereās nearly enough depth in the order book to absorb a meaningful amount of sell pressure at current prices.
Hat tip to the AI bro in the comments willfully misunderstanding why he sees so much āsexualized schoolgirl trashā from human artists. Both in the sense of āillustrators take commissions from horny strangers who are one of the most consistent sources of actual income and one imperilled by genAIā and in the sense of āmy dude in the modern internet if youāre seeing it that frequently itās because the algorithms have decided youāre into that shit.ā
You know, in the discussion of the attempted Sokal 2 electric boogaloo one of the quotes references their lack of a control group, which is a great criticism of their experimental design but misses the fact that we do have a few relevant points of comparison. Jan Hendrick Schoen, for example, nearly made it all the way to a Nobel Prize by faking data about superconductors.
Yeah that was a bit of a rough one, and I say that as someone who at this point needs to admit that I enjoy multi-hour video essays as a genre. The āEntā framing is also kind of awkward because the whole point of that bit of LotR was that even though the ents didnāt want to go to war the war came to them just the same.
Though to be fair I think I already started doubting his sourcing when it turned out that that Moskva maintenance leak was a fake.
Quick check suggests that Bitcoin is indeed up over the last couple of days, but at time of posting is down YTD. Any dumb money going into Bitcoin to hedge against USD chicanery is replacing the money that came out of it in response to the overall economic disaster still in progress, so I wouldnāt exactly call it a āflight to safetyā as much as a āmorons returning their still-on-fire hands to the hot stoveā
Ed: also all the usual disclaimers about liquidity, stable coins, manipulation, etc. apply just as strongly as they do for any other discussion of the Bitcoin spot price.
I mean I appreciate the attempt to mitigate one of the many problems with genAI, but I would expect the smaller dataset to make a model that confabulates even more and is gonna be even harder to work with than something like Sora. Like, Iām sure a decent director will be able to make something with it but I canāt see how itās going to be better results or more time/money/labor efficient than human VFX pipelines even if you pay the poor bastards decently.