Something something when a metric becomes a target something something it ceases to be a useful metric. Only in this case the metric is fungible and can be traded for almost anything else in the world. No wonder it became the target.
The older I get, the more I think Tolkien and Herbert had it right (despite disagreeing with much of their politics); gift economies, subsistence farming, and self-reliance are the way to go to prevent us from destroying ourselves.
I dunno, man, if it really is unstoppable then why waste time and effort proclaiming it? Just do it/let it take place and focus on things that are in up the air.
Salesforce also recently admitted they were too hasty when they tried to replace humans with ais: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/salesforce-now-admits-its-ai-agents-were-unreliable-after-cutting-4000-jobs/
New year, new me, new opportunities for leftist purity tests memes shitting on marxists
Then I guess it’s time to put “AI” (actually 3 if-statements in a trench coat) into all my software projects so they can legally jailbreak corporate software!
GlaDOS, eat your heart out
I don’t know what the exact genre name is but Opeth’s Eternal Rains Will Come comes to mind
We might finally get a triumvirate of generalist, centrist instances!
…or .world will crash, burn, and implode
Speaking of which, nice username
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though I’m not sure I get the “train” bit
The author showed up in the hackernews comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475 for the post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372060 for the author’s comment.
Apparently their corporate context is inside kubernetes and prevents UDP. Personally I don’t know enough to say whether they’re just ignorant, lazy, or they have “valid” constraints.
But yeah, didn’t tmux solve this problem a few decades ago, already?
I’m not surprised they ultimately felt like GenAI isn’t useful to what they’re trying to do. Game dev has known about this type of generation for a while now (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_synthesis and the sources linked at the bottom) and it takes a lot of human effort to curate both the training data and the model weights to end up with anything that feels new and meaningful.
If I shuffle a deck of 52 cards, there is a high chance of obtaining a deck order that has never occurred before in human history. Big whoop. GenAI is closer to sexy dice anyways - the “intelligent work” was making sure the dice faces always make sense when put together and you don’t end up rolling “blow suck” or “lips thigh”.
It’s very impressive that we’re able to scale this type of apparatus up to plausibly generate meaningful paragraphs, conversations, and programs. It’s ridiculous what it cost us to get it this far, and just like sexy dice and card shuffling I fail to see it as capable of replacing human thought or ingenuity, let alone expressing what’s “in my head”. Not until we can bolt it onto a body that can feel pain and hunger and joy, and we can already make human babies much more efficiently than what it takes to train an LLM from scratch (and they have personhood and thus rights in most societies around the world).
Even the people worried about “AI self-improving” to the point it “escapes our control” don’t seem to be able to demonstrate that today’s AI can do much more than slow us down in the long run; this study was published over 5 months ago, and they don’t seem to have found much since then.
At least they aren’t green tips!
Good for them! I’m not surprised yet still disappointed by the spokesperson’s comments.
Re: 1), you’re not kidding - check out that gray banding on the caption in the top-level post!
That’s such a great riff on the original xkcd
Do you remember where you found it?
Also, no federation on the NodeBB/piefed unless/until the users overwhelmingly ask for it.
NodeBB or maybe piefed to host announcements and provide a place for questions and feedback.
Consider creating an account for each household with a “correct horse battery staple” style password that’s easy to input on mobile, print out a little slip of paper with an explanation blurb and account name & password, and deposit in their mailbox.
Do not expect any users until you’ve hosted several game nights that had multiple attendees. From what you say you are the events committee, not the online life committee. I would thus recommend to stay focused on events until people bring up, unprompted, a desire for more casual day-to-day interactions. You want to be integrating into their existing habits, not trying to replace them. Let the “switching” happen on their own initiative lest they feel like they’re being co-opted for your own personal agenda.
I have found Hackaday to be depressingly full of shallow summaries of things said/done/written by other people elsewhere.