David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•How Lightcone fucked up returning an FTX donation: they asked a chatbotEnglish
3·1 month agoa better engineer than Oliver
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•How Lightcone fucked up returning an FTX donation: they asked a chatbotEnglish
4·1 month agodid Grover do his own three-phase wiring, no it takes Bayes for that
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•How Lightcone fucked up returning an FTX donation: they asked a chatbotEnglish
4·1 month agoNOTE: on looking again, I’m not sure if he asked a chatbot at the time (presumably the GPT 3.5-based ChatGPT) or if he’s saying it would have gone better if he had asked a chatbot. Not that the second is one dot better, and may be worse.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•How Lightcone fucked up returning an FTX donation: they asked a chatbotEnglish
5·1 month agorationalism as cult incubator
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•How Lightcone fucked up returning an FTX donation: they asked a chatbotEnglish
11·1 month agoIt’s really not hard to learn how to renovate a kitchen! I have done it. Of course, you won’t be able to learn how to do it all quickly or to a workman’s standard, but I had my contractor show me how to cut drywall, how installing cabinets works, how installing stoves works, how to run basic electrical lines, and how to evaluate the load on an electrical panel. The reports my general contractor was delegating to were also all mostly working on less than 30 hours of instruction for the specific tasks involved here (though they had more experience and were much faster at things like cutting precisely).
now if you know habryka wrote this, you can picture exactly what this kitchen looks like and will know to look out for doors falling on your head
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•How Lightcone fucked up returning an FTX donation: they asked a chatbotEnglish
8·1 month agoit keeps turning out that groups who call themselves The Smart Guys Who Are Very Cool And Also Smart are full of numbnuts! HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•I refer the honourable gentlesneers to footnote 14 (PDF, pp15-16)English
1·2 months agojudges, evidently
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Disney sues AI image generator MidjourneyEnglish
1·6 months agoauthor here - there is of course a good chance Disney will want to squash them like a bug.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English
13·7 months agoBaldur Bjarnason (who hates AI slop) has posited precisely this:
My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English
111·7 months agoI asked Github Copilot and it added
import wreakto .NET, so we’ll get back to you.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•Did you know anyone can freeze your account on an exchange with one unblockable trick?English
1·10 months agoMichel is great and you should follow him if you enjoy crypto shenanigans









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Bottom Line: Bitcoin isn’t a “safe” bet—it’s a high-conviction play on decentralization and scarcity. If you believe in its 10-year trajectory (as Warren Buffett might quip: only buy what you’d hold if markets closed for a decade), dollar-cost average in now.
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