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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • It is both ironic and rather obvious that the Iranians are using the exact same techniques against US forces in the gulf that Ukraine is using against Russia, and that they’re also surprisingly effective. Taking out US aerial tankers will eventually neuter US air power. They’re a crucial logistical component that enables a huge amount of the unique tactical and ranges that are typically employed by the US. Strategic assets are being squandered, and there are no adults left in the room to say “this is fucking stupid”. What a time to be alive.

    To be clear, this isn’t me cheerleading. This is me pointing out a darkly comical and categorically pointless waste of painstakingly built strategic capability.



  • Yes, I am. I just happen to be quite against the usage of CodeGen LLMs (and LLMs in general) for an absolute litany of reasons - based on topics including, but not limited to:

    • efficiency of implementation (it’s just enormous piles of markov chains brute forcing inputs into stochastic outputs; or: why aren’t we exploring analog implementations for this, which is a much better architectural fit in terms of the physical silicon)
    • energy impact (it’s massively spiking utility bills for shitloads of people, because the cost is being socialized)
    • ecolological (including auditory) and hydrological impact
    • economic impact (bubble tiem)
    • unbelievably huge licensing issues that are consistently hand-waved away or summarily dismissed without meaningful comment
    • double-standard of piracy (it’s ok if OpenAI does it, but it’s not ok if you do it)
    • societal impact, including how trivial it is now to generate completely fabricated text, visual, audio, and video content from effectively nothing
    • professional impact (leadership prioritizing AI bullshit over pretty much anything else)
    • impact on the domain and profession of computer science itself (companies have significantly cut back or eliminated hiring juniors/entry-levels)
    • hobbyist impact (where the fuck are homelabbers supposed to buy RAM and SSD nowadays, let alone GPUs?)

    I can go on, but I’ll leave it there for now.