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@miqโ˜•profilefollowEternal disciple of impostor syndrome โˆ™ Perth, WA.wrote:
Trying to gently work my way back to the target intensity needed for the Norwegian 4x4 to get my weekly dose of suck and feel accomplished after. Chronic left leg pain unfortunately likes reminding me it's there though.
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied to@egeprofilefollowcheck out my blog: hypersubject.netege's webloghypersubject.netHi! Iโ€™m ege. Welcome to my corner of cyberspace. The following is for you to make sense of who I am. It is an attempt to make myself legible to you. So you can label and categorize me and decide if Iโ€™m worthy of your time and attention.:
hi @egeprofilefollowcheck out my blog: hypersubject.net! welcome :) it does feel magical, i hope it persists as well. Thank you for the wishes.
@amyprofilefollowa work in progress; i love cats ๐Ÿฑwrote:
Whatโ€™s your favorite #fruitnotesfollow? Mine is banana for snack, blueberries for my yogurt bowl, and mango when Iโ€™m feeling rather indulgent.
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@amyprofilefollowa work in progress; i love cats ๐Ÿฑreplied to(deleted account):
I love how dates go so well with cashews. So at least once a day, I grab about 5 whole cashews and 1 date. Itโ€™s a perfect little snack!
@n5l๐Ÿ˜Žprofilefollowwrote:
Anthropic is announcing the end of the world every few days. All this marketing disguised as news about an impeding danger of AI is tiresome.
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@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@n5l๐Ÿ˜Žprofilefollow:
not marketing. yes their jobs positively select for concern about ai, but most people that are actively researching the field are concerned about the current state of safety, pace and incentives. I dont agree with a lot anthropic does, but i do believe the employees take safety seriously and they obviously have a better understanding of it than us. also theres no incentive for someone like coxon to sound alarm bells on twitter for "marketing" reasons, after quitting anthropic
@n5l๐Ÿ˜Žprofilefollowreplied to@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancer:
Yes, but some people say that they are pushing for market regulation. They want the state to protect them from the chinese models and, also, to protect the massive investments in Anthropic, OpenaAI, et al. that these companies will never be able to return. This sounds plausible to me too.
@kitnprofilefollowhallucinating with llms...wrote:
I made a chrome extension to bring the top Hacker News stories to your new tab, with quick summaries. So every time you open a new tab, you might discover something everyone else hasnโ€™t heard about yet. If youโ€™ve never heard of Hacker News: it was created by Paul Graham(founder
@e_e๐Ÿงšprofilefollowwrote:
If you left your current industry, what would you do for a living?
@kwubprofilefollowis fighting the urge to sleepreplied to@e_e๐Ÿงšprofilefollow:
i think id love to do something along the lines of (physical) product design im currently a software engineer. ive been into keyboards for a while and designed a good number. few things are as satisfying as taking an idea from something on paper or in my head to a shiny, pretty thing to play with
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to@e_e๐Ÿงšprofilefollow:
Electrician. This is not a farfetched idea, by the way. Tumultuous times; each day could be my last workday.
@chanuxprofilefollowI ain't no nothing!replied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
You are not the only one. x.com/benjamin_horne/status/2093749991680442462X (formerly Twitter)Ben Horne ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ (@benjamin_horne) on XMy cousin is 29 years old and no longer sees a long term future in SWE, so he recently made a hard switch to the electrician path. He didn't even get laid off, he actually *quit* his six figure SWE job to do this... His reasoning is that by having the balls to be decisive and pull the trigger on โ€ฆ [warn: that site may not be what you want to be on]
@miqโ˜•profilefollowEternal disciple of impostor syndrome โˆ™ Perth, WA.replied to@e_e๐Ÿงšprofilefollow:
Ah, a recurring question that undesirably keeps me awake and staring at my bedroom ceiling these past couple of years due to all this AI apocalypse rhetoric. Wish I had a firm answer. Preferably, not something frontline customer-facing, and where I can still exercise agency.
@n5l๐Ÿ˜Žprofilefollowwrote:
I notice that language models are much better at programming than at writing. This is largely because, in programming, they have a closed feedback loop that allows them to find errors. Writing is much more complicated because the feedback is much more diffuse and delayed over time. In fact, it is often not well-defined.
@n5l๐Ÿ˜Žprofilefollowcontinued:
What is the function that determines whether a poem is good? This means that models do not know how to think; they lack judgment. If they do not know how to think, it means that we humans are still essential. In fact, even when programming, you have to stay right on top of them. My conviction is that this will not change.
@n5l๐Ÿ˜Žprofilefollowcontinued:
They will become increasingly useful, but they will never be able to replace the human who defines objectives and evaluates the quality of the work. All these news stories claiming that AI is going to kill us all are stupid. Humans will always be able to turn off the machine.
@hippo๐Ÿฆ›profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.replied to@n5l๐Ÿ˜Žprofilefollow:
In three years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defence. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.wrote:
The 2030 release date of StarCraft: Dominion is so extreme that it feels like an indictment not only of Blizzard but indirectly of AI
@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.continued:
Theyโ€™re owned by Microsoft, of all companies. If AI hyperproductivity is real at scale, then why canโ€™t the game come out next year? Next month?
@lemonthymeshortbreadprofilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.wrote:
๐‘ฒ๐‘ฅ ๐‘ฉ๐‘•๐‘ฟ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฆ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ช๐‘‘ ๐‘•๐‘ฉ๐‘๐‘น๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘› ๐‘“ ๐‘ท๐‘‘๐‘ด-๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฏ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ค๐‘ฑ๐‘–๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ. Iโ€™m assuming #Shaviannotesfollow is not supported for auto-translation.
@lemonthymeshortbreadprofilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
Hmm, maybe Iโ€™ll sometimes post in Shavian anyway and translate myself. Itโ€™s a skill Iโ€™m trying to practice but rarely otherwise write brief enough notes to be so inclined. ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฅ, ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฑ๐‘š๐‘ฐ ๐‘ฒ๐‘ค ๐‘•๐‘ณ๐‘ฅ๐‘‘๐‘ฒ๐‘ฅ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ด๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ง๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆ๐‘ข๐‘ฑ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฏ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ค๐‘ฑ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ๐‘•๐‘ง๐‘ค๐‘“. ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘• ๐‘ฉ ๐‘•๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘ค ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฅ ๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘• ๐‘š๐‘ณ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘บ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘ณ๐‘ž๐‘ผ๐‘ข๐‘ฒ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘ณ๐‘“ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘‘๐‘• ๐‘‘ ๐‘š ๐‘•๐‘ด ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘ฒ๐‘ฏ๐‘›.