That’s because it doesn’t use AI…

Duh, my bad. I thought it was something like varifocals too.

Photochromic lenses were a nerd staple when I was a teenager. Dunno if/how popular they are now.

A couple of examples Srinivas gave on the podcast is “Who is Lex Fridman following that Elon Musk is also following,” or “what are the most recent tweets that were liked by both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.”

Questions asked by the terminally deranged.

I guess the point is the dude won’t have lasik.

Another one

https://mastodon.social/@bruces/112690475011154532

edit seems to be a whole bunch of similar ones.

I don’t have any proof for this statement but I believe the LLM-minders keep track of whatever stupid shit bubbles up on the internets making fun of their babies and hardcode “solutions” to them in a game of whack-a-mole.

The Death of the Junior Developer

Steve Yegge goes hard into critihype, there’s no need for any junior people anymore, all you need is a senior prompt engineer. No word on what happens when the seniors retire or die off, guess we’ll have AGI by then and it’ll all work out. Also no word on how the legal profession will survive when all the senior prompt engineer’s time is spend rewriting increasingly meaningless LLM responses as the training corpus inevitably degenerates from slurm contamination.

Some idiot in another forum opined that LLMs haven’t solved climate change “yet”. Sure, bud.

rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded

AI continues to be going great…

I only saw it because I follow him on Masto.

Fedi is weird.

I happen to copyright my output (obviously not here or in other comments). The question I ask myself is: would I be ok if a Nazi organization used my photos in their propaganda? I’m not ok with that, so I like to retain control over who can use my stuff. If someone acceptable were to ask me, I’d let them use my work without compensation.

I got boosted by Charlie Stross…

“Deep tech startup” == very good at digging deep in public infrastructure funds, presumably

Twitter’s main issue is that it’s not really very big. It wasn’t big even pre-Musk. If you have the choice between advertising on a really big social network (Meta (=FB, IG, Whatsapp…)) with a functioning trust & safety team and ad brokers who take you seriously and don’t accuse you of being woke, and one which has way smaller reach, no T&S to speak of, and whose owner can use his outsized influence to call your CEO a pedo whenever the ketamine kicks in, the choice is clear.

Didn’t we discuss this fallacy the other day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox