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Roughly a year ago my friend made a song on Suno that was a sea shanty about shit (that song was made specifically for a friend’s birthday). so yep. Not even a bad use case IMO💩

That's excellent! They stop at all the shit without seeing the creatures that made it! That works so well! 👏

That’s it! I’m calling my agent clever girl from now on.

One is actual intelligence, the other plagiarizes intelligence

rawr simon! i hope our ending isn't like theirs!!

I dont think theres any better way you could message. The public will have a meltdown no matter what you do or say right now.

amodei, altman, and musk, on the other hand, well

Part of the hype is just how insane the capital expense and debt financing is to build these models. The revenue they'll need to make to recoup it implies the most profitable technology in the history of the world by an order of magnitude.

No, not exactly what I mean. It seems for some reason that they would like you to believe that it's a jurassic park situation and someday it's going to break containment and go rogue or whatever. That belief is the marketing malpractice I'm referring to.

i'd say physicist and starfleet academy, but otherwise totally agree.

feel like this depends how much you are a: "Computer Scientist" (people who generally get the degree, work in computing) VS Computer Scientist™️ (CS professor whose entire career is researching minute optimizations of a pet data structure that only exists in their own papers)

It's just fancy frog enlarging, Simon

It was surprising to me to see Richard Stallman in the fancy autocomplete camp. He's from the MIT AI lab. I understand the ethical issues but you'd think achieving an AI holy grail like passing the turing test would be interesting at least!

It's sad most reasonable conversation gets drowned out by "it's gonna get sentient any time now" discourse

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All the people getting eaten by dinosaurs were part of a psyop to juice biotech stock prices.

Okay I'm going to watch it. You had me with "walls surrounding the toilet collapsed"!

Michael Crichton has written a couple of books but a theme from Jurassic Park and Westworld is the „dystopian potentialities of modern science“ and „humanity creates something without truly knowing anything about it“. I’ll post the Wikipedia page here for reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassi...

Certainly, I would not in that position be spending hundreds of dollars a month on Jurassic Park access and writing a blog where I review new dinosaur exhibits and regularly incorporate dinosaurs into more and more of my everyday life. I'm not sure you've actually thought through this analogy.

The part of this that's really weird is that you're making an analogy where fully boycotting the entire park is unquestionably the smart move.. but you're not boycotting the park! Does being self-aware about the raptors you're playing with stop you from getting eaten by them?

In this analogy I'm very much the geneticist who gets so excited to see actual living dinosaurs that I go ahead with it despite understanding that there's a good chance that they will eat me

Though I should point out it's possible to think "wow, that's interesting, also there's no way I would set foot anywhere near that place"

Ohhh that’s an intentional part of the analogy. I misunderstood.

That's more like saying I don't want to read the last few chapters, I'd rather be ignorant. IT includes the right frameworks around safe use and how will you know if you can't be bothered.

maybe folks are a bit discouraged by the way openAI and Anthropic have been hitting the news lately, and it's difficult to disentangle the tech from corporate strategy sometimes.

Isn't this a plot point in Jurassic Park 3? Alan Grant wants to just study bones and finds living dinosaurs uninteresting.

See also petervandijck.com/post/6qbsu-9...

Imagine being a geneticist who only has positive things to say about Jurassic Park

Yes!!! And Michael Crichton literally wrote the same book twice to illustrate his point: bsky.app/profile/rich... Or maybe even more than that.

That was my first thought too. Jurassic Park seems to be a lesson in not doing incredibly dangerous things even if they are interesting.

It's definitely interesting as an applied mathematician, those pesky computer scientists are too quick to call "sentience" when they see something they can't explain yet 🤣

Spot on ->

Literally, there's a scene in Jurassic World where they talk about how proud they are that they made this dinosaur really scary because a normal dinosaur wouldn't get enough attention. And then later on the bad guy gives a monologue about releasing the raptors as a field test.

It is just marketing. They letting the velociraptors out of the cage on purpose. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...

They even don't have feathers.

The fictional company shared the same name as a real company. Metamucill?

Nedry would be trying to smuggle weights out of an OpenAI datacenter in a can of shaving cream.

Skimping on the IT budget is just a bad idea when the whole park depends on it.

in before someone says something like "your best metaphor is a fictional park that doesn't exist, just like the intelligence that doesn't actually exist"

Interesting Ponzi scheme.

it's just a stochastic pterodactyl. why should i care

It's fine, all of the models are female so they can't reproduce.

Much like the internet, LLMs were cooler before The Money discovered them.

Let's be real, managers have always wanted to replace us with velociraptors

Simon. This metaphor is too on point. We need you to dial it back a little

(geneticist voice) I’m just not a bird guy, you understand

"draw me a chair"

I find it fascinating, especially the social part of it, how easily security is dumped to give big tech full access to all your data, in order that AI "can help you".

I dunno. Just spent a couple of weeks making a game without writing a line of code. Not sure it's worth ruining the planet over, but i found it a lot of fun.

the funny part is the dinosaurs are already loose in the saas budget line, which makes it hard to call this purely academic