charles

All of my teeth are in approximately the right place

mcc@dryad.technology

Sentences which describe something entirely ordinary, but which sound alarming when you say them out loud: "I have a normal number of skulls."

The four horsemen of the chud

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

I think this is right, and I will add to it that part of why it's galling is that it's clear OpenAI doesn't give a shit about math or the math community, they only care about their product. Whatever gets broken or stepped on in the process isn't their problem.

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com

It occurred to me last night that another way to express what's wrong with OpenAI just dumping this slop on us is that it's not peer-reviewed. If any reasonable academic did this there would be disciplinary hearings. There's a process and there's a reason for the process!

I've slowly opened up to the idea that LLMs do have some uses (some of them powerful) in specialist communities, but as long as these tools primarily benefit the worst people in the world, they're not good tech

motherjones.comElon's fans erect 50-foot statue outside his company townA studio promising "art so epic it will raise the birthrate" gifted a huge bronze Prometheus to Musk's Starbase.

Two vast and trunkess legs of stone, etc, etc.

Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social

Got a weird one for you guys tonight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Someone's definitely already made this joke - hopefully multiple people - but it's too on-the-nose to pass up unfortunately

Every single student that passes through my freshman class learns that saving it to the cloud means saving it to someone else's computer

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

are people going to finally learn what the cloud is? it’s computers somewhere else

a signal to noise ratio like you've never seen in your life

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

What happens when there are tens of thousands of papers a day. What happens when people start using it as a tutor. What happens when it floods resources that were formerly effort limited. You barely have to think to be ahead of the consensus

Sylvia Chi 齊思涵@sylviachi.bsky.social

Data centers "will likely comprise more than 5 percent of global electricity demand by 2035, tripling their needs now. ...A separate BNEF analysis of 99 proposed on-site gas power plants found that they could increase US power sector emissions by 20 to 33 percent if they’re all built."

Linux is fundamentally for people who like the experience of configuring and using a computer. If you don't want to use a computer, fine, but why are you running linux?

gord worm@ninebaal.bsky.social

I'm watching this guy review a Linux distro that really emphasizes "ai agents" and this looks like hell. People really live like this? This is how they manage their computer experience? Failing to change their computer wallpaper and toolbar? [I cut down this SIGNIFICANTLY from 6 minutes too]

my airgapped cpu

Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat@alexhanna.bsky.social

Air gapping apparently wouldn't work in alignment tests because, I shit you not according to this OpenAI guy, one computer could run the CPU hot and tell the other airgapped one it is in trouble. I wish I could get paid $10m a year to say the stupidest cybersecurity thing you've ever heard

This is exactly correct - people "discover" evidence of awareness of LLMs in their output because they are presupposing that awareness exists, so it becomes their interpretive frame for looking at how they behave.

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Nietzsche critiques this mode: "When someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there is not much to praise in such seeking and finding. Yet this is how matters stand regarding seeking and finding “truth” within the realm of reason."

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Andrew Lawrence

@ndrew.bsky.social

16 Sept

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name.

16 Sept

For math, specifically, Terence Tao makes a very good case that the proof is only a small point of the whole undertaking, and skipping straight to the proof is salting the earth: mathandai.org

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

curious what the reaction will be like when a biologist laments that a disease was cured too quickly, without giving us a chance to really mull it over

9 Sept

Welcome to the Age of AI, where everything gets more annoying

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

Cannot believe there’s a tremendous mathematical result and instead of being exciting it’s annoying

8 Sept

I think the correct framing here is about how many of our cognitive processes are encoded in language itself - i have started to think LLMs are primarily sophisticated representations of language itself, and what they are good at is the parts of our cognition proper to language

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

This is the crux of the debate, right? Whether it's doing mimicry or reasoning. I struggle to see how you could view it as purely mimicry. It has to tie together multiple novel thoughts in a logical construction to create its responses.

8 Sept

They're better at the more formal uses of language - like code and math - and worse at the less formal uses, like creative writing

8 Sept

I don't think this constitutes thought although it does reproduce some of the output of thought!

6 Sept

I have always referred to earwigs as "dinguses" and as a result my wife has only a mild aversion to them instead of being disgusted

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

We name all the house centipedes in our house “Michelle”: by this tactic I converted my partner from moderate arachnophobia to tenderly looking after our little squad of Corner Spiders and Towel Michelles (they like getting lost in the bathroom)

6 Sept

Which is good, because they are all over the place here

larsfaye.comAI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars FayeThe need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.

24 Aug

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

something has flipped for me. I'm over saying "I'm not so sure" about posts like this. I am sure: the claim that LLMs eliminate all the friction that leads to learning is just wrong. don't we still have plenty to do? more than before! so there's no shortage of friction, it's just different friction

papers.ssrn.comThe Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary EducationUsing 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine

24 Aug

Paper is a preprint (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) but there seems to be a growing body of evidence that free range chatbot use (i.e. the typical AI use case) is actually pretty corrosive for learning

21 Aug

ChatGPT is also appealing to users because it is good enough and they are lazy

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

there really is something wrong with them you can go a very long way explaining the appeal of ChatGPT to consumers that it is a version of the internet that's not trying to sell you something (besides more of itself of course)

1 Aug

Back on my bullshit

1 Aug

not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment

8 Aug

Had to abandon that fort because it had so many children, but my next one has turned out pretty well

7 Aug

I used to work with Computer Touchers and now I work with high schoolers, and a high schooler on a bad day is easier to deal with than a Computer Toucher on an average day

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

in conversation with a high level Computer Toucher i will sometimes ask a question like "what was your intent in making thing X function this way, could we consider changing it or would you advise against that" and invariably their response is like i asked "hey fuck head your shit fuckin sucks"

2 Aug

tag yourself i'm shontel brown

Dave Levinthal@davelevinthal.com

Personal wealth of members of the Ohio congressional delegation, including Sen. Bernie Moreno and Rep. Max Miller.

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Boo!-per Lund

@cooperlund.online

31 July

Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table

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29 July

The more they bluster like this the more dire the strategic situation is for the US

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Fox correspondent: "President Trump tells Fox News about Iran, 'We are going to beat the f**king s**t out of them.' He went on to say, 'We'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating.'"

25 July

Any adaptation of A Christmas Carol is doomed to failure because the perfect adaptation (the muppets one) has already been made

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Saw someone say that Johnny Depp didn't face any consequences from MeToo and like... it killed his career? He's getting a second chance I think because chuds now run Paramount but I strongly suspect the scrooge movie - basically the first mainstream movie he's starred in since - will bomb?

23 July

We really gotta put a stop to college football coaching in this country until we can figure out why it's giving us guys like this

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tuberville on Mayor Mamdani: "Put handcuffs on him ... send him to Gitmo"

23 July

Well, unless you’re trying to run linux on a laptop

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

While I understand the desire to avoid doing fiddly bullshit to game I really don’t think PC gaming is that fiddly relative to its history. You used to have to do crimes to get music to work properly.

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ceej

@ceej.online

say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day

The one property that couldn't be made worse with AI

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

just do another horrific adaptation of atlas shrugged like you guys have during every other right wing culture war cycle

Good LLMs often give correct answers to questions that are posed correctly - but the LLM that most people interact with, the AI results in google search - is dogshit.

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

gee I’m shocked. I suspected the study was completely fucked when I saw that the LLMs only gave wrong answers. LLMs usually give right answers. surely that’s relevant to people’s expectations about answer quality lol

”Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables“ on cassette

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walking mirage@wolf.observer

the computer couldn't talk four years ago and now it can. that's fucked.

Apologies to the original author, I have seen this many times but I have no idea where it originated

forbes.comTaco Bell Warned Investors About Cyclosporiasis Before The Outbreak—And These Other Chains Did TooSEC filings show Taco Bell—and other restaurants—knew cyclospora posed a risk to their businesses and the public.

17 July

The language in the 10-K strikes me as borderline boilerplate: of course contamination in the food chain is a huge risk to restaurants like this, and they were right to acknowledge it as such. Any reasonable person could have come up with the same guess, especially in the era of diarrhea-by-policy!

Forbes@forbes.com

SEC filings show Taco Bell—and other restaurants—knew cyclospora posed a risk to their businesses and the public.

17 July

Sitting down in front of my TV with my big warm glass of raw milk and my bowl of unwashed lettuce, ready to watch trumps speech

16 July

I was an exchange student in Germany in the early 2000s, and my host mother - who worked for the city! - smoked in her office

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Patrick Cosmos

@veryimportant.lawyer

16 July

every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

15 July

Getting students interested in the material I'm teaching has been more effective at preventing AI cheating than any other approach I've tried so far

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social

it’s amazing how often the solution to endlessly multiplying pedagogical problems turns out to be restoring an actual pedagogical relationship between instructors and students