That article gave me a whiplash. First part: pretty cool. Second part: deeply questionable.

For example these two paragraphs from sections 'problem with code' and 'magic of data':

“Modular and interpretable code” sounds great until you are staring at 100 modules with 100,000 lines of code each and someone is asking you to interpret it.

Regardless of how complicated your program’s behavior is, if you write it as a neural network, the program remains interpretable. To know what your neural network actually does, just read the dataset

Well, "just read the dataset bro" sound great sounds great until you are staring at a dataset with 100 000 examples and someone is asking you to interpret it.

"The Camp of the Saints is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world."

More of a train whistle than a dog whistle this one.

You have a level of faith in humanity that is completely unwarranted.

Broke: The METR studies are the best research on impacts of AI productivity available today.

Woke: The METR studies are hot garbage.

Bespoke: Both. It's both.

the model was supposed to be trained solely on his own art

much simpler models are practically impossible to train without an existing model to build upon. With GenAI it's safe to assume that training that base model included large scale scraping without consent

Groan, you don't need to finish high school to learn about false dichotomy.

Man I don't need to be reminded of the sorry state of meat alternatives.

It's bitterly funny to me that fashoid governments started banning cultivated meat as if the economic and technical issues weren't enough. Ignorants terrified of threats they made up in their head as always.

I am neither left nor right wing, as I’m a libertarian

Ah, yes, the classic "I'm not like the other girls" of politics.

Joke's on him, Know-Nothing Know-It-All is also a trope.

Automattic... that's why there are two t's!? Jesus Christ.

Looks like Mythos didn't catch this one:

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

Whoopsie!

Looks like Polymarket does, in fact, represent crypto values.

Context: Post #4 in my sequence of private Lightcone Infrastructure memos edited for public consumption.

(emphasis mine)

Look at this goober, trying to be THE cult leader.

personally i think that Vietnamese invasion on all ea compounds would solve a lots of problems and disband a couple of startups

But aren't they used to dealing with VC?

I wondered if this should be called a shitpost or an effortpost, then I wondered what would something that is both be called and I came up with "constipationpost".

So, great constipationpost?

The promptfans testing OpenAI Sora have gotten mad that it's happening to them and (temporarily) leaked access to the API.

https://techcrunch.com/...

“Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor through bug testing, feedback and experimental work for the [Sora early access] program for a $150B valued [sic] company,” the group, which calls itself “Sora PR Puppets,” wrote in a post ...

"Well, they didn't compensate actual artists, but surely they will compensate us."

“This early access program appears to be less about creative expression and critique, and more about PR and advertisement.”

OK, I could give them the benefit of the doubt: maybe they're new to the GenAI space, or general ML Space ... or IT.

But I'm not going to. Of course it's about PR hype.

I think I installed the cursed Windows 11 update on my work machine, because after taking several tries to boot, my second monitor stopped working (detected, but showing a black screen).

Tried some different configurations, and could make only 0-1 screens work.

Uninstalled the update and everything worked correctly again.

Thanks for nothing Microslop.

You made me look and now you all have to know there's a library for butt plugs (written in Rust) that has LLM generated code in it:

https://github.com/...

Was TPOT a Twitter thing?

If I recall correctly, TPOT literally means "That Part Of Twitter"

Just something I found in the wild (r/machine learning): Please point me in the right direction for further exploring my line of thinking in AI alignment

I'm not a researcher or working in AI or anything, but ...

you don't say