[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 4 weeks ago

from someone on Mastodon:

Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.

If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.

I left in ‘22 but feel fairly confident that “25% of code generated by AI” is going to be more of the same.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

you'd almost think they were literally the same fucking guys

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

this is what we get for opening the bag "dead dove, do not eat"

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

You're posting too much without reading, please come this way to the egress.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago

welcome to the abyss! here's your hazmat suit with a leak! it sucks here!

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unforeseen issues with training AIs using the internet: every LLM has been taught to Rickroll

https://x.com/lazerwalker/status/1825782926098968958

https://x.com/Altimor/status/1825659507617460439

330

we appear to be the first to write up the outrage coherently too. much thanks to the illustrious @self

38
47
32
11
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
67
57
33

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

39
13
50
47
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 4 months ago

lukehmiles is a lesswrong contributor who just keeps giving on this precise line of incelry, it's the rational choice

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Your history shows no reasonable prospect of posting any better. This way to the egress, sir.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago

the culture war is VERY BIG on this one, I am sorry to have informed you

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago

I run Blue Blocker and I've blocked somewhere over 200k so far, but that's just because I work hard as a hater

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

loved how Metz is literally just explaining his job in terms that make obvious sense, and the commenters go off to construct a stupendous conspiracy theory

also, like. we have the email where Scott confesses that he started SSC to promote reactionary ideas and race science. Zack has even posted about said email.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

WITH THEIR OWN MONEY

it's hard to say that Softbank didn't ask for it of course

view more: ‹ prev next ›

dgerard

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF