gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

Let's not forget the perennial favorite "humans are just stochastic parrots too durr" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452238

to be scrupulously fair, the submission is flagged, and most of the explicit rat comments are downvoted

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

This is the dumbest timeline.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Some Rat content got shared on HN, and the rats there are surprised and outraged not everyone shares their deathly fear of the AI god:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451971

"Stop bringing up Roko's Basilisk!!!" they sputter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452426

"The usual suspects are very very worried!!!" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452348 (username 'reducesuffering checks out!)

``Think for at least 5 seconds before typing.'' - on the subject of pulling the plug on a hostile AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452743

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

Can't wait to use this as a cudgel when the next lobsters whines that the "vibecoding" tag is disrespectful.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Surprise level: zero

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

The second screenshot goes to a chart where the Y axis is labelled

Task duration (for humans) where logistic regression of our data predicts the AI has a 50% chance of succeeding

So they're just extrapolating an exponential, not actually measuring it.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Check out this epic cope from an Anthropic employee desperately trying to convince himself and others that actually LLMs are getting exponentially better

https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/

Includes screenshots of data where he really really hopes you don't look at the source, and links to AI 2027.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's been on the vibecoding bandwagon for quite some time on lobste.rs.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What book is that?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Not sure if a LessWronger extensively quoting Accelerando as a blueprint for a singularity takeoff is complimentary to Charles Stross:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xp9ie6pEWFT8Nnhka/accelerando-as-a-slow-reasonably-nice-takeoff-story

Worht noting is that the novel is 20 years old...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

The UK public being skeptical about AI must be good news for Big Yud.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Usual suspects weighing in.

 

After several months of reflection, I’ve come to only one conclusion: a cryptographically secure, decentralized ledger is the only solution to making AI safer.

Quelle surprise

There also needs to be an incentive to contribute training data. People should be rewarded when they choose to contribute their data (DeSo is doing this) and even more so for labeling their data.

Get pennies for enabling the systems that will put you out of work. Sounds like a great deal!

All of this may sound a little ridiculous but it’s not. In fact, the work has already begun by the former CTO of OpenSea.

I dunno, that does make it sound ridiculous.

 

"Oh no! - Anyway" meme intensifies.

 

Pretty soon, paying for all the APIs you need to make sure your Midjourney images are palatable will be enough to pay a human artist!

 

Also the hivemind seems to have taken against ~~tweets~~Xeets, a stunning reversal from last year when St. Elon was gonna usher in a new Dawn of civilized discourse.

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