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 youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
ed zitron weighs in on deepseek https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
I actually disagree here. I think Ed underestimates how craven and dishonest these people are. I expect theyāll try to quietly integrate any efficiency improvements they can get from it and bluster through any investor questions about it. Their hope at this point has to be that more hardware is still better and that scaling is still gonna be the thing to make fetch happen. This again isnāt a revolutionary new structure, even if it is a significant improvement over anything Saltman and co have been doing.
If they can convince the money hose that they just need one more OOM of compute bro, they can keep vacuuming infinity dollars. The incentive is obviously there for any amount of lying, but at some point, I assume even the most braindead investors will start asking around if this really is the only game in town.
Or maybe they wonāt, which would be an admission against the core tenet of capitalism, but this has been a crazy year, and itās only january. :/
That sound you hear is me pressing F to doubt. Checking the correctness of mathematics written as prose interspersed with equations is, shall we say, not easy to automate.
i read that as training spicy autocomplete on wolfram alpha instead of another spicy autocomplete
I mean, maybe? But the amount of trust I put in a description from āGeekWireā written by āan investor at Madrona Venture Group and a former leader at Amazon Web Servicesā who uncritically declares that spicy autocomplete āachieved strong reasoning capabilitiesā is ā¦ appropriately small.