Yeah, no interaction at all is my best guess as well. Tachyons are the realm of some pretty weird shit. (And they probably don’t exist at all.) Imaginary mass and all that.

“Reporter”

Disgusting.

Oh I cannot wait to hear Ed Zitron’s take on this. I’m sure he’ll say something about a “dog’s asshole on Thanksgiving”. Lol.

Guys, it’s not a bubble. Super not a bubble. Totally, for sure not a bubble. Not even a little bit a bubble.

(/s)

So if you’re going to abuse Claude, do it through DuckDuckGo.

Joke. I don’t think Claude can be run locally, so probably every request you make to DuckDuckGo’s Claude model goes to Anthropic’s infrastructure and Anthropic can monitor all that traffic. I’m guessing if DuckDuckGo doesn’t adhere to Anthropic’s rules, Anthropic will cut DuckDuckGo off, so likely DuckDuckGo has to prevent users from “abusing” Claude or risk not being allowed to continue offering Claude. Mind you, it’s disappointing that they offer it in the first place, but given that they offer it, I doubt they’ll risk their ability to continue doing so.

Yeah, Trump and/or his family are definitely domain-squatting a bunch of Slovenian TLD domain names that they’re hoping to sell for gorillions of dollars in their latest grift. Slovenia’s TLD is the .si TLD.

• Continuing to insist on “SI” of “AI”.
• The way he decided on “Super Intelligence” was from a Truth Social poll where the options were “Super Intelligence”, “Supreme Intelligence”, and “Superior Intelligence”, all of which have the initials “SI”.
• And Melania’s Slovenian.

When I first heard someone say the reason for the “SI” thing was that Trump was domain name squatting, it was conjecture. But more and more, everything he does makes it sound like there’s no other reasonable explanation for how weird he’s acting about it.

Yeah, no worries. I think the report was mostly baseless. I think I’m glad that the report was made just so that the mods here could make a determination, so I don’t think the reporter was wrong to report in the first place, but neither do I think you were.

“Generative AI” is a bullshit scam with no future. The sooner it dies, the better. And to call the bubble “unsustainable” is to understate.

“AI” is way too vague a term to give a “take” on.

Needs another smaller baby on the knee of the baby, with the same face, of course.

Translation: OpenAI steals credit from 722 mathematicians.

My communism says we should disassemble all the tanks and never make any new ones.

When I was last seriously studying Japanese, I remember finding a YouTube video of a Japanese person teaching English. And I remember one point he made (I understood enough Japanese to follow a certain amount of what he said) was that the name of a given letter in the English alphabet was not the same as the sound it makes.

(In case anyone reading this doesn’t know, Japanese has a couple of phonetic alphabets. (Honestly, hiragana and katakana are probably more “phonetic” than English letters in a way.) But for those characters, there’s no distinction between the character’s name and the sound it makes. For instance, the sound the hiragana character “す” makes is similar to the English name “Sue”, and the name of that character is exactly the same. There’s no need for any distinction between the name of a hiragana/katakana character and the sound it makes in Japanese.)

It just wasn’t something that had occurred to me that some learners of English would have to be explicitly taught the distinction between the name of a letter and the sound it made, so it was interesting to hear.

I really need to get back into studying Japanese.

Why not like you potatoes?!

Actually… that’s a really good question. 🤔

Please tell me I’m not the only one with these scenes running through my head.

But seriously. This is no anomaly. This may be a more stark example than most, but it’s part of a running pattern of botched executions. What more do people have to see to be swayed that capital punishment is barbaric and should be abolished?

I’m always on the lookout for “ethical” ways to fuck with and/or sabotage LLMs.

For me, I’ve decided it’s always unethical to prompt LLMs myself at least because it increases pollution (by using more energy that probably comes from a coal plant) which can cause medical issues in people I’ve never met.

But honestly, this seems like it might reduce the overall number of LLM prompts. (If it worked, at least, but it sounds like it didn’t really work.) And if some hillarity ensues in the process, that’s a bonus.

Another ethical use of LLMs in my book is fucking with scams that use LLMs like this. (That same content creator has a couple more videos with roughly more of the same kind of content. I love that shit.)

Fuuuuuuuuck those OpenAI motherfuckers.

The guy who deserves the credit for that millenium problem solution used ChatGPT and OpenAI, after catching wind of his approach, threw shit-tons of money into hardware to beat him to the punch and publish before him. When the mathematician contacted OpenAI like “what the actual fuck” OpenAI was like “oh, we’ll let you be a co-author on the paper alongside OpenAI, but only if you don’t include the person who worked with you on the problem who is employed by Anthropic”. (His employment with Anthropic had nothing to do with his work on this math problem. OpenAI just didn’t want the headline to be “mathematician who happens to work for Anthropic solved the problem”.)

Source: this video.

I wish I knew.

The blockchain bubble has kinda burst. But not exactly in the way I would have predicted.

I say it’s “burst” is because nobody’s talking about it. (Mercifully.) It’s not in everyone’s face like it was.

I say “kinda” because Bitcoin’s still worth like $80,000 USD per coin or something? (Ok, I’ll check… holy shit it’s more like $85,000.)

My prediction would have been that people would figure out Tether wasn’t really backed 1-to-1 and then the value of Tether would go to zero, bringing the rest of the blockchain ecosystem to zero with it. (And I suppose it’s possible that’ll still happen. But that apparently wasn’t necessary to bring down the hype.)

But also, the blockchain bubble is no longer the hot kid on the block because the AI bubble has taken its place. In a way (actually in more than one way) the AI bubble is just a continuation/pivot of the blockchain bubble. So, maybe it’s even arguable that the the blockchain bubble hasn’t yet popped, it just “changed color”.

So, I’m reticent to make any predictions except that probably the burst will come when we least expect it and in a form different from what we might expect as well.

Ed Zitron at one time was predicting… I think it was before the end of 2027? But I think he’s kindof changed his tune and stopped predicting any particular timeline for the collapse. (He kinda predicted that people would “wisen up”, but he’s admitted more recently that he was wrong to bet on people waking up and seeing what’s really going on. Which kinda tracks if you think about how things went in The Big Short during the time when mortgage defaults were going up but the rate of the housing bonds was also going up.) David Gerard has more recently said “probably sometime next year”. So maybe then?

There are also some signs of things weakening. The whole “Project Jupiter” thing with Oracle and the force majeure could be a harbinger (I hope).

I really want to believe the collapse is imminent, but unfortunately I don’t think anyone really knows how imminent it is. I do believe it has to collapse at some point, but unfortunately, some historical bubbles have persisted for surprisingly long times. :\

That said, I watch Ed and Gerard and everyone else predicting an imminent collapse like it’s crack. Because it makes me feel better about the state of the world. I freely admit it’s absolute hopium.

“Of course. Why else would I be wearing a hot dog costume?”

God what an absolute fucking weasel.

(With apologies to mustelids.)