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The entire world is turning the same kind of stupid.
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I miss Everything from Windows.
It's a file search tool from voidtools, which has instant as-you-type results. It is never out of date because it tracks filesystem events. FSearch simply does not compare.
No no no you're supposed to reach to the right and stroke the next guy. Every negative aspect of this glorified chatbot's brief history can be blamed on a volunteer making Windows less relevant. If there's a single line of Bad Code then the whole thing is ssslop! and that label will surely keep hounding people away from openly using a tool that kinda works.
'It works fine now, but what about after years of this very recent development?' is absolutely imagined.
You wanna argue for it? Argue. Don't posture.
It's a whole new kind of software.
A pile of examples can become a working program. Neural networks are universal approximators, and anyone with a video card can now make them. The work they do feels like hard science fiction written by comedians.
For some reason we've only seen two models taken seriously: spicy autocomplete and a denoiser. One is a chatbot that's just smart enough to get in trouble. The other is CGI for dummies that could make movies as cheap as pen and paper.
The problem in full is the world's most obvious bubble forcing these technologies on people. On everybody. The folks who choose this, for themselves, don't need worrying about. Where it doesn't work out they'll pretend it never happened. Where it works, neat. Again: the problem is the force and the scale.
So yes, an artificial tornado beside your house is intolerable, but it's obviously not a fundamental problem with the technology. Even an identical quantity of GPUs could simply be spread out, so many buildings merely hum.
And vegan local models will arise, made from only bespoke licensed data, trained by distributed amateurs. But the big boys shove fancier models into your hands so often that it'd be archaic before it begins... and most people loudly complaining would just keep complaining.
The identarian performance has to stop. Even folks mumbling 'it's awful, you should never,' usually end with 'but anyway here's how I use it.' The tech is fine. It doesn't belong in your browser. It doesn't belong on your keyboard. It doesn't belong in your goddamn e-mail, before you've even read it. But curmudgeons and iconoclasts alike have found utility in this Yes Man improv partner who kinda knows C++. And animators will get real quiet when some product magically in-betweens their drawings.
Sam Altman is a fraud. Facebook can burn. CUDA must become open-source after Nvidia craters. But five years from now, this wave of AI will still be so commonplace that it's boring. We will take for granted that computers perform dubious witchcraft.
Yet it's old enough to declare so worthless that any inclusion damns the whole project.
They know people spit slop slop slop slop like a thirsty dog. Every public defense is protesting too much, every quiet effort is conscience of guilt. The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.
We each need private vigilance against participating in public harassment campaigns. Is there any reason these people's behavior changed, or that they were keeping things quiet, besides the fear of dealing with you?
entire product loudly denigrated because of new tool used
Yeah can't imagine why they'd remove the 'come have an argument at me' label.
I want the bubble to burst so this moral panic will end. Programs can code, now. That's not going away. Make your peace. We can either leverage this new ability to describe code into existence, and improve all the ways where it demonstrably works okay - or we can pretend that wasn't the goal of compilers and high-level languages the whole time.
Oh but this new thing is different; yeah it's always different, that's what new means. Neural networks sounded great for decades but had a hard time existing. We finally accepted the bitter lesson that power scales better than cleverness - and hey presto, 'what's the next symbol?' is as smart as a junior developer.
If you think these fumbling efforts are the best this tool will ever be, we can still extract useful work from it. It's already a punchline in videos that build some crazy thing the hard way, then have an LLM effortlessly switch languages for speed. Or fight integration hell on their behalf. We're not doing anyone favors by pretending the problem is the tech. Or by harassing people who work for free on things you like.
Found it: XP To Level 3, e.g. How it feels to DM above 10th level.
They've already cashed in by becoming Fortnite on cardboard.
Magic's backstory was always fuzzy background flavor more than necessary worldbuilding, but it had a clear identity. Every card was an evocative glimpse of high fantasy where some magical creations require scale birds. Aaand now you'd have to play that against Spongebob Squarepants and Bilbo Baggins.
Like that D&D skit guy I can't find.
"The lich casts Call Lightning as a legendary action."
"Can they do that?"
"This one can."
Totally forgot that guy's channel name. Always love the barbarian chucking an entire bag of dice and barely glancing down. "I do eighty-four damage."
Brock Samson: "You could've warned me Sasquatch was... a dude."
They couldn't even be arsed to adopt positional notation, despite having abacuses all over the place.
I don't think I've said shit about you, as a person, beyond 'your arguments are bad and you should feel bad,' with an abundant side of 'and here's why.' You're getting the toned-down version of reflexive sarcasm at some baffling things you continue to say. By all means, let loose, because blunt honesty might get us closer to sharing the same reality.
I've already linked to where I said, content warnings good, age gating bad. You think this should replace all 'I am 18' prompts.
I've belabored the distinction between freely adopted implementation and any form of state enforcement. Like, there's plenty wrong with user-agent strings, but even a simple requirement to accurately report browser version would be quietly horrifying. Robbing software developers of the ability to say 'that was a bad security decision, let's just not do it,' is intrinsically fucked.
If you need it restated:
I despise the idea of my own damn machine needing to know my birthdate. Largely, but not entirely, because that points toward verification demands which you agree would be intolerable. The internet should not work differently based on who you are.
I don't think this law will achieve anything worthwhile, and I'm not convinced you do either. Your defense of it is full of things I would say as condemnation.
I fully expect this to get worse, based on all recent visible trends. Countries are banning young people from using entire categories of website. Glorified chatrooms are asking to see your driver's license. The last thing a liberated internet needs is more personal information.
As if there's no backlash for those things! No popular culture reflecting the baby boom on January 1st, 1900. No widespread browser plugins to make e-mail nags and sign-in pop-ups fuck off.
As if legally mandatory age reporting is in any way the same thing as haphazard adoption of a Dark Mode flag. Wikipedia's not even smart enough to make Automatic the default.
On some level, a website named Porn Hub needing an interstitial that says 'btw, you might see tits' is the original sin of the internet. It's borne of the same puritanical horseshit that tried banning pornography entirely. It's not about children. They're the excuse. This ongoing moral panic uses them in a widespread and not entirely unsuccessful effort to deny adult-ass adults the things that most of them want. This has been happening my entire life, and yours, and is why I cannot respect the hair-splitting insistence that forcing your OS to report your age is - somehow! - totally unrelated, utterly disconnected, having nothing to do with the many conservative governments who want to track every video you ever jerked off to.
For the children.
Software freely adding an option to somehow report 'this user is underage' is unavoidably distinct from the government mandating any form of requesting, storing, or sharing the user's age.
Even if you honestly believe there's no connection to states demanding ID collection before looking at porn - how can you not understand the people recoiling at this? 'I get it but you're mistaken' would see a polite argument. Your apparent bewilderment is inexplicable. 'Microsoft legally requires your birthdate before you boot up and the internet will work differently based on that' must be a dark aside in some Cory Doctorow story. How is it our actual reality, which some people think is normal?
Or set it based on the amount of legal protections you want on your data
... do you ever step back and wonder if civilization was a mistake?
I'm surprised how late this one is. It feels like an '82.