latent space go brrrr
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Jordan Peterson fans this will come as a big shock (he, as self proclaimed expert on this subject, famously said that the nazis were more evil than people thought because they didn’t work the Jewish people to death)
jesus christ
thankfully Nate doesn’t seem that bad
"yet"
and probably just in public. seems highly likely some of it is "just" in private at this stage, given employer and focuses
Isn’t prison slavery already legal in the USA??
it is that (the thirteenth amendment carves out an exception specifically for prison labour), and it's literally the operational model for a significant fraction of US prisons aiui
god I just read that comment (been busy with other stuff this morning after my last post)
I .... I think I sprained my eyes
I just ended up throwing the name into a search engine (one of those boring old actually search engine things; how pedestrian of me)
I’m Curtis “Ovid” Poe. I’ve been building software for decades. Today I largely work with generative AI, Perl, Python, and Agile consulting. I regularly speak at conferences and corporate events across Europe and the US.
ah.
(to be clear I don't support the person or their positions, but they appear to be capable of engaging with complex issues/systems and the fact that they choose to go the flavours they do just feels so goddamned wasteful)
(sub: apologies for non-sneer but I’m curious)
tbh I suspect I know exactly what you reference[0] and there is an extended conversation to be had about that
it doesn’t in any manner eliminate the foundational problems in specificity that many of these have, they still have the massive externalities problem in operation (cost/environmental transfer), and their foundational function still relies on having stripmined the commons and making their operation from that act without attribution
I don’t believe that one can make use of these without acknowledging this. do you agree? and in either case whether you do or don’t, what is the reason for your position?
(separately from this, the promises I handwaved to are the varieties of misrepresentation and lies from openai/google/anthropic/etc. they’re plural, and there’s no reasonable basis to deny any of them, nor to discount their impact)
[0] - as in I think I’ve seen the toots, and have wanted to have that conversation with $person. hard to do out of left field without being a replyguy fuckwit
fucking…. time to reset the counter to 0. I’d finally managed to actively page out that this person exists.
eigen is one of the central twats in tpot and I wish they could just….not. imagine what they could do if they applied themselves to a different endeavour
have you ever run into the term “learned helplessness”? it may provide some interesting reading material for you
(just because samai and friends all pinky promise that this is totally 170% the future doesn’t actually mean they’re right. this is trivially argued too: their shit has consistently failed to deliver on promises for years, and has demonstrated no viable path to reaching that delivery. thus: their promises are as worthless as the flashy demos)
stealing that for the next time I make a naughty lorawan module
usually go with eigenrowboat