gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can't influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago

Yeah this was bascally a tweet.

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

He's been writing about copyright etc at Techdirt since basically forever.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

That's because it doesn't use AI...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Duh, my bad. I thought it was something like varifocals too.

Photochromic lenses were a nerd staple when I was a teenager. Dunno if/how popular they are now.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A couple of examples Srinivas gave on the podcast is “Who is Lex Fridman following that Elon Musk is also following,” or “what are the most recent tweets that were liked by both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.”

Questions asked by the terminally deranged.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I guess the point is the dude won’t have lasik.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Another one

https://mastodon.social/@bruces/112690475011154532

edit seems to be a whole bunch of similar ones.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't have any proof for this statement but I believe the LLM-minders keep track of whatever stupid shit bubbles up on the internets making fun of their babies and hardcode "solutions" to them in a game of whack-a-mole.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (17 children)

The Death of the Junior Developer

Steve Yegge goes hard into critihype, there's no need for any junior people anymore, all you need is a senior prompt engineer. No word on what happens when the seniors retire or die off, guess we'll have AGI by then and it'll all work out. Also no word on how the legal profession will survive when all the senior prompt engineer's time is spend rewriting increasingly meaningless LLM responses as the training corpus inevitably degenerates from slurm contamination.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some idiot in another forum opined that LLMs haven't solved climate change "yet". Sure, bud.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

"Hello helpdesk? My fleet of humanoid workers I paid 500k for apiece aren't at their workstations churning out fabric piecework, they're all playing Candy Crush on their iPhones..."

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