To my mind, the cover of "researchers" using the public internet to seed products commercialized by OpenAI and friends is the biggest betrayal of fair use in recent memory. The big companies cynically exploited the research exception to fair use and possibly destroyed in the future.
gerikson
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I really really doubt it. It's a pun on his name.
he used to distribute a Bitcoin client that censored addresses belonging to an early gambling service, people were mad
he's fractally weird
Yes he led the charge against the "bitcoin maxis" who wanted to increase the actual block size to contain more info. (this later became Bitcoin Cash). We had to endure stuff like "UASF" (user activated soft fork) for complicated reasons no-one can explain now.
To me it sounds like post-modernism.
(it’s called Tonal btw)
Oh no this will make Luke-Jr so mad.
Context, Luke-Jr is an early Bitcoin adopter, literal Florida man, and all-around kook. His wikipedia user page used to be a work of art with an ordered list of his obsessions[1], starting with sedevacantism and including Tonal, an early attempt to promote hexadecimal. Here's a long page on the old Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tonal_Bitcoin. Sadly it never caught on, people don't want to say "bong bitcoin" apparently.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Luke-Jr&oldid=593942679
Nobody likes Bryan Johnson’s breakfast at the Network School
A cafe run by immortality-obsessed multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson is reportedly struggling to attract customers with students at the crypto-funded Network School in Singapore preferring the hotel’s breakfast buffet over “bunny food.”
Repeating a comment I made in another forum here...
The Nobel organization is basically all about PR, and while as the nominating body they’re nominally independent, the Royal Academy of Science knows on which side their bread is buttered. Having a prize adjacent to AI in the year of our LLM 2024 is a no-brainer.
Yep.
Something I wrote a year ago in proposed reply to someone online but decided not to post:
https://gerikson.com/m/2023/04/index.html#2023-04-30_sunday_01
asking the manager to see the manager, peak Karen
This is basically the plot of Charles Stross' The Jennifer Morgue.
Any mild pushback to the claims of LLM companies sure bring out the promptfondlers on lobste.rs
https://lobste.rs/s/qcppwf/llms_don_t_do_formal_reasoning_is_huge
Plenty of agreement, but also a lot of "what is reasoning, really" and "humans are dumb too, so it's not so surprisingly GenAIs are too!". This is sure a solid foundation for multi-billion startups, yes sirree.