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Posts by PaulXThompson
What is the first comic you remember owning?
ME: Spiderman Annual 1982. I definitely had comics before this (Beano, Whizzer and Chips, Superman), but this is the first one that I can remember the specific cover of.
How do I get on the AI haters block list? I really hate your LLMs lads. They fucking suck.
Fingers crossed for a good outcome.
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
Do they want guillotines? Because this is how...
Here’s this week’s’ Better Offline monologue. I discuss how AI labs’ dangerous rhetoric around AI capabilities and job loss is antagonizing society, and that de-escalation starts with Altman and Amodei talking about LLMs as normal software.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
linktr.ee/betteroffline
any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
Powerful Words.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
I think we should stop it.
Love point 8. Being enigmatic is only fun for the writer and noone else, who probably cant figure out why they should care.
This is as beautiful as it is brilliant. It's set to NYC by default, but you can set it to your location, too, if you have trains.
Honestly, though, I prefer listening to NYC.
Drop some BATHTUBS
drop some KITCHENS
youtu.be/tR_m50hp7Kk
The main thing LLM/GenAI sure does do is spot patterns and infer connections based in its source material. So... good lord.
Arthur Ferrier
The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril.
I liked the sagrada familia better before they put the middle towers in.
John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. Not my photo.
In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD
There's an amusing meander into Modernism and in particular Pop Art, that against all the odds does land the point about shifting drawing styles, collage, and scaling up repro images till they become abstractions.
Who are these people underrating BAD Company??! (Maybe it's young people. I am old)
youtu.be/3MKly5POaT8
Ive not seen Blood Simple for many decades, should get round to a rewatch. Hope the book is doing well!
Just got to this: Nine Knves by @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social Its great. It says Pulp Fiction as an influence on the back, and I get that but also felt very Coen Brothers/Fargo Great stuff. More plz!