I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.
And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕
The Uk needs a version of Hot Ones but for desi food called Curried which is hosted by Tim Curry, there you go, I just made your network eleventy billion dollars
And we can hopefully optimise for those specific use cases in the long term with specialised models that don’t have as many of the issues inherent with even local LLMs
Combined with the inherent hazard of using chatbots for a UI then, in theory, any tech designed like this makes for a perfect storm that converts, convinces, and spreads without adding much to the overall economy itself.
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Those who are lucky in their first go (+X%) will become tool gamblers, those unlucky (-X%) will be perplexed by the hype. If the hype continues, they'll get over their disappointment and try again. Depending on the roll of the dice they risk getting converted to tool gamblers like their peers
For each person who vibe-codes a useful app there'll be another causing a disaster. Given the nature of the tool the OVERALL effect on the economy from the tool ITSELF is likely to be more volatility but minimal benefit. Then you factor in the bubble, abuses, etc and it becomes a clear negative
Variability in sequences tend to cancel out
If an intervention adds a +/-10% variability to each step in a sequence then as the number of sequences grows the closer the overall effect will trend to zero. Scale this up to an economy and you get added volatility with little benefit
I'm sceptical that LLMs provide a meaningful economic benefit because of their variability
"Variability destroys variability" so when you apply the same tech, with the same variability dynamic, throughout an economy, whatever benefit it might intrinsically provide will wash out at scale
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"“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”"
Gott að vita. Takk. 🙂
everyone knows "but if we ban LLMs the AI bros will just lie about them, so we should let them through" is a bad faith bad excuse and the person saying it knows that every time, right?
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Either iPad apps that have been updated for iPadOS 26 are all quite buggy (rendering, visual state updates, lag) on iPadOS 18 or everybody used shortcuts to get the transition done and they’re buggy everywhere, but I’m not about to go out and replace my almost decade-old iPad to find out which it is
“Infinite Patience Is Not Good for Education”
biblioracle.substack.com/p/infinite-patience-is-n...
> They have always been wrong. They were wrong before they got started and yet hundreds of millions of dollars have gone towards a project that was doomed from the outset
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Some time in my 20s I started meeting people who found themselves in unwanted situations because they "couldn't think of a graceful way out", and then I got conned out of some money by someone who used that against me, and I realised that being rude was self defence.
Ultimately Silicon Valley’s fatal flaw is that it has a glut of losers in a loser echo chamber and they have no idea why nobody else thinks their ideas are good and fun
passkey is imho one of the most important security developments that touch consumers and also one of the worst consumer rollouts i ever witnessed because every company involved treats everything like an enterprise customer solution
I tend to follow every link in what I read to check whether the citations are bullshit. But these blocks usually happen elsewhere. My guess is that a number of sites are using the same service to prevent abuse and that it's tracking my behaviour across sites despite the ad blocker
Seeing a substantial increase in single clicks resulting in "we've detected bot-like behaviour" roadblocks on websites. Usually the explanation on the block says cites something like "unusual amount of clicks" as the reason.
Every time I sift through the Fresh AI Hell to select 6-8 for the end of an episode it’s so hard to choose. It’s time for @alexhanna.bsky.social and I to slog through the backlog again on our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream!
Monday, April 20, noon PT,
twitch.tv/dair_institute
“Stuck Character Service”
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/stuck-character-service/
> But it's not early days. Not remotely. We've been trapped in Sam Altman's ChatGPT hustle for almost five years now.
If you’re a Hachette author you should be talking to your editors and teams about this. If they’re using AI to counter AI, it’s still AI. And it may also be giving your work to the machine, serving it up on a contractual platter.
This is what happens at concentration camps
But real talk, how disheartening is it that we fed the sum total of human literary output into the most sophisticated computers on earth and it spit out Claude.
seriously. When you’ve sent invoices for two-figure sums, this shit is a no-brainer
😐 My face when this happens
Thinking about the 62 million views, and then thinking about how marital rape was only made illegal in all 50 US states in the summer of 1993.
I can remember 1993. I can remember what was on the radio at the time. I had just been in my first movie. It was not so long ago.
While the U.S. and Europe lead in AI development, the resulting mountain of obsolete GPUs and servers often flows to developing nations as "donations" or "used goods" restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisi...
