lol, lmao

gets omega-mogged by a 38 year old australian on live television and fucking dies

the cortisol diff is insane

Would someone whos good at finance tell me the actual fuck is going on with the spread between oil spot prices and futures rn

Is it literally just the markets desperately trying to keep the music going or what

Its no surprise that chinese people are generally more positive on ai when they have a gov't that has its elites in check and at the very least pretends to have the peoples best interest in mind whereas over here the message from those in power is "we're gonna kill you all with robots lmao"

I will be abundantly clear for legal reasons that it is illegal to throw a Molotov cocktail at anyone, as it is morally objectionable to do so. I explicitly and fundamentally object to the recent acts of violence against Sam Altman. It is also morally repugnant for Sam Altman to somehow suggest that the careful, thoughtful, determined, and eagerly fair work of Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz is in any way responsible for these acts of violence. Doing so is a deliberate attempt to chill the air around criticism of AI and its associated companies. Altman has since walked back the comments, claiming he “wishes he hadn’t used” a non-specific amount of the following words: A lot of the criticism of our industry comes from sincere concern about the incredibly high stakes of this technology. This is quite valid, and we welcome good-faith criticism and debate. I empathize with anti-technology sentiments and clearly technology isn’t always good for everyone. But overall, I believe technological progress can make the future unbelievably good, for your family and mine. While we have that debate, we should de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics and try to have fewer explosions in fewer homes, figuratively and literally. These words remain on his blog, which suggests that Altman doesn’t regret them enough to remove them. I do, however, agree with Mr. Altman that the rhetoric around AI does need to change. Both he and Mr. Amodei need to immediately stop overstating the capabilities of Large Language Models. Mr. Altman and Mr. Amodei should not discuss being “scared” of their models, or being “uncomfortable” that men such as they are in control unless they wish to shut down their services, or that they “don’t know if models are conscious.” They should immediately stop misleading people through company documentation that models are “blackmailing” people or, as Anthropic did in its Mythos system card, suggest a model has “broken containment and sent a message” when it A) was…

They must stop discussing threats to jobs without actual meaningful data that is significantly more sound than “jobs that might be affected some day but for now we’ve got a chatbot.” Mr. Amodei should immediately cease any and all discussions of AI potentially or otherwise eliminating 50% of white collar jobs, as Mr. Altman should cease predicting when Superintelligence might arrive, as Mr. Amodei should actively reject and denounce any suggestions of AI “creating a white collar bloodbath.” Those that defend AI labs will claim that these are “difficult conversations that need to be had,” when in actuality they engage in dangerous and frightening rhetoric as a means of boosting a company’s valuation and garnering attention. If either of these men truly believed these things were true, they would do something about it other than saying “you should be scared of us and the things we’re making, and I’m the only one brave enough to say anything.” These conversations are also nonsensical and misleading when you compare them to what Large Language Models can do, and this rhetoric is a blatant attempt to scare people into paying for software today based on what it absolutely cannot and will not do in the future. It is an attempt to obfuscate the actual efficacy of a technology as a means of deceiving investors, the media and the general public. Both Altman and Amodei engage in the language of AI doomerism as a means of generating attention, revenue and investment capital, actively selling their software and future investment potential based on their ownership of a technology that they say (disingenuously) is potentially going to take everybody’s jobs. Based on reports from his Instagram, the man who threw the molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house was at least partially inspired by If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, a doomer porn fantasy written by a pair of overly-verbose dunces spreading fearful language about the power of AI, inspired by the fearmongering of Altman…

I need to be clear that this act of violence is not something I endorse in any way. I also need to be clear that people feel like they’re being fucking tortured every time they load social media. Their money doesn’t go as far. Every time they read something it’s a story about ICE patrols or a near-nuclear war in Iran, or that gas is more expensive, or that there’s worrying things happening in private credit. Nobody can afford a house and layoffs are constant. One group, however, appears to exist in an alternative world where anything they want is possible. They can raise as much money as they want. They can build as big a building as they want anywhere in the world. Everything they do is taken so seriously that the government will call a meeting about it. Every single media outlet talks about everything they do. Your boss forces you to use it. Every piece of software forces you to at least acknowledge that they use it too. Everyone is talking about it with complete certainty despite it not being completely clear why. And these companies are, in no uncertain terms, coming for your job. That’s what they want to do. They all say it. They use deceptively-worded studies that talk about “AI-exposed” careers to scare and mislead people into believing LLMs are coming for their jobs, all while spreading vague proclamations about how said job loss is imminent but also always 12 months away. Altman even says that jobs that will vanish weren’t real work to begin with, much as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said that some creative jobs shouldn’t have existed in the first place. These people who sell a product with no benefit comparable on any level to its ruinous, trillion-dollar cost are able to get anything they want at a time when those who work hard are given a kick in the fucking teeth, sneered at for not “using AI” that doesn’t actually seem to make their lives easier, and then told that their labor doesn’t constitute “real work.” At a time when nobody living a nor…

Here's the conclusion of my free newsletter going out tomorrow, on the dangerous rhetoric spread by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis.
wheresyoured.at

aaaaaaggggh why am i letting my mental health be affected by motherfuckers who post lesswrong links their thought are worth less than dirt

Jd vance kiss of death remains undefeated

Drake-esque curse abilities

second half of this algebra course has been on commutative algebra and it has felt like the ghost of emmy noether beating me with a metal pipe

"Yeah man we managed to compress most of human knowledge into a couple hundred gigabytes with pretty good fidelity and we're gonna use it as a light switch"

statements made up by the utterly deranged

This is why I hate to see the dominant paradigm in literally everything becoming "neural net and inshallah"

Large-scale machine learning is great for many problems yet we seem to be applying it to things that we have perfectly good discrete algorithms for. It's ridiculously inefficient.

Nice to see st charles county stop being hitlerville for 5 minutes at least

look at my opposition party bruh we're all gonna die

so are we supposed to place sanctions on ourselves or something

Continue to be baffled at how so much of the media thinks that in an age of massive anti-establishment sentiment, the physical avatar of the establishment should be a frontrunner, let alone the inevitable default

Never forget that Swartz was prosecuted to death for doing something that Altman and co. now do at an industrial scale

holy mog

not judging btw bc the latter two have been literally me before

though if you rely on a chatbot in this easy ass class you are a bum

sitting at the back of a quantum algorithms lecture where everyone has laptops out and i see two guys on claude, another watching the champions league, and another in the middle of an umamusume run

oh my actual god ump

Beyond just being wildly inefficient and socially destructive, suburbia is also directly responsible for this type of unhinged petit bourgeoisie

tldr liquidate the car dealership owner class

If you weren't already aware that nearly all american mlb players are chud morons then ydkb

Forgive me for not being 'rational' but under no circumstances am I going to give any credibility to the posts of the tescreal weirdos that inhabit one corner of this site

the qianlong emperor was lowk the george w bush of qing china but the world isn't ready to have that conversation

As a discrete solution enjoyer™ it does kinda bum me out that the current scientific paradigm in so many fields is "yeah just fucken throw bigger neural nets at it until it works"

feels like we'll just end up with knowledge without any understanding

this dickhead needs to get done like karadzic

jobs down, oil at 90, private credit cracks showing

Let's see if the american public has learned anything from 2008.

I have little faith but seeing the government bail out blackrock might be enough for some people to go full joker mode