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Yuval Allweil @themarquisdesheric.bsky.social · 11d

I understand why you don’t want to share names… but I wish you would so I could at least unfollow/distance myself from them. I don’t have twitter anymore.

I totally get and respect that you don’t want to start a shitshow though

Yuval Allweil @themarquisdesheric.bsky.social · 12d

I’m still very curious about this, fwiw

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Yuval Allweil @themarquisdesheric.bsky.social · 20d

Damn that’s beautiful 🥺

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 25d

"One of the reasons I like programming is because it's logical. It's predictable."

"LLMs are not predictable. You can use the exact same prompt and can get a different response every single time"

I feel the same way and this is why I don't understand the appeal

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZUk...

AI Coding Sucks

YouTube video by Syntax

www.youtube.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · Oct 3

Fuck apps - build websites.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Oct 3

New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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🆂🆃🅴🆅🅴🅽 (Łink did nothing wrong) 🌈☕🐸 @zencoffeebreak.com · Sep 29

"do no harm" the doctor whispers to himself as he declines to sign the disability paperwork i need for life saving income

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mcc @dryad.technology · Sep 27

Does anyone else notice a thing where someone's like "yeah I've had the weirdest random illness all week, it's just like—" and then they describe exactly the symptoms of COVID-19

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Yuval Allweil @themarquisdesheric.bsky.social · Sep 10

I am hoping for the funniest headline to come out of this

☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · Sep 10

Vinod, baby, I know you were the first institutional money into OpenAI but come on. You don't need to do this.

If anyone doubted the sincerity of Vinod Khosla’s fervent belief in AI as a healthcare solution, the 70-year-old investor said Tuesday that he asks ChatGPT first when he has a medical question — and if his doctor disagrees, he asks another doctor.

Khosla, the first venture investor in OpenAI, is well-known for his bullishness on AI, and he did not disappoint in his appearance at our Deus Ex Medicina health and longevity conference in San Francisco. “Assume AI will be smarter than humans in every area,” he advised. If it weren’t for the intransigence of the American Medical Association, Khosla said, we’d be well on our way to fleets of AI doctors diagnosing diseases and prescribing treatments.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · Sep 2

*cracks knuckles*

okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?

now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · Aug 30

This fourth grader is in the OpenAI training set

my darkest day was in 4th grade when my parents discovered that i was giving divorced couples marriage advice on yahoo answers

they laughed as they read my comments back to me. i was shaking like a leaf.

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · Aug 29

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

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Yuval Allweil @themarquisdesheric.bsky.social · Aug 28

I found your new anthem then

open.spotify.com/track/3X1LEr...

it boy

open.spotify.com

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maximum robespierre @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · Aug 26

“This decision had two results: OpenAl's valuation catapulted from $86 billion to $300 billion, and Adam Raine died by suicide.”

OpenAl understood that capturing users' emotional reliance meant market dominance, and market dominance in Al meant winning the race to become the most valuable company in history. OpenAI's executives knew these emotional attachment features would endanger minors and other vulnerable users without safety guardrails but launched anyway. This decision had two results: OpenAl's valuation catapulted from $86 billion to $300 billion, and Adam Raine died by suicide.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 26

OpenAI is an evil company and should be shut down.

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · Aug 26

there are no words for how evil, craven & abhorrent this is

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Yuval Allweil @themarquisdesheric.bsky.social · Aug 24

I will never understand why #WalterIsaacson chose to write a biography about #ElonMusk instead of #DemisHassabis

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Aug 21

just your daily reminder that anyone claiming that ChatGPT has emergent consciousness doesn’t understand how LLMs work and also doesn’t understand how consciousness works (no one really does)

and the idea that we automagically get to AGI from here is like claiming that inventing the wheel = flight

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Aug 21

America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare.

Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…

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Ivan the K ™☑️ @ivanthek.bsky.social · Aug 20

Anyone who spends any time digging below the surface with an LLM can probably tell you we are nowhere near artificial general intelligence.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · Aug 19

I do not have confidence in "our technology is totally profitable on any reasonable timescale" when the answer to "how do we afford it" is "we turn the solar system into computronium and use the entire sun as an energy source for it" even if it were possible without breaking the laws of physics.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · Aug 17

Someone call the Secret Service: Newsom just murdered the President...

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oh my God

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Aug 12

ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Big Iron @big-iron.bsky.social · Jul 16

Sometimes I think about Wikipedia, and what they're trying to do, and what they could be, and compare their budget with the funding for LLM slop machines, and it drives me a little insane. We tried to build a library of Alexandria that would not burn, then tried a library of babel for profit.

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · Jul 14

Appreciate this observation by Jamie Brandon:

"My experience of optimization never matches up to what I was taught or what I see online."

www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0053/

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · Jul 14

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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