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Curtis Yarvin flags you down at a conference and smiles warmly, handing you a pair of calipers with an engraving that reads “hbd”

i have been nothing if not consistent on this!

calling my shot

is this anything

i believe we can turn the Republicans into prison abolitionists

*monkey’s paw curls* in order to get most of the benefits your docs & code need to be well-organized, with up-to-date indices and a minimal amount of conflicting information

A while back we were joking here about how a little over a year ago, some economist must've looked at a monkey's paw and said "I wish regular people appreciated textbook economics more."

what happens if Congress just jams up the appointment process entirely?

does Powell just continue to chill?

to put it another way:

the current trajectory of this technology’s development, if it isn’t changed, will birth more Ed Zitrons than it will people like us because the contract being offered to everyone is all stick no carrot from their perspective.

it’s also worth keeping in mind that the apparatus we built to constrain the negative externalities of the industrial revolution was a massive regulatory bureaucracy whose aim was to cripple titans of industry to stop them from crippling their workers.

we can repeat history here.

i think it’s useful to have an ontological distinction here.

i don’t really think i will be referring to models without open source training data and associated code as “open source“ when “open weight” is right there as a term of art.

pedantry mostly because i would fucking love a decent model that’s soup-to-nuts open source

open weight*

gonna rate that one as “Likely” boss!

only for hobbyist stuff.

when i was at Groq i looked at Nomad & K8s as workload schedulers for running inference jobs on our hardware for CI (did not end up building anything for real though).

K8s would have been A Whole Ordeal, Nomad would have been a reasonable amount of Go.

Sonnet 4.6 is better but not step-change better vs Sonnet 4.5 ime.

Opus 4.6 slaps, but is just as liable to run off and do a bunch of negative utility work if not properly harnessed as Opus 4.5 was.

yeah Nomad always seemed strictly more flexible in terms of being able to just throw together a custom task driver if you needed something bespoke.

how long have you been running Nomad for prod workloads & how much do you like it?

i think this is kind of a function of how LLMs have been marketed to people and you should expect to see more of this sort of legislation as a natural consequence of that!

Altman describing ChatGPT as being capable of arbitrary PhD-level work leads pretty directly to this imo.

what the body lacks in nutrition the act makes up for in nourishment of the soul

it’s been nearly a decade since i’ve used node-postgres but it never did me wrong and i’m grateful to see @brianc.bsky.social on here

their revenue growth has been flat for a little over a year and they took a half billion dollar haircut on their BTC holdings, which seems bad

tbc isn’t Block’s situation less “LLM acceleration rapidly removing human elements” and more “oh shit oh fuck we overhired like crazy and dont have any money“

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Grandpa is scrolling facebook for hours at Thanksgiving an everyone can tell it’s all slop.

Ring advertises that its intelligent cameras can track you everywhere.

OpenAI is telling everyone that it’s going to replace them at work.

Your kid’s teacher is using ChatGPT to email you about AI cheating

i think there’s also a component of the technology being integrated into everything at a time where people are much more likely to look at technology critically than they were a decade ago.

now take a big sip of coffee and read a little further downthread

really fucked up if you hold the position that a model’s dominant personality is an artifact of Conway’s Law

we live in a magical future where you can search the internet for “JD Vance H1B” and decide for yourself whether describing visa recipients as “low wage servants” implies anything at all about his feels on the matter.

idk though i am not a journalist or anything.

”so, hey, crazy thing happened but you know how we sold you the machine that makes it easy to generate tons of code?

yeah, uh, turns out that means you’re gonna need to hire more software engineers to deal with the fallout of all that code existing.”