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Like even just a month ago people acted like you were being impossibly pedantic to specify LLMs versus like, basic reporting of health statistics from your smart watch, a thing that wearable tech companies have been doing for a decade now and is in no way new tech but has suddenly been called “AI”

This is what AI bros unironically believe

I should be happy but honestly it’s so annoying to hear people suddenly start saying the things I’ve been saying about “AI” for years now. It’s not a specific technology, it’s a marketing buzz phrase that’s purposefully used to muddy the waters about what technology IS being used

I think it’s some combination of the “production gains at any cost” combined with a cultural disdain for academic and cultural expertise that makes LLMs uniquely appealing for Americans

I think Americans are already totally lost to AI. Like there’s something just too seductive about this tech for Americans, they’re going to do urban highways all over again by putting it in education and cultural production and X years realize that this was a big unforced error

If the American automobile industry is anything it is a conglomeration of dead eyed managers completely devoted to selling more cars at any cost, including human life. The idea the AV industry won’t be totally captured by that model is pretty insane imo

I think it’s strange to assume that won’t change, or that the original tech goal would persist against the very obvious benefit to investors

I don’t think they’ll succeed in doing this in Europe because pedestrianization is already too far along

I don’t agree with him on everything but I think Not Just Bikes has it dead on for what AVs will do to North America: gated off AV only roadways that pedestrians can’t access in order to prevent this sort of thing eventually taking over all streets, eliminating street life permanently

oh hahaha no, I'm sorry apparently a full half of the 3000 settlement per book goes to the publisher, so I think my total share is $3750 for stealing my work in an attempt to replace me

This is why all the euro anti woke guys—even the masculinist ones—read as kind of effete to American eyes, they can’t even access the depths of north American gender sickness

also their gender tech is like 20 years behind, generously, so they can’t even comprehend some of the anti woke measures. Why do we hate baristas now? They can’t understand it

The “fun” thing about French people borrowing from American culture war stuff is they can’t see American shrimp colors and so they get on board with the whole “gender ideology is terrorizing our kids” but totally blue screen on the idea that abortion should be banned

It ranges from amusement to sometimes disgust. Mostly a “that’s not French” attitude, on a sliding scale of “just kidding haha” to “I am a Parisian”

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

The adoption of American culture war stuff in the French world is consistently baffling and hilarious

sort of joking but also I do think there is a real sensory lack in American suburbs, just like the simple joy of walking down a street and seeing beautiful things in the shop windows is a rage thing

The best part of France is you can just be walking home and then suddenly find yourself utterly transfixed by a patisserie case

It took me a while to block them because I basically never look at replies by non mutuals

Every time I see a new video of some innocent person being brutalized by ICE I remember how for almost a year there was a “lefty” account who would follow me around on here with snarky “nothing ever happens” replies

I truly hate the “independent AI researcher” cluster on here. Pseudo intellectual miasma

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

Instagram post that says “entering my hater era” and it’s The Life of a Showgirl record next to a copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach

In a way this is a comfort because humanity has already dealt with an information environment that cannot rely on appeals to visual evidence, in another way it's not comforting because you know, history

I said this about two years ago but basically we are about to return to pre-photography. We had a long century of photographic evidence being almost absolute and it's ending now.

it happened to me: I got the runaround from an LLM on getting my stupid hertz rental receipt

Not only was Janeway correct to kill Tuvix, she would have been correct even if doing so didn’t bring Tuvok and Neelix back

Nobel Prize for physics goes to 3 scientists for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into quantum mechanical tunneling.

BREAKING: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in quantum mechanics.

Prediction for tomorrow's Nobel Prize in Physics: not me

The true wonder here is not ChatGPT. It’s Wikipedia