Reuters?

Kalanick now runs a robotics startup; in his free time, he said recently, he uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT “to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics.

When I read that I assumed they included it for color to make him sound insane.

If tokens ever become expensive people are gonna start using these to code until they get shut down.

I need to find an entirely new profession, everyone in software now is fucking deranged.

Mood

I feel like there’s a difference between alcohol and drugs, something people can make in their back yard and AI which requires a first world country’s entire economy to be oriented towards it to function… a difference in what we should be required to accept.

I don’t buy the general argument about shame either. We teach children to shit in toilets and not sidewalks. I see rampant AI use as just another form of disgusting public indecency and the faster we bring shame in to remedy it the better.

It seems vaguely AI flavored to me inasmuch as it’s using contrasts too much (it’s not x it’s y) and it’s way too verbose. Also it’s obviously wrong at least in my experience, middle managers aren’t the sparrows, individual contributors (especially juniors) are.

Maybe that’s just a symptom of a person reading too much AI text and thinking a good tweet would make a great substack.

I’d love to see it tested in court but I’m not gonna be the test case. GitHub won’t touch it because the ‘AI output is worthless’ angle is bad news for MS.

So you’re sure you Claude wasn’t trained on wordpress?

Unfortunately FOSS is basically dead because nobody is enforcing licenses against training.

The software industry is experiencing a huge collective AI psychosis.

piece he keeps equivocating between local LLMs and their behemoth online counterparts with their heavily proprietary tooling that occasionally wraps them into a somewhat useful product.

This is fundamental to his approach. He believes that technology is inherently liberatory as long as it’s in the hands of the consumer.

even if like Doctorow you think that their rape and pillage of artist’s rights and intellectual property in general isn’t an especially big deal.

It’s not that he doesn’t think it’s a big deal. It’s the one thing he’s most consistently cared about for most of his career as an activist. He’s willing to put up with anything else if it circumvents copyright. And that’s why he’s been consistently pushed, I reckon, despite his nominal hostility towards the hands that feed the media ecosystem he flourishes in.

One of my superiors at work calls it “he.”

When someone says they can do this, I try to say ‘ok, well can you do it right now to show me?’ and so far the answer has always been deflection.

Did he?

Yeah!

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9534

I was trying to see if Paul Graham was in the Epstein files (seems to mostly be due to Twitter spam) but then I found this email from 2016 with Scooter’s powerword:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00824072.pdf

The context is that AI guy Joscha Bach wants to “have a brainstorm” on “forbidden research” (you best believe IQ is in there, but also climate change prepping which in phrased in a particularly omenous fashion) and there’s a long list of people at the end. Besides slatescott it includes

Epstein Himself Paul Graham Max Teigmark Stephen Wolfram Stephen Pinker (ofc) Reid Hoffman

It’s unclear if this brainstorm ever happened or if Astral Scottdex was even contacted. The next email features Epstein chastising Joscha Bach for not shutting up in a discussion with Noam Chomsky and Bach’s last email is just groveling and trying to smooth over the relationship with his benefactor.

I think this is (at least a little bit) interesting because it’s back in 2016, a year before ‘intellectual dark web’ was coined and that whole ball got rolling.

Has Scooter addressed his presence in the files the way other-scott did?

people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for

I swear that this is a form of AI psychosis or something because the attitude is suddenly ubiquitous among the AI obsessed.

Wasn’t he on YouTube trying to convince people that Nuclear Energy is Fine Actually? Figures.

Looks like cypherpunk slop

Market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent/etc.

but with Haskell replaced with a much worse ML with a much less coherent type system

Urbit moment