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- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 days ago:
Oh, they’re human all right. The worst kind of human.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 days ago:
More likely, it’ll shave a percent or two off GDP for a year or so, and that’ll be it.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 days ago:
When the AI bubble bursts, those with money will invest and hoover up wealth and assets at a 90% discount.
The GPUs will go fast, but not the data centers that nobody wants for any other purpose. So much for the capital assets.
The intangibles and “intellectual property” will be reset to a value much closer to zero. And if this cuts a few billionaires down to centimillionaires, so much the better. Fuck 'em.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 days ago:
Oh no, not me, I never lost control.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 3 days ago:
I hand-grind my coffee every morning in a mortar and pestle and then use my Rok to manually press the perfect espresso.
What? You don’t have people to do that for you??
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 3 days ago:
We haven’t gone whole-hog into home automation, except for a heating and hot-water controller. In a part of the world with winter, that makes a big difference. The controller I use has a web-based but also offers a nice API. Another good thing about it is that it includes a way to know when we’re in or out of the house, based on mobile phone detection. So I wrote some scripts to manage the system in a nicer way than having a big bunch of static profiles. One of the reasons it works well is that none of it’s AI. Just some event detection and use of the output of one-time runs of optimization algorithms based on our utility provider’s pricing. It’s less flaky than I am about controlling the heating zones, so it’s cut my gas bill by another 10% over the 30% savings we got from installing the controller and running it on a timer with manual override.
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 5 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Children's_Wellbeing_and_Schoo…
bills.parliament.uk/publications/62773/…/7086 (the text of the bill).
The passages quoted on Mastodon appear not to exist in the text of the bill as passed and as sent to the Lords. It’s mainly about safeguarding kids in care.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
Better than throwing wooden shoes into the gears.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
Markov bubble busting babble, bruh.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
Stanley Unwin them.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
*Grapple thghs
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
You better stay away from mine, Romeo.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
Yeah, like toxins accumulating as you go up the food chain.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
It’s a special case of the buiness-school dictum that a metric that is made into a performance measure immediately becomes useless, since there are now incentives to game it.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
DO IT. Break that shit.
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was responsible for a moderately high-volume site, and getting it GDPR compliant wasn’t all that much effort. That’s because we’re not scumbags abusing our users’ personal information.
And yeah, the cookie-banners bullshit isn’t required, it was just passive aggression by sites butthurt that they couldn’t intrusively track their users so easily anymore.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 1 week ago:
Xitter. Pronounced “shitter.”
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 1 week ago:
What do you get when you roll a turd in shit?
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 2 weeks ago:
Further evidence of the lawlessness of Trump and his goons.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 2 weeks ago:
They don’t want foreigners in the US, looking healthy and fit and spending money while Americans are struggling to get by. And they don’t want Americans visiting European countries where the standards of living are much higher than in the US. Americans might start getting the idea that they are getting the shit end of the stick.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 weeks ago:
those states are represented by binary numbers.
The states represent binary numbers, not the other way around.
www.britannica.com/technology/bit-communications
A bit is a binary digit. That’s what “bit” is an abbreviation for. That is, it’s either a 1 or a 0. It’s a logical thing, not a physical thing. It’s a unit of information.
The embodiment of that bit is the physical state of a certain tiny, addressable chunk of silicon. And there could be any of several other embodiments: the position of toggle switches, chalk marks on a board, pits on a metallic surface in a DVD, voltage in a wire at a particular time. The particular embodiment is an engineering choice that is distinct from the information itself.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 weeks ago:
And, if the top levels of the BBC weren’t staffed with time-serving Conservative Party appointees who spend all their time interfering in politics, they could get their journalists to fact-check their articles by asking someone who knows what the fuck they’re talking about.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
the weights are the code
In the same way as an Excel spreadsheet containing a crosstab of analytics results is “the code.”
It’s processed input for a visualization/playback mechanism, not source code.
- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 2 weeks ago:
And there’s no reason for widespread adoption of AI besides a massive hype cycle driving a speculative bubble.
- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 2 weeks ago:
The Earth doesn’t need a fucking thing it doesn’t already have, except for a cleanup of human-generated pollution.
Most of the new demand for energy is to run LLMs that nobody actually needs.
- Comment on Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs 2 weeks ago:
A family member is a graphic designer for an agency. They use AI to reformat files, and claim that having AI do it, then fixing it, is quicker and easier than doing it some other way. But their actual creative process doesn’t involve AI at all.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 2 weeks ago:
YouTube has been getting much worse lately as well. Lots of purported late-breaking Ukraine war news that’s nothing but badly-written lies. Same with reports of Trump legal defeats that haven’t actually happened. They are flooding the zone with shit, and poisoning search results with slop.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 weeks ago:
what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason
Usually because the highest-rated solution is half-assed bullshit proposed by an overconfident newbie (or an LLM regurgitating it). I mainly use Stack Overflow as a way to become pissed off enough that I’ll go solve the problem myself, like I should have done in the first place. Indignation As A Service.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 3 weeks ago:
It’s even worse than that. Porsches are locked by default, and can only be enabled remotely.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 3 weeks ago:
That’s not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company.
The company can issue more stock, not just use debt for its financing. And the value of the new stock is strongly influenced by the market price of the stock that has already been issued.