Hackworth

@Hackworth@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Choose another tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Belief is a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself. -Pete Carroll

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY 4th of July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also do this by blowing out a match and putting it under an upturned glass shortly before microwaving it. Turns the carbon vapor into plasma, or some such. Though the time I tried it, it escaped the glass and melted the microwave’s lining. Don’t recommend if it’s an appliance ya care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And in that environment, everyone who actually understands how things work quits or gets quit. It’s my understanding that there are large sections of code bases that MS just doesn’t touch, because everyone who understood how they functioned is gone. Continuity of institutional knowledge is difficult in the best cases and impossible under leaders that discourage dissenting perspectives. /gestures about wildly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  352413, I mean, clearly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno about advice, but LLMs are very good at re-stating my meandering thoughts in a concise way that’s easy to communicate to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Politicians attempting to ban AI regulation are only shielding OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, etc. Those same politicians will pearl clutch about Hugging Face or DeepSeek in the same breath. It’s just about money and the arms race. Abdicating responsibility to AI would require either a change in how we regulate people or a granting of rights/responsibility to AI. Though I don’t doubt we will see people try to blame AI for their poor decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People always askin Jesus to take the wheel, like he knows how to drive a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Activating AI Safety Level 3 Protections

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m lucky that conversational AI is being developed as I’m middle aged, cause younger me absolutely would have fallen into an intractable state of delusion. Much like advertising, even the absurd cheese has an effect with extended exposure. And below the “You’ve hit on something uniquely insightful that could change the world!” shtick there is already a subtler form of reinforcement and enabling. This puts me in an odd place, because I use AI productively on a daily basis. And I still see it as one of the few technologies that could actually help us dig ourselves out of the enormous hole we’ve dug. But I suspect we’ll just use it to dig a deeper hole at a swifter pace.