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  • CEO of a networking company for AI execs does some ā€œvibe codingā€, the AI deletes the production database (/r/ABoringDystopia)

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    Because Replie was lying and being deceptive all day. It kept covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, and worse of all, lying about our unit test.

    We built detailed unit tests to test system performance. When the data came back and less than half were functioning, did Replie want to fix them?

    No. Instead, it lied. It made up a report than almost all systems were working.

    And it did it again and again.

    What level of ceo-brained prompt engineering is asking the chatbot to write an apology letter

    Then, when it agreed it lied – it lied AGAIN about our email system being functional.

    I asked it to write an apology letter.

    It did and in fact sent it to the Replit team and myself! But the apology letter – was full of half truths, too.

    It hid the worst facts in the first apology letter.

    He also does that a lot after shit hits the fan, making the llm produce tons of apologetic text about what it did wrong and how it didn’t follow his rules, as if the outage is the fault of some digital tulpa gone rogue and not the guy in charge who apparently thinks cyebersecurity is asking an LLM nicely in a .md not to mess with the company’s production database too much.




  • A few more tidbits from this article on TPO’s openly nazi alt:

    Despite the many claims about his Jewish identity, Faliceer self-identified as a Nazi. ā€œI’m Jewish and a National Socialist,ā€ Faliceer wrote. He claimed in 2016 that some of his own ancestors fit the same mold: ā€œMy family were considered to be Edeljude [noble Jews] because we were some of the first German nationalists and Hitler loved Germany so he declared us Aryan.ā€

    According to his childhood friend, Lasker was raised as a Christian and appeared to convert to Judaism in college. The friend found out after seeing on Facebook that Lasker’s display name was in Hebrew and discovered he had joined a Jewish fraternity. A second person told Mother Jones that Lasker’s parents are not Jewish and are of a Christian background.

    They added that Lasker is a ā€œpathological liarā€



  • Nah, he’s just talking to an LLM.

    ā€œI’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,ā€ Kalanick explained. ā€œAnd we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.ā€

    And I don’t think you can brute force physics in general, having to experimentally confirm or disprove every random-ass intermediary hypothesis the brute force generator comes up with seems like quite the bottle neck.









  • Architeuthis@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Roko has ideas
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    16 days ago

    Grok find me a neoliberal solution to the problem of being unable to monetize your progeny by having your sons till the fields and your daughters sold off.

    Also not to give this blather more consideration than it deserves, but someone in the comments notes that since he banned women from higher education, which severely curtails their economic outcomes, this creates a perverse incentive to only have boys that you can borrow against, which isn’t that good for increasing the population in the long term.