Apparently some of our AI Safety cult “friends” are planning a protest in London on 28th of February.

Is it going to be something worth critically supporting instead of the usual criti-hype? Possible, but not likely.

The AI Safety movement is finally changing by Sillyconversations Siliconversations.

Who?

I used to be a quantum scientist and now I’m a YouTuber. My parents are thrilled.

Oh, okay.

Also curious that they’re not protesting Anthropic on the thumbnail. A cynic would say they’re giving them free pass because they say the right shibboleths.

They’re giving them free pass because they say the right shibboleths.

Oh I get it now. I thought there’s some backstory that either Nathan Baschez or Simon Willison lied about having a CS degree.

You have a level of faith in humanity that is completely unwarranted.

Your mum is an antique.

Wait, wait, wait. I didn’t realize this before. Who the F needs to lie about not having a CS degree? Being a code monkey is (or at least used to be) something, where you can get away with not having a degree.

I unfortunately do understand. I think there are severe tradeoffs between living a good life and living a virtuous life. Most people usually compromise to lesser or greater degree and find ways to cope with that. Nihilism is one way.

I think I understand it. Think of an alcoholic that’s trying every sort of miracle hangover “cure” instead of drinking less.

Two thoughts:

That this is not just some random AI generated graphic, but from official Microsoft tutorial is unpleasantly unsurprising.

I think the tinm (timn ?) axis goes the wrong way.

Tim traveller? The YouTube channel?

https://youtube.com/@thetimtraveller

Regret? I dunno, a rat being harassed by a clanker seems fitting.

Groan, you don’t need to finish high school to learn about false dichotomy.

I’m curious though how much vibe coding and AI mandates are responsible for the latest disaster of a patch. Or if they are all just results of disfunctional company culture.

The demand is real. People have seen what an unrestricted personal digital assistant can do.

The demand is real. People have seen what crack cocaine can do.

Dang, I want to find this article more relatable than I do. Most software I have dev experience with doesn’t have the problem of relying on automated tests too much, but the exact opposite.

And while I very much write tests for the dopamine high and false sense of security green checkmarks provide, I still prefer that to the real sense of un-security of not having tests.

I think I installed the cursed Windows 11 update on my work machine, because after taking several tries to boot, my second monitor stopped working (detected, but showing a black screen).

Tried some different configurations, and could make only 0-1 screens work.

Uninstalled the update and everything worked correctly again.

Thanks for nothing Microslop.

Via YouTube recommends, I came across this video about our favorite crypto pivot to ai NeoCloud data center company CoreWeave

How CoreWeave is near insolvency

Interestingly, the author is an LLM shill as evidenced by the video being caked with a hefty layer of copium.

Seems to have struck a nerve amongst the commentariat which didn’t appreciate this kind of “FUD”.

From their posts earlier in the thread, I’m 99% sure that’s sarcasm.

Thanks! I’ll definitely check out Python graphlib sometime. That’s more in my wheelhouse.

Thanks so much! Now I can waste my life on more interesting things…

Against my better judgement I got into an argument with a promptfan on Bluesky. To his credit, aside from the usual boring arguments (“models are getting better, and better”, “have you tried model xyz”, “everyone not using chatbots will be left in the dust” he provided an actual example.

https://github.com/dfed/SafeDI/issues/183 It’s a bug that’s supposedly easy to test, but hard to reason about. Took the chatbot half an hour while it would take him several (allegedly).

Now, my first thought was: “If a clanker could do it (something that famously can’t reason) then it couldn’t be that hard to reason about.”

But I was curious so I looked. Unfortunately it is an area I’m not familiar with and in a language (Swift) I don’t know at all.

Probably should file the claim under “not true or false” and touch grass or something, but it’s bugging me.

Any one y’all who could say if there’s something interesting in there?