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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 9h
Scissor lifts: known inscrutable instruments of magic with dazzlingly complex functions such as “on” and “off” or “up” and “down”
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 10h
Maybe you get sent a $10 “congrats you won capitalism!” trophy
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 11h
Yeah real visionaries would start at 8000%
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 11h
lol big tech im at is assuming a 50% productivity increase next year from AI and setting next years goals according to that number the C-suite made up

Shit fucking rules
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1d
It’s possible there will be a radical change in the underlying model architecture that can solve some of the inherent issues with large transformer models. But none of the AI companies want that, and academic research has been gutted and left for dead, so I don’t really see a way forward.
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1d
Not really. Spitting out wrong answers is an unsolvable fundamental part of how the models work.

It might get marginally better, but I imagine we’re pretty close to “as good as a LLM can be” at this point. There isn’t really anything left to train on, so it’ll just be tiny improvements.
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1d
No one has yet been able to show genAI improves “efficiency” even in the best-to-date use case of programming, let alone any other field. It’s wild how obvious this is being forced
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1d
When the internet bubble burst it also left behind a lot of general computing infrastructure.

AI not so much. GPU farms can’t be remonetized for the similar general purpose applications, they’re only for GenAI bullshit
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1d
Wait what? “Give me the Wikipedia article summary, but with a % chance it’s completely wrong” isn’t an invaluable product?
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 2d
Honest question tho: why do you start with the thing that is just adding the most statistically probable next word to the end of sentence instead of… starting with Wikipedia’s citations?

Feels like starting with the sentence generator that is wrong a lot of time isn’t the best place to begin?
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 2d
Holy fuck please don’t use the big autocorrect models for fact checking
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 3d
I did think that humvee didn’t looked nearly as kitted out in tacticool bullshit as it should be
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks now I want to play kerbal space program again
smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 3d
I mean there is always the recourse of punching the person in the glasses, which I imagine we’ll see a fair amount of.

Just obnoxious shit. Keep your social media fetish to yourself and don’t involve everyone else.
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 4d
No it’s creepy as fuck why do the people wearing these want to be such creeps
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 4d
What I’m not going to be is tricked into voting for the Dems again unless they actually have a strong platform and plan.

Schumer and Jeffries shitting the bed daily does not fill me with confidence they’ll get there.
smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 4d
Or alternatively, if you really do think that leftists not voting for Harris really is why they lost, maybe you should be asking what should have been different in order to get those votes?

Like this is politics 101 shit. At no point is “complaining about votes we thought we deserved” a good msg
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 4d
that’s not how we got here.

“Blame the leftists” is such a boring game. There simply aren’t that many of us. Scapegoat all you want, at the end of the day the dems couldn’t beat fucking trump with their mealie mouthed focus grouped “make the rich richer but in a good way” nonsense.
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 4d
Until the Dems are campaigning on the abolition of ICE and DHS I don’t have much to talk to them about.
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 4d
Wish he would have just gone and taken over his daddy’s landscaping business like the rest of those asshats
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 4d
Yeah this dipshit writes like every right wing shithead tho liked to think of themselves as an “intellectual” in my undergrad.

It’s fucking painful to read words that have been shoved so far up their own ass
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 6d
Nah all cops can do basically whatever they want without impunity and all the pols will do is give them more money for their troubles.

The entire law enforcement infrastructure needs to be abolished. They’re all like this and always have been.
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 6d
Tell your fucking cops to stop running cover for ice
smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 6d
I’m also an AI researcher. LLMs are just big autocorrect machines and nothing more or less. They’re a fun party trick we played around with in grad school, and some business idiots thought they were a god in the machine.

It’s so fucked to see people talk about autocorrect like this.
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smidbot.bsky.social
what @smidbot.bsky.social · 6d
You can’t be an asshole to a tool.

LLMs are just big autocorrect machines. Are you being an asshole when you fix the wrong word autocorrect put in for you?