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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 1h

The information sources and tools I learned to use in young adulthood are obviously the correct ones. Everything older is laughably obsolete. Everything more recent is ideologically suspect garbage. I will not take follow up questions and I don't know why I even have to explain this.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 13h

Avoiding groupthink on tactics, even strategy, is a good thing. You should have someone challenging your ideas theres. Values are different. Eisenhower needed to hear from somebody who thought D-day might be a bad idea. He didn't need to hear from someone saying "maybe the Nazis are right"

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 13h

I don't see a single puppet dong or butt in this

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 14h

I hate to say this, but we may need Dolly Parton to transition to the Other Side and advocate for us there...

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 14h

There is very definitely a dot com style bust in our future. The larger tech of AI probably survives, but the economy is gonna get real bad for a bit. I am sure our current leadership will face that with calm determination and in no way freak out or do weird shit.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 15h

I know about the vector space. I guarantee you the vector space does not know when something is closed because of a storm. I wouldn't rely on the vector space to know what's dog friendly or whatever and in practice, modern llm chatbots use RAG for that: they google it for you.

Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 20h

Of course Google can also have its values changed! People smarter than me noticed that long ago. But at least its a conduit to another information source, not an opaque oracle.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 20h

Fair. Though the AI doesn't know any of that either, it's just Googling Things for you. Which would save time I suppose, but it's concerning we're solving people's lack of free time by encouraging them to have a machine that can have it's values changed at any time by Altman or Musk search for them.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 21h

I agree the immediate harms are small. The long term effect of normalizing "the way you know stuff is by uncritically asking the god-machine" is what worries me, and it worries me here because I think slightly critical use would eliminate the value add, so I suspect people aren't being critical

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 1d

I guess, but when I ask these things questions having done that kind of work the machine never tells me anything new? Sometimes, if I ask a *very* specific question, but if I ask it "where do I go in city X" its just a summary of the first blog post on Google?

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 1d

Someone I know recently used AI to design an invitation. It looked like the kind of thing you get from a template and some clipart, which is fine, but WHY NOT JUST USE A TEMPLATE AND SOME CLIPART?

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 1d

It's these use cases that fucking BAFFLE me. Tour guidebooks are a thing! On what PLANET are you getting meaningfully different advice from AI than one of them?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Almost a fifth of young UK adults use AI to design holiday, study finds

Traditional package holiday is still the most common eventual purchase, travel industry body Abta reports * Business live – latest updates Almost one in five young adults are turning to artificial intelligence to design their holiday, according to the UK travel industry body Abta. While the traditional package holiday still remains the most common eventual purchase, Abta found that 18% of 25- to 34-year-olds were using AI tools such as ChatGPT to inspire their trips abroad. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 1d

It's funny, because it really is the secret ingredient in 2025.

Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 1d

Frame #3800 from S03 -E07 - Giant Lobster-627717

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 1d

(pulls out his monster manual, flips the pages purposefully) Looks like.... 2D4? For a first level encounter, but a wizard frog is on the advanced encounter table so (licks finger, flips several pages) oh wow, 3D8 + 4, and saving throw only halves it. Wow.

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