Architeuthis @ Architeuthis @awful.systems

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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Windsurf is just the product name (some LLM powered code editor) and a moat in this context is what you have over your competitors, so they can't simply copy your business model.

https://xcancel.com/aadillpickle/status/1900013237032411316

Also, Yud's kink is literally rape¹, isn't it? Role playing non-consensual situations is fine and all, but this is a subculture where reporting sexual harassment is considered a possible infohazard², and surely the utilitarian calculus in on the side of letting rationalists who do important work on existential risks have a go at you, imagine how many multiplujillion far future virtual entities of minimum moral status that might save.

Fuck a cult.

1. He's openly declared himself a sexual sadist and writes stuff like this, and also math pets.
2. Occupational Infohazards

I hate being reminded that besides phrenology physiognomy is also a thing.

I like how this presupposes that unlike the tendency towards violent crime, pedophilia is equally distributed among all races and skull bump arrangements.

Anecdotally, greek <-> english stuff seems to be deteriorating also.

The post is using traditional orthodox frankincense scented machine learning techniques though, they aren't just asking an LLM.

This is AI from when we were using it to decide if an image is of a dog or a cat, not how to best disenfranchise all creatives.

Could be an SSC type situation: you write an interminable pretend research post in a superficially serious manner on an obviously flawed premise and let the algorithm help it find its audience of mostly people who won't read it but will be left with the impression that the premise is at least defensible.

This will be made considerably easier once siskind puts it in his regular link roundup with a cheeky comment about how he doesn't really truly endorse this sort of thing.

His commenters really didn't like the 'white' part.

An LLM will write in the style of my immortal just fine if you ask it to.

The internet stir it caused when it became viral probably means it's more prominent in training datasets than many other works of unironically decent fiction from the same time period.

Maybe non-judgemental chatbots are a feature only at a higher paid tiers.

it’s rather hilarious that the service is the one throwing the brakes on. I wonder if it’s done because of public pushback, or because some internal limiter applied in the cases where the synthesis drops below some certainty threshold. still funny tho

Haven't used cursor, but I don't see why an LLM wouldn't just randomly do that.

That's the second model announcement in a row by the major LLM vendor where the supposed advantage over the current state of the art is presented as... better vibes. He actually doesn't even call the output good, just successfully metafictional.

Meanwhile over at anthropic Dario just declared that we're about 12 months before all written computer code is AI generated, and 90% percent of all code by the summer.

This is not a serious industry.

Huggingface cofounder pushes against LLM hype, really softly. Not especially worth reading except to wonder if high profile skepticism pieces indicate a vibe shift that can't come soon enough. On the plus side it's kind of short.

The gist is that you can't go from a text synthesizer to superintelligence, framed as how a straight-A student that's really good at learning the curriculum at the teacher's direction can't really be extrapolated to an Einstein type think-outside-the-box genius.

The world 'hallucination' never appears once in the text.

New ultimate grift dropped, Ilya Sutskever gets $2B in VC funding, promises his company won't release anything until ASI is achieved internally.

Before focusing on AI he was going off about what he called the rot economy, which also had legs and seemed to be in line with Doctorow's enshitification concept. Applying the same purity standard to that would mean we should be suspicious if he ever worked with a listed company at all.

Still I get how his writing may feel inauthentic to some, personally I get preacher vibes from him and he often does a cyclical repetition of his points as the article progresses which to me sometimes came off as arguing via browbeating, and also I've had just about enough of reading performatively angry internet writers.

Still, he must be getting better or at least coming up with more interesting material, since lately I've been managing to read them all the way through.

What else though, is he being secretly funded by the cabal to make convolutional neural networks great again?

That he found his niche and is trying to make the most of it seems by far the most parsimonious explanation, and the heaps of manure he unloads on the LLM both business and practices weekly surely can't be helping DoNotPay's bottom line.

i think yud at some point claimed this (preventing the robot devil from developing alignment countermeasures) as a reason his EA bankrolled think tanks don't really publish any papers, but my brain is too spongy to currently verify, as it was probably just some tweet.

I don't think him having previously done undefined PR work for companies that include alleged AI startups is the smoking gun that mastopost is presenting it as.

Going through a Zitron long form article and leaving with the impression that he's playing favorites between AI companies seems like a major failure of reading comprehension.

It's adorable how they let the alignment people still think they matter.

Is this… the perfect grift?

Surely the free market would never allow this.