shin is not vegan but it is pretty good, I think shin black is the best

Will miss you comrade, though idk about all this melina stuff. The vibes were regularly weird on hextube, definitely felt like things were not as under control there. Live chat is just a different ballgame

other admins would have to know for that to explain them getting special treatment

I’m so tired of this corpo trash where the only unsaid growth strategy is throwing “bodies at it” in a completely wasteful con-artist way.

currently happening at my work. trying to push out the team thats been building their shit for 10 years and got it to the successful place that it is, in favor of interns and new hires who have no clue whats going on but want to use every new shiny object technology whether it accomplishes anything or not. So many people come to me with plans directly copy pasted from chatgpt for how to accomplish whatever task. No real coherent architecture being designed

yeah… I was going to say, the “I touched some fentanyl and almost OD’d” shit is fake, so this explanation rings pretty hollow. It’d be hard to accidentally take a pill, snort a line, or shoot up or whatever else. But getting free narcan from the feds is still useful to them if they’re using seized or their own trafficked drugs themselves, or the other brutality-based explanations others offered

the fucking LA county sheriff’s dept is even in favor of it… wow. Not sure how to feel about that one but I guess its just that much of a no-brainer

I’d argue the trend I see in the west in tech right now is that overuse of LLMs is actually resulting in a dumber, less educated tech workforce. that may not be the case elsewhere but it is in my experience. more productive? for some people yes, but not more innovative, or more educated.

Edit: okay I misread you a bit with the above. you werent saying genAI was making people smarter, but that the practice implementing it and scaling up chip production was a step on the path to agi

However, I believe AGI is inevitable, will provide a massive first mover advantage, and will enable capabilities for those who wield it to subjugate those who don’t.

I’m a bit more agnostic on AGI but yeah, that is what I mean by longtermism… I just don’t think what we do in the present should be dominated by the possibility of developing AGI in 50 years

At worst, AGI will be built to fit the needs of a class that seeks to enslave us all, at which point subjugation will be total and unavoidable.

We must make sure an AES state (i.e. China) leads in artificial intelligence.

kinda veering into effective altruist/longtermist territory here. the rise of macine learning and LLM usage aren’t a concrete step towards AGI. LLMs dont understand literally anything, they just generate statistically right-sounding babble. for well-trod topics, that can generate correct responses, but not because there’s any intelligence going on

But of course I generally agree, in the capitalist world this technology will be used and developed only insofar as it is profitable or can be used for class warfare against us. The trajectory is similar in china but they are actually funding the more valuable to humanity types of research, and will likely curb most excesses that would harm working people rather than lean into them.

honestly I’d go further and say that LLMs are making us all dumber. let alone the kids who will grow up using LLMs to complete assignments written by LLMs