Carmack is a Gen-X Texan mostly known for using hardmode C to code an FPS. He’s so drenched in nerd testostorone I’d be surprised if he wasn’t background radiation level non-woke. Not saying he shouldn’t be as a human being, just that it would be an uphill battle for him.

data which for menial tasks doesnt exist yet.

This reminds me over an old old furore here in Sweden. A female researcher at a largish university made a study of how cleaners … cleaned. How bathrooms, kitchens etc were constructed and how workers had to move and lift to do their work.

This was almost universally derided - “who does science on cleaning???”, but of course the intent was serious. Lots of people clean, if we design better workspaces, we reduce injuries and RSI etc, and maybe make it easier for less skilled people to clean. But becaseu both the author and the subjected were coded female, the reactionaries had conniptions.

Anyway that won’t help humanoid robots. Just thought about it

Edit found an article in Swedish about it, year was 1985. Nowadays bathroom fixtures are constructed after her recommendations

https://arbetet.se/2009/02/26/gudrun-linns-forskningpverkar-hela-byggsverige/

Jane Street has an interesting cachet in at least my nerd circles because they require everyone they hire to learn Ocaml[1]. It would not surprise me if they are fash-adjacent, but only because I believe everyone in Wall Street is fash-adjacent.

[1] I think - maybe it’s only the technical staff

Questioning the nature of human intelligence is step 1 in promptfondler whataboutism.

I regret I have but one upvote to give to this

This is such a pivot, from “you can soon fly between capitals in half the time” to “this screaming jet engine will soon be disturbing your sleep 24/7”

Old Man Stallman comes out swinging against ChatGPT specifically, adding it to the long long list of stuff he doesn’t like. For some reason HN is mad at this, as if RMS saying slop is good actually would convince anyone normal to start using it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203591

Having a SAN stat act like an INT (IQ) stat is very on brand for rationalists (except ofc the INT stat is immutable duh)

Yud explains, over 3k words, that not only is he smarter than everyone else, he is also saner, and no, there’s no way you can be as sane as him

Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity

(side note - it’s weird that LW, otherwise so anxious about designing their website, can’t handle fucking apostrophes correctly)

pity it is slop, I’d enjoy a good ESR dunk

2 links from my feeds with crossover here

Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Data Center Backlash

Techdirt: Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric

Unfortunately Techdirt’s Mike Masnick is a signatory some bullshit GenAI-collaborationist manifesto called The Resonant Computing Manifesto, along with other suspects like Anil Dash. Like so many other technolibertarian manifestos, it naturally declines to say how their wonderful vision would be economically feasible in a world without meaningful brakes on the very tech giants they profess to oppose.

Thing I realized: if GenAI really is the game-changer the fondlers say it is, it should have broken through to the consumer now, in the form of better goods and services at lower prices. But that’s not what I’m seeing. So either GenAI doesn’t work as advertised, or the companies deploying it are keeping the surplus profits to themselves. Neither scenario makes me want GenAI more.

I’m too fucking old to care about hipster terminals, so I had no idea ghostty was started by a (former) billionaire. If forced to choose a new terminal I will certainly take this fact into consideration.

the base use for LLMs is gonna be hypertargetted advertising, malware, political propaganda etc

well the base case for LLMs is that, right now

the privacy nerds won’t know what hit them

u wot m8???!!

Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable

psychic damage warning, obviously

A lobster wonders why the news that a centi-millionaire amateur jet pilot has decided to offload the cost of developing his pet terminal software onto peons begging for contributions has almost 100 upvotes, and is absolutely savaged for being rude to their betters

https://lobste.rs/s/dxqyh4/ghostty_is_now_non_profit#c_b0yttk

This would be worrying if there was any risk at all that the stuff Anthropic is pumping out is an existential threat to humanity. There isn’t so this is just rats learning how the world works outside the blog bubble.

Apparently we are part of the rising trend of AI denialism

The rise of AI denialism

Author Louis Rosenberg is “an engineer, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur” according to his PR-stinking Wikipage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_B._Rosenberg. I am sure he is utterly impartial and fair with regards to AI.

This looks like it’s relevant to our interests

Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781890951917/hayeks-bastards

HN discusses aliens https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111119

“I am very interested.”

Bet you are, bud.