What I love about ‘compute campus’ is that ‘data centre’ is already stripped down to euphemism and coated in sterility.

Credit to the tweeter behind the original screenshot, at least they call AI 2027 a ‘blog’, and not e.g. a ‘paper’ like at least one of the reddit commenters does.

Never understood why my employer would drop $30m on Crowdstrike but not add uBlock Origin to their company chrome profile for free.

Ugh, using websites on work computers is such a completely different experience from at home. And yeah, it’s such an easy defence against malware!

That would be quite the slopbro’s take on probability. Time is continuous, and every fool knows the probability of a continuous variable being equal to something is zero. You can give a probability for it being less than some value, or greater, or within some other range… but none of the percentages relate to the dates in any consistent way. For example, it couldn’t be 30% before 2035 because then you couldn’t possibly have 50% before 2029. But if you just treat it as categorical, as probabilities for safety and risk… then it still doesn’t work, because the categories are all mutually exclusive.

What on Earth do these percentages mean? I scrolled all the way to the bottom and I am none the wiser. No obvious hints in the DOM either. Maybe their chatbot told them it sums to 100%?

Countdowns given to the second, but which only differ by the number of days. How nice of the AGIs to all wait until 00:00:00 UTC!

Grok Bot starts on the $30/month plan. The $100/month plan has 15 times the usage limits.

Did an AI come up with these price points? 🤔

Author believes we need to be more reasonable about child labour

More seriously, to save you the bother of reading it, he objects to comparisons between anti-slop sentiment and the actual Luddites, because slop haters are too… centralised? And then cites our friend SE Gyges in an update.

I clicked around the blog a bit and the guy’s definitely a slopfondler. But a reasonable sloperator, of course

Addendum: so this guy has apparently read all the literature on Luddites, yet still believes their concerns had anything to do with people being ‘displaced’ by ‘automation’. Fun reminder: ‘automation’ as a word literally did not exist until 1948.

I approve of their very helpful and comprehensive documentation for LLMs: https://jepsen.io/llm/index

There’s a ridiculously simple test you can use to figure out whether AI mandates at a given company are well-considered, or are being shoved out the door by out-of-touch buffoons: What happens when an engineer documents that AI made a task worse? Are they taken seriously, or are they marginalized and eventually managed out?

Even easier test: is it an AI mandate?

“imagine themselves” was the important bit

I think the poster ad thing is a bit big for that. The idea of this fantasy is that the sloperator should get zero value from their defacement of public space, so it would have to meaningfully obscure any pertinent details like address etc. while also very helpfully telling the sloperator what their oversight was.

So what’s with the phenomenon of people that are dismissive of the capabilities of chatbots and freely list their constant fuckups, maybe even habitually calling them ‘clankers’, and yet still constantly fucking using them, comparing harnesses, blah blah blah? It’s not our usual cocaine analogies because these people are hardly evangelists… maybe still covered by ‘gambling addiction’? It’s just baffling to me. You humbly suggest that maybe they shouldn’t be making so much use of a chatbot that constantly bullshits them, and you don’t get any actual objection to that… and yet they continue on.

I poked around the repo some more a while ago… it’s somewhat enlightening into why the story is Like That. I should probably write up a sneer on it, though it was already out of the stubsack by that point…

Just so long as the future involves gas turbines.

A mere four paragraphs after noting the claims of AI labs “most certainly cannot be” taken at face value, half of those being just a blockquote, the author nonchalantly asserts that OpenAI’s attack on HuggingFace was the result of software “going rogue”. Bravo!

I saw a slop ad hanging on a fence today, and I’m in half a mind to buy some spray paint just so I can write “SLOP” over it

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake – you’ll lose the opportunity to take notes and copy them.

But what if the sufferhammers gave you velocity?

https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

The natural world does not come with a quantified representation of itself, but we are constantly awash in so much data that we forget that it must come from someone with their own interests, flaws, and ideologies, no matter what they claim, or how much computation they put it through.