javier

javier

@bartlebooth.bsky.social

data processor. recovering mathematician. lazy anarchist. tech mercenary. parent. immigrant. child of the corn. unpronounceable. toronto rodent. seeking puzzlement. Cuidado con mi corillo que somos un montón. nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy

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Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Solved a Hilbert problem, invented the computer, defeated the Nazis AND, we now know, wrote erotic fiction staring himself. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan... The perfect human being.

cam.ac.ukAlan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ manA racy short story by the ‘father of modern computing’ rips up Alan Turing’s ‘isolated mathematician’ image, revealing a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality.
javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social

It is actually relatively easy to understand how they work. There are some mysteries on top that have to do with scale and generalization but those I feel are more about the structural characteristics of a large corpus of human language and what is truly encoded there.

Yan Basque@yanbasque.com

Not gonna QT, because I don't want to add to the pile on this person is currently experiencing (even if deserved to some extent). But that argument drives me crazy. Just because *you* don't understand how LLMs work doesn't mean nobody understands how they work. This is a fiction.

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Sergio
@sergio.bsky.col.social

I hold these two views simultaneously: 1. The combustion engine is useful technology 2. Car-centric cities are dysfunctional and, on balance, harmful to the people who live in them I hold essentially the same view about LLMs

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Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific.

javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social

In a world where programming languages do not matter as much we may end up with only a couple that survive. A high level one, probably JS, and a low level one, probably Rust. Everything else may go away.

javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social

There are people trying to hack languages specialized for agents. But the size and diversity of examples of living languages will make them very hard to beat as the better choice, even if not as token efficient (whatever that means).

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Caræsten 🇵🇸
@cara.city

Replying to @cara.city

but generally I do feel like I have a more nuanced critique of these things since I started using them for work, that part is true

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

Replying to @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

this is why trying to see far into the future will drive you insane, all you can see is how far away the world you want still is. but the more straightforwardly oppressive world of the distant past is also far away! because small people did small things that added up over time!

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Matt Elliott
@graphicmatt.com

My @thestar.com column: Brad Bradford and Chris Alexander talk about Toronto's budget like it's some mystery we need outside experts to solve. But the mayor's spending record is all public, and tells a simple story of priorities. No mystery. Just math. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

thestar.comMatt Elliott: There’s no mystery behind Mayor Olivia Chow’s budget record — there’s just mathLately, the leading candidates taking on Mayor Olivia Chow in the race for mayor have taken to referring to the city’s budget like it’s some great cosmic mystery. A riddle
javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social

Orwell would be so amused by this shit.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

whitehouse.govInaugurating The Era Of Super IntelligenceBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸
@cara.city

uncritical adoption of sex positivity, especially in straight-dominated spaces, usually just means women are expected to perform sexual favors for men

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social

I predict a title like Muse by Meta made a teenager commit suicide or Muse by Meta is generating a new family of eating disorders among 13 year olds in about a year.

javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social

OpenAI is trying to frame their incompetence as technical prowess. Their robots are not becoming sentient. They are just badly set up in systems that are not properly isolated.

javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social

And they are boasting about it because they believe they can avoid legal consequences and fuel the propaganda engine that ensures their pockets are properly financed.