TinyTimmyTokyo

joined 2 years ago
[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Last year McDonald's withdrew AI from its own drive-throughs as the tech misinterpreted customer orders - resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error, and another having hundreds of dollars worth of chicken nuggets mistakenly added to their order.

Clearly artificial superintelligence has arrived, and instead of killing us all with diamondoid bacteria, it's going to kill us by force-feeding us fast food.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It immediately made me wonder about his background. He's quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, I'd say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 16 points 3 months ago (11 children)

In case you needed more evidence that the Atlantic is a shitty rag.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Clown world.

How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. They'll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it a loop if it only executes once?

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How much energy was used to produce that video?

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Ozy Brennan tries to explain why "rationalism" spawns so many cults.

One of the reasons they give is "a dangerous sense of grandiosity".

the actual process of saving the world is not very glamorous. It involves filling out paperwork, making small tweaks to code, running A/B tests on Twitter posts.

Yep, you heard it right. Shitposting and inconsequential code are the proper way to save the world.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm aware of the cloudflare issue, and I don't use them. So I'm pretty sure it's not that. (I use firefox but I turn off DNS over HTTPS)

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I noticed starting a couple weeks ago that archive.is is requiring me to complete captchas nearly every time I visit. Are other people experiencing this? If so, I wonder if the site's maintainers are reacting to increased traffic from LLM crawlers. The crawlers probably find Archive extraordinarily useful when they get blocked by source sites.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago

Can we call this the peak of the LLM hype cycle now?

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

Could be worse, I got got by some neofascist scum who was dunking on rationalists.

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