antifuchs

joined 2 years ago
[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Vindicate Tanenbaum in the greatest Usenet thread in os development: make it a microkernel.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Oooh, I hope we get to see a lot of experimental-sounding puberty blocker and hormone replacement trials.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

In positive news, Darius has found a way to build an ethical chatbot https://tinysubversions.com/ethical-assistant/

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

Look, the goat said I was having great ideas ok

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[takes a deep bong hit] Tokenomics

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Great idea, let’s seastead a data center next to some low income sea steading communities.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

All y’all still don’t get it: the singularity is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

I’m sure this guy uses the ai quite a lot (and so would the guy in Married With Children)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

How can we, as a community, talk about the existential risk of climate change or the benefits of adopting renewable energy or cheer the development of ever-more-efficient power consumption

Well I have a good/bad news thing about that one

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago

The “I will piledrive you” guy has a new post about working in an ai-pilled world now, and it’s pretty decent I find: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Favorite framing is that everyone is under enormous pressure not to commit heresy against the ai pilling, especially because you just don’t shit talk your customers.

 

I know copyright isn’t the way to address what’s wrong with tech, but this here is a great way to poison the well for medium-to-large enterprise companies leeching off open source: if your software requires the work to function, it’s entire source code needs to be published.

Considering using this for my more polished stuff just to irk the companies that would otherwise be happy to use it.

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

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