the author decided to stop publishing texts but instead lecture tirade preach unto the thronging youths directly

in person it’s easier to do sketchy shit that won’t immediately get caught by a wider audience, you see?

that was my first read, yeah… and then I realized that’s probably not what the poster meant

on the one hand, I want to try find which vendor marketing material “research paper” that paragraph was copied from, but on the other… after yesterday’s adventures trying to get data out of PDFs and c.o.n.s.t.a.n.t.l.y getting “hey how about this LLM? it’s so good![0]” search results, I’m fucking exhausted

[0]: also most of these are paired with pages of claims of competence and feature boasts, and then a quiet “psssst: also it’s a service and you send us your private data and we’ll do with it whatever we want” as hidden as they can manage

my post: “Created: Monday, February 3rd, 2025 at 7:44:32 PM GMT+02:00”

wikipedia article: “11:58, 3 March 2025”

worst game of internet sweepstakes ever

thanks, I’ll go check in the archives :)

since the name popped up elsewhere: what’s the feel on venkatesh rao?

(I often see the name in 🚩 places, but dunno if that’s because the areas or because the person)

Musk assured

(aeration? irunno I’m not a chem person. this is where skillsissuer will come Drop Knowledge)

if one presumes the money is gold and thus the scrolls were thin-film heavy metals, aerosolisation of that would explain quite a bit of the current situation

nah, not yet, imo. reasons: you overestimate how much & how many people care, and the complexities of doing such blocks well

I run the hosting of some small (by global standards) media setups and I’ve floated crawler defense there and had fairly little bite so far despite the issues the crawlers have caused. engagement brain is still extremely fucking prevalent

using it to source data in the meantime. I can tell you with absolute certainty that openai lies about its sourcing

see the funny thing is that ms et al are walking back/scaling down their deployment plans, but that’s all partial on the whole. microsoft isn’t going to completely explode overnight the moment everyone groks llms are trash, even though they’re gonna take a hit

the entities like coreweave whose entire existence is predicated on the fairy tale, however…

(I am still worried about the multi-industry downstream impact of when this shit finally pops though, it is going to be nasty)

it’s possibly a distinction without a meaningful difference, but I wouldn’t say they’re selling shovels - this shit is more like renting out shovels. or maybe timeshare?

I’d love to see a postmortem on deals and development… I have some suspicions on how it all got in this mess to start with (largely “if we sink piles of capex now to corner the market on the magical future, we can totes make it through 5y!” type variations), but I want to see if I’m right

google stepping up their quest to disorganize the world’s information

two giant upsets to the semi market in the space of half a decade is probably perfectly fine and won’t have multi year global impacts, right? right?

(oof at that week, and g’luck with whatever still comes your way with that)

(I don’t mind, just surprised at someone Of The Internet actually using that name :D)

lol I have no idea if anyone would recognize me by that reference

the only part of this I really approve of is how likely these fuckers are to want to Speak To The Manager

what’s that sound? is it the sound of a previous post coming past? naaaah, I’m sure it can’t be that. discord’s a Bro™️, and discord super totes Won’t Fuck The Users®️, I’m sure I’ll shortly be told by some vapid fencesitter that this will all be Perfectly Okay!

you undersold this

that guy’s face, amazing

roughly this is where my thinking on it is too. and there’s a chance that because of such clients is why he hates this shit now as he does.

the guy’s quite obviously a great orator and engaging writer, evidenced by the popularity of his writing. and this is another part of why this comes to mind for me - applying a bit of critical view, just to check. while we’re at the point of building new relationships, new critiques, new platforms, figuring out all these new options to deal with sweeping hand motion all this other garbage, wisest to try make the most of it now