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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

World's least efficient baby mulcher

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Apparently MS gives OpenAI Azure credits, but those are near cost price - so if OpenAI uses them, MS has to spend real money on GPUs and electricity.

MS also has rights to OpenAI's software. So OpenAI is functionally a Microsoft subsidiary that pretends to be a separate company to insulate MS from blame for the shit OpenAI pulls.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

that's one tiny thing I'll give Altman - he doesn't seem to have run this through ChatGPT.

That said, VCs generally use ghost writers.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Diddy and the Sam
they're Diddy and the Sam
one's a sex offender* and the other is a scam

* allegedly

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

that being almost certainly the process - they got GPT to polish up their notes because they know they can't write and are literally unable to tell good writing from bad writing

this is why the VCs were going full AGI Chicken Little after GPT-3 because it could write better than them

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

all a bit Dunbar

but yeah, if Balaji wanted a private city then buying or renting the empty development fraud seems the closest he has to a prospect

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

from bsky:

Weeb3

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

long on keikakucoin! *

* translator's note: keikaku means plan

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

oh totally, which is presumably why someone coined "mining"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had a look and couldn't find how it started being called mining. Satoshi started out calling it "farming".

 

I’m very aware of what the average retail investor has been saying about the need for greater transparency in our markets, stronger regulatory oversight and tougher penalties for market manipulation and criminal behavior. My administration will support the Ape retail rebellion and enact aggressive Wall Street reforms.

To match action with words, I just invested $24,000 in GameStop from the fees I earned from suing Monsanto for their knowingly poisoning our soil and causing cancer. I love the idea of making Monsanto support $GME and the Apes. We need a free and fair market. Let’s punish predatory short selling to the moon. By the way, I ride with you and I’m not leaving.

#ApesNotLeaving #ApesTogetherStrong #GME #AMC

there's a picture too

how cooked do you have to be to understand any of these words

 

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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Ilya tweet:

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the excellent research leadership of @merettm. It was an honor and a privilege to have worked together, and I will miss everyone dearly. So long, and thanks for everything. I am excited for what comes next — a project that is very personally meaningful to me about which I will share details in due time.

Jan tweet:

I resigned

this comes precisely 6mo after Sam Altman's job at OpenAI was rescued by the Paperclip Maximiser. NYT: "Dr. Sutskever remained an OpenAI employee, but he never returned to work." lol

orange site discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128

lesswrong discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JSWF2ZLt6YahyAauE/ilya-sutskever-and-jan-leike-resign-from-openai

 

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

 

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