Reddit’s LLM powered filter (I am guessing Gemini) is interesting. I jokingly said to constantly bump your car into some else’s car just hard enough to leave a mark but not create serious damage. The trigger may have been my use of the phrase “love tap” as I was instantly dinged a 3 day “ban” for advocating physical violence against another human being.

Meanwhile with another service I posted a quote from a 19th century historical figure I hadn’t know was a socialist and mysteriously the quote disappeared after I clicked submit. I freely admit my grasp of “good” grammar and English may not be that secure, but I am confident the text was there, and then suddenly it was gone.

The modern take of a disturbed idiom is “There is more than one way to microwave a cat!” (disclaimer please don’t actually do this).

At or near the bottom of complexity you would think it hard to fuck up “compress this directory and verify they are backed up before deleting the originals” but apparently some of these models have a RNG triggered Uno reverse card so “delete the originals, verify they are backed up, and compress this directory”. Also that wasn’t a mistake, maybe Claude will infer “they” is a specific set of files, but another model might decide you meant all the dot files at ~/?

Joking aside, the devil is in the details which makes me think even more time will be sunk finding out the RC Cola bottom shelf AI model does things just a bit too differently than Claude.

cue the scene from Airplane 2 where the Steward explains they have been knocked of course by just a “tad”

I excluded a certain place mentioned in multiple holy texts cause I want to delay as long as possible the bots from re-adding me to their list. that place and what is being done there is a disgrace to the entire species as we watch it happen.

it’s weird who gets reported for this stuff.

There was a game that released not too long ago that was spamming the same message to it’s log file in 500 millisecond intervals doing a constant stream of write and flush to disk the entire time the game ran.

silence.

I will believe it when I see it. last 5 decades of American voting choices have been fascinating.

edit: fixed typo that was 50. though I guess you can say this has been going downhill since Washington.

That is indeed a very reasonable hypothesis.

Wow, that’s some brilliant vendor lock in on Anthropic’s side.

Doesn’t the mob and other syndicates do something like that as well? Gotta do some time and not snitch to move up in the ranks.

My experiments with some of the code assist models is they can be an amazing productivity boost, but only if you are not greedy.

If I ask the bot “Please make me this data structure with this list of parameters” its probably 99% perfect. Moving up, the sweet spot is closer to “Make me this module of code that matches this ABI/API”. Alternatively “Hey can you make this entire feature?” I will get a 8000 line of code blob that may or may not work. Even worse if I get really greedy I will get a 8000 file project filled with 8000 lines of code that is most definitely going to start the robot uprising.

Giving the junior and midlevel code monkeys access to AI coding tools is an amazing way to generate a mountain of slop the senior and most expensive code monkey gets trapped trying to decipher while the junior monkeys make even more shit that needs to be dealt with.

Boil it down, if we make centaurs of humans leading AI it will definitely work better than a reverse centaur that will confidently tell a gig driver to drive off a cliff.

I am willing to bet $10 that Apple is going to be the only one of the FANG gang that survives this mostly unscathed. Apple is at the end of the day a hardware company and when everything goes to shit, they’re going to be able extract some brutal concessions from TSMC and Samsung. Yes Apple has thrown more than a few billion in, but they still have their ocean of cash largely untapped.

The way things are going with Nvidia and AMD abandoning their partners and Intel continuing to flop around without any semblance of a plan; Apple is going to be in an amazing position strategically.

Meanwhile Micron, Samsung, TSMC, and the other big fab I keep forgetting the name of are going to have these massive holes in their spreadsheets as “guaranteed” orders evaporate. Very likely going to be more than a few suicides with those unfortunates who didn’t tap out before the music stopped.

Oh wow, reading the wiki you linked, looks like that one exec really learned their lesson \s

On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy.[5] Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000.[6] Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal#2002–2005

edit/update: Oh, wow so Sun Woo Lee actually really lucked out as Korea focused more on making an example of the Samsung heir apparent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae-yong

8 months in prison sucks, I totally concede that. Yet literally the deal they made looks like they were asked “Would you take the fall and go to prison for 8 months and then get paid millions per year afterward?”

Unfortunately a lot of channels have resorted to that because of the changes to algorithm and focus on shorts versus longer format. Youtube’s short video audience is huge, the shorts are cheaper due to size, and I guess they don’t pay the short video creators comparatively the same?

At this point if I see “It’s over!”, “I am done” or “Some other dramatic but not relevant text” I often just unsub.

Watching Veritasium’s staff swapping titles and thumbnails for the same video trying to find an audience is a bit sad as that company has put a lot of effort into making great videos.

B1M knows their target audience very well and I haven’t seen many if not any clickbait titles for their stuff.

One bummer is that I unsubbed from a channel (not naming him, dude’s just trying to get by) I had been following for years because they had a very poorly disguised infomercial about a giant UPS for appliances. This was the third time they have done something like this so I called it.

A very rough way to explain what is wrong with LLM’s is that they start with nothing and must predict the correct response to the provided input. Imagine it like a cartoon character just rambling on and on, hoping it will either have said the right things, or enough to be acceptable.

Also I don’t think there is any concept in the training regimen of allowing the model to not respond. If I walked up to you and asked “How many hedge hogs are in a jet turbine?” the correct response would be to back away slowly toward the door. The models don’t have that as an option so either they have to correctly predict “What the fuck are you talking about?” is the correct response or just wing it and say 42.

They are “unable” to put me back into a pilot program that included free shipping plus other benefits. I just wanted to change my email address.

I find it fascinating how the architecture of LLM’s are locked into “Confidently Just make shit up” once it has gone beyond the limits of its parameters.

Fetterman ran on a platform that “He’s not Dr Oz!” and he’s done amazingly well at that!

Unfortunately the root of the problem with Democrat vs Republican is that while the GOP seems to have rock solid blackmail on its representatives, the DNC is a circus.

We’ve got AOC and Bernie who have nothing in common with Chuckles or the Democrats that voted for more money for ICE’s monthly subscription of keep people in cages and randomly terrorize people. Fetterman is indeed an asshole but again it was him or the Dr addicted to being on television so much that he tanked his career Oz (I believe that is his middle name).

The only way out of this chaos is if we the people of the USA can pay attention long enough to get ranked choice voting implemented in enough states. Otherwise even if you can get the circus to all agree on anything, Jill Stein will come out of her crypt and siphon enough votes over to the Green party.

Oh I didn’t mean to praise the USA. We’re also one of the last countries to use cluster munitions and white phosphorous. Also the “Highway to hell” make it clear that entrapping and slaughtering retreating forces is A OK!

Sleep works great until you are the unfortunate winner of the computer randomly deciding to wake up and your GPU power cable deciding 4am is the best time to shit itself.

Also fun boring dystopia problem, my “smart” TV for some reason kept triggering one of my workstations to come back online through wake on LAN. Moved the TV over to its own vlan and of course that problem is partially solved.