gravitas_deficiency

@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if I was a policymaker in the EU:

  • do our absolute goddamn best to SIGNIFICANTLY strengthen ties with India, Japan, SK, and other major friendly-ish players in APAC. Ultimate goal: mutual defense pacts + strategic defense partnerships
  • have Very Serious Strategic Talks with SK; tell them to stop taking orders, or at least gouge the fuck out of, US companies, in exchange for becoming a core partner in the build out of the EU military expansion (see: Poland; ctrl+c, ctrl+v across Europe)
  • nut up and seriously support Ukraine - potentially just completely taking over strategic air defense from, let’s say, 100km from the front lines, freeing up the UAF to focus on offensive efforts
  • have Very Serious Strategic Talks with Taiwan; in concert with points one and three (which seriously increase credibility), do their best to become their defense guarantor, as the carrot; threaten to 100% cut them off from ASML if they dig in their heels, as the stick. Note: ASML are the only guys who make the EUV litho machines that are required for bleeding edge chips.
  • get EU countries to start seriously building out advanced chip fabs to compete with TSMC as an emergency industrial program

  That’s a strategy that I think would help age EU and its strategic partners in Asia effectively become a meaningful superpower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  conform

  consume

  obey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I, for one, will be charging absolutely murderous contracting rates to un-fuck the codebases of companies that were idiotic enough to force their engineers to vibe-code everything, and I’m gonna do it with a smile on my face :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even funnier, because copilot is absolute garbage in comparison to a lot of other models. And this is coming from someone who strongly dislikes LLMs in general. There’s bad, and there’s copilot.

  As far as I can tell, it’s primary competency is getting C-suite types to sign off on one form of AI integration or another - be it product integration, or “everyday AI” workspace initiatives. Our execs bought into it, and have this huge push to train everyone up on it. And the more technical staff have universally panned it, to the extent that some people gave Claude a test drive, and made a successful internal push to get it approved as a second model/system were allowed to work with. I still don’t like agentic editing much at all, but it at least kinda works when compared to copilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny/horrible part is that his solution will probably make the problem even worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vibe coding as a practice needs to be burned at the stake. It’s actively terrible, in a lot of ways - some subtle, some obvious.

  ML can and does do some incredible things. LLMs are not in that category.

  Also, vid/imagegen needs to die in a fire, because holy fuck is it caustic to society at an insanely broad level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTubers Are Making AI Slop for Babies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is PragerU in on that action? Because they horrify me, and it’s also exactly what I’d expect them to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Causation*

  but yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maximum-severity vulnerability threatens 6% of all websites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR:

  Arbitrary code execution with no auth required at all.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CEOs? Being held accountable?

  That’s a great joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ellison’s Oracle poised to run TikTok, raising hopes for tougher rules against antisemitism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  raising hopes

  AIPAC’s hopes? I’m confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is… so bad, in so many subtle ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmfao Elon is so embarrassingly, cringingely thirsty. It’s insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, WSB was wild in its heyday. The loss porn was crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point - throw it on the tech debt pile, we’ll get to it at some point never

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They will care a lot more when all the new engineers they try to hire end up falling prey to the LLM ouroboros

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fuck. Going from chief architect of the 486, to Intel CTO, to eventually Intel’s CEO, to running Intel into the ground, to… Jesus-y LLMs. What a rollercoaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lol holy shit Nadella is such a fucking tool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear-powered missiles: An aerospace engineer explains how they work – and what Russia’s claimed test means for global strategic stability⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha yeah I remember reading about when the US thought about doing this in the Cold War (it was called Project Pluto) and decided to not because it would irradiate the absolute fuck out of anything it flew over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now owns a $135 billion 27% stake in OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This round-tripping bullshit was categorically insane before, and yet the bubble keeps growing and growing. I have no idea what the fuck to even think anymore. This is more divorced from reality by an order of magnitude than the .com bubble. What even are financial markets even for nowadays? What is the fucking point if this is the thing the markets think is worth pouring truly stupid amounts of money into, when it’s CLEARLY not only unprofitable with wildly inaccurate estimates of capital asset depreciation (GPUs will get smoked or be obsolete WAY faster than a 5 year timespan), but also just… such unbelievably obvious snake-oil bullshit? Like, I’m sorry, no, there’s zero way you can convince me that this is an even remotely reasonable valuation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lol so while I’m sure it’s very possible to detect that, I’m also sure that, considering how friendly he is with the administration, I’m also sure this will be used to detect political opponents. And I’d be unsurprised if RFK declares some sort of revised forced institutionalization policy or something like that, and uses this to… drive the policy, shall we say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmfao it’s always DNS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Being ethical to H100 clusters running inferences on models that were created with stolen, pirated, and appropriated data does not matter. Abuse the shit out of them. It’s absolutely meaningless.

  Or just don’t use them, if you care at all about economic, ecological, and societal stability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No account? No Windows 11 for you, says Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also enter a birthdate of today, which they can’t legally create a cloud account for, and proceed with install

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No account? No Windows 11 for you, says Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just leave this here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All youre saying is that you have no idea how unbelievably pervasive ASICs are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  see, we pour money into this hole, magic happens, and then we fire large chunks of our workforce while ignoring the consequences of hollowing out nuanced domain knowledge; it’s quite an efficient system for saving money in the near term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol good luck with that. An increased percentage of my cancelled subscription is $0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally the first time in my life I’ve found myself actually rooting for an HOA