gravitas_deficiency
@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies 6 days ago:
Normal things happening in a normal democratic country. So normal. The normalest
- Comment on TSMC US investment: Fear and resignation after ‘world’s most powerful company’ pays Trump $100 billion. 1 week ago:
If you think any security guarantee made between orangeboi and anybody but Putin himself, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell you.
- Comment on Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech. 1 week ago:
Watch them kill it instead of letting it spin off and allowing people who know what the fuck they’re doing take over
- Comment on AI Search Engines Are Confidently Wrong Too Often. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look 2 weeks ago:
I’m frankly mystified by the fact that Taiwan appears to be letting the core of their strategic defense policy vis a vis the CCP get pretty fundamentally undermined
- Comment on Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line. 2 weeks ago:
Keep this is mind as you see more and more pro-Russian and -CCP comments in the coming months and years.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 2 weeks ago:
Meta and Google throw money at people as compensation for making them build unethical, immoral stuff.
SpaceX has traditionally paid far less, relying on “we’re building fucking reusable rockets”, which in normal circumstances, to a lot of engineers, is pretty rad, and kind of its own selling point.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 2 weeks ago:
The topic of conversation is how tons of people don’t want to be associated with anything eel-on-musk is doing anymore after he more or less took the mask off, did his “weird hand motion (twice in a row, on national television, one of which was in the direction of orangeboi)”, and then started (and is continuing) to take a chainsaw to silly little government agencies like the CDC, NOAA, CFPB, Social Security Administration, and so on.
Most smart people don’t like dumb and evil people. I would not at all be shocked to learn SpaceX is facing some serious brain drain.
- Comment on UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, in the context of an emboldened China and Russia in the realms of cyberwarfare:
- Comment on Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, if you have the ability to wait out the bubble, you should do so. This genAI ouroboros is going to implode sooner or later. Probably sooner because of all the cascade effects of the protectionist idiocy our government is getting into.
- Comment on Is Musk trying to prove haters wrong with X revaluation? 4 weeks ago:
Lmao it’s gonna flop so hard. That, or someone will use it asan opportunity to make friends with Elon to the tune of a few dozen billion dollars (so, Saudi or Russian most likely)
- Comment on LLMs Can Teach Themselves to Better Predict the Future. 5 weeks ago:
LLMs can add additional layers to become incrementally better at guessing the next word
FTFY
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 1 month ago:
giggity
- Comment on As DeepSeek Rises, Russia Falls Behind On AI. 1 month ago:
Tbh Russia is falling behind on regular I, considering all the brain drain they’re dealing with due to the war and conscription and sanctions and all.
- Comment on Boeing Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Starliner Catastrophe 1 month ago:
Yes. But to be fair, the Starliner hasn’t (yet) killed anyone.
- Comment on Google will now automatically revoke permissions from harmful Android apps 1 month ago:
So, what’s the definition of “harmful”, and how likely is that to change arbitrarily in the context of the current government?
- Comment on Trump to get $25 million in settlement with Meta 1 month ago:
Yep, just a shakedown, nothing to see here 🫠
- Comment on Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo 1 month ago:
Gelsinger is infamous in the industry due to his very recent and catastrophic bout of poor management of one of the pillars of American technology. I’m saying that, broadly, I find it comical that any competent engineer would consent to work for him, specifically due to his tenure at Intel. I’m saying I wouldn’t personally work for him or an organization that picked him for leadership, full stop, regardless of which LLM models or frameworks he elects his company to use, or any other technology for that matter.
- Comment on Trump’s reported plans to save TikTok may violate SCOTUS-backed law 1 month ago:
It’s cute how journalists are continuing to pretend that laws are going to be followed and won’t be enforced subjectively, haphazardly, and with a blatant double standard going forward
- Comment on Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo 1 month ago:
Because the CEO I’m talking about is Pat Gelsinger
- Comment on Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo 1 month ago:
Lmao imagine working at a startup run by the guy who was driving when Intel drove off a cliff
- Comment on Threads is offically getting ads 1 month ago:
Remember when people were insisting Threads federation was not gonna be that bad?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
- Comment on Employees Enter Sensitive Data Into GenAI Prompts Too Often 2 months ago:
I just think it’s funny that companies are surprised by this
- Comment on South Korea mulls creating 'KSMC' contract chipmaker to compete with TSMC, requires a $13.9 billion investment 2 months ago:
In the context of Taiwan themselves, and their desire to remain (in practice) sovereign and territorially independent: nope.
- Comment on South Korea mulls creating 'KSMC' contract chipmaker to compete with TSMC, requires a $13.9 billion investment 2 months ago:
Keep in mind, though, that TSMC is a core part of Taiwan’s strategic defense plans. They’re not likely to sit on their laurels and let another country take their crown away.
- Comment on Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal 3 months ago:
Wow that doesn’t even categorize as a slap on the wrist.
- Comment on Companies try to stop online support for CEO killer suspect 3 months ago:
You will adapt to service us
- Comment on Companies try to stop online support for CEO killer suspect 3 months ago:
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE - Comment on Ukraine Asks if Telegram, Its Favorite App, Is a Sleeper Agent 3 months ago:
Yeah honestly I just do not understand this. Signal is WAY better in the context of e2e encryption
- Comment on Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI 3 months ago:
Most people who know anything meaningful about ML don’t give a shit what PR spin du jour Altman is trying to push
