gravitas_deficiency
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- Comment on Microsoft now owns a $135 billion 27% stake in OpenAI 12 hours 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 2 days 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 week ago:
Lmfao it’s always DNS
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
All youre saying is that you have no idea how unbelievably pervasive ASICs are
- Comment on 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
lol good luck with that. An increased percentage of my cancelled subscription is $0.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Literally the first time in my life I’ve found myself actually rooting for an HOA
- Comment on The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes 1 month ago:
Regular competent software engineers
- Comment on Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. 1 month ago:
My therapist is actually extremely against LLMs being used in a clinical sense, and also opts out of them when her own healthcare providers use them. She’s a good one, and I respect her a lot for that stance
- Comment on Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs 1 month ago:
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 1 month ago:
Where dat repo at
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 2 months ago:
“Unorthodox deal”
Come the fuck on, it’s nakedly obvious that it’s just mafia-esque bullshit. Call it what it is.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Stopped clock moment, but I’ll take it
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 2 months ago:
Mmmm yeah so I expect the Canadian govern to have a Strong Fucking opinion on precisely how that’s categorical bullshit
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 2 months ago:
Altman is such a fucking tool lmao
- Comment on Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos 2 months ago:
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“Everyone”? Nope. Just the people who live in countries that are allergic to investing in public infrastructure.
I’m no fanboi of the CCP, but this is one of the domains in which they absolutely, inarguably have their heads on straight. Meanwhile, we’re occupied with political posturing about how “woke” solar and wind power is.
- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 2 months ago:
- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 2 months ago:
Heh, sometimes I forget that this isn’t slack too
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 months ago:
Always has been
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 2 months ago:
Lmao whoever wrote this directive should not be allowed within a country mile of any computer, anywhere
- Comment on Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments 2 months ago:
- Comment on China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies 2 months ago:
Honestly, it’s a fairly obvious strategy to play at this point, in geopolitical terms
- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 2 months ago:
Yeah, the beauty of the diverse in that context is that you can just make a blocklist, and most significant communities have a general distaste for ML-generated slop, often to the point of making rules against it. And there’s not really any real profit motive, because it’s intentionally not set up to easily monetize shit that way.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 months ago:
That’s like asking to be hacked again with extra steps
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 3 months ago:
Right there with you. And it’s always pushed by people who don’t actual understand the implications and constraints of specific problems.
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 3 months ago:
Oh my god that’s hilarious and insane. What a comically stupid application to plug LLMs into. You absolutely want your accounting software to be entirely deterministic. You do NOT want your accounting software to be stochastic.
