V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 4 weeks ago

Old Donaldson had a grift, E-I-E-I-O

And he would often pump-and-dump, E-I-E-I-O

With a wallet here and a wallet there, Here a pump, there a dump, everywhere pump-dump,

Old Donaldson had a grift, E-I-E-I-O.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

My money is on glorification of colonialism. It's this weird idea of rugged pioneers taming the land and building a Free(tm) community outside of the existing system. Shows up all the time with libertarian cranks, and probably not accidentaly does it often include claiming land from an existing population say somewhere in Oceania, because colonialism without robbery is just sparkling migration.

Also see that libertarian town that got destroyed by bears because they didn't want to regulate garbage disposal.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is twenty percent logic, ten percent myope

Fifteen percent concentrated power of cope

Five percent incel, fifty percent lame

And a hundred percent reason to forget his name

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

I thought it was lo🅱️sters

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People who train neural networks do not write a bunch of tokens and weights.

Reading this made me think of an analogy of generated code. This is basically exactly the same thing as distributing the code of your program but not in the source language, rather the assembly listing of the final binary, and calling it open source. You can turn any defense of the AI model of "open-source" into a defense of that model of distributing code. You can run my AI/code (if you have a powerful/similar enough machine), you can inspect it (it's just not going to tell you anything), you can modify it (lol), so it's open source!

Edit: The more I think about it the more I come to the realisation that the assembly listing is actually still vastly more useful than the AI models. Like at least a very dedicated and insane enough programmer could technically track down a bug in the assembly and correct it if given enough coffee.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

All you need to know is that his real name is Jimmy Donaldson and he's exactly the type of person you expect to be named Jimmy Donaldson.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

hits blunt [under breath] so much higherrr

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago

I don’t think you want to hear my opinions

You're right there, buddy!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought "character.ai's suicide lawsuit" was your way of describing a stupid lawsuit that is suicidal to the company, but this is so much fucking darker, god.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You’re communication style will be replaced. Your place in the world is not valued. No one is viewing your response and gaining anything.

That's an impressive level of projection, you should run for office. Or go to therapy.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

I'd love to get an interview with saltman and ask him to explain how they measure "power" of those things. What's the methodology? Do you have charts? Or does it just somehow consume 100x more power as in watts.

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