Sweet baby Jesus

During Occupy there was this guy Michael. Michael loved to break down boxes. We had a lot of boxes from all of the donations and stuff. And Michael would just be there all day, breaking down boxes. Apparently that’s what he would do in his neighborhood. Just sit outside and break down boxes. I think about Michael a lot when people say stuff like, “no one would be a janitor if they weren’t paid.”

sudo chown -R means-of-production

How many programmers DON’T use AI to some degree already? As the technology continues to improve adoption and usage will only increase. Actually hand coding stuff is soon to be a mostly lost craft.

That’s basically everything, though.

You can do fun things with hooks to make sure they don’t skip steps. but yes I agree with you that this is terrible.

I don’t think that poisoning really works. They have AIs judge the answers before they incorporate them into the new AI. They can tell the best topping for pizza isn’t actually mayonnaise and strawberries

I find that a frontier bot pointed at the internet does a lot better job of answering the question than I do when searching on my own. I mean they’re always going to be wrong about some stuff, but aren’t people? I think that’s generally a better metric. And at this point they’re far away from what they were just a few years ago. But you’re correct in that there is an element of brute forcing them or at least shaping them that has to occur that I can’t blame anyone for tapping out of.

They tend to work much better when you point them at things. Hallucination rates go way, way down when they aren’t pulling from their “memory.” They are, also, like you say, wrong in ways that are noticeable and often “interesting” in the Ibsen way. I also doubt that you could get the same experience for less money. I’d have to go back to college to get the education I’m getting with AI. At least community college. It’s a lot of near-experts at once. And when you point it at expert literature it basically is a senile college professor. But yeah the senile part of that statement is pretty important.

Golf courses use 30x the water that data centers use. Lawns, 100x. Standby mode for appliances costs more energy, by a lot. I wonder how much carbon emissions are offset by people no longer driving to work at call centers and the like.

Out of curiosity do you eat meat? .2% of water is used on data centers. 9.8% is used on beef. For carbon emissions one pound of beef consumed is equivalent to about 640,000 prompts.

AI is an environmental concern but the way people act about it is straight up ridiculous.

Edit: I am very proud of all of the vegans who unplug their appliances who are downvoting me. I, too, am a vegan who unplugs their appliances.

I don’t usually comment on stuff like this but I feel like people should know that “standby” mode on appliances takes up about 40% more power than every data center on earth, of which only about 33% of which goes to AI. There are DEFINITELY environmental concerns surrounding data centers but it’s more about shoddily, quickly built ones rather than them existing at all.

I could believe it. It’s not that it’s unique to America, or anything. But like I’ve read stories about Dutch people for instance thinking Americans on public transportation were simple, due to all the smiling and the like.

Paul Bettany played him. It was pretty good.

To add to this, you can generate lists of likely emails of CEOs and yell at them and get free stuff. ATT gave me 6 free months and a free phone. They actually have to have done some bullshit, though. But channel your inner Karen. It’s okay when you aim it at the C suite instead of the store manager.

I mean AI is totally fine for fine-tuning. Helpful, even. It’s a fabulous proof-reader. The issue is using it for a first or second pass, or having it make suggestions for changes.

Should probably phase out home essays, as well.

The number of times Claude has told me it’s going to eat its own dog food, making me gag, is far too many times.

Americans are a very friendly people, all things considered. The whole smiling at everyone you see, helping out strangers for fun thing is not universal. Thus, this post.

Aren’t most protein powders pea based these days? That has to be cheaper.

The idea that mass violence, which happens very rarely all things considered, justifies constant mass surveillance and automated reaction is very troubling. The new “think of the children,” I suppose.