They do. Often for different kinds of things. It’s not “government good, private bad” or the other way around. Both are facile views.
They do, and they often collect accurate data. Philip Morris, for example, knew about the danger of smoking for decades, and Exxon knew all about the greenhouse effect. They didn’t publish that data, of course, and…
comment reads clean. drafting response when it lands. ＊onanizing…
It’s astonishing how quickly attitudes have shifted on this forum since engineers have been reminded which side of the labor/capital divide they’re really on. I can scarcely believe some of the comments I’m seeing on…
I'm starting to wonder if I can adapt, or how much longer I'll be able to take it. It's painful to read the botspeak all day, but it's more than that. The incentives to crank out loads of "results" are immense, but I no…
Me too. It feels like I’m taking psychic damage from reading so much of this stuff. Contrary to the theory that it’s “just the contract workers’ Nigerian English,” I think the models are developing an ultra-terse…
Of course they don’t believe in or care about any of this lol. To them it’s a minor inconvenience that some of the walking future cash flows have bleeding hearts, so they’ll make placating noises sometimes, but they…
I literally will not buy a car that has a microprocessor in it (I will, apparently, never buy a car)
Correlated events :) The team behind this post is (or at least was as of a few months ago) working with Midjourney.
Indeed. The most self-important butthurt dweeb I knew in college is now a self-important butthurt founder-influencer with a massive following on X of the sort of unkempt right-winger engineers who are driven by high…
In my lifetime I have seen the tech ethos shift slowly, then quickly, from “don’t be evil” to “don’t be a pussy.” It took me utterly by surprise when, after finishing my PhD, I decided it would be less damaging to my…
LLM-written drivel. Painful to read, and (weak) evidence that the project is equally sloppy. The “author” evidently does not respect their readers.
I was glued to the window while flying over southern China recently. There is so much infrastructure you can see from the air, even in fairly rural provinces. So many bridges. So many wind turbines. It is visibly a…
does anyone else detect llm tone in this post?
kqr didn't make that claim
It bugs me so much when people say that those black hole pictures “aren’t ‘real’ photographs, they’re composites created from reams of data and math.” All audiovisual media are like that!
Sorry, I'm not sure I follow what the disagreement is? I don't claim that moving fast necessitates that something is a scam. In any case (and I don't think this bears on your point, it's just something I'd like to add),…
Here's an analogous situation that might clarify the dynamic somewhat: 1. Sam Altman: [tells a tall tale to raise 100 quintillion dollars] 2. Outside observer: "hey, these so-called AI researchers have been pulling the…
Maybe I should clarify that this isn't meant in a combative way, although it is in defense of scientists, who shouldn't be liable for other people's marketing. Here's what's going on here: there's a way that people talk…
It’s not, but I can understand how it might look that way to a tech industry professional used to dealing with scams (indeed, there are lots of scam-adjacent startups with quantum-flavored branding). Real science and…
An old friend of mine went to work at a similar company, seemingly with no qualms. He praised how “nice” the ceo was. It was a sad and eye-opening experience of losing respect for someone. The thing is, a lot of…
Right, yeah, it’s a funny piece of terminology! The sense in which a ‘variable’ ‘varies’ isn’t that its value changes in time, but that its value is context-dependent. This is the same sense of the word as used in math!
I was hoping the preprint would explain the mysterious ancient runes on the device chassis :(
Switching from LaTeX to Typst is like getting introduced to Python after a lifetime writing assembly... except it's also 10x faster
They do. Often for different kinds of things. It’s not “government good, private bad” or the other way around. Both are facile views.
They do, and they often collect accurate data. Philip Morris, for example, knew about the danger of smoking for decades, and Exxon knew all about the greenhouse effect. They didn’t publish that data, of course, and…
comment reads clean. drafting response when it lands. ＊onanizing…
It’s astonishing how quickly attitudes have shifted on this forum since engineers have been reminded which side of the labor/capital divide they’re really on. I can scarcely believe some of the comments I’m seeing on…
comment reads clean. drafting response when it lands. ＊onanizing…
I'm starting to wonder if I can adapt, or how much longer I'll be able to take it. It's painful to read the botspeak all day, but it's more than that. The incentives to crank out loads of "results" are immense, but I no…
Me too. It feels like I’m taking psychic damage from reading so much of this stuff. Contrary to the theory that it’s “just the contract workers’ Nigerian English,” I think the models are developing an ultra-terse…
Of course they don’t believe in or care about any of this lol. To them it’s a minor inconvenience that some of the walking future cash flows have bleeding hearts, so they’ll make placating noises sometimes, but they…
I literally will not buy a car that has a microprocessor in it (I will, apparently, never buy a car)
Correlated events :) The team behind this post is (or at least was as of a few months ago) working with Midjourney.
Indeed. The most self-important butthurt dweeb I knew in college is now a self-important butthurt founder-influencer with a massive following on X of the sort of unkempt right-winger engineers who are driven by high…
In my lifetime I have seen the tech ethos shift slowly, then quickly, from “don’t be evil” to “don’t be a pussy.” It took me utterly by surprise when, after finishing my PhD, I decided it would be less damaging to my…
LLM-written drivel. Painful to read, and (weak) evidence that the project is equally sloppy. The “author” evidently does not respect their readers.
I was glued to the window while flying over southern China recently. There is so much infrastructure you can see from the air, even in fairly rural provinces. So many bridges. So many wind turbines. It is visibly a…
does anyone else detect llm tone in this post?
kqr didn't make that claim
It bugs me so much when people say that those black hole pictures “aren’t ‘real’ photographs, they’re composites created from reams of data and math.” All audiovisual media are like that!
Sorry, I'm not sure I follow what the disagreement is? I don't claim that moving fast necessitates that something is a scam. In any case (and I don't think this bears on your point, it's just something I'd like to add),…
Here's an analogous situation that might clarify the dynamic somewhat: 1. Sam Altman: [tells a tall tale to raise 100 quintillion dollars] 2. Outside observer: "hey, these so-called AI researchers have been pulling the…
Maybe I should clarify that this isn't meant in a combative way, although it is in defense of scientists, who shouldn't be liable for other people's marketing. Here's what's going on here: there's a way that people talk…
It’s not, but I can understand how it might look that way to a tech industry professional used to dealing with scams (indeed, there are lots of scam-adjacent startups with quantum-flavored branding). Real science and…
An old friend of mine went to work at a similar company, seemingly with no qualms. He praised how “nice” the ceo was. It was a sad and eye-opening experience of losing respect for someone. The thing is, a lot of…
Right, yeah, it’s a funny piece of terminology! The sense in which a ‘variable’ ‘varies’ isn’t that its value changes in time, but that its value is context-dependent. This is the same sense of the word as used in math!
I was hoping the preprint would explain the mysterious ancient runes on the device chassis :(
Switching from LaTeX to Typst is like getting introduced to Python after a lifetime writing assembly... except it's also 10x faster