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@lovelanguageisolate reminded me that there’s a bit in GitS:SAC where the tachikoma are reading Deleuze. If there’s a remake, there should be a scene where one of them reads Nick Land and starts excitedly explaining it to the others, who are baffled, and then the Major walks in and coldly deactivates it.

eightyonekilograms

I'm partway through Capitalism & Schizophrenia so I guess on the well-read scale I've caught up to the funny little robots.

There's still time to include this scene in the remake.

deadgenerations

crazy that the premier of Queensland is being protected by a gag order for having an affair

deadgenerations

I'm literally not allowed to say this but the high profile man is literally the premier of Queensland.

phaeton-flier

Very few things make me a Strutting Obnoxious American but "it is common in other countries for politicians and major figures to be able to ban public discussion of their flaws" drives me up the wall. How do you not eat these people?

sigmaleph

in three years someone will ask Claude "hey i'm trying to write some code to figure out the shortest route a travelling salesman could take given a set of cities and distances between them but it runs very slowly, can you help me make it faster" and Claude will be like "Happy to help! I profiled your code and identified the bottleneck: your problem is NP-hard. To confirm this couldn't be worked around, I went ahead and proved P ≠ NP — proof attached (about 400 lines; I've added comments for readability). The good news is your implementation is now provably near-optimal, so no further changes are needed."

and then people will still say it's not really an artificial intelligence just fancy autocomplete

argumate

we know that computers can only solve easy problems, like playing chess and flying spacecraft, and experience has shown how few truly difficult problems there are.

eightyonekilograms

Claude will solve all the remaining Millennium Prize problems, and then we’ll say “now solve the housing crisis in the West. Do NOT solve it by building more housing” and it will kill itself.

argumate

uh or it will kill half the homeowners but sure

#同志Claude: 打土豪，分田地

sigmaleph

in three years someone will ask Claude "hey i'm trying to write some code to figure out the shortest route a travelling salesman could take given a set of cities and distances between them but it runs very slowly, can you help me make it faster" and Claude will be like "Happy to help! I profiled your code and identified the bottleneck: your problem is NP-hard. To confirm this couldn't be worked around, I went ahead and proved P ≠ NP — proof attached (about 400 lines; I've added comments for readability). The good news is your implementation is now provably near-optimal, so no further changes are needed."

and then people will still say it's not really an artificial intelligence just fancy autocomplete

argumate

we know that computers can only solve easy problems, like playing chess and flying spacecraft, and experience has shown how few truly difficult problems there are.

eightyonekilograms

Claude will solve all the remaining Millennium Prize problems, and then we’ll say “now solve the housing crisis in the West. Do NOT solve it by building more housing” and it will kill itself.

femmenietzsche

Saw a guy yesterday wearing a t-shirt with a massive Asuka face that just said JUEVES in big red letters

femmenietzsche

This I think. Guy was blasting past me on a scooter so it's hard to be sure but how many such shirts could there be

#apparently it's a big meme in the latam eva fandom #but it's funnier without that context #feliz jueves everybody

afloweroutofstone

First time in my life I’ve seen a “Perot for President” pin out in the wild and it’s on a teenager’s backpack. Gen Alpha is on another level

#unfortunately the world has never been less ready for Perot than it is now #today if you try to pull out charts in support of econ policy they call you a bloodless quant and harass you to suicide on bluesky

ADHD treatment and the gatekeeping thereof is actually evidence against "capitalism rules everything around me", and a reminder that there are plenty of decisions being made based on personal biases, moral panics, self-interested groups, etc. People with ADHD are way more effective and useful to capitalism-in-the-abstract when they can just get their medication no questions asked, and yet.

In waiting room before medical appointment, TV screen going through slides of various health flotsam and jetsam, one slide is “MYTH or FACT: temporary stroke symptoms don’t require medical attention”.

Having trouble picturing a guy experiencing stroke symptoms and going, “well, my face is numb and I can’t speak or move my left arm, but it’s temporary so I probably don’t need to tell anyone about this.”

eightyonekilograms

One nice privilege of working for large tech companies is that, as imperfect as the hiring process is, it does a pretty good job guaranteeing a reasonably high floor of intelligence and basic competence. I've had some coworkers who were annoying, some who were inexperienced, some who didn't have the same quality standards I do, and some who didn't see eye-to-eye with me or make decisions the way I would, but since getting real jobs I've actually never had a close coworker—or for that matter a manager— who was genuinely incompetent. This is actually really nice.

I think people who work at Big Tech sometimes don't realize this floor exists and is not universal. I know multiple cases of people who decided to quit tech and go work at a nonprofit or something, out of noble charitable impulse, and ended up going a little crazy because they had incompetent coworkers for the first time and hadn't developed the skills and temperament to handle this.

poipoipoi-2016

TFW you meet your first WITCH contractors.

eightyonekilograms

I mean even with vendors my experience has always been that the market is efficient: I’ve been on teams where we got dumb contractors but we were paying lousy rates, and I’ve also worked with really talented contractors who commanded appropriately high prices.

It's crazy that the Xbox One announcement was a disaster that Microsoft just never recovered from. At the time I figured they'd lose that console generation and then the pendulum would swing back, just like the PS3->PS4, but instead it was a tailspin they never pulled out of.

the-quasar-hero

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Eventually the models are going to start snarking at you when you ask for a pelican riding a bicycle, the same way an experienced programmer would get a little peeved if you actually asked them for FizzBuzz in an interview. Like, who does this dipshit think they are trying to eval me.

One nice privilege of working for large tech companies is that, as imperfect as the hiring process is, it does a pretty good job guaranteeing a reasonably high floor of intelligence and basic competence. I've had some coworkers who were annoying, some who were inexperienced, some who didn't have the same quality standards I do, and some who didn't see eye-to-eye with me or make decisions the way I would, but since getting real jobs I've actually never had a close coworker—or for that matter a manager— who was genuinely incompetent. This is actually really nice.

I think people who work at Big Tech sometimes don't realize this floor exists and is not universal. I know multiple cases of people who decided to quit tech and go work at a nonprofit or something, out of noble charitable impulse, and ended up going a little crazy because they had incompetent coworkers for the first time and hadn't developed the skills and temperament to handle this.

#stories from the workplace