preprint, but this looks like it’ll be making a splash soon

They don’t understand that there is intention behind art

I have had a conversation with someone about visual arts about something quite close to this: they just didn't grok any parts of it at all, couldn't engage with it a priori. on being given some context about each of the thing they managed to find it interesting, but prior to that they would have just walked right past it barely even registering its existence

(at least in this case the person was aware of their non-engagement, whereas I think a lot of the autoplag appreciators just ..... aren't)

“intelligent” people make the best marks, donchaknow

“we set up a pocket universe for our toy robot to run in, looped it a few billions times, and you wouldn’t believe what ways it found to fuck with the rules! we’re ever so shocked! :o” is a going staple in ML agent research for years now, these people are a parody upon themselves

remember that “agents in a physics sim” shit a few years ago (both early goog and openai, I think)? that strain of nonsense

lol that's gonna age like milk

ah yes, $42, definitely a "the same amount of compute is used" figure

these results are remarkably damning. I knew things were bad, but god damn this is impressively shit

fuck your black friday then

the institutionalisation of it is/was also just fucking nuts

and then in recent years it's slowly been creeping out into other countries too, with other vendors in other places aping "black friday deals"

I have no mouth and I must scream

actual fucking anti-monopoly enforcement cannot come goddamn soon enough

comment history also includes simulation hypothesis and some very eagleflavoured political analysis

I have a prediction!

I was thinking the same thing earlier... it's also been a hell of a way to find people who have problems with consent..

they've been indexing in this manner across the board and tbh I don't quite follow the logic in some cases. for the pay-to-play search ranking shitsites (and other things that surface a lot of adspace) it makes a bit more sense, but for things like books..? why?

and I realize that this is pondering downstream effects of The No Fucks Given Company's internal development processes and things, but even so

As far as I can tell the argument basically boils down to “we’ll just use SO MUCH electricity that the utility will have no choice but to invest in green energy just to keep up”

yep. and I like using the rule 34 defense on them: "if that were desired, someone already would've made it"

these fucking clowns permanently don't want to acknowledge (or just stay willfully ignorant about?) the fact that it's easier to do cost and regulatory arbitrage by hunting for presently-favourable miner locations from which to burn electricity than it is to invest into (and possibly, likely even, invent!) whole-ass new green tech with sufficient output for their preferred ourobouros