That's a hilarious reaction.
Anyway there's zip about this incident on LW, which is telling.
edit here's a very oblique reference https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/igEogGD9TAgAeAM7u/jimrandomh-s-shortform?commentId=zdMRHRqWDcjswhA3i
don't miss the anarcho-libertarian in the comments
Glad to see some pushback on these claims.
Important to note that as these companies are approaching an IPO, they are desperate that the reporting is about the glorious (or dangerous) future they can provide, and not about the dodgy finances.
Kind of a pseudo-sneer, author is writing a
blog on machine learning engineering, compound AI systems, search and information retrieval, and recsys — exploring machine learning, LLM agents, and data science insights from startups to enterprises.
Here's the discussion on the red site: https://lobste.rs/s/nmhkdl/ai_great_leap_forward Plenty of people suspect the text being LLM generated. Pangram disagrees, fwiw.
I do think there's some interesting ideas about how humans will "defend" themselves from being replaced by bots, and that the critical info in a company is seldom in the source code, but in the customer relationships, sales etc.
surprise level == 0 (or rather, short odds on the prediction markets)
El Reg: OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape
yeah my kid had to get a gaming PC for school (gamedev) and managed to snag a decent rig before prices went parabolic
Circular at work states that the standard laptop we get from Dell has increased in price by 50% so they’re looking for alternatives.
Those S-1 filings are gonna be spicy.
OTOH does the SEC have any staff left ?
IRGC doing their part to Halt AI. Donate to them now!
This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it's real and happening, just that it's too late / too expensive to do anything about it.
"tenant of white supremacy"
White Supremacy is the worst landlord.
I believe the scientific consensus is that it originated in a wet market in Wuhan.
The "lab leak theory", while not impossible, is also shorthand for a morass of conspiracy theories grounded in racist attitudes towards China. It somehow conflates that the pandemic is China's fault, if not an outright attack from China, while simultaneously downplaying any efforts to mitigate such an attack.
Nice to hear you've got a job, and good luck!