istewart

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The "system prompt" phenomenon is one of the most flatly dopey things to come out of this whole mess. To put it politely, this seems like, uh, a very loosely causal way to set boundaries in high-dimensional latent spaces, if that's really what you're trying to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I put this prompt into my local Ollama instance, and suddenly Amazon is constantly delivering off-brand MOLLE vests and random stuff meant to attach to Picatinny rails, plus I also have nineteen separate subscriptions to the Black Rifle Coffee Company brew-of-the-month club. Help?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But Star Trek says the smartest guys in the room don't have emotions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I did in fact have fun! If the quick-hit format turns out to be worth your time, I have to say I quite enjoy it, and I hardly count myself as a TikTok-obsessed zoomer.

I've been a little bit sad that Ed Z dropped the rapid-fire 15-minute format once he hit the podcast big time. I really appreciated that format's conciseness; not sure if you'd want to pick that sort of thing up. I have to wonder if it's easier or harder to book people for such a delimited time slot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The Maoist version of Misesian goldbuggery, absolutely fascinating.

Isn't this guy still mainly relevant for jailbreaking the PS3? Pretty sure he flamed out during the Muskification of Twitter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm convinced that these people have no choice but to do their next startup, especially if their names are already prominent in the press like Sutskever and Murati. Once you're off the grift train, there is no easy way back on. I guess you can maybe sneak back in as a VC staffer or an independent board member, but that doesn't seem quite as remunerative.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

So, with Mr. Yudkowsky providing the example, it seems that one can practice homeopathy with "engineering mindset?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Folks may want to close OpenAI accounts if they don’t want Oracle billing them someday.

geez, at least spoiler-tag a jump-scare this big

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Bruce Wayne asserts to Alfred in The Dark Knight that "Batman has no limits." But what if, and this has gone totally unconsidered by anyone up until now... Buttman also has no limits????

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Central Preference Vector seems like a fantastic band name if some producer was trying to mainstream industrial music

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It helps sanewash their own prejudices. "See, this guy could be talked down from the worst of it, aren't we reasonable by comparison?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're going to be headline sponsors of Fyre Festival II

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