Out of curiosity, is his work on any of the "frontier" models? Or is he developing the small, open-weight models you can run on sufficiently beefy personal systems? There's a world of difference there in terms of ethics.

I work with a few AI engineers myself, and I don't think I know anyone who hates companies like OpenAI and Anthropic more than they do.

Dude... Your kid's a supervillain.

(I joke, but still... AI? Wish it was something less destructive.)

Understandable. He was apparently very sick that day, and obviously also very old.

Still wish he was president instead of the shit-gibbon, though.

I'm just holding out hope that my company still has enough sanity left to keep from firing the team responsible for its (incredibly busy, active, and above all publicly-facing) developer portal in favor of having a vibe-coder ~~destroy~~ maintain it. At least long enough for the AI bubble to finally burst.

That I still have one. I'm a software developer, and my entire industry has lost its mind.

Fun pattern with 8s

• 8x1 = 8. Add digits, you get 8.
• 8x2 = 16. Add digits, you get 7.
• 8x3 = 24. Add digits, you get 6.
• 8x4 = 32. Add digits, you get 5.
• 8x5 = 40. Add digits, you get 4.

Now from there, you'd think the pattern breaks, but it's actually just the first sequence in a larger pattern.

• 8x6 = 48. Add digits (second sequence): 12. Add again: 3.
• 8x7 = 56. Add digits: 11. Add again: 2.
• 8x8 = 64. Add digits: 10. Add again: 1.

Then it gets interesting:

• 8x8 = 72. Add digits: 9. And now you finished the first sequence (from 8 to 0).
• 8x10 = 80. Add digits: 8 (second sequence).
• 8x11 = 88. Add digits (third sequence): 16. Add again (second sequence): 7
• 8x12 = 96. Add digits: 15. Add again: 6.

And it keeps going like that.

"Cognitive amplifier?" Bullshit. It demonstrably makes people who use it stupider and more prone to believing falsehoods.

I'm watching people in my industry (software development) who've bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they're producing the shittiest garbage I've laid eyes on as a developer. And students who are using it in school aren't learning, because ChatGPT is doing all their work - badly - for them. The smart ones are avoiding it like the blight on humanity that it is.

The fact that he ever had an approval rating with Gen Z is mind-boggling.

The message is clear: Do not come to the United States as a tourist. Do not spend your money in the United States. Do not support businesses that operate from the United States. Our borders are closed, our economy crumbling, our government falling to fascism, and our culture dominated by a relatively small minority of aggressively ignorant morons.

Don't come. We've gotten unfathomably stupid over here, and it's no longer safe.

Suggesting that a war should be waged against the democratically-elected government of the United States seems... Well, it seems kinda treason-y to me. Just a smidge.

Hey, uhh, Europe? Can we talk?

Look, I know the way the left has been handling immigration has you upset, but could you please take a closer look at the absolute freaks you're electing today?

I mean, just take a good look at the United States, circa 2017 through 2020. Did we look like electing an absolute freak worked out for us? Did it fix our own immigration problems? Did it make electing your own Donald Trumps look like a good idea?

My son is trans. Please vote for Joe Biden so he can have the protections he needs and I don't have to stay up at night worrying about him.