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I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence… Sailor Saturn.

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There’s this weird trend where some people simultaneously think:

  1. Chat-GPT will do everything for them and makes all problems trivial
  2. Whatever they decide to do with it still has value and is a good career choice

Obviously 1 is false, but if we lived in a bizarro world where it was true then the “prompt engineers” would very quickly realize that literally anyone is capable of engineering prompts and they are not in fact a unique and special person who is better than anyone else at asking jarvis to wipe their butt for them.

See also: the weirdos on twitter who argue that all careers except “prompt engineering” are on borrowed time.

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“So wait, you mean you’re willing to condemn my mind clones to an eternity of suffering so you can get tiktok views?”

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Unprecedented benefits to humanity?

I mean you’re competing against bicycles, campfires, bagel slicers, minestrone, electric toothbrushes, and the Sega Saturn; so that’s a pretty high bar buster!

These risks range from the further entrenchment of existing inequalities to manipulation and misinformation to the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction

Two of these things are happening today. Hint: they’re the ones that AI people give lip service to before going back to role-playing about acasual basilisks and paperclips and digital clones and whether the ability to auto-respond to auto-generated emails is worth the P(doom) risk.

Great way to turn what might have otherwise been a petition based in reality into a joke I guess.

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From their blog: Acupuncture for Dogs: What You Should Know – I can’t tell if it was written by a chatbot or not, but it could very well be based on the article quality.

There are no real systemic side effects of using acupuncture as a treatment for your dog because it covers a more holistic approach. For dogs in poor health who could be at higher risk when undergoing certain surgeries or using certain medications, acupuncture might prove a suitable alternative.

Also note how they call their chatbot “brand-supportive”. Of course it’s not just an unlicensed robo-doc, but a billboard masquerading as an unlicensed robo-doc.

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So… what are the chances Zoom ends up recording people in Zoom meetings to use as training data?

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Many will point out that magic eight balls are not yet writing award-winning books, let alone patenting inventions. But most of us also don’t do these things.

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I just want to share this HN comment because it was the worst thing I’ve read all day.

Wait until they have kids. The deafness gene will be passed along. Soon enough we’ll be like the cars with the hardware without the software or the locked features.

A treatment for a type of genetic deafness sounds good and all; but think of the implications man. The no-longer-deaf people might hear some steamy music and then get frisky and in the mood to make deaf babies. And next thing you know bam! There’ll be activation keys for hearing.

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“New”. The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably weren’t the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.

Also I guarantee these people haven’t thought about, or don’t really care about, the security implications of GPU rental. It ain’t trivial that’s for sure, I’d never connect my GPU to the internet with any program that has thought about this less than web browsers have (WebGL / WebGPU) for that reason alone.

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An article about Opera going from a normal browser company to a predatory loan / cryptocurrency / chatbot / edgelord gamer / vtuber company: www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

Now I’m a healthy woman. I think all browsers having associated vtubers, or at least mascots, is a great idea. But not at the expense of silently ending support for one of their browser branches leaving any users brave enough to use it to face huge security vulnerabilities.

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I’ll be damned if we let the chatbots take our existential dread jobs from us too.

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I’m sad that I can’t reproduce this because looking at bad website coding is my favorite kind of gawking.

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Unsigned integer means an integer that hasn’t been cryptographically signed by the chain of blocks right?

The verdict quotes this exchange (page 163):

Q: Just out of curiosity, do you know what unsigned means in that?

A: I do. Basically it’s unsigned variable, it’s not an integer with–

Q: With what?

A: It’s larger. I’m not sure how – I mean, on the stand here, I’m not sure how I’d say it, but –

Q: Take a wild guess.

A: How I would describe it, I’m not quite sure. I know what it is.

Q: Okay.

A: I’m not terribly good when I’m trying to do things like this. Writing it down would be different.

Q: Well, do you recall you mentioned that you had a book by Professor Stroustrup?

A: I do.

Q: You haven’t disclosed that book, but you have disclosed three other books about C++, so I want to take you to one of those. It’s {L1/199/1}, and could we go to page 47. Do you see that it explains that “unsigned” means that it cannot be negative?

A: Yes, I do understand that. Would I have thought of saying it in such a simple way? No.

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I mentioned this in the last weekly thread, but check out the 5th citation in their example paper (the one that says nothing in particular about type 2 diabetes)

T. Schnurr, Hermina Jakupovi, Germn D. Carrasquilla, L. ngquist, N. Grarup, T. Srensen, A. Tjnneland, K. Overvad, O. Pedersen, T. Hansen, and T. Kilpelinen. Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study. Diabetologia, 63:1324–1332, 2020.

I left a HN comment that they got the names wrong for Hermina Jakupović, Germán D Carrasquilla, Lars Ängquist, Thorkild Sørensen, Anne Tjønneland, and Tuomas O Kilpeläinen. They thanked me for my “thorough” review (read: I glanced over it for giggles at like 2 AM).

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Including an imposter account trying to phish people to a website with a disturbingly large amount of obfuscated JS and a “Connect Wallet” button. https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/f933237d-4c15-4979-8ec9-44b0eb92faac.png

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Holy smokes this guys twitter is bursting at the seams with movie-clips and memes.

I saw: Snatch, Peaky Blinders, Pirates of the Caribbean, Men In Black, Tombstone, The Good the Bad & the Ugly, Marvel, Sherlock, Fast & Furious, Gangs of New York, V for Vendetta, Ready Player One, Game of Thrones, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Breaking Bad, The Matrix, and X-Men.

Each impeccably captioned with large text, set to music, and carefully edited / mixed together. In the span of like 9 hours

These tweets were chosen for maximum superstonk hype, and had a lot of effort put into them. He chose themes of vengeance and male action-movie anti-heroes, He knows exactly what his audience will lap up.

It’s so gross, but like in a kind of impressive way.

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OK this is low-hanging fruit but ChatGPT-4o (4o? what even is branding?) was demoed with a feminine voice, So HN discussed it. And a couple extremely horny users can’t stop talking about robot girlfriend sex and the end of relationships

the western world is already experiencing a huge decline in womens sexual appetites – AI will effectively make women completely uninterested in men

An AI girlfriend that isn’t going to bring up the last three time you fought because you forget her birthday/called her fat/hit on her friends? are you sure you understand the target market?

I guess I can never understand the perspective of someone that just needs a girl voice to speak to them. Without a body there is nothing to fulfill me.

And after that you have a robot that listens to you, do your chores and have sex with you, at that point she is “real”.

If you want to solve procreation them you can do that without humans having sex with humans.

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Instead of Universal Basic Income, everyone should be given a small stipend to pay tribute to I, Sailor Sega Saturn. I demand tribute!

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The greatest version number war of our age is between Chrome and Firefox, nowadays both of which get a major version bump around once a month. Firefox is on 125 and Chrome is on 124.

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セガサターン、しろ！

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Ohio State commencement speaker was grifter Chris Pan, who tossed a suggestion to buy bitcoin into the middle of his speech, got audibly booed. Full speech (around 1:33:45)

Molly has some fun details on Musk’s hell site.

More fun detail’s from Ohio’s The Rooster (definitely read this one!)

His speech notes.

From the notes, it starts with normal inspirational speech garbage-- life pro-tip: do not repeat stupid parables saying that blind people have limited perspectives to large audiences-- then bitcoin comes up in the middle:

I know this might feel polarizing but I encourage you to keep an open mind. Right now, I see Bitcoin as a very misunderstood asset class. It is decentralized and finite which means no government can print more at will. In the early days, the exchanges for Bitcoin were prone to hacks and fraud. But this issue has been solved with the recent launch of bitcoin ETFs backed by the world’s 2 largest asset managers, BlackRock and Fidelity. And you can hold these ETFs in your retirement accounts just like you hold the S&P 500.

I’d love to do a demo for you: So here are 4 quarters. Inflation after 4 years has turned this into 3 quarters of purchasing power. Now if we apply some innovation and open-mindedness… Investing in your financial literacy will unlock so much freedom and possibilities for you.

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University President Carter holding up a “bitcoin” in the part of the speech about the quarters https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/9fe22e9f-24dc-4588-a523-8ee4adec533b.png

Ayahuasca Intelligence

Chris Pan on insta: Got some help from AI (Ayahuasca Intelligence) this week to write my commencement speech for 60k grads and family members at OSU next Sunday. We are in challenging times - wanted something extra heartfelt. (Tried Chat-GPT but wasn’t that good lol). “They’d say this to you in Peru, you know: This is our university. You went to Harvard, we went to Ayahuasca.” – Terence McKenna

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So about that.

Ted Carter is apparently on the board of an bitcoin mining company called TeraWulf.

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Nick Bostrom’s advertising his new book about what if AIs let us sleep until noon and wouldn’t that be grand.

A reddit ad: “What if things go right? A winter wonderland glittering with possibilities for discovery and play. Delve into the possibilities of artificial intelligence in Deep Utopia, by New York Times best selling authro Nick Bostrom. Available Now.”

Also call me paranoid, but “A winter wonderland glittering with possibilities for discovery and play” sounds exactly like the sort of thing an LLM might generate.

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Orange Site denizen plays Dr. LLM: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40331850

Show NH [sic]: “data-to-paper” - autonomous stepwise LLM-driven research

data-to-paper is a framework for systematically navigating the power of AI to perform complete end-to-end scientific research, starting from raw data and concluding with comprehensive, transparent, and human-verifiable scientific papers

The example “research paper” was some useless fluff about diabetes, based off an existing data set (read: actual work produced by actual humans), and mad-libs.

The study identifies an inverse correlation between physical activity and fruit and vegetable intake with diabetes occurrence, while higher BMI is positively correlated

I’m too sleepy and statistics-impaired to check how nonsensical the regression “analysis” or findings are, so instead let’s check out the references (read: the actual humans who were plagarized to make this fluff)!

Reference #5

[5] T. Schnurr, Hermina Jakupovi, Germn D. Carrasquilla, L. ngquist, N. Grarup, T. Srensen, A. Tjnneland, K. Overvad, O. Pedersen, T. Hansen, and T. Kilpelinen. Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study. Diabetologia, 63:1324–1332, 2020.

This incredibly managed to mangle all non-English alphabet names:

Hermina Jakupović, Germán D. Carrasquilla, Lars Ängquist, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Anne Tjønneland, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen

I guess AI has an easier time advancing science than producing a PDF with non-ascii text in it

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Every respectable programming language has functionality in its standard library that recognises letter characters

As a C++ programmer I’ve never been so offended by something I so entirely agree with.

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