Architeuthis

Architeuthis, 10 days ago

That you can jailbreak recall and run it on non compliant hardware seems to be the least concerning thing in that article, recommended reading.

Architeuthis, 10 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Nightmare blunt rotation in the Rewind AI front page recommendations:

Recommended by Andreessen, Altman and Reddit founder

Also it appears to be different than Recall in that it’s a third party app and not pushed as the default in every new OS installation.

Architeuthis, 9 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

this isn’t really even related to GenAI at all

Besides the ocr there appears to be all sorts of image-to-text metadata recorded, the nadella demo had the journalist supposedly doing a search and getting results with terms that were neither typed at the time nor appearing in the stored screenshots.

Also, I thought they might be doing something image-to-text-to-image-again related (which - I read somewhere - was what bing copilot did when you asked it to edit an image) to save space, instead of storing eleventy billion multimonitor screenshots forever.

edit - in the demo the results included screens.

Architeuthis, 10 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

So LLM-based AI is apparently such a dead end as far as non-spam and non-party trick use cases are concerned that they are straight up rolling out anti-features that nobody asked or wanted just to convince shareholders that ground breaking stuff is still going on, and somewhat justify the ocean of money they are diverting that way.

At least it’s only supposed to work on PCs that incorporate so-called neural processor units, which if I understand correctly is going to be its own thing under a Windows PC branding.

edit: Yud must love that instead of his very smart and very implementable idea of the government enforcing strict regulations on who gets to own GPUs and bombing non-compliants we seem to instead be trending towards having special deep learning facilitating hardware integrated in every new device, or whatever NPUs actually are, starting with iPhones and so-called Windows PCs.

edit edit: the branding appears to be “Copilot+ PCs” not windows pcs.

Architeuthis, 17 days ago

lemmy thread here: awful.systems/post/1596726which spun off from here: awful.systems/post/1587716

Architeuthis, 17 days ago

There’s an actual explanation in the original article about some of the wardrobe choices. It’s even dumber, and it involves effective altruism.

It is a very cold home. It’s early March, and within 20 minutes of being here the tips of some of my fingers have turned white. This, they explain, is part of living their values: as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm. This explains Simone’s clothing: her normal winterwear is cheap, high-quality snowsuits she buys online from Russia, but she can’t fit into them now, so she’s currently dressing in the clothes pregnant women wore in a time before central heating: a drawstring-necked chemise on top of warm underlayers, a thick black apron, and a modified corset she found on Etsy. She assures me she is not a tradwife. “I’m not dressing trad now because we’re into trad, because before I was dressing like a Russian Bond villain. We do what’s practical.”

Architeuthis, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Echoing the audience’s fawning of heavyweight boxers is probably the least objectionable thing in this racist shitheap of an article, I like how it ends by basically saying people should shut up about the judges possibly favoring Usyk for being Ukrainian, not because that’s just Tyson fans coping but because the current notable russian heavyweights are either icky muslims or not full whites by parentage.

P4P is mostly a marketing term anyway, size aside the meta is different enough between distant weight classes to really strain comparison.

Architeuthis, 16 days ago

weight classes are for wokies

This used to be a Joe Rogan staple: no weight classes, no time limits and the ring should be the size of a basketball court.

It’s really just the umpteenth reiteration of the meathead mantra of how I’d do really well in [popular combat sport] if it weren’t for those pesky rules holding me back.

Architeuthis, 29 days ago

Did the Aella moratorium from r/sneerclub carry over here?

Because if not

https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/7695d330-b809-44c2-a227-e679fc77b430.png

for the record, im currently at ~70% that we’re all dead in 10-15 years from AI. i’ve stopped saving for retirement, and have increased my spending and the amount of long-term health risks im taking

Architeuthis, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

To be really precise it was about measuring the size and distribution of all sorts of skull irregularities (the proverbial ‘bumps’) and mapping them to various traits, it’s basically palm reading for the head.

Siskind is just being his usual disingenuous self, i.e. ‘everyone always uses skull shape’ (to indicate that my intellectual precursors were clowns) is obviously referencing phrenology, then immediately motte-and-baiieys it to a claim of correlation of cranial capacity and IQ.

Except for M&B sleight of hand to work the claim shift shouldn’t happen in the same sentence, otherwise it’s extremely obvious that you are claiming one thing while carrying water for the other thing (phrenology), which is probably why he ended up deleting the post.

Architeuthis, 28 days ago

Either that or he let his performative contrarianism get out of hand, he did delete the post after all.

Still, it’s just like an HBD enthusiast heavy into eugenic optimisation to think that there might be something to measuring skulls, even if it didn’t pan out the first time, maybe if they had known about IQ it would have been different, it’s a shame the woke mob has made using calipers on school children a crime, etc.

Architeuthis, 27 days ago

Also, since no one has mentioned it in the comments so far, it says he used to actually send money to fucking Quillete.

Architeuthis, 26 days ago

That’s the trouble with talking about thoroughly disingenuous people, you get bogged down with defining if they meant to mean what they wrote. It’s all optics.

Architeuthis, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

Alexandros Marinos, whom I read as engaged-with-but-skeptical-of the “Rationalist” community, says:

Seeing as Marinos’ whole beef with Siskind was about the latter’s dismissal of invermectin as a potent anti-covid concoction, I would hesitate to cite him as an authority on research standards.

Article worth it just for mentioning Scotty hilariously attempting to whitewash phrenology for counter-culture clout, found in another account that seems to be deep in a covid conspiracy rabbit hole at the moment.

https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/755791fe-5cc5-4257-8a44-8747ba4df403.png

Architeuthis, 1 month ago

Also there was a whole thing about how CGTP tends to use ‘delve’ a lot because it’s been RLHF’d by speakers of nigerian english, so yeah.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago

HBD is a legit line of scientific inquiry you guys, it’s not just eugenics obsessed weirdoes and fascists trying to bring back birthright as the primary path to privilege.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You can like a thinker without endorsing all of their beliefs, even if their beliefs are evil. Why do people like Schmitt and Heidegger even though they were fascists? Or Foucault given his views on the age of consent? I agree that Hanania’s views are relevant context, but I think it’s fine to write a book review that doesn’t try to analyse the author’s motivations or the book’s place in a wider political context.

Hanania is clearly analogous to Foucault and Heidegger, and also is it even wrong to completely divorce a work from all context.

I think Scott was simply more interested in writing an article on arguments aginst civil rights law than an article on whether Hanania is engaged in an insidious project to smuggle rascist ideas into the mainstream via his legal arguments, and frankly I find that kind of review more interesting too. Perphaps this is irresponsible, but at the end of the day Scott is a modestly influential blogger that just likes to write about things he finds interesting.

uwu smolbean blogger with absolutely no agenda besides the pursuit of truth and civility strikes again.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago

This is almost the plot of The Fifth Season, a hugo winner from a while back.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago

The slatestar subreddit is doing its regular so what’s up with all the racists constantly crawling out of the woodwork around here surprised pikachu thread, in response to Scotty doing Hanania Week in the substack.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago

They say at one point that by being flaky, aloof and indifferent while rich SBF may have accidentally discovered the rules of pickup artistry for VCs, which is not a bad take.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Over time FHI faced increasing administrative headwinds within the Faculty of Philosophy (the Institute’s organizational home). Starting in 2020, the Faculty imposed a freeze on fundraising and hiring. In late 2023, the Faculty of Philosophy decided that the contracts of the remaining FHI staff would not be renewed. On 16 April 2024, the Institute was closed down.

Sound like Oxford increasingly did not want anything to do with them.

edit: Here’s a 94 page “final report” that seems more geared towards a rationalist audience.

Wonder what this was about:

Why we failed […] There also needs to be an understanding of how to communicate across organizational communities. When epistemic and communicative practices diverge too much, misunderstandings proliferate. Several times we made serious missteps in our communications with other parts of the university because we misunderstood how the message would be received. Finding friendly local translators and bridgebuilders is important.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago

Sad upvote.

Architeuthis, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

American white supremacist, pedophilia apologist, alt-right pseudointellectual, grifter, transphobe, anti-feminist, ableist, eugenicist and fake contrarian Richard Hanania jumps on the siskind-is-basically-a-prophet bandwagon in order to (checks notes) shill designer mouth bacteria.

If I had a 1980s sitcom mom sitting next to me here, she might ask “If Scott Alexander told you to jump off a bridge, would you do that too?” To which I’d respond probably not, but I would spend some time considering the possibility that I had a fundamentally flawed understanding of the laws of gravity.

Architeuthis, 2 months ago

Promptfondler proudly messes with oss project (OpenAI subreddit)

To be clear nothing in the post makes me think they actually did what they are claiming, from doing non-specific ‘fixes’ to never explicitly saying what the project is other that that it is ‘major’ and ‘used by many’ to the explicit ‘{next product iteration} is gonna be so incredible you guys’ tone of the post, it’s just the thought of random LLM enthusiasts deciding en masse to play programmer on existing oss projects that makes my hairs stand on end.

Here they are explaining their process

It’s code reading and copy pasta.