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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • If you read the article, he talks specifically about that. The people using AI for real shit, like protein folding, can use it to improve their work, because they’re experts at it, and know when the AI is fucking up. The AI helps, but could never, ever, replace them.

    The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: “How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?” The answer is that these AI users are “centaurs” – experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves.

    Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad.







  • Was talking to this woman on tinder. She told me she was vegan, and I instantly stopped caring about meeting her.

    Like, it’s just performative bullshit. And it’s hypocritical. The only reason you can even BE vegan, is because society has advanced to the stage that there is enough varied vegan foodstuffs available that you can passable survive off it. But that doesn’t mean it’s all simple, like grains and veggies. No, half the time they’re eating this super specialized, water-intensive crops and laboratory grown shit with energy-intensive production cycles that actively harm the environment. It’s not some ultra-enlightened approach to living, it’s just a thin veneer of ethical consumption based entirely upon other heavily industrialized processes.

    It’s bullshit. and you’re better off just eating mostly vegetarian, with meat being a special occasion thing, like it’s been for the majority of our species time on this earth.


  • The company claims that it is allowed to operate the existing turbines without permits

    xAI has been operating gas turbines that have the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of smog-forming NOx per year.

    the Department of Justice sided with SpaceX in the NAACP’s lawsuit, saying the unpermitted turbines were a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”

    just another case of “I’m rich, therefore, the law doesn’t apply to me.” And the 1000% corrupt DOJ turning around and being like “yeah, actually, that’s true.”