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Beautiful. Can't believe how mini and colorful.

Is there a way to get in touch and chat about use cases? I have some low-stakes stuff I could test this against without causing a meltdown.

Assuming this isn't astroturf ("sources say"), this is a prime example of why you don't wholesale delegate your thinking and strategy—in a military context or otherwise—to an LLM. I really hope people are paying attention and don't just turn this into a joke. If this is real, this is a big, big, big fuck up.

U.W.U: Unattended War Utility

This could be really handy for triggering admin functionality. Would be kind of nice to just quickly be able to say "Reboot <server>" to a chat instead of digging through a GUI (especially when you're remote/in the field).

They are but combined with other AI tropes (It's not this. It's that.), it may as well be a fingerprint.

An em dash surrounded by spaces on either side tells you it was AI.

AI: This is how we think about these things — because they're important to think about — when we want to accomplish a task.

More likely human: This is how we think about these things—because they're important to think about—when we want to accomplish a task.

Not bulletproof for obvious reasons but it's easy to spot who was at least lazy with AI using this heuristic.

I agree and would love to see a shift back to what we had circa ~2009-2010: high quality, desktop and platform-specific apps that you could just pay for once (the best variant for everyone being an app that works indefinitely, but only receives updates if you renew your license every year).

The whole shift to SaaS has decimated software quality and has made most tasks a nightmare to complete (or at best, an obstacle course of multiple tools and "upgrades" and other bs).

Yes, thank you.

Are Juggalos still undefeated? [1]

[1] https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/juggalo-p...

That's not my framing, that's literally what happened/is happening.

> This framing of a zero sum game is counterproductive.

I agree but that's not at all what I was getting at. Quite the opposite. The mistake America made, what made it vulnerable, was playing everything like a zero sum game. We're in the early days of that behavior coming to roost.

China played the smart long game and took advantage of America's ignorance and short-sighted thinking. They already "won" in the sense that they outmaneuvered the U.S. because they relied on flaws in human nature (specifically, greed). Their moves around AI are just more of the same clever behavior.

I don't agree with all of their means for getting here, but to accomplish what they have in ~30 or so years [1] should blow minds far more than it does in the West. And they did it by convincing us to give them control of our manufacturing and selling us (literal) boatloads of cheap junk. Historians will look back on this era as one of the greatest demonstrations of "winning without firing a single shot."

This whole insular POV is tired, ignorant, and frankly just another indicator that America has lost the plot, shit-faced on its own arrogance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_China

Whoever prompted the agent, whoever supplied the means, whoever knew but didn't say anything.

Both. This should result in criminal charges.

This is a wonderful analogy.

That reads far too much like science fiction to me. As for how we could "not be outsmarted:" we're the ones prompting and controlling it. There is no blind autonomy here (and if there is in some pseudo sense, just unplug the damn thing). This isn't a Johnny Depp movie despite how desperately many want it to be.

Right. And that's not accidental.

No one. But we can take a wild guess that experiments are being done in this direction. And that requires intent and system design that enables the behavior to even happen (i.e., a finger on the trigger).

Just like a gun requires someone to pull the trigger, AI requires someone to prompt it (or kick off the initial loop).

Because they're being put far too close to residential areas. The way they're being designed and built, they actually are an enemy [1]. Nobody wants to live next to that.

[1] https://youtu.be/RAliBRyq_1c?is=iYxwnVjT8No9qm8-

I think the middle way is best here: use AI so you understand how best to apply it to your work but don't deprive yourself of the joy of doing stuff by hand. And if you so desire: just write by hand.

Very unlikely to apply to any job moving forward (i.e., they've equated AI with a competitive advantage, even if the results are not technically competitive), but a job isn't you and you are not a job. And if you're like me, where building stuff is your business, I highly recommend using your skills to build something that makes money (without freaking out about how the thing is built) and then use that to pay for your life and work on code however you'd like in the off hours.

Frustrating? Absofuckinglutely. But you can either spin out or keep progressing, however slowly. My wife and I have been talking about a growing renaissance movement as people where we live (normal, everyday people) go in on other locals for using AI for stuff. Just saw one on Reddit the other day where a local venue got chewed out for using AI for their event flyer.

That doesn't mean AI goes away or everyone "wakes up," but it does mean that it's not this universally loved thing. I personally think that will be the shape of the future too: some places in the world will be all-in while others will opt-out. If you truly want to be a pure craftsman, it's worth looking for where those places and people are and consider relocating. Environment has a huge impact on your ability to think well and clearly; don't underestimate proximity to AI making it seem more threatening than it actually is (and don't just dismiss that as delusion or wishful thinking).

Also don't forget: the economics of AI are unhealthy and this first wave of AI will likely be washed out, followed by a "plateau of productivity" for a few survivors (think how the internet looked from ~2002-2009). Again, just my opinion but I don't think the overall outlook is terrible if you don't allow yourself to be disconnected from your craft and find others who feel the same.

I won't repeat it here but Cartman getting updates from Alec Baldwin is easily one of their all time greatest bits.

Surprised but not surprised. That explains a lot.

The future isn't found in consensus or groups.

Oh, to be a corporate puppet [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmuEIRY9VUg

I can always tell when someone uses an LLM to write and never gave the LLM proper context on how to write (i.e., writing samples, skills files specific to writing, etc). These are also the people who tend to complain about AI's writing style.

You can get pretty good results if you take the time to tune it. Tropes and the like still sneak in but if you take the time to edit and rework things, it ends up being a pretty good workflow (especially for stuff that's more procedural, not artistic).

> But honestly if you’re the one proposing a “simple solution” maybe do some research yourself.

It's an off the cuff idea on a nerd forum. Relax buddy.

It's a simple multiplier number and you can set a cap on it (and payout amounts). Where's the fire?

It doesn't have to. Just put a cap and say "we officially recognize 1-10" and be done with it.