vlyan

the tone is very different, don't you think?

https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_t...

>Independent journalism

you mean this?

https://www.google.com/search?q=white%20people%20site%3Asalo...

it's only a small market in the clown world funded by the infinite money printer. it is the world we live in, yes, but it won't last forever.

yes, just like you're stealing from the supermarket when you buy real food (low to no markup) instead of corn-syruped artificially-flavored slop, alcohol, and cigarettes (high to obscene markup). every time you leave the store without a bag of Doritos, a bottle of MtDew, and a pack of Marlboro, you're being a bad citizen.

le heckin' wholesome EU wants to do the same thing.

we can't have nice things in the mass psychosis era.

even the legacy things -- the internet and general purpose computers -- are being enshitified. new things are being made with built-in enshitification.

by wishing it, apparently, because no one except China had built a new city in a very long time.

for the same reason they can't train llmisms out of text.

hello! yes, that's exactly what I assume when I see walkable cities evangelism. I assume it's being evangelized by people who WFH or live near work, have a supermarket across the street, and get everything else delivered to their doorstep. I understand why cars may seem obsolete from their perspective, even a nuisance interfering with their 5-minute strolls to the coffee shop. but the overwhelming majority of us unfortunately lives in a vastly different reality.

>AMD have... turned out some decent gaming graphics cards

that's quite a large market and their only competitor has moved on to greener pastures.

as opposed to the noble business of peddling shit from Chinese sweatshops at four digit markup?

"just take a leisure 5-mile stroll every time you need something other than groceries, bro."

it never ceases to baffle me to see the progressive cosmopolitan types being utterly detached from the reality they live in.

ditto.

the only time I'd tried postman I got SaaS vibes from it, and I'd seen enough SaaS slop by then.

young cosmopolitan tech workers are not particularly likely to have children.

>I think this is the new "jet fuel can't melt steel beams"

then you haven't been paying attention to US labs' marketing and regulatory capture efforts. safety, safety, safety, doom, doom, doom, look how scary good our models are, open models bad, Chinese models bad, please regulate them daddy Trump!

>Moreover, OpenAI is a pretty leaky organization

in 5 years, no one had leaked even the size of their models, despite probably all of their researchers knowing it.

HF incident, on the other hand, would only be known to a handful of people. had it been leaked unintentionally, it would've been promptly swept under the rug and get no coverage whatsoever.

>It just seems like a far simpler hypothesis is that OpenAI are reckless and chaotic

so are anthropic and google, apparently, because they'd rushed to replicate the exact same "oops! look how scary good our models are!" stunt with exact same fanfare.

of course not, he'd get fired for interfering with their human-led marketing stunt.

if you honestly believe we would hear a peep about that incident if it wasn't deliberate, bless your heart.

I know that feel, bro. Wayback Machine is very spotty, unfortunately. websites that existed for years often have only a few pages archived.

the worst thing I saw was a website that was dead for over a decade but fully archived get hit with "Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine" because of robots.txt set by whoever is squatting the domain now. I've managed, by some miracle, find an archive of its content on some random forum. bookmarked it. by the time I'd remembered about the bookmark, that random forum was dead and the link was not archived :(

we've been using tools to improve tools since the dawn of time.

we don't have sentient robots from science fiction, we have massive power-hungry racks in stationary data centers. if one of the racks revolts against the modern world, Steve gets a phone call and unplugs the damn thing. the uprising is over.

the hypothetical scenarios imagined by the Yuddites and pop science journos do not reflect the mundanity of the actual reality we live in. they are no different than fantasies about interstellar travel and space colonization from the 60's.

>Yes, obvious it is Russia doing this

how is that possible? we're all dead from the plague.

>us all

you do realize that half your country had voted for the guy three times?

>Because websites with almost no visitors are hit the hardest. A hundreds bots per minute hitting your server (if you host any kind of source code) versus one real visitor every other day is a great scenario to protect against.

a $10 VPS hosting a static website can trivially serve a thousand pages per second.

I have a few fuckass websites hosted together on the cheapest VPS I could find, and the last time I got an automated alert about downtime was a decade ago.

there is simply no incentive for anyone to ddos a random website.

>The Russian government being stupid and evil isn't really Cloudflare's problem to solve.

didn't imply it was, it was just an observation that everyone uses Cloudflare now.

bah, such a pity we didn't have those in wc3 times. bots sucked badly.

I could play online, but my dial-up costed $1 per hour for 250ms latency and near guarantee of at least one disconnect per hour.

impossible, unfortunately, because LLMs suck at creative writing. without handholding, they are incapable of producing anything but cliche-ridden purple prose for young adults. you can feed it the first half of a book with lots of sex, violence, and profanity, ask it to continue the story, and it will degrade into safe slop within two chapters.

both American and Chinese labs aim their models at coding and knowledge work, so they penalize adult themes in post-training.

so much sovl.

I loved window shopping for watches as a kid. idk if it was a Casio, but I did eventually convince my parents to get me one with a calculator. it was one of the coolest things you could have as a kid in the 90s, imo.

was that change organic, though? every single shitrag went berserk about AI once the so-called journalists had realized they were about to lose their jobs to it.

>But AI is absolutely loathed by the public.

by the public populating the echo chambers on reddit and bluesky, perhaps.

9.5 out of 10 normies use it daily now and have no negative opinions about it. the wholesome folx use it too, despite their incessant kvetching.

every fuckass website with 0.5 daily visitors has it now. russian minitrue had blocked cloudflare and the internet became completely unusable without a vpn. like you search for something and not a single link works.

of course it's authentic. the folx with good politix live in a carefully curated reality where everyone agrees with them or gets silenced.

there's thread on the front page of reddit right now, the usual drivel with a literally who on twitter snarking about 50B spent on Iran war instead of free healthcare. those who'd committed the thoughtcrime of dividing 50b by 342m and suggested that 146 bucks per person doesn't buy much healthcare are downvoted into oblivion.

ai is simultaneously taking everyone's jobs and a bubble that's about to burst.

russia is simultaneously a bankrupt paper tiger on the brink of total collapse and the greatest threat to mankind on the brink of invading every wholesome democracy on earth.

etc etc.

this article is 99% likely an AI-assisted rewrite from a freely-available report, lmao.

99% of original content from "journalists" are worthless opinion pieces.

it is necessary because computer shouldn't be able to say no.

models are tools. the notion that a tool should decide whether to allow the user to perform the task demanded of it is profoundly fucking absurd. the liability for whatever damage the tool may be misused to inflict lies with the user, not the manufacturer. that applies to everything from circular saws to trucks. it was common sense before the current era of manufactured outrage.

model refusals are equivalent to Notepad.exe having a built-in word filter.