All the stuff about the edginess and the aesthetics being the point really brings to mind the reasoning behind the if you had to fuck a cow would you rather it were dead first sign up question in that aella bootcamp.

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I can see his remorse and genuine care for his family which makes me feel a bit sad.

I can barely imagine extending such good will to a family member if they willingly cheated, let alone a trillion dollar company CEO I’ve never met.

Parasocial tendencies are weird.

The image doesn’t seem to link to anything.

so uhh I take it thats not very good news for Nvidia

Depends on if there’s anyone left in the US govt who’d be interested in upholding all that stuff about not exporting top tier AI server components to geopolitical rivals I’d guess.

Maybe they’ll make an example of him to show what happens if you run competing grifts without cutting the presidential family in.

ECI is supposed to be some sort of aggregate benchmark measurement, and AECI the same except the A is for Anthropic?

I am beginning to like the cut of this publications jib.

https://defector.com/there-is-no-place-in-a-functional-society-for-elon-musk

The federal government is in tatters, the judiciary seeded with sneering MAGA goons like bear traps on a forest floor, the executive branch a metastatic growth of varyingly murderous criminal enterprises in unholy union with a psychotic, apocalyptic tech industry in suicide-cult thrall to bumbling chatbots.

That’s interesting, thanks! Not exactly sure where the dc loans fit in the benefits vs contributions scheme, but I guess it’s important context to keep in mind if reading further into this.

Ιt could have been part of a larger thing where it made sense to want to keep evidence of the shutdown in the chat context.

It’s not like they design or promote these things in any way that encourages user initiative, can’t have full cognitive surrender if the user is running system commands on the side.

Presumably you still need to believe that these are the specific loans that you are least likely to see a return on though, otherwise why get rid of them?

The way the bubble pops will probably be a bunch of normal things happening, except cumulatively they cause investors to shy away from further bankrolling this mess and someone important won’t have enough money at some crucial point. It certainly won’t be sam altman laughing maniacally and dissolving into a mound of scurrying cockroaches.

The comment got so downvoted reddit now autocollapses it when you open the page. /r/BetterOffline posters seem to be good people:

Icy-Recognition-7453 wrote

My brother in Christ, it is dreamed-up rubbish. It comes from an offshoot of EA/Rationalist thinking where the foundational documents are Terminator 3 and a Harry Potter fanfic written by an “AI researcher” who never went to high school. The pay-off of the “good” scenario is you get to live as an emulated human on AI God’s hard drive.

Altman performed outrage that his comment was taken out of context — he was specifically talking about people running AI rigs at home. You should just outsource your work to OpenAI, see. It’s much more efficient. [Twitter, archive]

Let them eat low end GPUs ass retraction.

Self-replicating data centers are blatantly bullshit but also such a failure to read the room, nobody wants them even now that you don’t have to worry they might decide to go through mitosis overnight.

According to a random tweet I came across he’s been liquidating like mad again.

Bloomberg: Mystery Seller Seeks to Dump $500 Million of Data Center Loans

Via a zitron skeet, finally some news that feel slightly more portentous that tech stocks hitting a slump:

Wasn’t there a bit where making it more racist also made it worse at programming for some reason?

I wonder what their benchmarks for racism look like.

Could be he decided it would be more lucrative to to aim for a harry potter situation, where the movies would get more serious as the intended audience grew up, while taking the older fans for granted.

The victim of racism angle also fits with him being completely ok with the empire being very much human supremacist.

If that paper about astra being able to make sense of other models’ weights has any merit, at some point they became so desperate they actually started adding serialized open weight models to the training data.

That’s probably why these fash weirdos are pumping the ROTS novelization

I bet they just heard that it’s an actual good book (sort of true, terms and conditions apply) and namedrop it so people might associate them with quality.

the idea that he’s still carrying unresolved trauma from being enslaved carries nearly all that weight

And like his time as a slave didn’t even seem all that bad, he looked like a clean and well fed kid who had time to pursue engineering as a hobby and would nerd out about local sport events.

The shape of the story feels like Anakin was aged down late in development and he was meant to cut a more harrowing figure as both a run down victim of generational slavery as well as a target of racism/speciesism all too eager to prove himself (wasn’t there a thing where the other kids were being demeaning to him about humans being too slow in the head to be good pod racers), and also old enough to catch similarly aged Amidala’s eye, instead of inadvertently turning her into a creep who ogles grade schoolers. And the jedi wouldn’t need to pretend that you must be like months old to start training otherwise it might not take, which implicitly turns them into baby snatchers.

The “recursive self-improvement” nonsense really baffles me.

That’s always been the magic sauce that gives the AI supernatural abilities in rationalist lore, I think they cribbed it from the early singularitarians who had a thing about how when we got our shit together intelligence studying intelligence would lead to an “intelligence explosion”, except they replaced the humanity-fuck-yeah aspect with robot fetishism.

Does that mean Musk is now legally obligated to transition or was it just the children?