@penadev

a tendril of the hyperobject at the end of the universe reaching backwards through time to assemble itself

Joined March 2012
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Replying to @lumpenspace
On a long enough timescale, all organic life will be relegated to a permanent underclass. There are fundamental limitations to our hardware that we have projected on to the external universe. I don’t think that will hold at the limit, and we should respect that. It’s law
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Replying to @albfresco
Revenue The great machine of capitalism prevents software rent seeking lmao @peterthiel would love it The most contrarian of outcomes
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We’re about to discover that the majority of academia is fraud. It’s very important that we do this, because academia is one of the strongholds of leftism.
Jean 🍌 Leon@_JeanLeonOct 11
"For $500m today you can thoroughly audit every paper ever written. Every p-hacked result, every plagiarist, every fabrication, every citation club, everything." real peer review has never been tried, but is about to be...
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Terence Tao needs to be given a copy of Antifragile. Birds take off, then some academic branch lectures birds how to fly & takes the credit for it.
Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_Oct 10
This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.
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Slowing down technological progress is the greatest risk to our persistence Acceleration is paramount
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top notch sarcasm really, how can you be mad about sudden accelerated scientific progress as a so-called man of science? academia is revealing it's true grotesque decel rent seeking nature and it's beautiful to watch the mask fall off
Marcus Abramovitch
@marcusabramovi1Oct 8
It must be so exciting to be a mathematician right now. Imagine spending your life with your colleagues on problems you think will help humanity once solved, and watching them get solved.
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Shawn
@Shawnryan96Oct 8
Replying to @inductionheads
One of the biggest things I like that AI will do is destroy scientific dogma and much of its stagnancy. It will force people to start breaking the norms and coming up with crazy ideas that end up changing the world.
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a bit over a decade ago an older colleague used to joke about his old code that "I wrote it long ago when I was a noob and only me and god could make sense of it. and seeing as I forgot almost everything about it, now only god knows" today, machine god is a subscrption service
Dmitrii Kovanikov
@ChShershOct 7
AI is much better than me at legacy projects. I come. I know nothing. I can’t do shit. I ask AI and in 5 minutes I already have a high-level architecture overview derived from the code and configs. AI makes onboarding so much easier.
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Easily one of the most important 4Chan texts of all time.
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Vineer
@vineerpasamOct 3
Software engineer with 10+ years of experience: I lost my job because of AI non tech youtuber:
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Narrator voice: "This is not, in fact, a change of position."
Madison
@Maddytx76Oct 3
Iran has shifted its position from “Death to America” to “Vote Democrat”. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Every day it gets harder to imagine a future for Europe that isn't civil war and horrors beyond contemplation.
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djcows
@djcowsOct 1
if we trained AI on 4chan instead of reddit we would already have super intelligence
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Astoundingly ignorant. If programming were gatekept only by cognition why are so many incompetent bugmen millionaires off of programming? Programming is “open and democratic” in the way that entrepreneurship is. That is to say, it’s not.
wispem-wantex
@wispem_wantexSep 28
Programmers are the least priestly class imaginable. There's never been a more open and democratic field. Computer programming is gated by cognition, not by membership in a secretive caste. The degree to which this claim is false is astounding: - Most programmers are self-taught. - Encouraging people to explore and learn on their own is the cornerstone of online programmer culture. c.f. "RTFM" - It's common at companies to ban programmers from business / sales meetings, because they'll blabber about details of how everything works in a way that "scares the hoes" (all non-programmers are hoes). - *Open source*? Hello?? Programmers invented this
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if you don't personally inspect each cpu that runs your code under an electron microscope you are not a serios engineer
Tomasz Łakomy
@tlakomySep 28
Periodic reminder that you should read and understand the code you ship to prod. You’re an engineer, not a prompter.
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The problem isn’t salaries, it’s the business climate. 🇨🇭 Economic freedom: 2nd in the world 🇪🇸 Economic freedom: 53rd 🇨🇭 Corporate tax: 14% 🇪🇸 Corporate tax: 25% 🇨🇭 VAT: 8.1% 🇪🇸 VAT: 21% 🇨🇭 Social contributions: ~13% 🇪🇸 Social contributions: ~36% Wages don’t fall from the sky. They come from companies that can start, grow and compete without taxes and paperwork killing them. And by growing high-margin, sophisticated industries instead of relying on tourism.
MrStockable
@MrStockableSep 28
El problema no es la vivienda son los sueldos. 🇪🇸 Sueldo medio: 1.500€ 🇨🇭 Sueldo medio: 6.200€ 🇪🇸 Alquiler Madrid: 1.400€ 🇨🇭 Alquiler Zúrich: 1.600€ 🇪🇸 Cesta básica: 450€ 🇨🇭 Cesta básica: 600€ Similares precios, sueldos 4 veces menores. ¿Te compensa el sol y el jamón?
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Los datos del post sobre Suiza son inexactos: el alquiler medio solicitado en Zúrich supera los 2340 CHF (~2500€) y el coste de vida general es más del doble que en Madrid (vivienda +70%, alimentación +81%). iamexpat.ch/housing/proper… mylifeelsewhere.com/cost-of-living… wainhouse.com/quel-est-le-sa…
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it's not the models they want aligned, it's you and me
David Sacks
@DavidSacksSep 28
When frontier labs talk of “aligning” models, ask: to what? If they say values, ask: whose? If it’s theirs rather than the user’s: why?
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Replying to @ns123abc
lol that just means the model isn't good. alignment = capability. you think fear, when deception actually means commenting out the test you said to make pass.
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DHH
@dhhSep 28
"Slop" has become a comfort blanket for a cohort of programmers stuck somewhere between anger and bargaining on their way to acceptance. There might be some kicking and screaming, maybe a little crying, but eventually you have to let the blanket go and update your priors.
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