Daried Pritchting is not here

@migueldeicaza @MarkJCarney Speaking from closely following Canada - while Carney’s being timid, the country could have gone far, far worse; his opponent refuses to even go through the process of getting a security clearance, which is… SO suspicious.

@drpritch2 @MarkJCarney I just address hypocritical politicians as they cross my Twitter feed. Nothing personal.

I spoke with G7 Leaders today on the situation in the Middle East. We condemned Iran’s strikes against civilians and civilian infrastructure, underscored the need to prevent further regional escalation, and focused on the global implications of this crisis.

@migueldeicaza @MarkJCarney Miguel - longtime reader, MS software developer, Canadian; also closely following Epstein developments and MS embroilment. Why so concerned about Carney in particular?

@MarkJCarney Marky Mark, you seemed to give the world hope that they didn’t need to be obedient lapdogs to a spurious emperor at Davos. Did Little Marco cut your balls after that?

@jimstewartson I’ve also been an AI skeptic (despite working in the field). But - for coding - it’s been a real step change in the last three months. From “basically useless” to “very useful.” The hype has been unreal, and there are many total charlatans, but I think there’s something there.

All this breathless AI doomer shit is breaking me. Stop. Is EVERYONE this stupid? Anthropic, OpenAI & SpaceXAI or whatever tf it is, have over a trillion dollars at stake trying to cash out in IPOs to retail dummies. It’s all a psyop. Nothing “big is coming” except a crash. 😐 The only “progress” in AI is making bigger and bigger demos of shit that doesn’t work right. “Agents” are just loops, where massive amounts of energy are expended to do stuff people already do, but WORSE. “Claude” and “Moltbot” and all these “massive breakthroughs” are nothing of the sort. They’re just the expected result of throwing more and more insanely unproductive energy at a problem that doesn’t need solving. Anthropic’s “big advancement” that was supposedly so scary was spending $20,000 to have 16 different chatbots churn for two weeks to come out with a dysfunctional piece of software that is among the most documented in the world: a C compiler. It’s pure hype. These things have yet to show they do real work. Every time the AI industry finds a problem they can solve badly, they try to fix the problems by trying to solve something more complicated instead of making something that works. But every time, lo and behold, it’s still just a worse version of the more complicated thing. There are real dangers, and real opportunities with AI. Neural networks, which is all chatbots really are, have been useful for decades, and someday I’m sure one of these experiments will produce something meaningful. In the meantime, calm down. Stop feeding into the hype. And don’t pay these people any money.

Important new piece from @jkbjournalist and @clurhealy. It's all--the predation and the coverup--as bad as you think. Lots of interesting details here. miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…

More countries should ban social media for children and enforce it. I made the mistake of optimising one of these social media sites with reinforcement learning (RL) for user retention several years ago. I realised later that I had made a mistake and I strongly regret it. Humans are no match for super intelligent machines grabbing their attention. While it is true that YouTube, TikTok, instagram, Snapchat, etc, can offer valuable information, such tools are optimised to keep users engaged. Slop, brain rot, anything RL can do to catch kids attention is what these companies promote. If you work at one of these, please don’t optimise with RL or LLMs to keep children hooked. You have a say at your org because the most important and valuable ingredient of any tech company is its workers.

I think 3D graphics has just migrated to the Other Site (tm), the one normal humans use. I'm glad. I'm really done here.

I now visit X like I used to visit Breitbart: to see what today’s propaganda is. Oh, and to get my computer graphics chitchat. (Hey, the analogy’s not exact.)

Turing test, 2022

Sumira Rao: “No Extras”

Federico Milella: “The Heist”

Abhisek Biswas: “How I got into Animation”

Shaun Lee: “Axolotia”