Cyan Ablaze

I have come to the conclusion that all societal stability is predicated on the existence of a “default job” for people who aren’t really passionate about their job out of high school and if there is no default job the entire country enters mass psychosis and kills itself

how it feels

@wholyv the walk of shame

If after sorting 250k packages they sprayed carbonated drink on my mechanical parts while more packages approached me…I would walk the same way

Steam purged a lot of tags the other day and man, did they make some bad decisions. They dropped 'NSFW' and 'Mature' because 'Sexual Content' was sufficient. Like there's no difference between Disco Elysium and a Japanese futa hypno fetish simulator.

how life feels when nobody knows what you're up to or where you are

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence. It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust. The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them. The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting. “Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve. In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life. The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us. It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans. Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books. So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.

@W_naitobagu it's like a Goldfish package (extra chedder)

fourth google images result for "cambrian explosion" has no right to go this hard

Everyone is going insane. Employees are going insane. Executives are going insane. Investors are going insane. Politicians are going insane. Citizens are going insane Collective AI psychosis If you sit back and think about it for a even minute it’s completely surreal

working in a restaurant has made the last few days a nightmare for me. “all restaurant food is Sysco food” no it isn’t. “Gen Zers spend all their money on restaurants!” our average customer is 55 years old.

@SamoBurja @tszzl These experts are not wise.

@tszzl I'm more and more convinced that the most difficult thing about AI for intelligent people is to not go insane.

elon was right when he said frontier lab is the highest elo game in the world. the teams are incredibly good. few months of delay here and there can cost the entire game. whole thing is extra nerve wracking because most of the parties involved expect infinite consequences

@SlumRNA_Dog the minus 5%s hitting like poison damage

Gonna feel so good when the hoomers lose everything lmfaoooo

@PatrickHeizer and its called "two random observations I've yoked together with zero evidence of any causal relationship".

@jeffpb7 it took a shwifty szechuan shit

After 9 years of patiently waiting for my Rick and Morty McDonalds Szechuan sauce to accumulate worth in storage, I come back to this

Have you tried going to the factory down the road (outsourced overseas), looking them right in the eyes with a smile (applicant portal that asks you to retype your experience after uploading PDF of resume), a firm handshake (no response to your calls/emails, auto-rejection corp-lingo response), and asking for double the pay (stagnated wages)? Can't say you're really trying if ya haven't done that

@FredTaming Fucking amazing

@CrazyCatComrade No wait, actually they will launch as subscription services you can't cancel afterwards lmao genius

@CrazyCatComrade Free MAID pods incoming

They really went from “I will not live in the pod or eat the bug” to “shut up and eat the damn bugs so you can afford a pod one day”

Nobody ever warned us that the second roaring 20s would have fapper girls instead of flapper girls. The prohibition is self imposed. Instead of the transatlantic accent the Atlantic is trans and axe is the scent.

@Phil_Lewis_ Can’t wait for Google to give me an interactive mental health experience