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We are a nation of conspiracy theorists now. Anyone who's not is probably completely tuned out and has no idea of what's going on.

@vxunderground @NathanMcNulty I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened.

Microsoft: PowerShell is simple and easy to use. Actual PowerShell command: Remove-MgIdentityAuthenticationEventFlowAsOnGraphAPretributeCollectionExternalUserSelfServiceSignUpAttributeIdentityUserFlowAttributeByRef No, this isn't a joke. This was noted by @NathanMcNulty

@davepl1968 Abstractions is probably the biggest one (and encompasses a couple others in your list)

I'm writing a Dave's Garage episode on why new computers are slower than old ones (spoiler alert: it's the software). After enjoying my obligatory photo of counting 6502 cycles like it was the olden days, let me know what you think is the biggest factor in why current code is so much slower than old code. Here are my basic premises so far: - We lost the hardware constraints that kept us honest - No enforced CPU/RAM budgets, no daily benchmarks - Abstractions without accounting for their costs - Incentives shifted towards feature release speed - Lowered perf standards, where "it works" is enough - Dependency explosions in code - AI is also a multiplier of mediocrity What am I missing?

@BrianRoemmele The Monty Hall problem is so simple you can brute force all permutations on pen & paper, then add up all the wins vs losses. Many people were SO SURE she was wrong they didn't bother If you really want to get pushback on a simple math problem, simply assert that 0.999... = 1

In 1990 I wrote a letter to Marilyn vos Savant, Parade Magazine in support of her proof on the Monty Hall Problem. I ran an AI (expert system) test on it and she was right and just about the entire academic community was wrong. They could not accept it. Now they do.

@BrianRoemmele oh no... not a paper airplane maximizer!!

Paper Airplane Making Apparatus.

@vxunderground the new CEO seems totally AI-Slop-Brained... x.com/keyfob256/stat…

I JUST WANT A REGULAR COMPUTER. LEAVE ME ALONE.

Firefox is adding AI to the web browser. Yeah, I'm killing myself tonight. phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-N…

Also, If kids get in trouble for using ChatGPT to do their homework for them... Shouldn't CEOs get in trouble for using LLMs to generate announcements? I mean, it's YOUR fucking job as a CEO to do that... and you just phone it in and expect to still get a big paycheck?

Anyway, seems like Mozilla Corp is going further to squander what they have/had with #Firefox and continue to drive nails in it's coffin... What replaces it? (I'm a long time FF user, wondering what to switch to)

Is @Mozilla the first AI/LLM-managed corporation? The new CEO's "Mozilla's Next Chapter" announcement has all the tell-tale signs of being AI generated: 7 em-dashes, "not just this, but that", etc. The new AI-in-everything strategy document absolutely REEKS of being AI-generated

I got some used GPUs for sale. Fully operational, properly cared for, but no longer needed to continue the mission

LLMs could have a slight advantage over us, WRT not worrying about social pressures. Human: "I had a novel idea, but I'm afraid to say it, because I might be ridiculed and feel stupid/embarrassed" LLM: "just blurt that shit out, what do I care?"

I arrived at that idea thinking about how one would train an ASI on sub-AGI content. Seems like there is a bit of *magic happens* to make that leap. RL has promise but the ASI "magic-happens" makes a lot of arbitrary assumptions. The thinky-boxes are hard to escape.

Where's my ASI? ...replaced... Where's my nano-tech? ...replaced... Where's my flying car? Might be a trend. We tend to get ahead of our skis

@pickover One of those has a formula:

Which is most likely to exist: ghosts, aliens, or parallel universes?

Despite trying to scale ad infinitum to build AGI or ASI, we might now be moving into a different paradigm: Which is: how few parameters can out-compete most humans at certain tasks? Kinda like code-golf but for cognition. I fear humans are gonna have a bad time with this..

@usgraphics It does feel like we've been aesthetically "stuck" for a while. Continued cyberpunk fascination is a bit of a rebellion to it. I don't know how this resolves.. Today.. you can draw three horizontal lines and that's a "hamburger". ok, uh, maybe 2 would do?

@keyfob256 A more grim picture would be that we will forever be stuck in this local maximum. Cheap plastics, HVM, everything is optimized relative to each other but locked like a frozen solid. Need to melt it, add critical energy to get out of it. And we never will.

Brutally honest aesthetics opinion, apologies: One pic feels like hardened stainless steel running COBOL, reads Hartford, Connecticut U.S.A. on a name plate somewhere. The other feels like recycled ABS plastic javascript shipped out of Temu. We have all this tech, but no aura.

@usgraphics When they abandoned skeuomorphisms, what even is physical anymore? So I guess this is ok now.

Opposite. Show everything everywhere all the time. A website should behave like a static piece of physical page. Browser is literal window frame over that page. Nothing moves. Nothing hides when scrolling. Scrolling is unidirectional panning.

@eigenrobot Ouch.... Post-post-post-modern Baudrillard-called-it BS slop. What even is real, really?

oh ffs x.com/AndrewTeeClark…

Today, Aug 1 (technically yesterday as I write this)... ...might be an inflection point. Just feels like that to me, in several barely-related ways.. Hang on to that lap-bar as hard as you can. Gonna be a wild ride.