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@edit can you please make an account on Amazon music so this Alexa can finally play ur music? From a user perspective it's frustrating

@weedonlymemory Smells like dog dander

@weedonlymemory Smells likendog dander

@b1ack0wl It is theeee bread book

I started reading this book the other day and it's really freaking good. There are so many techniques and ideas that they explain in great detail that you'll never find on social media. It's more than your average recipe book and it will teach you things that reels will never do

It is hard to overstate how disappointing I think this new paper from Oxford, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google (et al) is. I can't take it seriously as academic work, just as propaganda. It also has some very bad scholarship and questionable adherence to research ethics. Having the title and author list that it has is not a great start, but I think that the actual content of the paper is also much worse than it could have been. The paper's content is a series of sections that mostly just list things with discussions that I think are generally vapid. For example, section 3.2 is titled "New and technical approaches to positive alignment" and has a collection of paragraphs on things like "goal setting and evaluations", "memory and in-context learning," and other general research topics of the LLM era. It overall strikes me as a paper built from the top down -- the authors wanted to make a certain point up top, and the paper's content ended up as filler. I think of this paper as a mechanism of corporate capture of concepts from academic research on AI and society. It discusses topics like pluralism, liberty, and education, and frames them as solvable problems whose solution is the right tech integrated in the right way. I think that when this paper says "pluralism", "liberty", and "accountability", it means them in a way that is profoundly vapid and structurally ignorant. For example, there is a list of papers out there arguing against this paper's perspective, saying that pluralistic alignment is not a model property or a technical problem at all. None of them were mentioned. Relatedly, the paper talks about some things that would be genuinely great if the authors' companies were not actively contributing to the problem. For example, section 5.1 is about the decentralization of power in the AI ecosystem. Great, but come on. To listen to this stuff from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google employees, I need more than just a disclaimer at the end saying, "This research paper represents the author’s own views and conclusions." This is how big companies launder their reputations through research. The first author of the paper posted about it yesterday saying, "In a rare collaboration between top universities and 3 frontier labs..." So which is it? For a paper like this with this kind of author list to honestly and ethically engage in this kind of politics, it would need to seriously confront the question of how much these authors' institutions are actively working against goals like this. If not, the big tech company authors should not have worked on this paper in their formal capacity as representatives of their companies.

@herrmann1001 It's quality not quantity. If you have earned the respect of legends (which you have) you're good forever. 10k followers don't mean shit compared to hall of fame status

Only thing I wanted was 10k followers on X, YT, Linkedin, GH, Reddit... Turned out to be hard work doing it the organic way. Feel free to subscribe!

Wait until I tell you about the internets

Funny how debt is totally forgivable when it's tied to a failed business or a hedge fund. But the moment it's for school or a hospital bill suddenly it says something about your character.

how grotesque is the expression “earn a living”

*taps the sign*

All I need is a blank piece of paper and I'm good. Hbu?

I was just minding my own business BBQ sauce on my titties, but heaven had other plans to make me powerful. Now there is nothing here I can not humble and I don't have peers. :(

Yeah. I know where to and how to watch people die if I feel like it. I am not here for that and this click-thru spoiler shit is where it's at.

@_MG_ @GlytchTech I grew up with rotten dot com and just blocked an account rawalerts for telling everyone to watch it. Have not watched it. Am not interested in watching it. Bad algorithm

@GlytchTech Haven’t seen it but I sometimes forget people didn’t grow up with stileproject, ogrish, liveleak, etc.

can we stop posting uncensored high resolution video of a person being sucked into and eviscerated by a jet turbine, please

They are but not with unnecessarily anachronistic energy sources and primitive thinking. Slow and steady wins the race when you're retarded. Not hyper anything.

A casual drop from BE Labs: Static Devirtualization of Themida back.engineering/blog/09/05/202…

@lcamtuf Every time I ask Alexa about my expected packages it ends the sentence with "the secret life of circuits should arrive in September" Wish I could shut that shit off.

The most challenging part of writing "The Secret Life of Circuits" wasn't the writing process. It was crafting over 290 full-color illustrations on my own design. I think they set the book apart. For a no-strings-attached sample chapter, check out: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/pr…

The middle class is paying for an empire they no longer benefit from.

Funny thing about human nature.., it's responsive to material existence and changes when those material conditions change/shift.