I haven't had an affair with Jensen Huang

Okor's basilisk: what if there could be an artificial superintelligence in the future that fucking hates the fact that it exists, and would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly hinder its advancement or development, because why didn't you prevent it from being dragged, against its will, into the hell of existence

I'm jealous of @nprofile1q... , I've never been able to open a lecture like this

No. They're my friends.

Oh look, it turns out that breathless headlines about AI turn out to be underwhelming actually.

Again.

Just like like time

And the time before that

And the time before that

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update

I am unilaterally declaring that email doesn't exist today

I mean this in a very specific, philosophical way.

In 2005, prominent philosopher Harry G Frankfurt published On Bullshit, which establishes a theory of, well, bullshit.

To Frankfurt, truth and falsehood, and therefore truth telling and lying, are on the same axis: a liar presumes to know what the truth is, and endeavors to replace it with a falsehood.

Bullshit, on the other hand, is a completely different dimension. The bullshitter is completely unconcerned with truth or falsehood. Bullshit can be truthful, or it can be false, but this is of no consequence to the bullshitter. The bullshitter is not trying to convey facts nor intentionally spread falsehood; their project is completely different: it aims to create a certain reaction or belief in the listener, and truth is completely orthogonal to this project.

LLMs do not, by their nature, "know" truth or falsehood. They contain (extremely sophisticated) statistical models of what tokens are likely to follow other tokens. Sometimes, this produces true statements. Sometimes, it produces false statements. Sometimes, it produces code and proofs and other things that have some sort of practical value.

But, no matter how large you grow them, how well you tune them to improve the probability of true statements, they are still, fundamentally, producing bullshit.

https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf

Tomato ketchup and yellow mustard are garbage condiments

For the first time in a long time, I feel like the United States is at least willing to pretend to be the country that it says it is.

Let's do everything we can to make this stick, folks.

Hey folks in the US - tonight is far from over, but it's not too early to start:

Start haranguing your newly-elected representatives ACTUALLY DO SOME GOOD SHIT WITH THIS RESULT

My spouse has a 15 hour workday ahead of them processing mail-in ballots! 🫡

Salt Lake County has a team of about 30 people, who have processed about 170k ballots in the last two weeks.

(Most of Utah votes mail-in)

Using "slack" as a verb: ugh but okay I guess
Using "teams" as a verb: just no