Whoever at AWS thought I’d want to see the panel for their dumb Amazon Q AI on literally every fucking page is an asshole. Can’t make it go away permanently. So annoying.

I am really starting to believe that the tides have changed so much, the elites have had no choice but to crack down on free speech, and hard. They wouldn’t have to do so if they weren’t worried they’re losing. Luckily, with #Nostr we’ve probably already won 🥳

Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever

History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed lik...

Yo how come Hank in episode 1 of Breaking Bad just pulls out his Glock and flags literally an entire party? 🤣

I hate that most businesses today aren’t just “here’s my product, I sell it for $x, which allows me to reliably turn a profit”. The financial engineering, VC fundraising, metrics manipulation based economy is gross. The amount of pure greed is astounding. No one can be satisfied with making a healthy salary while treating employees well and not laying them off at the first sign of trouble. Fuck, I can’t wait until I’m in a position to work for myself.

What a fucking G. Hope he survives 😂 View quoted note →

The irony? The bank didn’t have the money either… View quoted note →

This was such a great podcast. Lyn is so interesting to listen to, especially beyond macro. Such a reasonable, measured take on everything. View quoted note →

I really enjoyed this article about how LLMs “fool” people into believing they’re actually intelligent. I especially enjoyed this because at a corporate event, I got to see Oz the Mentalist who was incredible. He did literally every single one of the things mentioned in this article. Down to interviewing people before the show, but did it in this crazy sly way that didn’t make you suspicious. Anyway, for quite a while, I was genuinely dumb founded by how many intelligent people I knew were constantly spouting “wait til GPT-6 bro!” When I’d tell them LLMs are dumb and just fancy autocomplete. But I’ve been reading more and more and I realized two things. First, it’s great marketing but second, people are so hopeless these days, they’re hoping a rock we’ve tricked into doing math will eliminate the bad things in their lives. Spoiler: it wont.

Out of the Software Crisis

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

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