What yall commenting about? The article’s paywalled 😑

Altman believes the 32GB of RAM sitting in your computer is tantamount to public greed.

Oh come the fuck on he can’t be serious, can he? I mean this sick fuck is siphoning multiple cities worth of energy and clean water on top of stealing massive human labor for his own personal dystopia, and the plebs are greedy for picking up the crumbs? What sort of broken system honors these villains? Why must we suffer their cruel fantasies?

Kids need stability and a proper type system.

I’m happy this resonated with you, even just a little! I’m in my forties and I’ve been gradually coming out this year. It’s all true. I’m still deconstructing the unbearable shame. Bottling this up indefinitely is actual self destruction. I second your advice: don’t keep it to yourselves, don’t bottle it up, anyone reading this. At one point I managed to ignore what existed behind the mask. This has tremendous cost. It accumulates like lead in an organism. My daughter’s growing dysphoria is what made me realize this wasn’t a life. If I hadn’t been coaxed by her predicament to finally make this journey together with her I don’t know how I would have ended up. Last year was dark.

lolwut

You are right. For anyone who was doubting this (like I was!), see definition 1 in the Merriam-Webster.

It’s hard to describe how soul-sucking the process of handing over development to an LLM is, at least for some of us. Even if I have the luxury of reading the slop and wrestling with it, there’s something mind crushing in the process. I don’t understand exactly myself why I hate it so damn much. There’s something psychological going on. I’ve worked with no purpose before, coding stuff because management says so even if I knew it was going to tank hard or it was clearly wrong. This hits different. It’s worst than boring. It’s worst than loss of purpose.

“LLM is just to replace the boring parts”

The boring parts so far:

• Writing and reading emails (aka communicating in the written form with other humans)
• Taking notes in meetings (aka paying attention to people when they speak to you)
• Documenting systems (aka letting your future self know what was going on in [insert year])
• Designing systems (aka letting your present self know what is going on)
• Building systems (aka doing your fucking job)

What is even the non boring part? Ordering machines around? Whatever happened to “ideas are cheap execution is everything”?

What have you switched to career wise?

Basically what I feel like, except I’m too young and I’m not even close to not needing a salary. I’ve been pushing back; I bought some time. I’ve spent all my willpower on this now and the cancer is still growing. I’m pretty much done. The uncertainty that comes with career change doesn’t look so bad anymore compared to whatever this “work” feels like.

I don’t believe AI is about to take over the world and annihilate humanity. I still think Sanders’ move is a good one. This puts AI gurus in an impossible position: either admit the hype is overdone or accept being represented purely as the greedy psychopathic vilains they are.

The fact that other animal species engage in recreational drug use makes me think that this behaviour started before homo sapiens.

It’s more a question of agency than ability. Take this excerpt from the announcement:

For a company that sells subscriptions, an AI assistant justifies a price increase and strengthens the case for keeping all documents within its own infrastructure. The functionality and the business model reinforce each other, so integration is not only attractive but almost mandatory.

Anyone employed in such a company will have a hard time resisting. There’s a mix of unrest and despair in the discipline right now. I’ve met colleagues drastically change careers over this. Sick leaves over mental health too.

Nah, exposing yourself to an unsafe workplace with the plan to leave if/when you get hurt is NOT a good plan. You did the right thing. Please give extra pets to dog.

Valuing yourself by the danger you pose to the world is so terminally machist.

I’m seriously worried some bros would find this non ironically appealing. Incidentally these are probably the target demographic for the product. I’m happy this subversive piece states clearly to the rest of us what Meta would prefer to dog whistle. I love love love ad subversion. We are relentlessly subjected to increasingly dystopian omnipresent consumerist discourse and an answer is necessary.

Please don’t show this to my boss.

Oh?

This weekend was my second date with a really sweet guy! I cannot remember ever feeling so alive.