It’s a grifter running a site called “aishippinglabs.com” which charges 500 euros for a “closed community of likeminded individuals”. He’s selling ai slop and a discord channel to other idiots who will do exactly shit like this with little understanding of what is going on
Yup but also, the idea of submarines providing rescue went out the window. Even the nazis were trying to rescue people at one point, and the allies attacked them after they broadcasted their rescue attempts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident
The US has the most powerful military in the world. This was just cruelty
Less than half of Americans read a book a year
48.5 percent of adults reported having read at least one book in the past year
https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump
And my guess is the vast majority of those that are reading are mostly scooping books from booktok (literary smut) or something off the New York Times bestseller lists
I mean if you don’t flush your toilet though that will happen too. Just climb in and aim for the drain, what’s the worst that can happen
Yeah Anthropic has a whole research department for this
https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/interpretability
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model
And you’re exactly right. Models at this point are like a trillion floats in complex vectorized matrix math and we don’t really know how that works to produce the output we see
“The politics are important because they might affect your investments”
I think the answer is pretty complex and gets into why online communities in general become hostile, not just Reddit.
First off, there are incredible amounts of money and effort being spent to make people feel tribal and hate each other. Destabilization happens by convincing people that those next to them are at fault for their woes, and ensuring they don’t look up at the strings being pulled.
Second, those who generally aren’t hostile naturally don’t gravitate to places that are, so the gravity of hostility increases by hostile people being there and echoing hostility to those they perceive to be being hostile to them, even if the sentiment is “be less hostile.” It’s baked into meme culture. “Touch grass” is genuinely like “hey go outside, take a breath” at its core, but is now an insult or hostility that gets a reaction of further hostility.
Third, the world is really fucking shitty in ways outside of most people’s control. You can vote, martyr, donate, but generally the world has gotten to a close point to 100s of sci fi stories we’ve written warn us about, and so some people are just doing what the money in item one is spending, the conditioning works. Feels warm to hate someone. But then for those on the opposite they want to hate what they consider stupid.
That being said, people are genuinely shitty often, and it’s foolish to pretend that’s not the case. Open source has often been full of pettiness and bickering. Many a GitHub threads are just arguing about someone who wants a feature and is mad at volunteer developers for not delivering it. I could go on a tirade but I’ll end there
I haven’t seen how Lemmy responds to troubleshooting requests about Linux. But I remember some Linux Reddit communities being full of vitriol of like “don’t use things you don’t understand” or like “distro? version? Hardware specs? Logs? Did you even search?” Which I believe led to people just starting out uncomfortable with asking for help there
engineers are just letting
That’s a bold claim cotton, I’m sure there are no project managers, middle managers, or executives involved
Agreed and also rather than saying “Russia is using Ubiquiti hardware” they led with a sports team, it’s so dumb
Probably someone who booted up openclaw and gave it a lemmy account and then it likely gave away their financial information on moltbook
Nice, less for video and more for images, but there’s also
Ironic that they named themselves on a plot about breaking out of a cycle of control, classic Palantir or Anduril vibes too of like “haha movies good where stonks”
Not to mention generally enterprise devs aren’t beholden to public launch dates set externally by publishers and therefore end up burning out really fast trying to make a deliverable happen. Not saying that doesn’t happen elsewhere in software, but it’s really common in the games industry
Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
They’re made to “Enhance the user experience profit”
“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:
Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that
“You worked really hard this year. 60 hour weeks. Impressive but you can do more. See that rolls Royce in the parking lot? If you work 80 hour weeks next year and everything works out, I’ll be able to buy a second one.”
https://youtu.be/m0b_D2JgZgY