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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When Netflix inevitably makes a true-crime Ziz movie, they should give her a 69 Dodge Charger and call it The Dukes of InfoHazard

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah, to keep with the times it should be a matte black Tesla Model 3 with the sith empire insignia on top and a horn that plays the imperial march.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Your idea is better. This perfectly captures the mood.

The only throwback thing I insist on is window entry. For historical reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why make a true crime movie when you can do a heavily editorialized 'documentary' for a fraction of the price.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

practical downside: too easily seen as a mockumentary

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Redis guy AntiRez issues a heartfelt plea for the current AI funders to not crash and burn when the LLM hype machine implodes but to keep going to create AGI:

https://antirez.com/news/148

Neither HN nor lobste.rs are very impressed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Ultra-rare footage of orange site having a good take for once:

Top-notch sneer from lobsters' top comment, as well (as of this writing):

You want my opinion, I expect AntiRez' pleas to fall on deaf ears. The AI funders are only getting funded due to LLM hype - when that dies, investors' reason to throw money at them dies as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lol @ the implication that chatbots will definitely invent magitech that will solve climate change, just burn another billion dollars in energy and silicon, please guys i don't want to go to prison for fraud and share cell with sbf and diddy

who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?

His grounds for notability are that he's a dev who back in the day made a useful thing that went on to become incredibly widely used. Like if he'd named redis salvatoredis instead he might have been a household name among swengs.

Also burning only a billion more would be a steal given some of the numbers thrown around.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, find odd how people dont seem to get that this llm stuff makes AGI less likely, not more. We put all the money, comute, and data in it, this branch does not lead to AGI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

but but this branch brings more hype money, it's earn to give, you know nothing about effective altruism /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I have been achtually it was a stately homed, and stand corrected my bad people. I will start to drill oil to give.

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