FredFig

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[–] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

This is 10000 words to promote being a garbage person, what the fuck.

When the average rationalist screed looks like this, I assume the reason they're so absolutist for freedom of speech is because they never actually read each other's speech.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

For the level of continued investment AI has gotten, it isnt possible to be too harsh on these clowns.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its posts broke containment, however, after an unsolicited reply from Sam Altman himself:

amazing tbh — Sam Altman (@sama) August 8, 2024

aren't you supposed to be running the most valuable startup ever made? why are you cosplaying Ryan Gamestop Cohen?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This seems incredibly shortsighted even in their own framing. The SEO spammers who care about being on top of Google the most are the ones generating fake AI websites en masse, so wouldn't this just cause immediate AI inbreeding?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Screenshot of Ares founders blurbs. Cofounder Devan Plantamura describes a history of his experience, passions and expectations of munitions as a business. In contrast, cofounder Alex Tseng simply writes "Missiles are cool"

This world is a joke and we're just watching the punchline.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The slightly grimy, cynical tone is very well done, really made me feel like a soulless suit.

I wonder how much M&As still hinge on demos working at this point, isn't it an open secret that every startup is run by hustlers?

actually, this is lampshaded directly here:

seemed slightly surprised that _______ would be acquiring a genuinely pretty valuable company.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I usually dislike the whole line of thinking of "Well, it might not be true, but it tells you something that you believed it."

But, the world in which AI succeeds is the world where every book published is a fake field guide to mushrooms, or a recipe book for shaving cream. And it's like... I dunno, after 4 years of happily proclaiming that this is the thing we're going to sell, why have these guys never considered that fraud is bad, actually. Is fully automated luxury gay space fraud really so enticing?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Is this list just a summary of a bunch of downvoted SCPs?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

"I even hate when you say the word 'nigga', but that's just me I guess. Some things just cringeworthy, it ain't got to be deep I guess."

  • Kendrick Lamar, euphoria, in response to Aubrey Graham.
[–] FredFig@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

It's really funny that this was probably the closest thing to a killer app powered by genAI to exist.

Wonder if they're getting rid of this stuff because they realized it's actually a liability to mine these ERP convos for data and they're burning money on every conversation as it is.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The bit about how the Bitcoiners won because the number went up is beyond parody.

I skimmed most of it once I had an idea of where this was going, and 13000 words of tone policing is just insanity. "The EA guys are great because they use moderate language and Gerald cackled at how Scott Star Alex had his life ruined by the extremist non-moderates at the NYT."

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Ah shit, ML spelled backwards and wrong is LLM, they got me good.

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