found a great sneer in the wild

(mobile atm so just link)

haven’t finished reading this so no sneers yet, but others may also be interested in this piece on the history of thiel’s antichrist obsession

the opener probably won’t surprise you

aah, a good old load-bearing “just” with all the trimmings

love it when a post tells you how much experience someone has in large-scale software and systems management (and thus also how seriously to take their advice)

from here:

OpenAI, which has tapped the world’s second-largest insurance broker Aon for help, has secured cover of up to $300mn for emerging AI risks,

1. nice to see that at least someone dealing with these loons still has their shit grounded in reality

2. I wonder what is quantified as “emerging risks” under that policy structure - I’d bet it’s not the same stuff the cultists are worried about

either way, more please!

I am jack’s completely and utterly unsurprised face

hmm I’m not aware of one beyond general “obstructionism” but that probably is a thing that needs a word

shot:

chaser:

(thread)

“chain in the sack” is one of my new favourite semi-nonsense phrases

exactly so

absolutely not the first time I hear something like that, and part of why I don’t really like the guy

At the risk of being critical of Zitron

absolutely not a thing to be “at risk of”, and a little bit worrying to see someone even worrying about

I’m down with reading books it’s just hard to select them without known reference recommendations

Gonna acquire the works of both, ty :D

black mirror enhancement: because the algorithms involved may present multiple likely fits to any given input, each output is also considered a conception and given due protection (even if not used)

this you?

again, I ask you: please make better posts. you could start by not shooting from the hip about things you know little to nothing about. even better would be asking questions to learn.

nice to see the blinders coming off more widely:

For instance, as Electrek reminds us, in 2016, Elon Musk made a promise. He promised that, by the end of 2017, a Tesla would be able to drive itself from coast to coast. We’re talking Los Angeles to New York, with no human intervention.

That was bulls**t. Listen to any tech CEO nowadays and you will hear nothing but an endless stream of wild proclamations about how so-and-so massive shift will occur within the next 10 years! Five years! One year! Next week!

yeah, very similar profile to this lot (might’ve even had them involved). this seems to be collection of their stuff (I dunno if it’s complete, probably all the stuff they wanna show off)

reminded of mordechai guri (from ben-gurion uni) whose whole dept just keeps popping out side channel attacks year after year, but most of them are in “the coil sits in the plate under the bagel (also ignore the PCB for data decode)” field of capacity (exactly because of noise etc)

I mean, some legitimately interesting research on its own in this field - the stuff about cpu states through power sidechannel (most desktop/laptop PSUs are non-filtering and not isolated, so you can reverse-observe cpu state from minute differences on supply side) and such are pretty neat! impractical as fuck, but neat

dunno, I seem to recall I’ve seen a couple other stinkers from ronacher lately. dude’s also full on the LLM bandwagon iirc

probably need to keep a notes file

real fucking weird tweet from ronacher there too

nice, good collection of links, will help next time I need to find it. couple weeks ago I mentioned it on masto and I had someone Very Huffily reply to me (a situation I resolved by simply blocking them, gfy with that nonsense)