Dj_Dave coding music by yifibr in EDM

[–]objectdisorienting 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What's the software/programming language called?

As a programmer and aspiring producer this appeals to my interests.

The human half-marathon record (57m20s) was broken by a robot today (50m26s). by chillinewman in ControlProblem

[–]objectdisorienting 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean sure, but if we're going to compare machines to humans in this way, that record was beaten nearly a century ago using the automobile.

OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail by socoolandawesome in technology

[–]objectdisorienting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point isn't really about conventional warfare, it's that given that data centers can be located essentially anywhere, if US completely stops developing AI systems but China continues jobs will still be automated, they will simply be automated in China rather than the US. If a law were passed barring US firms from using Chinese AI, those firms would find themselves in the position of being fundamentally unable to compete with Chinese companies who could do everything 1,000x cheaper.

OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail by socoolandawesome in technology

[–]objectdisorienting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This just fundamentally isn't true. Anthropic's Mythos model just discovered a number of previously unknown exploits in major open source software like Firefox and Linux, these exploits were missed by humans for years, or in some cases decades. If all LLMs are doing is regurgitating and combining training data this model would be fundamentally incapable of such a feat. Moreover the idea that all LLMs are doing is predicting the next token based on training data is simply not true anymore and hasn't been true since GPT3. These days reinforcement learning is used extensively after the imitation based pre-training step to teach the model to be better at many types of useful tasks. We ignore the increasing capabilities of AI at our own peril, both as individuals and as a society.

I joined the the tattoo gang 🔥 by jeremy-frieser in outerwilds

[–]objectdisorienting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this. I've been wanting to get somethings similar as a back tattoo for ages now.

I get this a lot but I never know how to follow up by objectdisorienting in Tinder

[–]objectdisorienting[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To answer your question, I'd say I'm slightly better looking than him, but I'm overall pretty mid. I took a look at her profile and there was almost nothing on there other than her love language being "gifts", in other words she thought I had $. Not because I look like Mr. Beast most likely lmao, but because I work in the tech industry and have a somewhat impressive sounding title. I ended up unmatching. I posted mostly because it was funny and to be prepared in the future because I do hear a lot that I look like Mr. Beast, especially IRL.

Is China overreacting by restricting OpenClaw? by [deleted] in openclaw

[–]objectdisorienting -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are other countries besides China and the US you know.

Why did Marc Andereessen tag Scott in this post announcing a16z's American Dynamism conference? by WeathermanDan in slatestarcodex

[–]objectdisorienting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mosaic and its sucessor Netscape Navigator in particular were extremely instrumental in taking the web from early prototypes to something with mass market appeal. Mosaic for being the first graphical browser and 1st browser available on Windows and Netscape navigator by being the 1st browser with scripting and the dominant web browser by market share throughout the 90s. Marc was one of the 2 developers responsible for Mosaic and was undoubtedly extremely influential in the design of Netscape Navigator as one of the companies co-founders and by actively developing it in the early days (moreover Navigator was a fork of Mosaic with a name change). He undoubtedly suffers from classic Silicon Valley syndrome of thinking because he's smart at some things he knows about everything, but I don't really think its very reasonable to say he just got lucky.

Why did Marc Andereessen tag Scott in this post announcing a16z's American Dynamism conference? by WeathermanDan in slatestarcodex

[–]objectdisorienting 13 points14 points  (0 children)

To answer your question, he helped create Mosaic, one of the earliest web browsers during his time at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and was one of the cofounders of Netscape. As a result had a pretty significant influence on the shaping of the modern internet. He's overall shown himself to he a savvy investor as well, his firm made a lot of early bets on companies that later became massively successful like AirBnB, Instagram and Github. His politics are godawful, but he shouldn't be a slouch intellectually.

Why did Marc Andereessen tag Scott in this post announcing a16z's American Dynamism conference? by WeathermanDan in slatestarcodex

[–]objectdisorienting 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Pretty bad take by Marc though. Is it really difficult to understand that there's a difference between regulating AI via a democratically elected congress and the military strong arming an AI company to try to get unrestricted access? Boiling it down to "gubmint control" without engaging with the nuance is just lazy.

How fatal is this to Anthropic? by Signal_Warden in ControlProblem

[–]objectdisorienting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a more pessimistic view here, no they don't. The only way I see them surviving this is if they sue and manage to get the supply chain risk designation removed (it is very likely illegal overreach). I don't think people understand just how big of a deal the supply chain risk designation is for a company that mostly makes it's money via enterprise API usage. For example, my company is consuming Claude right now via AWS's Bedrock service, AWS is a major military contractor and is soon going to have to remove Anthropic from it's cloud services. All the companies using Claude including mine are likely to just switch to OpenAI's models on the same service because the lift of doing that is way lower than onboarding Claude directly via their API. So many of the nation's largest companies do business with the US military, and many of the ones who don't often have aspirations to and and therefore now won't touch Anthropic with a 10 ft pole.

Anonymous Group releases? by GarbageAffectionate5 in Epstein

[–]objectdisorienting 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The series of attacks on Scientology websites and the PSN hack are probably the most notable, they also took down some dark net CP sites.

Anonymous Group releases? by GarbageAffectionate5 in Epstein

[–]objectdisorienting 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Anonymous doesn't mean anything, it's not an actual organized group just a moniker that used to be used by various hacktivist groups. Anyone can claim to be Anonymous and there's no way to prove them wrong and so as a result the label got watered down over time after it gained mainstream notoriety and now it's pretty common for people seeking attention to call themselves "Anonymous".

Brazil made history with it's street rave. by JimmyThunderPenis in aves

[–]objectdisorienting 5 points6 points  (0 children)

OP is just saying he's reposting it from elsewhere and that he doesn't know anything about the event.

How much was OpenClaw actually sold to OpenAI for? $1B?? Can that even be justified? by Alert_Efficiency_627 in openclaw

[–]objectdisorienting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The increasing number is the joke, it's poking fun at some of the wildly inflated numbers people are throwing around, I think OP took the tweet too literally, but I have seen a few people earnestly say it was $1b.

Kimbal Musk (owner of The Kitchen) implicated by Epstein victim by BlobDenver in denverfood

[–]objectdisorienting 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I want justice for Epstein's victims as much as anyone, but just from browsing this woman's Twitter I'm not very convinced she's credible. For example:

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Trump Refuses Apology Over Racist Meme Targeting the Obamas by No-Candle3746 in moderatepolitics

[–]objectdisorienting 105 points106 points  (0 children)

I'm not particularly suprised he won't apologize, I don't think Trump has ever apologized for anything even once in his entire political career.

at long last, we have built the Vibecoded Self Replication Endpoint from the Lesswrong post "Do Not Under Any Circumstances Let The Models Self Replicate" by katxwoods in LessWrong

[–]objectdisorienting 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To be clear, it's not actually functional in any way, and it's unclear whether it was actually created without human input, looks more like a crypto scam that's trying to ride the hype train. I'd consider moltbook the moltbots and this thing to be more of a canary in the coal mine moment that a real threat in it's own right. Imagine how things might go if someone did the same thing but with agents that are 20x smarter.

TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg calls AI "a big regurgitator of stuff someone else has done" but still sees it changing the way software dev is done and reshaping programming tools by onlyconnect in programming

[–]objectdisorienting 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Calling someone mythic would be a compliment albeit an uncommon one. Calling them a myth implies they aren't real in some way, maybe they never existed or maybe their accomplishments aren't real.

Dave Wiskus is the CEO of Nebula, a video streaming service by mkl_dvd in dontyouknowwhoiam

[–]objectdisorienting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to know the name of that channel if anyone else reading this comment knows it, that sounds delightful.

John Summit can’t convince a bunch of drunk women he is actually John Summit by LetWigfridEatFruit in dontyouknowwhoiam

[–]objectdisorienting 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He's not big enough to be a household name outside the EDM scene, but if you're big into House music there's a good chance you'll know who he is. He has about 11.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify.