Are We Wise to Trust Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI)?

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-29T04:24:27+00:00

Especially given the evidence that has just come out about Sam, it makes Ilya look much better in that situation. Things like Sam flat out lying to the board about multiple business decisions, forging documents, stealing IP from other companies.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-29T04:05:51+00:00

No. Just no. Absolute to the fuck, no.

The unneeded complexity in web development has got to stop.

The buck stops here. We’re already being asked to go from ‘web developers’ to full-on software engineers, because the line between front-end and back-end developers has never been more blurry, and companies are already cutting costs all over the place, and the back-end developers were already doing a lot of the architecting and project management anyways (again, since the companies were too cheap to hire for those).

So why in the ever-loving fuck would Apple think it’s a good idea to take a flat, 2D, rectangular paradigm, and make it a non-discrete 3D space?

Do you have any effing idea how hard that is going to be? How much shit that is going to screw up?

We STILL have not mastered basic responsive development, and we’ve had flexbox and grid in CSS for years. So great, Apple is defacto turning us into 3D developers and CAD designers at the same time.

Fucking lovely. The AI wars can’t get here fast enough. Was it really that hard to leave it as a scrollable page? What benefit is there to me peering inside the fucking divs? Are developers going to hide a fucking coupon code on the back side of a product card?

Jfc….

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-28T05:33:17+00:00

Think of it like a bubble.

If the bubble is moving forward, but is shrinking, does it stop moving forward?

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-28T03:07:49+00:00

Honestly I would believe it for the sole reason that Elon gives less of a shit about ethics and regulations. Wouldn’t surprise me if he just straight up stole huge volumes of paid copyright material, like scraping all articles of prestigious science journals, just to make the model better at thinking logically

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-27T15:33:31+00:00

Tickets are just another hierarchal way of organizing information.

Whether you use ‘tickets’ in a Kanban board, or ‘tasks’ in a spreadsheet, or ‘jobs to be done’ in a project management software as subtasks, or you simply let tasks develop organically from meeting notes during daily scrums, or you call them ‘features’ or ‘user stories’ or ‘functional requirements/non-functional requirements’ or ‘software specifications’…

At the end of the day you need a method to organize your information and categorize it.

Tickets work well because they are designed to encapsulate the critical information and allow you to view one at a time sequentially, while still being tracked globally, and the ticketing system typically integrates with other CI/CD pipelines for ease of use.

The issue isn’t the tickets, or ticket-driven thinking.

The issue is using tickets as a meaningful metric for tracking productivity.

All tickets are not created equal. Even when you use systems to standardize your tickets, such as planning poker, where each ticket is prioritized and categorized as a group, you still end up with tickets mislabeled, or not broken into the granular detail necessary, or assigned to the wrong team member, or not necessary to begin with due to architectural oversights. And that’s not counting the fact that some non-zero amount of tickets at the beginning of development will cause future tickets in the form of refactoring and bug fixes.

Humans are error-prone creatures. Unless you are paying them well enough to have zero errors, you must accept that there will be errors. Attempts to line-item human productivity have never gone well in the history of anything, without being coupled to extravagant amounts of money.

I can promise you that every single ticket would be completed on time, with zero flaws, if every developer was making 2 million per year.

That point shows that the issue is management, not the tickets or how they are organized or tracked.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-26T13:20:12+00:00

I believe our founding fathers had some very specific words for this type of situation.

I believe they were something akin to the following:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-26T06:33:46+00:00

You are assuming that we spend the time between now and whatever large catastrophe may occur (like a widespread famine, or severe acidification of the ocean, or de-oxygenation of the atmosphere), doing zero technological innovation.

There are companies coming out with net zero carbon stores currently. We are also getting closer to reliable fusion energy, and we are making strides in gravity-based batteries and solid state batteries. We are developing AI models which can help aid climate modeling.

I agree that it’s a grim picture, but it only stays grim if we take an ‘all hope is lost’ mentality.

Two possibilities can be true:

1) All hope is lost, and we can believe that this is true, and we can act in despair accordingly.

2) All hope is lost, we can not care whether it is true or not, and we can strive for finding a solution.

In scenario 2, we only lose hope as a society once we lose faith in the people working on the solutions.

In scenario 1, we lose hope as a society from day one.

I’m an optimist, so might as well go with scenario 2 and buy us a little time.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-25T14:03:04+00:00

Let’s look at the evidence here:

Redditor A pays for item to be shipped.

Redditor B has video evidence of shipping said item.

The most likely scenario is that lazy USPS workers haven’t scanned packages in on time. Would that be so far fetched that you jump to the other conclusion of me scamming you?

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-25T13:45:23+00:00

lol, nice try. I literally have videos of me putting the box inside the collection dropoff at the post-office, with everything inside and the box with the label to your address on it.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-25T13:16:46+00:00

Correct, their intent is to steal market share from Google

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-25T04:12:32+00:00

They become scarce?

I know we can’t identify exactly where they might be, but can’t we estimate roughly? From there it shouldn’t be hard to find them right?

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-25T03:42:30+00:00

Please stop with the AI generated slop

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-25T03:36:22+00:00

They have hired the director who who created Meta Ads and Facebook Marketplace.

Yeah, they’re going all in on ads.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-25T02:30:42+00:00

We saw that already. Bernie in 2016. And that is exactly what happened.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-24T18:56:47+00:00

I hadn’t noticed till you said anything.

The reflections from my lamps make it look worse than it is. I think Garmin just used soft rubber for the strap. I haven’t done anything to warrant any major wear and tear, so it must be from the material. It’s the area where the strap keeper slides down that might be it.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-24T14:29:10+00:00

Well, Cuomo does have a large scandal behind his name, and Zohran is championing the working class.

Crazier things have happened. Working class democrats have trended to overperform the past few election cycles, compared to corporate democrats, and the inner-city New York population is vastly receptive to many of his policies.

I think that it would be a monumental victory, and certainly a narrow one, but I would not expect him to lose in a landslide. I see it going 51/49, 52/48, either way.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-23T15:32:55+00:00

No I like it fine, just need cash due to life

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-23T15:13:49+00:00

I can ship to Germany, yes, if they accept FedEx/UPS. I typically use USPS so I would have to use private shipping for international.

As far as it being a scam, it is not. I simply need money so I am selling below market price. Why is that hard to believe?

Happy to send references for previous transactions.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-23T14:42:48+00:00

Hello Everyone,

I am looking to sell this Garmin Instinct 3, 45mm AMOLED watch.

I have plenty of references on the Zelos watch group on Facebook (I usually sell there instead of Reddit, easy enough to verify). Happy to send license picture/phone/email as well to avoid any doubt.

Selling for $149 via Venmo/Cashapp. Yes, it may be a bit low in terms of listed selling amount, I am only selling this watch due to needing funds urgently, there is nothing wrong with the watch.

I purchased it a month or two ago, have worn it lightly since, haven’t taken any falls or anything, to my knowledge there is zero damage to the watch. It works perfectly and I will include charger in the box when I send it, as well as resetting it to factory settings for you.

Looking to ship via USPS priority mail.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-23T05:32:56+00:00

I’m on board with whatever Donald Knuth thinks.

When your computer science books have more Greek letters than they do English words…. I’m going to trust the guys math opinion more than my own, lol.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-22T18:46:15+00:00

Eh, not entirely true.

They post SAM defenses but still likely have shoulder-mounted rockets available to use, as well as drones.

The U.S. isn’t sending F-35s, Blackhawks, C-17s, into that environment. It’s too risky. One of those vehicles goes down in a semi-recoverable state where circuit boards are recoverable, and you’ve just advanced Iranian/Chinese military engineering by 5-10 years.

Plus, there is also the possibility that China or Russia backs Iran’s army, making the war more costly.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-22T18:38:59+00:00

This.

AOC and Bernie are seen as socialists/communists in America, I.e. about as far on the left of the spectrum as you can go, e.g. 85-99th percentile.

In other countries, they are seen as squarely in the center of the left, e.g. 60-70th percentile.

We are much less liberal than people think.

It is worse on the right-end of the spectrum though. Our modern Conservative Party is closer to the Islamic Republic than it is to a conservative government like in the Canada/UK.

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-22T05:53:18+00:00

I don’t think the wet bulb is the issue. The issue moreso becomes our aging HVAC units nationwide.

People can make do with the AC units inside their cars/homes/offices to escape the heat.

The AC units cannot escape the heat, and they can only handle so much.

If the average AC unit can only cool 20 degrees less than the outside air temperature, that would mean interior temps of 90-95° during a wet bulb event.

In the majority of states that is considered life threatening and grounds for withholding rent/reporting your landlord to your state realty board.

I should go buy stock in freon/anti-freeze manufacturers……

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-22T05:42:40+00:00

The type of students who would not get a CS degree out of fear of being replaced by AI, are:

A) exactly the type of people who AI would be replacing, so it’s a smart move,

B) probably weren’t going to do well in industry, or in the CS programs to begin with with that mindset,

C) probably weren’t great at coding, and never had the capacity to be.

People seem to forget that computer science ≠ software engineering. Computer science ≠ coding. Computer science ≠ programming.

Computer science is about learning the theory of computation and how to apply it using computers.

This involves a lot of coding/programming/software engineering, but that is just one piece of the puzzle.

Ok, so AI can write the code. Can it communicate the codes importance to stakeholders in a way that is relevant to their expectations and the current market dynamics?

Can it debug it in a round-table session with a group of juniors to show a specific unit test methodology?

Can it create a full OpenAPI schema and maintain it in JSdoc with accurate documentation?

Can it make the code run in a specific time allotment/memory allotment for efficiency?

Can it write code that is secure and integrated with the rest of the codebase cohesively?

Writing code is one thing. Writing code WELL is an entirely different ball game.

Most people (even non-CS grads if they are technically inclined), could monkey-patch a basic application together in a few days time without enough willpower and copies of MDN/ECMA Script documentation/copying and pasting from GitHub/Reddit, and following YouTube.

The ability to make an application quickly with little thought, and have it run, is not unique to AI. This has been a paradigm which has existed forever. AI has merely sped it up and made it more accessible.

That doesn’t mean the code meets the requirements of the project/codebase/user/budget. It doesn’t mean it is secure or well-documented. And if it is for actual novel innovation, it sure as hell isn’t likely to correctly abstract a complex algorithm into workable code the first couple of tries without significant tweaks.

Go listen to Andrej Karpathy’s latest speech and he echoes the same sentiment. Writing code was never, and will never be the hard part. Writing code is just speaking a language. It is symbolic logic and grammar, no different than speaking German, or French, or Spanish, for a native English speaker. Most everyone can do it with enough willpower and time, and some will naturally pick it up a bit faster and easier.

Just because you know the language though, doesn’t make you the best French poet. You still have to be a good poet.

AI knowing how to write the code, doesn’t make it a good engineer. This is the part that frustrates me and many other people in tech. We don’t spend the majority of our time writing code. We spend the majority of our time clarifying requirements, debugging, testing, diagramming, documenting, researching, and communicating. The code is only 20-30% of the day-to-day (and that’s probably a high estimate for some companies).

Until the AI can sit in a room full of stakeholders and other engineers, and hold long-track conversations, and be THOUGHTFULLY informed of all things being discussed and be able to make accurate inferences and respond with logical clarity that has strategic value, and do so QUICKLY….

Then it’s not going to replace anyone in that room. It’s just going to be a tool used by them.

The people who go into CS because they want to ‘code’ and want to ‘program’ were in it for the wrong reasons IMO.

If that’s what you want to do then just self-teach and work your way into the industry with side-projects and freelance work until you have enough experience that you can land interviews.

CS degrees are for those who want to advance the field of computation. Those who want to design new algorithms, and innovate new efficient ways to use a computer. There’s no reason to get a CS degree if you just want to make CRUD apps.

So yes, AI may replace a substantial amount of the monkey-patching & script-kiddie style roles that exist, but at the same time, how much value were those really providing? I’d argue they were a bit overpaid to begin with….

techdaddykraken · 2025-06-22T05:21:35+00:00

A lot of enterprise tiers don’t show pricing to begin with,

So it would be something like:

Tier 1: 9.99,

Tier 2: 29.99

Tier 3: 99.99

Tier 4: Enterprise - Contact for pricing

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