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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

second warning: an xcancel search for "zizians" turns up so much transphobia that you'll feel like it's a late night on the Nebuchadnezzar and Tank accidentally loaded your brain with JK Rowling instead of kung fu.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Demonstrating once again that Twitter is the damp locker-room floor of ideas.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do the Zizians fit in the "rationalist/EA/risk community"? Gosh and golly gee.

Yuddites and Zizians are a better example of the "narcissism of small differences" than any of the ones that Siskind propped up.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From the comments:

Sounds like it could be the plot of a mystery novel akin to JK Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series.

The author is very much that type of guy:

Florida Man. Individualist. Free minds and free markets. Distrustful of ideologies, whether left or right.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kelsey Piper bluechecks thusly:

James Damore was egregiously wronged.

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

I mean, maybe? But the amount of trust I put in a description from "GeekWire" written by "an investor at Madrona Venture Group and a former leader at Amazon Web Services" who uncritically declares that spicy autocomplete "achieved strong reasoning capabilities" is ... appropriately small.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've previously discussed the concept of model collapse, and how feeding synthetic data (training data created by an AI, rather than a human) to an AI model can end up teaching it bad habits, but it seems that DeepSeek succeeded in training its models using generative data, but specifically for subjects (to quote GeekWire's Jon Turow) "...like mathematics where correctness is unambiguous,"

That sound you hear is me pressing F to doubt. Checking the correctness of mathematics written as prose interspersed with equations is, shall we say, not easy to automate.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, the splinter group from the cult whose leader wants to bomb datacenters might be violent?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean, "downvotes are proof that the commies are out to get me" is an occasion not just to touch grass, but to faceplant into an open field of wildflowers.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Enjoy your trip to the egress.

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