lloydw.bsky.social
My son’s dad. Misanthropic humanist. Composer. Writer. Dialectical, but also not. Left≠Lib.
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That’s where we are now “camps you die in,” not being, in fact “Death Camps.”
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$1000 to APPLY for asylum? Wtf.
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Well, after a few years all the clothes there will be temu crap too.
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I’m constantly trying to figure out how not to see their ads. Literally you can’t google anything anymore without the entire first page being temu crap.
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Nah.
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Well good luck with that. Remember: you too will die one day, and none of this matters.
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Agree. It’s useful for coding, but actually asking it to make content designed for human beings to consume is mental.
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I’m happy that you have a rich fantasy life, but I’m not really worried about that possibility.
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What happens when virtually everything every person is asked to read in a given day is generated by a computer. We’re training ourselves to accept that level of mediocrity in everything. I already see it everywhere. The lists. The waffling. The truisms. It’s all out there.
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They seem to be very useful for vibe coding purposes. For generation of content, as they’ve been pitched to us, they’re awful and will always be awful, because the appearance of thought is not a virtuous goal in itself.
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Quick! Better write a think piece about how watching tv isn’t doing a thing.
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"I have to return some range rovers."
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"What does this mean? If AI can reliably execute long tasks, it reshapes industries, from knowledge work to automation-heavy fields."
I want to stab myself in the brain stem with a number 2 pencil. If I can, it will dramatically reshape the functioning of my nervous system! fin/
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Hold the phone. Scratch the record. Folks: people with an enormous financial and reputational stake in this becoming true... BELIEVE THIS WILL COME TRUE. Or say they do, anyway.
Shall we examine the monumentally shaky syllogism at the core of this outlook statement? FUCK NO. 6/
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"[Clunky segue]And it’s not just coming from outside observers—insiders at major AI labs, including Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan, have signaled similar expectations. I take their claims very seriously [because reasons] 2027 (or sometimes 2028) keeps coming up." 5/
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This is what our industry has become in the age of Ai, TBH. Azeem is the product of this marrow deep certainty that solutions simply justify themselves by dint of their own existence. Has anyone been helped? Has anything been accomplished? Who the fuck knows? 4/
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How is the supposed ability of Ai to complete a "long" task in any way applicable to an Ai "working" a "full" work day? There are so many gooey variables here, that the outcome is really completely meaningless. 3/
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Why do I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I read this shit? Take a completely context-free statistic, apply an exponent, and then misapply the framework to something completely different! WHAT COULDN'T NOT GO WRONG. 2/
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www.exponentialview.co/p/how-soon-w...
AcK this is what I'm talking about.
"The length of tasks AI can autonomously complete is doubling every seven months. If this trend holds, by 2027, off-the-shelf AI could handle eight-hour workdays with a 50% success rate." 2/
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Who knew trade would be the straw? We just have no modern precedents for a self inflicted wound of this magnitude. Nothing in modern history.
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This is going to end in an actual Weimar situation. It will be tariffs this time rather than reparations.
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But it seems clear this has nothing whatsoever to do with white supremacy. It’s about targeting people who support Palestinian freedom.
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Good god. Someone steal it.
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There are probably a lot of people at those companies who are very sad to hear this news.
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TFW when THAT GUY is at your party and wants to join your smoking circle.
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The 15th amendment had a backdoor built into it. Prisons became the source of slave labor.
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Yeah I’m really sick of this “closer to” and “verging on” discourse. It’s here. Were there.
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The moaning about cancel culture is just another way they tell on themselves. They don’t hate it. They hate that they can’t do it.
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Mein fuhrer, some of ze good news, uns some of ze bad news: ze good news? Von Braun’s rockets are definitely going to vork… und for ze bad news… vell, let’s just say you’re going to have an April wedding.
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Oh but yeah capitalism is still fucked. But holy shit, good job on the moon. I bet capitalists even tried to take credit for that even though governments paid for everything”
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I only have a podcast in the most low key way it’s possible to have a podcast. But you’re welcome to come on it if we cover one of your books.