Haven't really kept up with the pseudo-news of VC funded companies acquiring each other, but it seems Windsurf (previously been courted by OpenAI) is now gonna be purchased by the bros behind Devin.
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ChatGPT has already broken marriages, and hot AI girls are on track to remove a lot of men from the mating pool.
And suddenly I realized that I never want to hear a Rationalist say the words "mating pool".
(I fired up xcancel to see if any of the usual suspects were saying anything eminently sneerable. Yudkowsky is re-xitting Hanania and some random guy who believes in g. Maybe he should see if the Pioneer Fund will bankroll publicity for his new book....)
Good news for women, less risk of the pool needing to be drained because someone crapped in it again.
hot AI girls are on track to remove a lot of men from the mating pool
Can’t remove them if they were never in it.
hot AI girls are on track to remove a lot of men from the mating pool.
Wasn't the "problem" that there's too many men in the mating pool and women are "alphamaxxing" or whatever the fuck to get the highest quality dick? Shouldn't this be a good thing for incels like Hanania.
mating pool
probably on par with the other stuff you might see at a rationalist poly compound
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Shot-in-the-dark prediction here - the Xbox graphics team probably won't be filling those positions any time soon.
As a sidenote, part of me expects more such cases to crop up in the following months, simply because the widespread layoffs and enshittification of the entire tech industry is gonna wipe out everyone who cares about quality.
New high-strength sneer from Matthew Hughes: The Biggest Insult, targeting "The Unspeakable Contempt At The Heart of Generative AI"
The context for this essay is serious, high-stakes communication: papers, technical blog posts, and tweet threads.
More recently, in the comments:
After reading your comments and @Jiro 's below, and discussing with LLMs on various settings, I think I was too strong in saying....
It's like watching people volunteer for a lobotomy.
thinking about how often code will be like
[-1] * len(array) # -1 is a place holder because I don't know the vocabulary term "sentinel value"
and justified because "it just needs to work"
and now we have professional vibe coders
nasb, new torres piece out, promising title and opening
(I’ll have to read it after done with my present other currency-related diversions. old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud.gif)
I like his new framing of the accelerationists and transhumanists as pro-extinctionists.
I like how quoting Grimes lyrics makes the banality of these people thuddingly clear.
I wanna be software The best design Infinite princess Computer mind
Substituting this for the text whenever I see Sammy Boy say something again
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