• I don't know Matt Mullenweg, but I'm afraid to ask
• I love the nonsensical misleading QR code onliner, conflictingly using both echo "<URL>" | and mac-only getoutput("pbpaste") (yuck).
• It is famously easy to maintain a job and mental well-being when you have no stable home and few sets of clothes! Famously you don't need a registered address to open a bank account, and you don't need a bank account to get a registered address!
• I guess you could run the GPU for 1000 years.
• One needs to learn that interpolation = confabulation = useless bullshit.

On a less sneerious note, I would draw distinctions between:

• Being able to extract value from LLM/GenAI
• LLM/GenAI being able to sustainably produce value (without simple theft, and without cheaper alternatives being available)

And so far i've really not been convinced of the latter.

And those shadows are just as sentient as we are, even if they don't depict the world, they convey a perception of a hypothetical world in which they are accurate!

Trying to grapple with the meaning consciousness through input/output is so close to being philosophical zombies type interesting, and yet so far and vacuous in what he actually says, that could apply to dice picking which color the sky is today. Also pretty hilarious that we would choose being WRONG, as a baseline (because LLM's are so bad) for outrospection, instead using the more natural cooperative nature of language. (Which machines fail at, which is maybe also why)

LLM’s aren’t nearly random enough to ever produce the entire works of Shakespeare, no matter how much infinite time you give them (though I’m sure they are capable of abominable stitchings of regurgitated quotes/snippets).

It’s always baffling when people (who’ve given it adequate thought) take library of babel type of things seriously, while ignoring the overwhelming amount of nonsense, that would be hard to separate unless all you looking for is an exact echo of your query.

I was really puzzled by it until I realized it’s supposed to be the “stop” button. ▶️⏸️⏹️

Now I am cringing at someone who would deliberately choose being so obtuse and cryptic.

Presumably this ought to quicken to death of Twitter, so it's not necessarily ALL bad news. In the meantime there is always copy paste, it's not perfect receipts, but it's sufficient for most sneering purposes.

EDIT: It is a bit nuts considering the number of Official Agencies world wide that issue press releases on twitter, and not really anywhere else convenient to access by the general public (Although that is also them displaying questionnable practices.)

Unhinged is another suitable adjective.

It's noteworthy that how the operations plan seems to boil down to "follow you guts" and "trust the vibes", above "Communicating Well" or even "fact-based" and "discussion-based problem solving". It's all very don't think about it, let's all be friends and serve the company like obedient drones.

This reliance on instincts, or the esthetics of relying on instincts, is a disturbing aspect of Rats in general.

Pessimistically,
I feel TechBroism is a brand of positivism that will never die, more than one of its brethren is already trying to cast themselves as would-be alchemist promising gold from lead through the arcane uses of AI: "You just need the right prompt."

Honestly this could be an improvement compared to what is currently in use by the current french tax collection agency.

The DGFiP uses an up until recently closed-source custom language called "M", which does not have the friendliest/most readable syntax, and that the guys at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, the same lab that seems to have spat out CatalaLang) had to reverse engineer a modern compiler when open sourcing the tax calculation software was newly mandated.

Witness this horrid glory, sadly only in French: chap-1.m

Could also be intended for other horrid COBOL output cases:

For example, the compiler can generate Javascript for web applications, SAS for economic models and COBOL for legacy environments

Trying to approach and make visible the relationship with the laws as written, so that it can potentially be reviewed by non domain-experts doesn't appear to me to be the worst possible goal out there. (They seem to be trying interleaved markdown format), the bigger/broader claims in the about/readme sections might just be required bells and whistles for proper grant funding/thesis presentation.

I have developer co-workers who play the role very convincingly ^^, especially for the LLM hype, and I remember more than one tech conference attending evangelizer (to be fair sometimes the tools or practices are actually good).

What’s the focus of UX despair these days? I haven’t touched frontend design or implementation for a long while now.

Listen to me.

YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERJOCKS CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BULLY YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE AND POPULARITY TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BULLYING.

I think part of it is cargo-culting and/or esthetics, and the seduction is a bit more subtle, their betting markets formalizes their belief:
That if people believe something (they agree with, they aren't consistent with it), that thing is more likely.

Some might even have an actually "occult" interpretation and see it as a form of actual divination. Yud certainly appears to me to have that tendency.