speaking in general: the tpot crowd are rabid about posting about their own shit, and will get alllll frazzled up the moment anything like this happens. and they have just-enough overlap with quite a few circles that if you happen to be connected to x/y/z it will readily cross your radar

but one can also keep an eye on them directly to see what they're up to. and there is value in that too, despite the mental downpayment it requires

Ah, I do believe I now see a bit of an extra in the reason for the makeup of the story in that one writer/writing episode of DS9

wisdom is learning from others' mistakes

well, one kind is

well, that's certainly an "attempt was made"-grade opinion

yeah, realized afterwards that it's probably the feed for press meet when they leave, as iirc US court doesn't allow video or something

by decades of our industry clapping at brainless

secondarily, the remarkable thing here is just how tiny a slice of industry this actually is (and yet also how profoundly impactful that vocal little segment can be)

e.g. this shit wouldn't fly in a bank (or at least, previously have flown), or somewhere that writes stuff that runs ports or planes or whatever.

but a couple of decades of being worn down by excitable hyperproductive feature factory fuckwads who are only to happy to shit out Yet Another Line Of Code... it's even impacting those areas at times

some days I hate my industry so fucking much

“As measured in terms of its energy production and consumption”

That’s so extremely fucking insane, jesus. We are already dealing with those issues at the “low” end and they want to fucking accelerate it? Christ these people are the fucking worst

Don’t have to have Culture War when you can just systemically deploy the exact culture you want right from the comfort of your prompt, amirite?!

(This is a shitpost idea but it’s probably halfway accurate, maybe modulo the prompt (but there will definitely be someone also trying that))

Look it’s really simple

First you take some food in. Then you apply the Krebs cycle. Then you suddenly learn a lot more about organic chemistry. Then things start getting into the funky. What’s hard? :sarcmark:

But you already lost Yud right after step 1, so you’ll have an edge up either way

ah yes

because the amorphous blob of inner state of a LLM analysing some code according to checks notes the rules set down by someone who is most definitely[0] going to be a world-leading expert in PLT will... checks notes again Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger it up with indeterminate blocks of viral DNA, which we.. (checks notes, pages through a few times ah yes, it says here "which we also quite definitely understand to be 'just' a bunch of matrix bonds" should be said with a punchline lint?) Which We Also Quite Definitely Understand To Be "Just A Bunch Of Matrix Bonds" slaps knee

did this motherfucker seriously see style transfer and the word "code" in "DNA code" and think these could just go at it rubberless and we'd have a problem?

progressing the frontiers of magical thinking!

[0] - whoops, forgot my footnote. but uh: yeaaaaah that's also Dubious

irl lolling so fucking hard at this

Thanks :D

I’m reminded of a story I’ve heard told here in ZA (the details of which I’ve never seen confirmed anywhere, so treat it as apocryphal or folk retelling):

A leading cabinet member said in session “half of you lot are idiots”. When admonished about his remark and ordered to rescind it, he went with “half of you lot aren’t idiots”