the model was supposed to be trained solely on his own art

much simpler models are practically impossible to train without an existing model to build upon. With GenAI it’s safe to assume that training that base model included large scale scraping without consent

his other references seem to be more garden variety neo-nazi type

Also apparently pro LGBT neo-nazis, which I refuse to believe are not a parody. See this cursed screenshot:

“The Camp of the Saints is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world.”

More of a train whistle than a dog whistle this one.

Are economists considered physical scientists? I’ve read it as “social scientists are dumb except for economists”. Which fits my prejudice for econo-brained less wrongers.

If I find a cool piece of driftwood and frame it, did I do art?

Kinda? I “found” a defective injection molding part, where the color of previous batch seeped in in a pattern that looks like a flower. It’s really pretty. That there is no intention behind it makes it more interesting to me. It wasn’t trivial to put it on a wall. I had to use nails and iron wire and then balance it. I am fine with not calling it art. On a scale 1-10 it definitely is not more than 2.

I think it’s more like Alien vs Predator.

“Both what I’ve seen, and what the administration sees, is you all are one of the most respected technology groups in the federal government,” Shedd told TTS workers. “You guys have been doing this far longer than I’ve been even aware that your group exists.”

(emphasis mine)

Well, maybe start acting like it champ.

personally i think that Vietnamese invasion on all ea compounds would solve a lots of problems and disband a couple of startups

But aren’t they used to dealing with VC?

Also, I the image is perfect. I especially like the Joe Kucan-looking general embedded in the star trek tactical station. The Technology of Peace ain’t what it used to be, is it?

Is that a screenshot from Command&Conquer 4?

That article gave me a whiplash. First part: pretty cool. Second part: deeply questionable.

For example these two paragraphs from sections ‘problem with code’ and ‘magic of data’:

“Modular and interpretable code” sounds great until you are staring at 100 modules with 100,000 lines of code each and someone is asking you to interpret it.

Regardless of how complicated your program’s behavior is, if you write it as a neural network, the program remains interpretable. To know what your neural network actually does, just read the dataset

Well, “just read the dataset bro” sound great sounds great until you are staring at a dataset with 100 000 examples and someone is asking you to interpret it.

I thought it was for Bozo

Who knows. The only thing that came to my mind reading that is the joke “statement made by utterly deranged”. And then I realized there is no joke.

It was supposed to. I’m just not that good at writing.

Yeah, neural network training is notoriously easy to reproduce /s.

Just few things can affect results: source data, data labels, network structure, training parameters, version of training script, versions of libraries, seed for random number generator, hardware, operating system.

Also, deployment is another can of worms.

Also, even if you have open source script, data and labels, there’s no guarantee you’ll have useful documentation for either of these.

I am neither left nor right wing, as I’m a libertarian

Ah, yes, the classic “I’m not like the other girls” of politics.

It would be funny if someone was literally beating up servers with a wooden shoe.

Then there is John Michael Greer…

Wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

A regular contributor at UnHerd…

I did not know that, and I hate that it doesn’t surprise me. I tended to dismiss his peak oil doomerism as wishing for some imagined “harmony with nature”. This doesn’t help with that bias.

The first paragraph surprised me. I didn’t know there were still some true believers left.

YAML is great if you need to make simple configuration files

… which is why no one uses it for things like Kubernetes /s

Automattic… that’s why there are two t’s!? Jesus Christ.