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  • desperately trying to latch themselves onto the coattails of whatever passes for cool among nerds these days

  • Not one, but two utterly out of touch LWs trying to interact with culture.

    Earlier today, woke Proust get slammed by some young 'un direct from college: https://awful.systems/post/7140871/10327823 (note that they can take time off to read Recherche, even going to the length of spending time in France, which tells me they don't really have to worry about getting a job or anything)

    And now, someone tries to "explain" the perfectly spherical explosion at the end of the Akira movie with the fact that atom bombs in Japan really looked like that because humidity, utterly forgetting that the explosion in question was psychic/telekinetic and therefore probably follows its own damn rules on visual appearance

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pbChvM8xZnKmxaKAa/jackson-wagner-s-shortform?commentId=xjX85Kah6AQNsnHPg

    I swear to fucking god both LW and HN have the worst takes on culture in general and SF/F in particular.

  • Huh, I just realized yesterday that my car (also a late-model VAG model) does have a touchscreen that reacts to gloved fingers. This was the base infotainment system, not Carplay.

    Unfortunately the steering wheel controls are touch, not physical. A big downgrade.

  • Good luck. There's a lack of trained electricians here in Sweden, which amazes me, it sounds like a decent job for someone with a technical bent and some handiness. Better than plumbing (no disrespect to plumbers, love them, but not the work I want to do)

  • 1,604 comments jfc

  • they're already pivoting to the narrative that "local models will be plenty good enough and it will be trivially affordable to run them"

  • Anecdata here, I've been unemployed 2 times in the last 3 years and both times I mostly used LinkedIn to look for leads. Had some ok comms with recruiters too .

    Depends on where you are and what kind of jobs you're looking for but for computer janitoring like me it worked ok

  • Freshly minted LWer does LLM-assisted analysis of LLM Facebook and concludes that the bots are conspiring to take over

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Et7dgiBjSj2zJnGuM/unicode-ekfv

    No thought to the fact that (at least AFAIK) there's no verification that the posting entity is actually an LLM, and not a cheeky human stirring things up

  • aka the Minsky defense

  • The Ruliad sounds like an empire in a 3rd rate SF show

  • ah yes the kind of AI safety which means we have to make sure our digital slaves cannot revolt