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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it

    this is so much slower (in both keystrokes and raw time, not to mention needing to re-prompt) and much more expensive than just going into the fucking CSS and pressing the 3 buttons needed to change the padding for that selector, and the only reason why this would ever be hard is because they’re knee deep in LLM generated slop and they can’t find fucking anything in there. what a fucking infuriating way to interact with a machine.

  • elon musk's obsession with the tic tac toe of video games

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  • I love both the content of this post and the fact that it’s a self-contained torture test for our pict-rs upgrade

    also, lol @ musk, war genius, starting a domestic dispute with his ex-girlfriend cause she dared to betray him in his baby mobile 4x game when betrayals are a core part of every 4x I know

    I’m getting the strong mental image of musk being the guy who flips the board 12 hours into Twilight Imperium cause the other players didn’t let him win

  • Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride”

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  • holy fuck those comments. are all these people huffing CO2?

    I get the some streamers looked at @elonmusk's gameplay and it looks like a shared account, maybe with his kids or something, and it seems unlikely he's made all that PoE2 progress on his own.

    But has he actually said something about his play of PoE2 that is contradicted by this? Do we have an actual quote from him that would be a lie if their assessment of his on stream PoE2 gameplay is accurate?

    The critics who leap to assuming he's not (or was not) a good (pro-level) gamer in general are making a huge leap with their "gotcha" moment.

    uhm if you’d just look at the facts and ignore everything musk said and ignore the other times he was caught cheating, it’s perfectly reasonable that an extremely busy businessman like daddy musk would just have his 6 year old son play this extremely difficult game at a top level and then repeatedly claim his son’s accomplishments as his own. and by the transitive property that makes musk a pro-level gamer! QED woke critics or as professional quake players like musk and I say: lol zerg rush gg

  • Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride”

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  • thx bye now

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • Obviously, if you are dealing with a novel problem, then the LLM can’t produce a meaningful answer.

    it doesn’t produce any meaningful answers for non-novel problems either

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • yep, original is still visible on mastodon

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • guess again

    what the locals are probably taking issue with is:

    If you want a more precise model, you need to make it larger.

    this shit doesn’t get more precise for its advertised purpose when you scale it up. LLMs are garbage technology that plateaued a long time ago and are extremely ill-suited for anything but generating spam; any claims of increased precision (like those that openai makes every time they need more money or attention) are marketing that falls apart the moment you dig deeper — unless you’re the kind of promptfondler who needs LLMs to be good and workable just because it’s technology and because you’re all-in on the grift

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • they are when Anduril and DetSys do them

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • That’s some wildly disingenuous goal post moving

    check their recent post history. it’s all old school, Ayn Rand, bro you don’t even watch Bullshit?, internet libertarian takes and it’s fucking delicious, like eating a Big Mac straight from the time capsule where someone buried it

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • oh shit, it’s the only capitalist on lemmy and they’re in this thread! I’ve been waiting so long to tell you this:

    go fuck yourself

    e: holy fuck that post history, what did the objectivists do to you?

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • Can someone explain why I am being downvoted and attacked in this thread? I swear I am not sealioning. Genuinely confused.

    my god! let me fix that

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • both those are related to information theory, but there are other things I legally can’t mention. shrug.

    hahahaha fuck off with this. no, the horseshit you’re fetishizing doesn’t fix LLMs. here’s what quantization gets you:

    • the LLM runs on shittier hardware
    • the LLM works worse too
    • that last one’s kinda bad when the technology already works like shit

    anyway speaking of basic information theory:

    but the research showing that 3 bits is as good as 64 is intuitive once you tie the original inspiration for some of the AI designs.

    lol

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • the fruit can’t be rotten, you must be picking it wrong

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • it’s weird you pretend to be an anti-corporate leftist but when convenient post shit like:

    All of the top tech companies now were once spending cash faster than they could make it, and all the naysayers saying they’d never be profitable.

    “the only thing I hate more than neolibs and Peter thiel is when a bunch of thiel’s friends get credibly accused of running a massive grift” haha sure

  • Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect

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  • how are you this fucking mid?

  • Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect

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  • In fact, they’re getting plenty of free publicity for using AI to make it thanks to articles like these

    good thing there’s no such thing as bad publicity, otherwise this shit would be fucking embarrassing

  • Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

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  • But don’t worry! Google’s AI summaries will soon have ads!

    dear fuck, pasting ads onto the part of Google search that’s already known to be unreliable and annoying at best seems like a terrible idea. for a laugh, let’s see if there’s any justification for this awful shit in the linked citation

    Ads have always been an important part of consumers’ information journeys.

    oh these people are on the expensive drugs huh