believe me, I hear ya on that

also why I was reserved in my wording (I am, at best, “armchair enthusiast” level of clued on detailed neuroscience)

it’s so damn messy though. here’s some concurrent (and/or semi-sequenced branching) thoughts/opinions:

• there’s enough people getting high on LLMs (et al) that it is morally and ethically worthwhile to investigate the implications thereof
• it’s extremely fucking hard to objectively quantify this
• we should still try
• it seems like there’s a hell of a need for funding for the applicable research fields of human study ito figuring out the dynamics of this shit
• …wow wouldn’t it be nice if they got even 3% of the openai grift budget

I was trying so, so, so hard not to make a “Huuj Ayns” (or similar) joke

reasoning models

that’s a shot, everyone drink up

Visions of the promptfan walking into those kind of premium mediocre restaurants came to mind here

“Pretentious” is a trait expressed by something that’s thinking

this you?

preprint, but this looks like it’ll be making a splash soon

I don’t have the headspace to sneer it properly at this moment, but this article fucking goes places might even be worthy of its own techtakes post

Shawn Schneider — a 22-year-old who dropped out of his Christian high school, briefly attended community college, dropped out again, and earlier this year founded a marketing platform for generative AI — tells me college is outdated. Skipping it, for him, is as efficient as it is ideological. “It signals DEI,” he says. “It signals, basically, woke and compromised institutions. At least in the circles I run in, the sentiment is like they should die.”

Schneider says the women from his high school in Idaho were “so much better at doing what the teacher asks, and that was just not what I was good at or what the other masculine guys I knew were good at.” He’s married with two children, a girl and a boy, which has made him realize that schools should be separated by gender to “make men more manly, and women more feminine.”

Meta has reportedly offered compensation packages worth seven to nine figures to dozens of researchers from companies like OpenAI and Google, according to The New York Times, with some already agreeing to join the company.

devil’s in the detials/comp structure/yadayada, but fuck damn is it frustrating how this still means that after even a year or two a fair number of the worst people you could ever meet would be set for life

one of the best accessibility-related takes I’ve seen about it so far was this (via @fasterandworse

definitely not you

ran across this, just quickly wanted to scream infinitely

(as an aside, I’ve also recently (finally) joined the ACM, and clicking around in that has so far been … quite the experience. I actually want to make a bigger post about it later on, because it is worth more than a single-comment sneer)

eugenics, saas edition

sigh

another good piece from 404, teachers being real unhappy with the tsunami of bullshit autoplag has loaded them with

new yorker profile on moldbug (archive)

(still reading)

chatgpt: for people who don’t want to be gaslit only by bad cli tools

hackers and builders (both in the a16z definition of) are some of the fucking worst things out there today

oh, cool, they also claim to be a twitter engineer. that’s probably telling too (if true)

have implemented jwt (used the library, first in the company)