TinyTimmyTokyo

TinyTimmyTokyo , 3 months ago

I've been using DigitalOcean for years as a personal VPS box, and I've had no complaints. Not sure how well they'd scale (in terms of cost) for a site like this.

TinyTimmyTokyo , 3 months ago

Strange man posts strange thing.

https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/228f608f-55b1-430c-beec-715c114866f4.jpeg

TinyTimmyTokyo , 3 months ago

Anthropic's Claude confidently and incorrectly diagnoses brain cancer based on an MRI.

https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/6f99be16-a89e-4a10-9ac0-f2fb552aa5fc.png

TinyTimmyTokyo , 3 months ago

This linked interview of Brian Merchant by Adam Conover is great. I highly recommend watching the whole thing.

For example, here is Adam, decribing the actual reasons why striking writers were concerned about AI, followed by Brian explaining how Sam Altman et al hype up the existential risk they themselves claim to be creating, just so they can sell themselves as the solution. Lots of really edifying stuff in this interview.

TinyTimmyTokyo , 3 months ago

I wonder what percentage of fraudulent AI-generated papers would be discovered simply by searching for sentences that begin with "Certainly, ..."

TinyTimmyTokyo , 3 months ago

She really is insufferable. If you've ever listened to her Pivot podcast (do not advise), you'll be confronted by the superficiality and banality of her hot takes. Of couse this assumes you're able to penetrate the word salad she regularly uses to convey any point she's trying to make. She is not a good verbal communicator.

Her co-host, "Professor" [*] Scott Galloway, isn't much better. While more verbally articulate, his dick joke-laden takes are often even more insufferable than Swisher's. I'm pretty sure Kara sourced from him her opinion that you should "use AI or be run over by progress"; it's one of his most frequent hot takes. He's also one of the biggest tech hype maniacs, so of course he's bought a ticket on the AI hype express. Before the latest AI boom, he was a crypto booster, although he's totally memory-holed that phase of his life now that the crypto hype train has run off a cliff.

[*] I put professor in quotes, because he's one of those people who insist on using a title that is equal parts misleading and pretentious. He doesn't have a doctorate in anything, and while he's technically employed by NYU's business school, he's a non-tenured "clinical professor", which is pretty much the same as an adjunct. Nothing against adjunct professors, but most adjuncts I've known don't go around insisting that you call them "professor" in every social interaction. It's kind of like when Ph.D.s insist you call them "doctor".

TinyTimmyTokyo , 4 months ago

Eats the same bland meal every day of his life. Takes an ungodly number of pills every morning. Uses his son as his own personal blood boy. Has given himself a physical appearance that can only be described as "uncanny valley".

I'll never understand the extremes some of these tech bros will go to deny the inevitability of death.

TinyTimmyTokyo , 8 months ago

I mean, of course he loves unfettered technology and capitalism. He's a fucking billionaire. He hit the demographic lottery.

EDIT: I just noticed his list of "techno-optimist" patrons. On the list? John Galt. LMAO. The whole list is pretty much an orgy of libertarians.