Post B1wBaECbYFLStZPEa8 by xgranade@wandering.shop
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 (DIR) Post #B1wBaA6mlwJWCMeWxM by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T01:44:26Z
       
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       If it's a skill issue, what's the skill?https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaBwZwrKztHtPKC by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T01:46:11Z
       
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       Like, this is a serious question. A skill isn't vibes, there has to be something that you can actually learn, complete with that connects that skill to output. Maybe the theory behind that skill isn't as rigorous as a scientific theory, but if it's entirely absent, if you have no way of knowing a real skill apart from vibes? Then yeah, you've just got vibes.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaDCvFa0NoGXyRE by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T01:49:02Z
       
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       For all the bloviating from the boosters about how everyone needs to "learn how to use AI," I have yet to see a single coherent explanation of what it is we're supposed to learn.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaECbYFLStZPEa8 by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T01:50:48Z
       
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       Look, lots of folks love to compare AI to quantum computing, and I get it — the hype cycles are hyping. But you can learn how to do quantum computing! And we have actual mathematical theorems that prove that what you learn is correct!I can, and do, critique the pedagogical *methods* often used in quantum computing, but that's quite aside from that there's something to engage in pedagogy about, which just isn't true for LLMs.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaF4UJuRlagcGZM by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T01:52:40Z
       
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       The closet you get is there being skills about how to build LLMs, but that's really not the same thing. There's actual theory there, math describing how to build LLMs, but none of that translates to whatever the entire fuck hell "prompt engineering" and "vibe coding" are.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaFwj4FpeItza6q by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T04:20:30Z
       
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       Two things can be, and in fact are, both true:• AI is unethical whether it works or not.• AI doesn't work.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaGvhPYbZM0WH9E by Razemix@mamutovo.cz
       2026-01-04T09:29:45Z
       
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       @xgranade To be fair, I've seen numerous ethically trained and used AI/ML models in the past years. (I really hate that AI nowadays means GenAI.) Smaller specialized models require much less training data, and it is easier to obtain that data through legitimate means. And they usually do one specific thing and do it quite well. But I've yet to see an ethical GenAI model.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaKSmH1qaJT1Eci by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T04:23:15Z
       
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       I tend to focus on the latter more than I should, including upthread. That's on me.But it's also just absolutely stunning to me that people keep. thinking. they. work. I've kind of priced in people being unethical monsters — I still hate it, but I'm less stunned by it. It's the antiintellectualism of "fuck evidence, LLMs work" that keeps slapping my neurons with lemon juice and salt.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wBaOkILqEhaxFHU0 by xgranade@wandering.shop
       2026-01-04T04:26:36Z
       
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       At the end of the day, people acting unethically is more important than people being wrong on the internet, and it's not like people being wrong on the internet should surprise me by now.But this all has the peculiar thing of watching brains just melt in real time all around me, and fuck if I don't get stuck on that some times.