Posts by ana@starlite.rodeo
 (DIR) Post #B5WpSJ3H4tJ3K1wQN6 by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       @IngaLovinde 💯 female coded labour that my female coded chatbot can worry about
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Xwq7vMzkBGb8Veb2 by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       "the thing about ai is that code is cheap and quick now"*spends all morning prompting and reprompting claude trying to get a trivial application to work properly*
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Xwq860MCgh87U9Am by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       i am convinced that something that's at play here is that our perception of time spent coding tends to be much greater than it actually is, while perception of time spent prompting the machine tends to be much less, leading to a perception of time saved that doesn't match reality
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Xwq8HLg1lHhInCr2 by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       when you're playing the slot machines you remember the time that coins spilled out all over the floor, but you don't remember all the times you pulled the lever and nothing happened. this does not mean playing the slot machines is a good way of making money!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Xwq8Qv6RPyAzGqm0 by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       but what if you could get the dopamine hit from playing slots while still going to work and being a good corporate drone? hmmm...
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Xwq8ekH2TcrrjtK4 by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       Balatro for Workgroups 3.0
       
 (DIR) Post #B5XwqC1tjPmNKXavKK by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       if you aren't spending all day playing slots are you really maximizing the effectiveness of your financial planning?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tUhhzT0fRGbrk3HM by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       middle age dudes all suddenly understand pronouns and are ok with transition when it comes time to refer their chatbots as "she/her"
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tUhlIihXccsRlyCm by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       middle aged dudes when the chatbot whispers sweet nothings to them about how smart they are:"is this an intelligent woman?" 🫴🏼 🦋
       
 (DIR) Post #B62gOrd7tQxOsRiDRo by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       increasingly clear that when tech nerds refer to "AGI" they just mean trying to invent a type of girl who will like them
       
 (DIR) Post #B62gOusToo1Mwvv1IO by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       AGI: a theoretical superintelligence better than humans at nearly any task (being my wife)
       
 (DIR) Post #B62gOvr6BQVhywHQmW by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       and how will you recognize this "AGI" when you invent it, hmm?"it will instantly realize the correctness of all my opinions and arguments and then congratulate me for being so smart"oh, ok
       
 (DIR) Post #B62gOwq4WjHd22o7ou by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       "intelligence" is the scientific measure of how much someone else agrees with my opinions
       
 (DIR) Post #B6H9wBgvwZFbXKAr2W by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       capitalism has created the perfect villain in datacenters. massive resource usage, incompatible with any other activity, and zero discernible benefits to anyone. no notes
       
 (DIR) Post #B6H9wFEMmimCVsq64G by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       we might not be able to agree on anything else but we can agree that we all hate datacenters
       
 (DIR) Post #B6H9wGVQ2o0kT3pEHo by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       given that, they're surprisingly vulnerable and hard to defend. they really haven't thought this through
       
 (DIR) Post #B6H9wHw2jItytvI0QK by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       the level that our opposition is at is like "what if wile e coyote had a billion dollars and owned the acme corporation outright"
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JCesbqKFO5bt9S7M by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"
       
 (DIR) Post #B6w1mKTC62EN4qdwO0 by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       per token llm pricing has come to my work and i had to try really hard not to laugh at all the people who burned through their months allotment in a single day. corporate ai is cooked, it's extremely done now
       
 (DIR) Post #B6w1mNbSRlcinLX5BQ by ana@starlite.rodeo
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       too bad for the people who spent the last few months developing ai workflows that are now completely unworkable with no alternativescoulda just listened to the moral and ethical arguments against thoughor if that doesn't work the people who looked at the underlying economics and accurately predicted massive price hikesor the fact that you're willingly deskilling yourself by buying inor the fact that it just doesn't work very well at allnot too much sympathy here actually