(I get the feeling we’re close to this bubble’s end.)
Anyways, welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I’m actually enjoying how relevant AI 2027 is staying, it’ll make it harder for the boosters to downplay it and easier for us to sneer at it over the next few years as it becomes increasingly blatant how wrong it was.
Isn’t it pretty bad for the scenario that the China nationalising stuff didn’t happen, since a race with China is the main fuel for the scenario’s fire? Most of the stuff they got correct this time around were no-brainers (business gurus talking about AI and the market for junior engineers being in turmoil) plus, they didn’t get the ‘people who know how to use AI are making a killing’ mostly right either
Anyways still extremely doubtful of superhuman coders in March 2027
(edit: it would actually be superhuman coders in Jan 2027 according to the tracker due to the chart saying some of Anthropic’s models are 11 weeks ahead)
The coding stuff is going to be fun, if what I heard about the coding bots having reached their maximum (and ai companies now moving to other fields to build specialized models for (which fits my prediction that they wouldn’t build AGI and all the ‘gains’ would be more and more unwieldy specializes modules/models. Like the ‘correctly count the r’s in strawberry’ one)).