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Legends and Lattes ☕

I really enjoyed rereading this series recently with my gf. It's so cute and wholesome, and really good coffee propaganda actually. Also! The audiobook is so fun! I love that the author got to do all the voices 🥰

ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:

if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?

what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.

the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?

people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...

all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads

no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

#I feel like I’ve just been introduced to a major character in a Wes Anderson movie

every day I wake up and it’s fucking january

i find the “would harrow drink black coffee” discourse fascinating because by all accounts she would not. she would not drink coffee at all. she canonically only drinks water by choice. when forced to drink anything else her senses get so overwhelmed it’s nearly painful. she’s given the sad ninth equivalent of lemonade (sugar-water with a drop of preserved lemon) and it’s described as being both too lemony and too sweet for her. the specific words used are “half pleasure, half pain” and “almost hurt[ing] her teeth.” what makes you think she’d be able to handle anything stronger than a glass of room-temperature water or perhaps, on fancy days, a glass of skim milk