what do we pay this dang guy for, anyway

It’s somewhat orthogonal to most subjects discussed here, but the eventual WBD bankruptcy auction is going to be a prime source of lols

I think this is the second or third time that either Ed or somebody on his Discord reminded me about Shingy

The 0.000001% chance that this thing morphs into the new global reserve currency is enough for a proper rationalist to keep it trundling along, don’t you think?

Also don’t underestimate the value of having someplace to park useful cronies you don’t currently have any other job for

this guy’s information diet is 90% recycled memes by volume, isn’t it

Something to which they, and people like them, are entitled

Marc the Builder employs many elite code ninjas who are experts at prompting ChatGPT for npm commands

Surely Wikia could have catapulted to the upper echelons of the Fortune 500 if they had just moved faster to gatekeep the facts about gender-swapped Lady Vegeta being a rare card in set 27 of the Dragonball gacha game

In this context, “moat” is a cargo-cult invocation of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Just another square on the hackernews bingo

Promptfondler DLC for Disco Elysium is a big disappointment so far

yeah don’t do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99’s continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

data moat

of course somebody prompted up a LessWrong-specific chatbot

twitter gon’ have nothin’ left but the cranks

crazy people who look sort of like me but younger.

giving away the game a bit, Mr. Schmidt

Despite the industry’s deeply ingrained neophilia, I think it speaks to the importance of backwards compatibility and legacy systems.

I can’t help but think that the genAI craze will end up being a regrettable side-quest along the path to “coding for non-programmers” akin to Visual Basic. But hey, I bet there’s a lot more legacy VB apps being kept alive out there than anyone would be comfortable with.

Point well made. Engineers, however quantitative they may be, are not often finance people. If the true believers were left in charge, they’d probably bankrupt promises much more rapidly, and auger the whole enterprise into the ground that much quicker. I can’t see that Altman is actually that great a finance guy either, at least in stewardship of other people’s money, but he has cultivated the ability to manipulate cash out of people and institutions during this grift-dominant era of Silicon Valley.

I guess in this scenario, Balaji’s fetishized hyperinflation finally happens sometime in the next 6 months.

Yeah, “thousands of days” seems like a first-draft attempt at “let’s choose a unit of smaller magnitude to make this seem more serious to the plebs.” And everyone around him drowning their brains in GPT slurry shouted, “excellent turn of phrase, sir!”

Imagine if he turned up among the guest cast on Star Trek. He’d probably play a Bajoran who narc’d out to the Cardassians