I’ve sat and had beer with someone (who’s worked in the space but not LLMs) who read the Bitter Lesson and got real into the idea of humans “just being universal function approximators” and had wholesale bought into the idea that we should throw everything we possibly can into this shit, no resource cost or requirement is too high or too uncertain, that it would definitely be the right thing to so

so I can tell you without no uncertainty that there are definitely people who buy into it

I poked the conversation gently, to see how far the conviction went. it was pretty comprehensively bought-in. was a somewhat surprising experience tbh

nice, wasn’t aware of that having ground presence there

turns out there was a good reason they wanted to turf us, we just didn’t know it yet

god damn those recasting images

it will never not be hilarious how pathetic this technology/approach is

so, this isn’t so much a design as it is a consequence of how a lot of the technologies involved operate (as in, it’s (largely) not a conscious choice for those things to do that shifting (except in the cases of deceptive designs)), but you’re fairly correct in that it fucking sucks to have that interaction with sites/systems (because of violates principle of least surprise, etc)

(and probably also sometimes/often falls into that bucket of things where “it works perfectly fine on the dev’s 27” laptop with 16 cores and 32gb of RAM and the DC is next door" development applies)

I want to make a zoolander riff but my brain just isn’t cooperating, so instead pretend I did (just like these people pretend their product is worth something)

I could hear this while reading it ahaha

what continues to be absolutely fucking hilarious about this is that this sort of thing already fucking exists in mainland china, in the form of a boxshop you walk into where everything is tagged with RFID stickers. slap the basket into location, pay with phone, leave. and it exists based on 2010+ technology, that’s fairly reliable.

(minor note: I haven’t seen this in person but I’ve seen coverage of it, and I’ve worked with all the actual constituent technologies so I’m quite aware of how real this is and how well it can work, barring all the fuzzy in-practice biz-rule shit that inevitably has to be handled and solved (such as all real-world systems))

haha, I’m glad it brainwormed you :>

well they literally send these people to conferences to spread the word. as @Architeuthis said, it’s very real - and it’s also been for quite a while now

not sure when you got into the industry but you should’ve seen the kind of wacky shit that went down in the 10s (which, yes, is not that long ago at all). utterly fucking bizarre.

I’ve heard this exact same bullshit spun defending choosing golang too, and it’s just as bullshit there as it is here

and that’s not even touching on the aspect of this being based on the extremely toxic “oh yeah just burn them up and find the next one” mentality that has become far more prevalent in the world under the umbrella of zirp-funded bayfuckery gaining international traction

I beg you to go consider whether this is your actual position, or some shit you picked up from someone else. to consider what the effects of this stance are, not just today but in 5/10/15y+. it should be quite easy to see both how it helped us get into the collective pile of shit we now do have, as well as why it won’t ever be good

bring back rap news :<

first time I employed local block (yay for fedi shit having this), heh

iirc I nuked a few more things, api keys and such

ah, handy

see it was wrong when those dirty pirate hippies tried to do it but it’s totally fine when microsoft does it because microsoft can’t be wrong, see? easy

Blah blah blah faster capture time, what are you even talking about lol. go fuck yourself

ah, a well-reasoned and thoughtful response, delivered with class and eloquence. truly awe-inspiring in its brilliance. not at all like someone who got realmad for being called out

there’s also the part where all too often stans go “waaaaaah you can’t be mean [to my hero] just about a photo, that’s not fair!!” and it’s generally not good to let that shit slide either

I wonder if the esteemed poster would say the same thing about all the coverage of musk’s bumbling fuckery that also use photos which show him at all the times he didn’t have the situation pre-cultivated to capitalize on it and send a lying image

did you fucking not read the bit where I said it’s helped by gear

and extra bills