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gravitas_deficiency

@ gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works

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3h ago

They are the worst
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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 3h ago
Omg same. And I often wear a button down over a t-shirt, which is mildly annoying with that configuration

3h ago

Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 3h ago

This comment ^ is about the “AI” bubble

8h ago

Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 8h ago

I think negligent homicide is a suitable charge for antivax parents whose kids are killed by a preventable disease

9h ago

California’s Universities Went All In on A.I. The Result Has Been Chaos

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 9h ago

That’s.. not how LLM infrastructure works.

9h ago

California’s Universities Went All In on A.I. The Result Has Been Chaos

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 9h ago

This isn’t about anyone blocking access like censorship. This is an economic issue. The LLM companies are all hemorrhaging cash, and none of them have a clear or realistic path to profitability.

9h ago

California’s Universities Went All In on A.I. The Result Has Been Chaos

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 9h ago

The only company making money on this shit at the moment is Nvidia. That’s it. None of the companies that are actually doing the model development and deployment are making money - they’re hemorrhaging cash, in fact. They have no clear or realistic path to profitability, either.

10h ago

California’s Universities Went All In on A.I. The Result Has Been Chaos

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 10h ago

I actually think it is going to change in the next 3-6 months. Anthropic just filed for IPO, and I believe openAI is gonna do the same soon as well. Being publicly traded comes with mandatory reporting on a lot of stuff they haven’t really shared fully yet, and the profit margins are gonna go under a microscope… except that you can see what’s wrong with the profit margins with the naked eye.

They’re gonna jack up the prices for LLM usage like crazy in the coming months, and it’s gonna start being a huge paywall to people using it. For students, it’s gonna go from convenient to prohibitively expensive virtually overnight. I think the problem in the educational domain may solve itself.

22h ago

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 22h ago

🎶 social engineering 🎶

1d ago

Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and Florida

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

Sterile mosquitoes. Which is actually a highly effective strategy for lowering mosquito populations. Also, only the females bite you - the male mosquito’s entire purpose in life, with no exaggeration, is to bang and then die.

1d ago

u/aramis87 Tells us about a museum theft

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

lol that’s incredible. Outstanding story.

1d ago

Clams and pasta.

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

That looks awesome! Personally I prefer it with spaghetti or linguine or bucatini, but it’s an absolute banger of a dish. Not to mention, if you can manage to get your hands on some good fresh clams, it’s even better.

1d ago

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

Considering you can just… you know, do that in any of the LLM prompts in Meta apps… I really don’t think it’s the work of a “hacker”. That’s such an obnoxiously overused term.

1d ago

Graham Platner Loses Washington’s Vote

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

Ngl that’s… not far off from my own sensibilities.

1d ago

Graham Platner Loses Washington’s Vote

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

That’s more or less exactly what I’m saying. The people in this community who are refusing to consider that Platner might actually be a decent and effective and viable progressive political candidate sound a whole fucking lot like the deeply frustrating establishment-backed narrative that Mills tried to take him out with - to the extent that I seriously question the motives of people who insist on purity testing him like that. I would vastly prefer a candidate who admits to their flaws and shows they learned from them than someone who claims to be purer than the driven snow - largely because no human is perfect. Insisting candidates be The Perfect Progressive is unrealistic and self-defeating, and will lead to progressivism in US politics evaporating entirely. “No true Scotsman”, etc.

By all means, call people out for legitimate issues, but don’t insist on creating divisive shit purely for the purpose of creating divisive shit.

1d ago

Happy pride month

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

It’s an oldie but a goodie haha

1d ago

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

It’s been a long road

1d ago

Graham Platner Loses Washington’s Vote

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gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

Honestly, the fact that the establishment doesn’t like him is a huge mark in his favor. The establishment also doesn’t like AOC, Tlaib, Pressley, Sanders, or many others in the CPC.

Yeah, he’s got some shit in his past, but pretty much everything I’ve seen from Platner in the context of his candidacy indicates to me that he’s done his best to move beyond that, and that he cares about the right things in the right directions these days. Sure, he could turn out to be a Fetterman or Sinema later… but I’d be a bit shocked if he did. Humans aren’t perfect; they learn and change. Politicians who claim to be perfect make me deeply fucking suspicious, because it’s honestly just far more likely that they’re simply better at deadass lying to people and hiding their shit.