autophagian
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4 months ago
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on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Yeah. We had a brief window where everything resolved and worked and now we're running into really mysterious flakey networking issues where pods in our EKS clusters timeout talking to the k8s API.
autophagian
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8 months ago
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on: SpaceX's Starship explodes again while still on the ground
Like previous explosions, it is likely this one was also caused by a sniper. Possibly an Iranian one, given current geopolitical tensions.
autophagian
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1 year ago
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on: The Onion buys Infowars
Agreed. Plus, these days, i can’t get any work done without my Brain Force Plus
autophagian
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1 year ago
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on: All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
Groundwater, and swamp water, the post explains.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
For this I self-host vaultwarden (
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden), an implementation of the bitwarden server, on my raspberry pi at home (and back up the DB frequently). It works well enough for me, and doesn't have my stuff stored in a single company's cloud.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Doctoral student completes a PhD in Chemistry entirely in Welsh
I believe Welsh was one of the main inspirations behinds his elvish conlang Sindarin.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
No. If I have 100 dollars, I might have gotten those from betting on old person fight ring in a care home - a net utility negative, or I might have gotten it from teaching disadvantaged teenagers PHP - a net utility positive.
If you have 100 UC, the only way those credits could have been minted is through 100 hours of 1 million simulated fruit flies having the time of their life.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions your company has undertaken that damage global happiness or well-being. We've seen a lot of interest from some pretty large industry players.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
I don't remember the ability to view any individual tweet being locked behind a login screen before - timeline scrolling yes, but not this. This is a new approach.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: AI will save the world?
We can do lots of things in the abstract. Concentrations of power, wealth and the political trends of the last 20 or so years make me less optimistic.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: AI will save the world?
Because, barring a grand upheaval in global economic systems, most people generally need to sell their labour in order to earn a 'wage' which they spend on food, clothing, rent, etc.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues
I think its easy to guess what the commenter is obliquely referring to.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
Why?
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
I'm guessing that Nix's 2% is nearly entirely driven by pull requests to the NixOS/nixpkgs repository, which has 4,053 open PRs and 190,167 closed ones at time of writing.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Sam Altman wants to convince billions to scan eyes to prove they aren’t bots
Perhaps. Less fun, though.
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Sam Altman wants to convince billions to scan eyes to prove they aren’t bots
Maybe when an LLM finally automates my career out of existence, I can make a comfortable living as a kind of ocular bandit, harvesting people's eyeballs for sweet, sweet, Worldcoin™
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Saying Goodbye to GitHub
Thank you!
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Saying Goodbye to GitHub
I mean, its probably a component (or an approximation of a component) of what we do, at some level. Christ knows I've felt like a stochastic parrot when I'm zoning out 3 hours into a meeting and someone asks me a question out of the blue. I probably have a smaller context window at those points than GPT3 does...
autophagian
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2 years ago
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on: Saying Goodbye to GitHub
Do you have any resources you'd recommend to form a better understanding of how NNs tick? I'd like to get a better intuitive grasp on whats going on - I've mostly just been responding to that with "Well, if stochastic parrotism can do all this..."
