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1 read/watched bunch of things on ai today. decided to figure out the bubble thing which i vaguely understood. knew it was related to the .com bubble. the first result on youtube, so i watched this by the plain bagel and then this too. later this on the .com crash by booneu caught my attention so i watched it and i got distracted, it's just a funny thing to watch. loops itself are not the problem, since economies are just...loops. problem is that, well, will demand really meet that speculated demand? and how much are we willing to give up for it? well, what can one do.
2 find it interesting how i prefer booneu's content over the plain bagel's. thought the first one on the .com crash too whack-whack-whack; the second just kinda eh, wanna get to the point? at the end. goldilocks ahh brain. bonneu's funny, or maybe my brain's just fried. i think meme culture and the usage of such clips in a sustained manner--just so endlessly entertaining. the tone's great too. what's not to love.
3 interestingly still can't stand shortform media much. doesn't make sense considering i went through the whole vine age and do like bonneu's use of memes and references. hell i was addicted to twitter once upon a time. articles are fine, longish videos are fine too. must have developed an allergy. good riddance.
4 distracted. watched bonneu's video about the 1992 us presidential election. something about the way it's presented scratches an itch in my brain.
5 this is what i've been saying! if this ai thing is so good and boosts productivity, this means you are making money moves. then why are we slaving away just as much? well it's not making money moves. so you're delusional, a liar, or incompetent. yeah yeah cut jobs. yeah yeah productivity increases. call me an idealist or a lazy bum but this cog in a system taken to be gospel truth is mad. related articles i read: amodei and altman walking back on their job apocalypse, just say whatever you want i guess.
6 speaking of truth, reading a bit of human capital: the tragedy of the education commons. in the preface voltaire's quoted: "cherish those who seek the truth, but beware of those who find it". need to read candide, i think i dropped it halfway back in the day.
7 no cap. ai is really what covid-19 was during the pandemic in hooking by relevance. typically avoid such headlines and articles but i could start every essay and research paper on it and professors'd be like ok this sounds good an there's a link to the real world! honey if i wrote about ancient chinese pottery there's also link to the real world whatever that means, and it's surely relevant in some way even without bombastic keywords. the state of the world is, i wouldn't say bleak, but annoying, relentlessly so. got to just read classics; i've been thinking i should just do that. i know my man dostoevsky still got my back. still one has to live with other people and it's a bloody shame half the time it's a damned game of telephone to some llm through a fellow who increasingly won't realise they're deciding to lobotomise themselves and squander the one good thing we have. relatedly, don't quote the ai. i mean, sure, maybe poetry reads better when it's written by ai, but from the standpoint of someone with the capability to create things it's just so depressing. i haven't decided what i feel about this.
8 thought about the whole disconnect between the old and the young, people on different rungs of the same organisation, how higher-ups just have no idea what's going on sometimes. country's investments flowing into ai feeling like a bandwagon thing rather than a considered thing. if anything's bleak, that's bleak. but compared to before, it's not like humans have changed fundamentally, so some parts of humankind are disappointing, some are nice, some are wonderful. this is pretty amazing, talking about how a fake disease entered some llms' training corpus and therefore became a real disease, even being cited in papers. liked the tone and the researcher's voice. there must be parallels in the real world. the 'truth' is what's commonly believed, isn't it? llms just make that very topsy-turvy nowadays. also learned about common crawl.
9 admit haven't read the full paper, but why be rude to llms. truly boggles the mind. shall live with lower accuracy. life will be lived regardless, please and thank you.
10 websites are super bloated now. websites like hn and bear blog have been pretty cool recently. liked this post.
11 use kagi myself but ddg sometimes as well. it's exciting to see what will come of all this, like some people switching to ddg and forced ai search sort of just...self-sabotage. i mean all the other feelings aside.
12 haven't read seriously about the philosophical underpinnings nor do i truly engage with labubus or social media much but i found this post interesting. really have to read my foundations and then build up to these soon. just think that what is real is at most what is felt. i'm not sure something being virtual or something with no 'real', that is to say economic, monetary, value is therefore less 'real' in a human sense. even if it's doctored, even if i don't have free will, i think that's what's real to me, what i feel.
13 used to love the sparkles emoji. drawing sparkles in general. worst thing about this ai nonsense.
14 found osk's website. like their black oolong. preferred the taste of the last box i got though. stronger, maybe, had more tang.
15 pretty awesome thing--confidence scores for exam qs. would love to discuss this ideas with education folks. i have to read more about brier scores.
16 wonder what the effects are of listening to music so prolifically. it's strange to see people with their earpieces in when they're with their friends. maybe they're not playing music? world is noisy. music being so readily available, as opposed to the past. think there must've been some impact on psychology.
17 read a bit about games too. first, about slaying monsters. frankly it has always annoyed me such as when i played nier automata when i didn't have a choice. understand that you're playing as a character, not as you, and not every game has to have an mc that's a self-insert. but i still feel that disconnect; it's yucky. then again if i played as a self-insert i'd die half the time probably. what's incredible is i dropped nier automata but i could finish fire emblem three houses, which has a bunch of questionable moments too. at some point it becomes unpalatable, and for nier it was early on for me. haven't quite unpacked that.