Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Microslop exec floats the idea that companies should be required to buy additional software licenses for each AI agent
Also, itās apparently enough for an LLM endpoint to be paired with an email inbox to be considered an āembodied agentā, words mean nothing.
JFC at least wait until you have a de-facto monopoly before musing about extracting the rents! This is capitalism 101.
Ah right, I need to get a 365 license for word, which comes with a free copilot agent, who needs a 365 license for its copy of word, which comes with a free copilot agent, who needs a ā¦
Now that weāve got the concept of recursive per-seat licensing established, allow me to invite you to contemplate the possibility of the ālicensing macroā
Ahh sh*t if all my rent-seeking employee-reducing dreams come true, iāll lose money on my product subscriptions rents! Quick! I should come up with bullshit that will solve everything!
Itās ludicrous to pay taxes on the wealth your robots make, but itās savvy business to charge each software-delimited robot as a separate being - just like charging per-cpu-core was!
This is a very interesting glimpse into the managerial classā psyche. A person is their email address. Very simple. Why would you need more than that.
Do you get a refund when an āagentā inevitably blows out its context window and starts emitting deranged output, or does that automatically get rolled over into starting up the next āagentā