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.)
HN, lobste.rs and LW are jizzing themselves over the
newspress release that ChatGPT[1] has disproven an Erdos[2] conjecture.no-one pauses to think this is a transparent attempt to goose interest in OpenAI before they commit an IPO
[1] I know itās not literally ChatGPT, itās an āinternal modelā
[2] fuck trying to find the double acute accent or w/e itās called over the o
in afrikaans: ādeeltekenā
in english: I literally can never remember it, but I remember āumlautā
Itās not a typical umlaut, (we have those in Swedish too), itās like 2 sharp bunny ears
edit LOL itās literally ādouble acute accentā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_acute_accent#Unicode
name in Hungarian: ErdÅs PĆ”l
Apparently Hungarian has 4 different Os: O, Ć, Ć, Å
oh that one, right!
Did it actually solve this one or did it just find a pre-existing solution like it did the last time?
I would expect both lobste.rs and LW to be open sewers of credulity here
Tired: Gell-Mann Amnesia
Wired: Altman Amnesia
altman amnesia is when you stop in your tracks because you hit monthly limit of tokens on 5th
Better than the original (in that itās not a bad model of media literacy given slick packaging in order to support climate change denial)
In fairness, mathematicians here are like scientists at a magic show, i.e., ill suited to asking good critical questions. How much money did OpenAI burn to get what they say they got? How many false starts got quietly tossed in the circular file drawer? When, even, did their work start? It is easy for a company to say, for example, āWe spent only three weeks on thus problemā, casually eliding months of prior effort (all that was the testing phase, you see, before a specific task had been settled uponā¦). OpenAI has no reason to be honest about anything like this. Indeed, a company will naturally get regular practice being dishonest by careful omission at every opportunity.
Meanwhile:
Oh look a human has already beaten their result
REALLY? LMFAOOOOO