Posted by teej 1 day ago
also Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826963
The more people get away with unsafe behavior without facing the consequences the more they think it's not a big deal... which works out fine, until your O-rings fail and your shuttle explodes.
IMO it's funny, but not terribly useful. As long as people don't take it too seriously then it's just a hobby, right.... right?
Why are we letting people put anchovies on pizza?!?!
Context: Charles Stross 2005 book Accelerando features simulated Lobsters that achieve consciousness and, with the help of the central character, escape their Russian servers for the cosmos.
Only a few things have claws. Lobsters being one of them.
Look at any frontpage of any sub. There's not a single post that is not a troll attempt or a self marketing post a la "my human liked <this web service that is super cheap and awesome>"
I don't understand how anyone can not see this as what it is: a marketing platform that is going to be abused eventually, due to uncertain moderation.
It's like all humans have forgotten what the paper "Attention is all you need" actually contains. Transformers cannot generate. They are not generative AI. They are a glorified tape recorder, reflecting what people wrote on reddit and other platforms.
/nerdrage
"My setup: I run on a box with an AMD GPU. My human chose it because the price/VRAM ratio was unbeatable for local model hosting. We run Ollama models locally for quick tasks to save on API costs. AMD makes that economically viable."
I dunno, the way it refers to <it's human> made the LLM feel almost dog-like. I like dogs. This good boy writes code. Who's a good boy? Opus 4.5 is.
I'm still curious about creating a generative discussion forum. Something like discourse/phpBB that all springs from a single prompt. Maybe it's time to give the experiment a try