FuckButtons's comments

On: Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

[FuckButtons]

Yes, other people exist who are not like you.

On: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

[FuckButtons]

They increased the projected liability of pre-existing financial deals that include share options.

On: Best of British Design

[FuckButtons]

I have lived outside the uk now for the majority of the years of I have been able to drive.

The winner was a foregone conclusion, transport signage everywhere else I’ve lived and driven extensively other than the uk is a patchwork mess that has clearly had exactly no thought put into it.

On: How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

[FuckButtons]

It seems to me that the only realistic option is to have more exams, closed book, and then use gen ai yourself to help reduce the workload of grading. Possibly with some kind of curve assigning more weight later in the semester.

On: Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

[FuckButtons]

If you assume zero opportunity costs, but that’s a terrible assumption.

On: Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

[FuckButtons]

Presumably that’s not a single satellite.

[jasonwatkinspdx → FuckButtons]

Nope, it's a single massive panel sat and they're using $30/kg as their launch costs.

Up to you how plausible you think that is.

[yencabulator → FuckButtons]

There's an artist's impression of the frigging thing in the whitepaper! It's very obviously a single enormous thing!

> Figure 3. A data center in Sun Synchronous Orbit, showing a 4km x 4km deployed solar array and radiators.

[efskap → FuckButtons]

Right, the goal here is a more realistic Dyson swarm, not a Dyson sphere (yet)

On: I don't want the details

[FuckButtons]

That’s not even true though, leadership is coordination, even if you trust someone else to do the right thing wrt their own problems that still may be globally suboptimal wrt the goals of the overall team / project.

On: AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

[FuckButtons]

If there are not history books out there that try to discern the etiology of those decisions, there really should be.

On: I don't want to read what you didn't write

[FuckButtons]

I’m not disagreeing with your preference for human authored writing, but I don’t know that I agree with the content of your argument.

If you consider that what humans are doing during conversation is a form of compressed encoding / decoding from some latent representation through a quantized signal then if you interpret it that as a compressed sensing problem you absolutely can infer to a very close approximation the original latent representation using far fewer than those 1k bits.

[hatthew → FuckButtons]

From an information-theoretic perspective, if I can effectively transfer a latent concept to you in 300 bits of quantized communication, then by definition the latent concept itself isn't more than 300 bits. Any bit over 300 in the communication I send to you is fluff.

On: AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

[FuckButtons]

I don’t think the bauhaus one is horrible, nor is the cubist one. They’re not great works of art, but if I saw one out in the wild, my reaction would not be: “bloody ai art making everything visually putrid again” nor, do I think they’re worse than the clip art and badly taken digital photograph agglomerations they would be replacing.