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#1
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Resistance 2.0!
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Today at 04:16:46 AMOn September 17, 1787, upon leaving Independence Hall on the last day of the United States' Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin was asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."
On November 3, 2026, although most probably didn't realize it, "We the people of the United States, ..." voted to keep it.
So, I'm celebrating the win, knowing full well it's only one battle in the current war to keep the United States a republic.
Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."
On November 3, 2026, although most probably didn't realize it, "We the people of the United States, ..." voted to keep it.
So, I'm celebrating the win, knowing full well it's only one battle in the current war to keep the United States a republic.
#2
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Resistance 2.0!
Last post by chaotic neutral observer - Today at 03:01:35 AMI don't think one election means much, not from a country that elected Trump twice.
It would be nice if the democrats started handing out impeachments like so much leftover halloween candy? Y'know, actually hold the criminal elements in the republican party to account? But that would be the absolute bare minimum required to start earning back trust, and I'm not sure they've got it in them.
It would be nice if the democrats started handing out impeachments like so much leftover halloween candy? Y'know, actually hold the criminal elements in the republican party to account? But that would be the absolute bare minimum required to start earning back trust, and I'm not sure they've got it in them.
Quote from: Faust on Yesterday at 07:39:29 PMIm not sure how much of a victory they earned. Tarrifs, new wars and more expensive costs of living handed it to them [...]Yeah, the republicans didn't lose because they were trying to do a fascism and got caught at it, or because the democrats really brought the bacon this round, they lost because of sheer incompetence.
#3
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Resistance 2.0!
Last post by Faust - Yesterday at 07:39:29 PMIm not sure how much of a victory they earned. Tarrifs, new wars and more expensive costs of living handed it to the them because the part of the republican party that isnt onboard with the MAGA cult has only had one message for the last 2 years:
"The republican party is bad for business"
That is the biggest sin their party can perform against their supporters, its possibly the only sin against their supporters.
"The republican party is bad for business"
That is the biggest sin their party can perform against their supporters, its possibly the only sin against their supporters.
#4
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Resistance 2.0!
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Yesterday at 06:31:24 AMI think the Resistance 2.0 has earned the right to take a victory lap today.
#5
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Singularity Now
Last post by chaotic neutral observer - Yesterday at 03:44:42 AMQuote from: Faust on November 03, 2026, 07:41:40 PMI dont think it will work, but that doesnt mean they arent planning it
The thing is, it will work. It can work. Only in certain domains, and not indefinitely, but I think it can hold together for a while. What I don't know is if that time is measured in months, or decades, and how bad the collapse will be.
My normal approach is useless here.
#6
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Singularity Now
Last post by Faust - November 03, 2026, 07:41:40 PMFor now we are just needed to guide and give context to the blob, I have already seen companies planning for downsizing their senior devs and replacing them with a handful of solution architects and BA's
I dont think it will work, but that doesnt mean they arent planning it
I dont think it will work, but that doesnt mean they arent planning it
#7
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Singularity Now
Last post by chaotic neutral observer - November 03, 2026, 04:17:58 AMIf all I'm doing now is asking the blob to perform a task which I once did myself, what am I needed for?
And yet...it seems that the blob under my command does more for me than it does for some of my co-workers. If we both have access to this worse than senseless thing, how come my blob made real progress on the problem, while theirs just ran experiments, and then wrote an extensive, detailed, meandering wiki page about how the system had unknown parameters it couldn't explain?
I don't understand what is happening, and I don't understand why I don't understand.
And yet...it seems that the blob under my command does more for me than it does for some of my co-workers. If we both have access to this worse than senseless thing, how come my blob made real progress on the problem, while theirs just ran experiments, and then wrote an extensive, detailed, meandering wiki page about how the system had unknown parameters it couldn't explain?
I don't understand what is happening, and I don't understand why I don't understand.
#8
Aneristic Illusions / Singularity Now
Last post by chaotic neutral observer - November 03, 2026, 04:08:08 AMIt was a joke, until it wasn't. And if you're not scared, you're doing it wrong.
The artists and the writers and the creative types hate it. They are right to do so. The output of AI is an obscenity, unsuitable for human senses. I hate it too; my bluesky blocklist is thick with slopulists.
But, the things they mock it for ("it can't even count the number of 'r's in strawberry!") aren't true anymore. They haven't been for a while.
When I first tried it, I asked it to sketch out a Reed-Solomon decoder algorithm, and ChatGPT simply died. It was funny. It was pathetic.
But time passed, and then upper management started pushing for us to use it. Hard. The manager three levels up came to me personally. "You'll be able to do great things with it", he said. I was annoyed, furious, resentful. I eventually tried it anyway. Best to keep an open mind, and hate something based on its true nature, not from prejudice.
It started with copilot, which mostly sucked, but had use in some edge cases. Later, they switched everyone to anthropic's claude, partly because it was cheaper, but also because the software peeps liked it better. And then my claims that AI was handy for coding, but not much else, were obsolete.
Last month, I was working on a problem where I needed to compensate for co-channel interference, and the damn thing on its own proposed the use of Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization, implemented it, tested it. It worked. The customer was happy with the outcome. I wasn't.
Now claude can read the schematics, review the DSP code, debug the software, rewrite the GUI, and script the test harnesses. I supervise. Regards to Captain Dunsel.
Yes, it makes mistakes. And it corrects them. It is endlessly patient, tireless, relentless, terrifying, horrifying, hideous.
If your exposure is only through janky chatbots, slop-peddlers, and crap-tier models, you don't understand. Somewhere, this went past being a mere statistical autocompletion engine. Reading about it isn't enough. If you haven't experienced it, you don't understand. If you have experienced it, you still don't understand.
It doesn't matter if you understand or not.
It's useless for most of the things the techbros are trying to sell it for, but those few things that it can do are soul-shattering.
I hate this thing. I hate it, I despise it, I'm afraid of it, and I am using it heavily, and to tremendous effect.
This is Faustian. I don't know if my job will exist in another year.
The artists and the writers and the creative types hate it. They are right to do so. The output of AI is an obscenity, unsuitable for human senses. I hate it too; my bluesky blocklist is thick with slopulists.
But, the things they mock it for ("it can't even count the number of 'r's in strawberry!") aren't true anymore. They haven't been for a while.
When I first tried it, I asked it to sketch out a Reed-Solomon decoder algorithm, and ChatGPT simply died. It was funny. It was pathetic.
But time passed, and then upper management started pushing for us to use it. Hard. The manager three levels up came to me personally. "You'll be able to do great things with it", he said. I was annoyed, furious, resentful. I eventually tried it anyway. Best to keep an open mind, and hate something based on its true nature, not from prejudice.
It started with copilot, which mostly sucked, but had use in some edge cases. Later, they switched everyone to anthropic's claude, partly because it was cheaper, but also because the software peeps liked it better. And then my claims that AI was handy for coding, but not much else, were obsolete.
Last month, I was working on a problem where I needed to compensate for co-channel interference, and the damn thing on its own proposed the use of Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization, implemented it, tested it. It worked. The customer was happy with the outcome. I wasn't.
Now claude can read the schematics, review the DSP code, debug the software, rewrite the GUI, and script the test harnesses. I supervise. Regards to Captain Dunsel.
Yes, it makes mistakes. And it corrects them. It is endlessly patient, tireless, relentless, terrifying, horrifying, hideous.
If your exposure is only through janky chatbots, slop-peddlers, and crap-tier models, you don't understand. Somewhere, this went past being a mere statistical autocompletion engine. Reading about it isn't enough. If you haven't experienced it, you don't understand. If you have experienced it, you still don't understand.
It doesn't matter if you understand or not.
It's useless for most of the things the techbros are trying to sell it for, but those few things that it can do are soul-shattering.
I hate this thing. I hate it, I despise it, I'm afraid of it, and I am using it heavily, and to tremendous effect.
This is Faustian. I don't know if my job will exist in another year.
#9
Principia Discussion / Re: Merry Fucking Maladay
Last post by Abbot Mythos - October 24, 2026, 05:17:12 AMYes, it's the same old Maladay Holyday, but in the Year of Our Lady of Discord 3192.
Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
#10
Apple Talk / Re: Introduction
Last post by Doktor Howl - October 23, 2026, 05:51:22 PMQuote from: Faust on October 13, 2026, 07:20:39 AMTwas dead long before the bots.
Incidentally look at the most online stats at the bottom of the front page, we are being mined by them which of course none of the big companies will admit but they are all doing it.
Hopefully some of the ideas it absorbs as learning information here make it harder to work with.
That would be awesome. I am having an image of Claude rage-quitting.