Almost all game-slowing doors are just hidden loading screen baked into the gameplay.

Before shoes? Amish? My goodness. I didn’t realize I was a savage Luddite. I’m on the most pro-AI instance in the fediverse, I literally think it has incredible potential, and I personally use the technology.

It’s not ready to evaluate humans on any level, it’s dehumanizing to force humans to talk to it for money, and it’s definitely going to filter out skilled professionals who don’t want to do that. As opposed to RNG, which is just as likely to filter out good as bad, and so has a net neutral impact on your hiring pool.

I’m not saying “stick to the past” I’m saying “hey maybe take it easy over there, we don’t need to rush into a cyberpunk dystopia. We can take our time.”

Like… a horn?

Try not to stress too much about it while you’re away! If nothing can be done, nothing can be done. Solarpunks need to be resilient to things like this anyway. Community over convenience.

So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?

I mean, in both cases it’s because the LLM and interpreter do things you wouldn’t expect.

The issue will remain that liability will be completely transferred from individual humans to faceless corporations. I want self-driving cars to be a thing - computers can certainly be better than humans at driving - but I don’t want that technology to be profit-motivated.

They will inevitably cause some accidents that could have been prevented if not for the “move fast and break things” style of tech development. A negligent driver can go to jail, a negligent corporation gets a slap on the wrist in our society. And traffic collisions will result in having to face powerful litigation teams when they inevitably refuse to pay for damages through automated AI refusal like private health insurance companies.

… I’m sorry if you’ve spent your entire life on this, but this is bizarrely hostile. Countless people have spent countless hours hiring candidates without AI. This isn’t some genius-level solution to an unsolved problem, this is just an attempt to downsize HR departments.

The company doesn’t suffer some material loss if they miss out on hiring a marginally better candidate, and it’s not like these AI solutions have been around long enough to prove that they can even find the “best” candidates. Especially when they’re certainly filtering out qualified professionals who don’t want to justify themselves to a glorified chatbot.

Just, filter them through some basic metrics

… No? My whole point is that they don’t need to process and assess every last applicant with things like the AI in this post. If - through the process I just described - they only actually assess 50 randomly selected applicants out of the 1000 when they find a good one, there’s nothing wrong with that. Send an automated rejection to the other 950 and move on.

I genuinely don’t understand the point of candidate filters like this. Is it that corporate has drank the kool-aid, and think the job they are hiring for genuinely requires some 1-in-1000 skillset?

Every time, somebody says “yeah but they get thousands of applications a day, how could they possibly handle all that?!”

… Don’t. Just, filter them through some basic metrics, and then rank the ones that are left through a random number generator. Interview those candidates in order until you find a good fit.

The average job doesn’t benefit at all from hiring people who can specifically pass some bizarre reverse Turing test, and the average video interview should only cost you 15-30 minutes of (also underpaid) HR salary, which is certainly less than a contract with these AI vendors + the increased risk of discrimination lawsuits.

On board the ISS four years later, he witnessed rocket fire in eastern Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists launched an insurgency there. This followed Russian troops seizing Crimea from Ukraine, and Virts says he was shocked by a cosmonaut’s response.

“The commander of my Soyuz, Anton Shkaplerov, is from Sevastopol in Crimea. His wife is Ukrainian. And he was like, ‘Krym nash, Krym nash,’ which means ‘Crimea is ours.’ He was just so proud that they had taken back Crimea,” Virts said.

But later, Virts was more concerned by three other cosmonauts he had flown with – Aleksander Samokutyaev, Maksim Surayev, and Yelena Surova – who all went on to serve as lawmakers in President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party.

There is also controversy surrounding a cosmonaut on the current ISS crew. Alexey Zubritsky was born in Ukraine in 1992 and last month RFE/RL’s Current Time reported that he was wanted in the land of his birth for treason.

In 2014, Zubritsky was a Ukrainian Air Force pilot stationed in Crimea. When Russian troops arrived, he disobeyed orders to report to a Ukrainian base outside the peninsula, opting instead to stay there and switch sides.

These cosmonauts are actively participating in those so-called “trivial” matters, up to and including being a literal traitor. He’s also a former astronaut. He came home. The matters of Earth are literally all around him.

And those literal Nazis weren’t actively working for the Nazis when they got us to the moon.

Maybe just calm down there and let the man speak.

dared to falsely report 300% revenue for investors

I mean, they specifically didn’t make as much money as they claimed to make, so no. That’s pretty much the one mortal sin you can actually commit as a capitalist - accept the capital of other capitalists under false pretenses and then fail to generate returns on their investments.

Can confirm. The more you deal with people who have climbed to the tops of corporate ladders, the more it becomes clear that it’s all vibes. It’s all people telling stories to other people who tell stories about those stories.

The peter principle is wrong - in an oversized corporate structure, there is no upper bound for incompetence. You can keep rising for no reason, because after a certain point other people just trust that you know what you’re talking about, and the people that know better work around you instead.

The people beneath you can’t trust the people above you enough to explain the situation, the people above you don’t really listen to the people beneath you anyway, and so plenty of middle managers just muddle through and constantly make shit up to justify their own existence, while everyone above and below is left in the dark about what’s really going on.

Decisions are constantly made by people without any real connection to the consequences, and it shows. With the everything.

Keep racking up those wins, unions!

Tech workers, video game workers, all workers - unions can work for you. Don’t buy into the bullshit that your job is special or impossible to unionize.

The idea of AI accounting is so fucking funny to me. The problem is right in the name. They account for stuff. Accountants account for where stuff came from and where stuff went.

Machine learning algorithms are black boxes that can’t show their work. They can absolutely do things like detect fraud and waste by detecting abnormalities in the data, but they absolutely can’t do things like prove an absence of fraud and waste.

I’m actually super glad to hear they might have fixed that, shit was a nightmare. I watched the OS lock me out and brick itself in real time. Still never successfully recovered the contents.

Windows 10, but only a couple years ago.

On the flipside, “Bot” is the backend for almost everything that I’ve dealt with recently.

“We need the data moved from X to Y, can someone make a bot for that?”

Internal suffering

“… Yes. We can setup an API between X and Y.”

“Great! We also want a bot to generate daily reports from Y”

Suffering intensifies

“… Ok.”

I don’t even try to fight it anymore.

I have had Windows corrupt a hard drive because it forced an update that exceeded the available storage.

If they only forced security updates by default, I would agree with you. But they don’t.

The point is that no vibe coder could design an LLM without an LLM already existing. The math and tech behind machine learning is incredible, whatever you may think. Just because we can spin up new ones at will doesn’t mean we ever could have skipped ahead and built Jarvis in 2008, even if all of society was trying to do so - because they were trying.

In the fictional universe where a human could singlehandedly invent one from scratch in 2008 with 3D image generation and voice functionality that still exceeds modern tech… yeah, that person and their fictional AI wouldn’t necessarily be producing slop.