Right, sure he picked the most glorified fantasy race out there, “but evil”. When in reality he’s a Duergar at best:
Personality Tyrannical, grim, industrious and pessimistic,[11][20] the lives of the gray dwarves were bleak and brutal. Rather than a flaw, however, they viewed their lack of happiness as their greatest strength, the defining feature of duergar pride.
Sounds about right for the joyless world he imagines his ideal society would represent.
The age of book shovelware has arrived: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2024/10/ai-audiobook-narrators-in-overdrive-and-the-issue-of-library-ai-circulation-policy/
Edit: TIL about the US copyright office website’s ai generation info on works. That’s a thing we will be making a bunch of use of, I imagine.
My pal dug these up:
https://github.com/JusticeFighterDance/JusticeFighter110/issues/15 and
https://github.com/william-sto/JusticeNeverTooLate
They have issues providing commentary and caveats, and are in Chinese, ofc. And also take all of this with several boatloads of salt.
Apparently there are two GitHub repos up with strongly conflicting information on what happened, this is gonna be a three-buckets-of-popcorn incident.
They added sleeps to training jobs? Sounds like they deserve a raise for improving energy efficiency instead…
I would definitely hate to be burdened with an IQ. Such a terrible thing to be born with
A pal posed the theory that Matt Wordpress acts like he got ejected from some polycule and now I can’t unsee it
I’m temporarily-boating up to Boston
It’s the parable of the drowning man turning away all help because god will save him, all over again (except it’s floods and mudslides and forest fires)
Of all the awful and bad reasons to homeschool, “my government forces my kids to learn parroted bullshit” is probably the most annoyingly valid.
Microsoft found a fitting way to punish AI for collaborating with SEO spammers in generating slop: make it use the GitHub code review tools. https://github.blog/changelog/2024-10-29-refine-and-validate-code-review-suggestions-with-copilot-workspace-public-preview/