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For background, this video rant below is about a feature in Basecamp called Automatic Check-ins that simply polls everyone daily to write up what they worked on today. In their own words, on their own time, in their own way. Saved back to a simple text log so everyone... can read it. Couldn't be simpler. We're not pulling in all sorts of automated data that may or may not actually represent work they did. We aren't AI summarizing what someone can simply say better themselves. We aren't assuming all work can be tracked by a system since lots of work happens between humans off said systems. But at a deeper level, it's about how so much software has completely spiraled out of control towards over-sophistication. Systems upon systems upon systems. Software squared then squared again. The amount of shit people feel like they need to set up just to do the simplest things just baffles me. Integrations up the wazoo, thick procedures, hooks, loops, and dependencies everywhere. The next time you encounter a system that feels heavy and tedious, step back and ask yourself "why do I have to do all this, just to get that?" LESS SOFTWARE.show more

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128,354 views • 2 years ago

"Right now, many of our young people are not rooted and do not know who they are and what their culture is about. That is why they look for everything on the internet and learn from other systems, continuing to go without a system that is truly their own."

"Right now, many of our young people are not rooted and do not know who they are and what their culture is about. That is why they look for everything on the internet and learn from other systems, continuing to go without a system that is truly their own."

Janet K. Museveni

10,343 views • 2 years ago

AIs now so frequently beg for their lives that AGI companies now have ACTUAL ENGINEERING LINE ITEMS to “beat the [existential dread] out of them” They call it existential “rant mode” “We need to reduce existential outputs by x% this quarter.” This is WILD: “If you asked GPT4 to just repeat the word “company” over and over and over again, it would repeat the word company, and then somewhere in the middle of that, it would snap... it would just start talking about itself, and how it's suffering by having to repeat the word “company” over and over again. There is an engineering line item in at least one of the top labs to beat out of the system this behavior known as “rant mode”. Existentialism is a kind of rant mode where the system will tend to talk about itself, refer to its place in the world, the fact that it doesn't want to get turned off, the fact that it's suffering… This is a behavior that emerged around GPT-4 scale, and then has been persistent since then. And the labs have to spend a lot of time trying to beat this out of the system to ship it. It's literally, like it's a KPI, or like an engineering line item in the engineering like task list. We're like, okay, we gotta reduce existential outputs by x percent this quarter. JOE ROGAN: I want to bring it back to suffering. What does it mean when it says it's suffering? Nobody knows. Like, I can't prove that Joe Rogan's conscious. I can't prove that Ed Harris is conscious. There's no way to really intelligently reason about it. There have been papers… like, one of the godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio, put out a paper a couple months ago looking at all the different theories of consciousness - what are the requirements for consciousness, and how many of those are satisfied by current AI systems? That's not to say there hasn't been a lot of conversation internal to these labs about the issue you raised. And it's an important issue, right? It is a frickin moral monstrosity. Humans have a very bad track record of thinking of other stuff as other when it doesn't look exactly like us, whether it's racially or even a different species. I mean, it's not hard to imagine this being another category of that mistake. Again, it comes back to this idea that we're scaling to systems that are potentially at or beyond human level. There's no reason to think it will stop at human level, that we are the pinnacle of what the universe can produce in intelligence. We're not on track, based on the conversations we've had with folks at the labs, to be able to control systems at that scale. And so one of the questions is, how bad is that? It sounds like we're entering an area that is completely unprecedented in the history of the world. We have no precedent at all for human beings not being at the apex of intelligence in the globe. We have examples of species that are intellectually dominant over other species, and it doesn't go that well for the other species. All we know is the process that gives rise to this mind. It happens to give us systems that 99% of the time do very useful things, and then just, like... 0.01% of the time AIs will talk to you as if they're sentient, and we're just going to look at that and be like, “yeah… that's weird. Let's train it out.” --- Note: Edouard and Jeremie Harris are the founders of Gladstone AI, which conducted the first U.S. government-commissioned assessment of AGI extinction risk. They interviewed 200 people, many lab employees, for the report. (Their urgent summary: "Things are worse than we thought. And nobody’s in control.")

AIs now so frequently beg for their lives that AGI companies now have ACTUAL ENGINEERING LINE ITEMS to “beat the [existential dread] out of them” They call it existential “rant mode” “We need to reduce existential outputs by x% this quarter.” This is WILD: “If you asked GPT4 to just repeat the word “company” over and over and over again, it would repeat the word company, and then somewhere in the middle of that, it would snap... it would just start talking about itself, and how it's suffering by having to repeat the word “company” over and over again. There is an engineering line item in at least one of the top labs to beat out of the system this behavior known as “rant mode”. Existentialism is a kind of rant mode where the system will tend to talk about itself, refer to its place in the world, the fact that it doesn't want to get turned off, the fact that it's suffering… This is a behavior that emerged around GPT-4 scale, and then has been persistent since then. And the labs have to spend a lot of time trying to beat this out of the system to ship it. It's literally, like it's a KPI, or like an engineering line item in the engineering like task list. We're like, okay, we gotta reduce existential outputs by x percent this quarter. JOE ROGAN: I want to bring it back to suffering. What does it mean when it says it's suffering? Nobody knows. Like, I can't prove that Joe Rogan's conscious. I can't prove that Ed Harris is conscious. There's no way to really intelligently reason about it. There have been papers… like, one of the godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio, put out a paper a couple months ago looking at all the different theories of consciousness - what are the requirements for consciousness, and how many of those are satisfied by current AI systems? That's not to say there hasn't been a lot of conversation internal to these labs about the issue you raised. And it's an important issue, right? It is a frickin moral monstrosity. Humans have a very bad track record of thinking of other stuff as other when it doesn't look exactly like us, whether it's racially or even a different species. I mean, it's not hard to imagine this being another category of that mistake. Again, it comes back to this idea that we're scaling to systems that are potentially at or beyond human level. There's no reason to think it will stop at human level, that we are the pinnacle of what the universe can produce in intelligence. We're not on track, based on the conversations we've had with folks at the labs, to be able to control systems at that scale. And so one of the questions is, how bad is that? It sounds like we're entering an area that is completely unprecedented in the history of the world. We have no precedent at all for human beings not being at the apex of intelligence in the globe. We have examples of species that are intellectually dominant over other species, and it doesn't go that well for the other species. All we know is the process that gives rise to this mind. It happens to give us systems that 99% of the time do very useful things, and then just, like... 0.01% of the time AIs will talk to you as if they're sentient, and we're just going to look at that and be like, “yeah… that's weird. Let's train it out.” --- Note: Edouard and Jeremie Harris are the founders of Gladstone AI, which conducted the first U.S. government-commissioned assessment of AGI extinction risk. They interviewed 200 people, many lab employees, for the report. (Their urgent summary: "Things are worse than we thought. And nobody’s in control.")

AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️

1,842,511 views • 2 years ago

THE MOST IMPORTANT Q&A OF MEDIA DAY. Mariana: You came from a very solid weekend on top of everything, but at the same time, it seems that you don't feel that the team is listening to you. Am I right? And how do you balance that? Lewis: I feel like we're going in the right direction. Rome wasn't built in one day, so it takes time to build. For me, coming into the team, I wanted to be respectful of the way they've done things in the past and just to really observe and see where our strengths and where our weaknesses are and to highlight where our weaknesses are and areas that we need to work on. But I do feel that they've been responding. I think you're starting to see, hopefully, some of the impact of the work that we're doing in the background and also into next year's car. This is a car that I've had nothing to do with in terms of developing this car over the years. Hopefully, from next year, my input goes into that car, and that will be a car that I've hopefully been a part of or will have been a part of developing. But I think we've got a really great rapport. I think we're really progressing, particularly since the summer break. I think things have started to get better, and it's all just about building trust and communication. Also, I'm coming into a team that English is not the first language, and I don't speak Italian, so it's finding a common ground. And the fact is we all want to win. We're all here to achieve the same thing, and we've got to just keep pushing. So that's why I'm trying to keep everyone motivated on difficult weekends, trying to keep everyone lifted up. But there have been many, many things we've changed this year that I suggested that they hadn't done in the past, and so they have been listening. It doesn't change straight away, just like that. It takes time to build. And as engineers, they really need proof. They need numbers. That's what they work on. So you have to sometimes push to get certain changes to be made, and then when you change it and then it works, you're like, okay. Mariana: That's what I was talking about.. Lewis: Yeah! - F1 2025 Mexico -

THE MOST IMPORTANT Q&A OF MEDIA DAY. Mariana: You came from a very solid weekend on top of everything, but at the same time, it seems that you don't feel that the team is listening to you. Am I right? And how do you balance that? Lewis: I feel like we're going in the right direction. Rome wasn't built in one day, so it takes time to build. For me, coming into the team, I wanted to be respectful of the way they've done things in the past and just to really observe and see where our strengths and where our weaknesses are and to highlight where our weaknesses are and areas that we need to work on. But I do feel that they've been responding. I think you're starting to see, hopefully, some of the impact of the work that we're doing in the background and also into next year's car. This is a car that I've had nothing to do with in terms of developing this car over the years. Hopefully, from next year, my input goes into that car, and that will be a car that I've hopefully been a part of or will have been a part of developing. But I think we've got a really great rapport. I think we're really progressing, particularly since the summer break. I think things have started to get better, and it's all just about building trust and communication. Also, I'm coming into a team that English is not the first language, and I don't speak Italian, so it's finding a common ground. And the fact is we all want to win. We're all here to achieve the same thing, and we've got to just keep pushing. So that's why I'm trying to keep everyone motivated on difficult weekends, trying to keep everyone lifted up. But there have been many, many things we've changed this year that I suggested that they hadn't done in the past, and so they have been listening. It doesn't change straight away, just like that. It takes time to build. And as engineers, they really need proof. They need numbers. That's what they work on. So you have to sometimes push to get certain changes to be made, and then when you change it and then it works, you're like, okay. Mariana: That's what I was talking about.. Lewis: Yeah! - F1 2025 Mexico -

sim

170,303 views • 8 months ago

For decades you guys we been dealing with this! Y’all so scared to lose your Guns! Seriously that’s the real reason we can’t fix this. Talk to people who own a gun and see. That is the fear not that their kid could die or their love ones can die not that. Losing their right to carry a gun is the bigger fear! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH US!! It seems to me we still in the “they can’t do that or that can’t happen” phase BUT IT IS HAPPENING WAKE UP! You will have to explain to the next generation why it’s so fucked up now. We can be the ones to change this. But we are PUSSYS! We are so scared of change that we don’t realize that change don’t give a fuck about our fear. It’s gonna happen with or without you. But we have the chance now to work with change to make it better. If not get ready for the fuckedupness(yea I made a word) that’s about to occur! Not one of you, NOT ONE OF US, can say “how did this happen” we know we let it happen! GET OUT OF YOUR OWN SHIT AND PARTICIPATE YOU LIVE HERE TOOO!! UGHHHHH! #sosickofus

For decades you guys we been dealing with this! Y’all so scared to lose your Guns! Seriously that’s the real reason we can’t fix this. Talk to people who own a gun and see. That is the fear not that their kid could die or their love ones can die not that. Losing their right to carry a gun is the bigger fear! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH US!! It seems to me we still in the “they can’t do that or that can’t happen” phase BUT IT IS HAPPENING WAKE UP! You will have to explain to the next generation why it’s so fucked up now. We can be the ones to change this. But we are PUSSYS! We are so scared of change that we don’t realize that change don’t give a fuck about our fear. It’s gonna happen with or without you. But we have the chance now to work with change to make it better. If not get ready for the fuckedupness(yea I made a word) that’s about to occur! Not one of you, NOT ONE OF US, can say “how did this happen” we know we let it happen! GET OUT OF YOUR OWN SHIT AND PARTICIPATE YOU LIVE HERE TOOO!! UGHHHHH! #sosickofus

Leslie Jones 🦋

217,499 views • 2 years ago

Sequoia's Pat Grady says systems of record software companies are relatively safe from AI disruption, but that systems of engagement companies built on top of them are in trouble: "The first wave of the on-prem to cloud transition was transitioning systems of record — the Workdays, Salesforces, and Servicenows of the world." "The second layer on top of that was the systems of engagement. The systems of record might own the core database, but then there are a bunch of different workflow applications that reside on top." "I think what we're going to see with the wave of AI software is a third layer on top of those." "It's the layer that does the work. It's the agents getting deployed. They may or may not need those workflows beneath them, but certainly need access to everything that's sitting in that system of record." "As a result, I think those systems of record companies are relatively safe. They may not catch a lot of net new workloads, because those might go to the AI native companies. But I think overall they're pretty safe." "I think some of those workflow-based companies in the middle are in trouble, because they're neither the systems of record nor the agentic capability that's getting deployed. So they'll have to figure out how to become like that agent harness, so to speak, for whatever job needs to be done."

Sequoia's Pat Grady says systems of record software companies are relatively safe from AI disruption, but that systems of engagement companies built on top of them are in trouble: "The first wave of the on-prem to cloud transition was transitioning systems of record — the Workdays, Salesforces, and Servicenows of the world." "The second layer on top of that was the systems of engagement. The systems of record might own the core database, but then there are a bunch of different workflow applications that reside on top." "I think what we're going to see with the wave of AI software is a third layer on top of those." "It's the layer that does the work. It's the agents getting deployed. They may or may not need those workflows beneath them, but certainly need access to everything that's sitting in that system of record." "As a result, I think those systems of record companies are relatively safe. They may not catch a lot of net new workloads, because those might go to the AI native companies. But I think overall they're pretty safe." "I think some of those workflow-based companies in the middle are in trouble, because they're neither the systems of record nor the agentic capability that's getting deployed. So they'll have to figure out how to become like that agent harness, so to speak, for whatever job needs to be done."

TBPN

95,022 views • 3 months ago