It’s so strange that the Claude-ness leaks out even when it’s prompted to use this tone. The underlying flavour shines through clearly. I’m sure you could get it to shake it with enough prompting
Yeah that title is absurd, tho it did make me read the whole thing out of pure incredulity. The “tearing itself apart” apparently refers to the fact that the CSU system spent $16M on AI tools during a $2B+ budget deficit, which… yeah. Doesn’t take an economics professor to see the problem with that thesis!
The author does seem interested in supporting the headline, but I think they're too good of a journalist to pull off the outrage. It mainly comes through in passages like this:
After I pointed out to Janos that Marx himself would have had a field day with MarxGPT, he laughed… by interacting with ChatGPT, he and his students solidified its role in the public education ecosystem; and their ability to do so was the result of the transfer of almost $17 million of worker-generated public funds to a private, for-profit company.
If this wasn’t the NYT, I’d assume this was a joke. Sadly, I think it is indeed intended as something of a slam dunk…
They do get to AI critics eventually, though obviously ‘activists dislike X’ isn’t really proof for ‘X is tearing us apart[, Lisa!]’. Namely,
“We feel like a guinea pig for what A.I. is going to do to higher education,” Kenney said. The embrace of generative A.I., she went on, is “a step down the path of creating a really different kind of future citizen and worker.” This kind of student would be intellectually passive, less likely to see themselves as agents of their own lives.
I think everyone would agree they’re “guinea pigs”, as are we all in a way — such is the curse of living in interesting times. The rest seems pretty plainly speculative, though.
This winter, the [critics at SFSU] circulated a petition asking the chancellor’s office to invest in protecting faculty jobs and academic programs rather than renew the OpenAI contract.
I've never heard or read anything about the EU planning on investing money in Mistral. They're a private company. They're French. It honestly sounds kind of absurd.
No, we want you to backup your claims and provide sources or stop adding pointless low effort anti-EU noise to the conversation. It's frustrating, any time there's any kind of discussion about anything European on HN it gets flooded with shallow, low effort "EU-bad" posts like your contributions here.
If you're going to make that claim at least put some effort in.
This is a mostly American forum and some people want to piss on the EU to elevate themselves. Europeans do the same to the US but about politics, health care, work life balance, and quality of life. You know, the stuff that matters :D
The humans are still there, scrolling, but the thing they’re scrolling through has become a performance staged by machines for an audience that hasn’t yet realized the show isn’t for them.
That is a gross mischaracterization of the bot situation, dropping absolute loads of essential nuance on the ground for a simple "50/50" number. Sorry if that sounds pedantic, but I find this to be insanely important; if you think fake news is bad now, wait until literally any other human might just be a bot so you can dismiss their points and/or perspective out of hand.
There’s a lot more ways automation can turn out than “permanent underclasses”. It’s kinda like how some people build planes without supporting crashing them into things
I feel like it is a very great privilege to be able to post this to Hacker News, soliciting donations.
Just curious -- are you implying that this is exempted from the rules because the poster is famous? I'm not familiar with any HN rule that forbids "soliciting donations", but also it's been a minute since I looked them up.
As a culture, HN strongly dislikes people who post their own stuff outside of ShowHN. Justine herself acknowledges in the post that she is able get away with things on the site that the majority are not allowed.
the locus of thought for llama.cpp has always been on 4chan
TIL!
I actually developed migraines for the first time in my life and ended up in the hospital... due to the eye strain of reading unfiltered thoughts about me for months.
A) is that how eye strain works? and B) if you've ever attracted the ire of 4chan degens, please don't read them. There's 0 benefit and a long, long list of downsides.
and since llamafile is an ex nihilo project that I worked on for six years
Llamafile is from 3 years before Llama...? What did it do -- wrangle cleverbot instances?
I even wrote a blog post giving Slaren more credit, because it instilled in him a false sense of confidence that led him to tackle harder problems, like multiplying three dimensional numbers.
That's some kindergarten level discourse, wtf.
Hacker News is my favorite place on the web, because it's the last bastion of curiosity online.
Well if that ain't the loudest dogwhistle I've ever heard, gd.
This upset the moderator so much... because he had already banned me for spamming... So this became the day Lobsters also banned my domain, so that no one else could post my articles.
...is this supposed to be a vindication?
The first thing he did with his enormous wealth and power is share his animus towards trans people and I got fired for performance reasons around that time.
Having worked at google, I can say with confidence that you can't go from ok to fired in one review cycle (unless you, idk, set a building on fire or something?). Transphobia sucks obviously, but this is a very, very strange anecdote.
A few days ago, I got served with a tax warrant from the State of New York... This is what it's been like living in California for the last ten years.
Ok I have to ask at this point: what is this post?? What's the point? Why do we care about this lady's tax disputes? Immediately following this up with a paragraph about how she's akin to Prometheus himself doesn't help one bit.
I am the intersection of so many unliked groups whose minds I've come to understand. If you were to use bayesian inference to compute the probability that I'm a good person, it would underflow a double. In practice, this just means I'm a curious person who hasn't had much to fear, since I've never had much to lose. If the day should ever come when society chooses to accept me, then the negative attention I've received will be viewed for what it really was, and then people will be able to safely examine my lifelong track record of kindness and conspicuous public service.
Lol this is the first contemporary of mine that writes like Schopenhauer, I love it. The subtle colocation of transphobia and antifascism, tho? That I do not love.
I want to start by using the money to buy myself a home in San Francisco, in a neighborhood where I can feel safe, so that I can have a bed, set up a real office, entertain guests, and take photographs. I want to travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle my project is named after, using only private aviation, so that I won't be molested or risk being detained each time I fly. I want to hire an elite team that can help me accomplish my social and technical goals, such as adding native support for my file format to every operating system.
Wow, this could be taught in university as the exemplar of the least convincing appeal for donations of all time.
P.S. describing your open source work as "my" isn't great.
Your support will upset everyone who feels that I don't deserve the gift of life.
Framing personal donations to a Trump supporter as a way to combat transphobia is so nasty and dishonest that it's hard to really come up with the words. I guess add +1 to the tally of "haters"!
Fair, I should caveat that heavily! She linked to a thread on the Linux forums (?) where that accusation was leveled by a few people using their real names, but I didn't do that research myself. I've never heard of this person, so that's not from previous knowledge either.
I'll say this: given that and the top comment under this very post, I think it's undeniable that Justine has certain very conservative views that differ greatly from the tolerance and acceptance that is A) the default in professional online spaces, and B) implied by raising money by citing transphobia. *I have no first-hand evidence that she literally directly supports Trump though, and my sincere apologies if I was misled on that point.*
Clearly she's soured on them at the least tho, given the complaints about the transphobia of the 'current US government' in this post.
"Wow it turns out I just invented something damaging about someone, let me just equivocate that it's not so bad to lie about this, since I think they're a bad person anyway."
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