Tootfinder

I was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.

If you need something and Black Friday is the only time you can afford it or the only time you think it’s worth the price—please go ahead and buy it.
Doubly so if it’s something that helps you for a disability or maybe something that helps you free up time in your life for fun things.
It’s not your fault that we live in a capitalist society.

Underlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
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A year ago the Massachucetts #SupremeCourt ruled youths could not be given life sentences. Since then Massachusetts Parole Board has retroactively released 39 #LWOP murder convicts who were initially sentenced to life without parole as "emerging adults".
Despite some public outcry, judicial resentencin…

Massachusetts Parole Board has released 39 murder convicts who were initially sentenced to life without parole
Massachusetts Parole Board has released 39 murder convicts who were initially sentenced to life without parole

I #coached an #actor on audition sides and having them fight for the things their character is hoping for shifted something powerful in their read. You can play for, fight for, something often so much easier than playing against, or fighting against, something.

TIL about:
“I remember seeing a story years ago where a prison cook was caught having stolen $1.2 million of fajitas over 9 years.
One week he took off sick, someone else answered the order call and was like "what are you talking about? We don't serve fajitas."”
https://www.<…

Fajita heist: Texas man sentenced to 50 years for stealing $1.2 million worth of food
A Texas man was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $1.2 million in fajitas while acting as a public servant.

Mano a Mano con Charles Snowden https://www.raiders.com/video/mano-a-mano-con-charles-snowden-2025

Mano a Mano con Charles Snowden https://www.raiders.com/video/mano-a-mano-con-charles-snowden-2025

My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.