Punished La Mettrie
@punishedlamettrie.bsky.social
scratch a progressive and a reactionary bleeds, as soon as the target is someone 'acceptable' every misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, gutter trash take comes out in force and then they wonder why the right thinks they're just pretending
its interesting (derogatory) that every time amanda askell gets talked about on this website the thinly veiled misogyny comes out in force
February 11, 2026 at 10:57 PM
scratch a progressive and a reactionary bleeds, as soon as the target is someone 'acceptable' every misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, gutter trash take comes out in force and then they wonder why the right thinks they're just pretending
the fundamental problem with nfts was that marketing a new income stream to artists has to be about something other than the income stream because nobody is doing the arts for money, the arts pay shit people do that for ideological and status reasons
nfts failed through a combination of zirp ending and the primary intended audience rejecting the technology. it turns out artists dont actually want fine art markets for the proletariat, or at least they dont want it from the guys who were pushing nfts
This is actually the same thing as crypto/NFTs (but not in the way people think). People associate those with the flashy scams, but the underlying tech fundamentally changed plenty of financial IT.
People associate AI with ChatGPT, but the actual useful stuff that matters isn’t really the chatbot.
People associate AI with ChatGPT, but the actual useful stuff that matters isn’t really the chatbot.
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
the fundamental problem with nfts was that marketing a new income stream to artists has to be about something other than the income stream because nobody is doing the arts for money, the arts pay shit people do that for ideological and status reasons
nfts failed through a combination of zirp ending and the primary intended audience rejecting the technology. it turns out artists dont actually want fine art markets for the proletariat, or at least they dont want it from the guys who were pushing nfts
This is actually the same thing as crypto/NFTs (but not in the way people think). People associate those with the flashy scams, but the underlying tech fundamentally changed plenty of financial IT.
People associate AI with ChatGPT, but the actual useful stuff that matters isn’t really the chatbot.
People associate AI with ChatGPT, but the actual useful stuff that matters isn’t really the chatbot.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
nfts failed through a combination of zirp ending and the primary intended audience rejecting the technology. it turns out artists dont actually want fine art markets for the proletariat, or at least they dont want it from the guys who were pushing nfts
smart organizations will never automate accounting until machine learning systems are adversarially robust and that doesn't seem to be happening any time soon
A lot of low level accounting jobs are essentially human control points to prevent fraud, they haven't been automated not because it's impossible but because the amount of fraud you can commit against a fully automated purchasing system is basically unlimited
February 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
smart organizations will never automate accounting until machine learning systems are adversarially robust and that doesn't seem to be happening any time soon
normies can't handle social science, are literally incapable of not coming to batshit conclusions based on "your brain doesn't stop developing until you're 25" click bait slop and studies showing girls are a single digit percent weaker at the Vandenberg Rotation Test on average
the people who spread the “female brains are bad at math and spatial reasoning” lies should be tried at the Hague
Another fun wrinkle from that period (that might still exist): I was good at math and loved it and then my geometry teacher told me that I'd probably struggle because female brains were bad at spatial thinking. I kept loving math & being good at it but assumed that would end so I ended it first.
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
normies can't handle social science, are literally incapable of not coming to batshit conclusions based on "your brain doesn't stop developing until you're 25" click bait slop and studies showing girls are a single digit percent weaker at the Vandenberg Rotation Test on average
anarchism is one of those weird philosophical positions like Kantian ethics that's fundamentally based on a cope, and the cope is that it could ever be easier to have a stable stateless society than to have a state monopoly on violence controlled by mostly benevolent forces
i think there are possible configurations of society that liberals and anarchists would agree are acceptable
i think liberals would consider each of them to qualify as a "state" while anarchists would not consider any of them to be a "state"
i think liberals would consider each of them to qualify as a "state" while anarchists would not consider any of them to be a "state"
February 11, 2026 at 9:01 PM
anarchism is one of those weird philosophical positions like Kantian ethics that's fundamentally based on a cope, and the cope is that it could ever be easier to have a stable stateless society than to have a state monopoly on violence controlled by mostly benevolent forces
a lot of people frustrated with the discourse need to understand this is the modal take on AGI
The tail risk of the AI being so good it takes away all white color jobs is not something I really entertain because it's one of those risks you literally cannot prepare for, it's like worrying about a meteor hitting the earth, it's outside of my pay grade.
February 11, 2026 at 8:43 PM
a lot of people frustrated with the discourse need to understand this is the modal take on AGI
wild that we wrote stories like this for decades and then forgot them as soon as computers could talk. too dangerous now.
youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU
youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU
Blade Runner - Final scene, "Tears in Rain" Monologue (HD)
YouTube video by Guillermo St
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February 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM
wild that we wrote stories like this for decades and then forgot them as soon as computers could talk. too dangerous now.
youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU
youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU
"In Section 2.3, we formally analyze these challenges and demonstrate that the generalized scheduling problem is NP-hard and that existing algorithms perform poorly without the uniform input size assumption."
Protip: Uniform batching runs a lot faster on VLLM.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06133
Protip: Uniform batching runs a lot faster on VLLM.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06133
LLM Serving Optimization with Variable Prefill and Decode Lengths
We study offline scheduling for large language model (LLM) serving under a fixed KV-cache memory budget, where requests have heterogeneous prompt (prefill) and response (decode) lengths. Prompt tokens...
arxiv.org
February 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
"In Section 2.3, we formally analyze these challenges and demonstrate that the generalized scheduling problem is NP-hard and that existing algorithms perform poorly without the uniform input size assumption."
Protip: Uniform batching runs a lot faster on VLLM.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06133
Protip: Uniform batching runs a lot faster on VLLM.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06133