Scott Martens
@scottmartens.bsky.social
Antisocial media advocate. Attempted SF author. Text Monkey@Elastic/Jina AI. Canadian abroad. Kurwa bóbr.
Paul Postal vs Uncle Noam, page 1:
September 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Paul Postal vs Uncle Noam, page 1:
New word of the day: "Clanker lover." Acquired from r/MyBoyfriendIsAI but already in the Urban Dictionary.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New word of the day: "Clanker lover." Acquired from r/MyBoyfriendIsAI but already in the Urban Dictionary.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
August 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I know, I know, only the old people remember this. But yeah, this is what Trump was seen as in 1989.
August 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I know, I know, only the old people remember this. But yeah, this is what Trump was seen as in 1989.
21.06.1962-15.08.1990
I'd hate to imagine him alive today, age 63, either a Z loyalist or in exile somewhere.
youtu.be/xtxjm7ciwmc
I'd hate to imagine him alive today, age 63, either a Z loyalist or in exile somewhere.
youtu.be/xtxjm7ciwmc
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
21.06.1962-15.08.1990
I'd hate to imagine him alive today, age 63, either a Z loyalist or in exile somewhere.
youtu.be/xtxjm7ciwmc
I'd hate to imagine him alive today, age 63, either a Z loyalist or in exile somewhere.
youtu.be/xtxjm7ciwmc
I think this is a bad take. You can read the actual paper at advait.org/files/sarkar... and see that it includes the passage below.
My take is much, much harsher than Sarkar's: AI-hate is the "socialism of fools" for the internet age, a legitimate rage against the wrong damn machine.
My take is much, much harsher than Sarkar's: AI-hate is the "socialism of fools" for the internet age, a legitimate rage against the wrong damn machine.
July 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I think this is a bad take. You can read the actual paper at advait.org/files/sarkar... and see that it includes the passage below.
My take is much, much harsher than Sarkar's: AI-hate is the "socialism of fools" for the internet age, a legitimate rage against the wrong damn machine.
My take is much, much harsher than Sarkar's: AI-hate is the "socialism of fools" for the internet age, a legitimate rage against the wrong damn machine.
I'm going to be the contrarian asshole this time and say I like this paper and I think it's main point is necessary and valid. Y'all can hate on it - that's valid too - but have actual *reasons*, not just whatever anti-AI nonsense you've picked up online. Especially in light of the paragraphs below.
July 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I'm going to be the contrarian asshole this time and say I like this paper and I think it's main point is necessary and valid. Y'all can hate on it - that's valid too - but have actual *reasons*, not just whatever anti-AI nonsense you've picked up online. Especially in light of the paragraphs below.
More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.
July 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.
On behalf of linguists everywhere, I can't even.
July 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On behalf of linguists everywhere, I can't even.
Regrettably, this problem is one of my specialties. The reason is about compatibility with old software from the 1960s. It's a long story.
The ICAO/IATA recommended solution is to use the spelling of your name in the MACHINE-READABLE part of your passport. See attached image:
The ICAO/IATA recommended solution is to use the spelling of your name in the MACHINE-READABLE part of your passport. See attached image:
July 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Regrettably, this problem is one of my specialties. The reason is about compatibility with old software from the 1960s. It's a long story.
The ICAO/IATA recommended solution is to use the spelling of your name in the MACHINE-READABLE part of your passport. See attached image:
The ICAO/IATA recommended solution is to use the spelling of your name in the MACHINE-READABLE part of your passport. See attached image:
July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Kissinger and Zhou Enlai as Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy makes some kind of perverse sense to me...
July 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Kissinger and Zhou Enlai as Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy makes some kind of perverse sense to me...
Things the wife forwards to me...
July 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Things the wife forwards to me...
Not exactly high quality memeage, but I did lol.
July 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Not exactly high quality memeage, but I did lol.
But then, I think people who believe in AGI are fools anyway.
Hao's got "scaling laws" right here. This is the important point: You need a bigger network AND more data AND more compute (= either more time or more computers or faster computers or a combination of the three)/2
Hao's got "scaling laws" right here. This is the important point: You need a bigger network AND more data AND more compute (= either more time or more computers or faster computers or a combination of the three)/2
July 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
But then, I think people who believe in AGI are fools anyway.
Hao's got "scaling laws" right here. This is the important point: You need a bigger network AND more data AND more compute (= either more time or more computers or faster computers or a combination of the three)/2
Hao's got "scaling laws" right here. This is the important point: You need a bigger network AND more data AND more compute (= either more time or more computers or faster computers or a combination of the three)/2
Okay, part of the problem here is @karenhao.bsky.social 's description of neural networks. She only uses the word "neuron" twice in Ch. 5, in these two paras as historical contextualization. If Sustskever really thinks bigger brains = more intelligence, then he's a fool. Hao doesn't cite anything./1
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Okay, part of the problem here is @karenhao.bsky.social 's description of neural networks. She only uses the word "neuron" twice in Ch. 5, in these two paras as historical contextualization. If Sustskever really thinks bigger brains = more intelligence, then he's a fool. Hao doesn't cite anything./1
If anybody is within arm's reach of @benwray1989.bsky.social, can you please smack him upside the head for writing this. These two paragraphs demonstrate a complete failure to understand the history of AI or its present development.
jacobin.com/2025/07/altm...
jacobin.com/2025/07/altm...
July 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If anybody is within arm's reach of @benwray1989.bsky.social, can you please smack him upside the head for writing this. These two paragraphs demonstrate a complete failure to understand the history of AI or its present development.
jacobin.com/2025/07/altm...
jacobin.com/2025/07/altm...
In case anyone needs this when discussing President Cheeto...
July 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In case anyone needs this when discussing President Cheeto...
As a test, I asked Gemini to find the article you're referring to about the Légion Etrangère. Wow, for freaking *Google* AI, it wouldn't even try. And I pay for Gemini! (Well, the boss pays...)
ChatGPT did try, and gave an answer, although it looks wrong.
ChatGPT did try, and gave an answer, although it looks wrong.
July 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
As a test, I asked Gemini to find the article you're referring to about the Légion Etrangère. Wow, for freaking *Google* AI, it wouldn't even try. And I pay for Gemini! (Well, the boss pays...)
ChatGPT did try, and gave an answer, although it looks wrong.
ChatGPT did try, and gave an answer, although it looks wrong.
Happy Canada Day, unless you live in Montreal, in which case, happy moving day.
July 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Happy Canada Day, unless you live in Montreal, in which case, happy moving day.
Today in AI papers I just found: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18781
tl;dr: LLMs that know A>B and B>C can still assert that A
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tl;dr: LLMs that know A>B and B>C can still assert that A
June 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Today in AI papers I just found: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18781
tl;dr: LLMs that know A>B and B>C can still assert that A
tl;dr: LLMs that know A>B and B>C can still assert that A
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
June 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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