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[–] self@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

fuck this is so target-rich for sneers I can’t decide what to focus on. all the high profile companies’ boards Sammy’s been asked to leave due to massive conflicts of interest? the revolving door of fucking worthless startups (hello Humane AI pin) the WSJ trots out without question? the tacit admission that the only thing that’ll stop LLM bullshit from burning the planet is a breakthrough in nuclear fucking fusion?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i think i found another thing that can stop LLMs from burning the planet

behold

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

HE? PRONoUNS ON MY BOMBS!? The west has gone woke!

Joke aside, Is this some sort of mortar shell?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they made lockheed woke...

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

lockheed martin is turning sailors gay

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

kissmate approved!

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

M934A1 120mm mortar

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

Yep, thats a mortar shell.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If this is what it takes for them to put more than the current perfunctory technically-not-mothballed amounts of money into nuclear fusion I'm going to laugh-cry into my pillow.

[–] rook@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

I'm sure you can pitch using AI to design fusion reactors to these folk. Then all you need to do is to use the avalanche of VC capital to fund engineers and physicists who will be providing the "training data"...

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

they won't, and even if they do it'll dry out after a year or two when they run out of hype