Quote of the Day

My basic test for whether a general purpose humanoid robot would be useful, well, generally, is whether or not it can clear my table, load my dishwasher, and then put the dishes away. I don't mean that's the most important task I can imagine, just that if it can do tasks like that, it would fit the fantasy, and if it can't, it's pretty useless. And once you try to imagine one doing that, I think you can see how that's... well... hard.

—Duncan "Atrios" Black

It really is a bit of a mind-f%$# that a random economist with a popular blog better understands the nature of reality than tech bro "sooper geniuses" out there like Musk, Andreeson, Altman, Pichai, and Zuckerberg.

They think that adding to the excrement that LLM artificial intelligence models are churning out, and then feeding the aforementioned excrement back into their LLM artificial intelligence models will somehow or other create something meaningful and useful, because all they know is how to throw money and random data at a model.

To quote Dick Feynmann, "Reality cannot be fooled."