If only there was any large active warzone that has largely devolved into positional warfare for two years now to disprove that claim, damn.

1. Sure, I’m not even going to verify this one since it’s so low stakes.
2. This is ill-defined.
3. Again ill-defined, and I need dates on this, we’ve been sequencing DNA for like 50yrs at this point.
4. Lol, Neuralink kills monkeys, there’s zero indication of its “inevitability”.
5. Lol^2, none of that shit works mate. Name one person whose life was extended with cryonics.
6. AI is ill-defined, plus dates please.
7. And how well did that go?
8. First of all, that’s called Moore’s Law after the actual guy who made this prediction, you can’t credit someone else than Moore for Moore’s Law, wtf. Second, this hasn’t held for at least a decade now; we’ve been focusing on completely different things than raw CPU speed to actually increase compute.
9. “Answer questions” there is a load-bearing term. Did he mean search engines? Is this deriberately vague?
10. I’m sorry? First, a 3D printed prosthetic is not an exoskeleton, what kind of a logic leap is that. Second, citation needed on “3D printable prosthetic limbs” actually being in use right now on any scale.

The US doesn’t have a functional healthcare system yet, and they’re like a century behind on that at this point.

searches for who tf this is

Wikipedia:

Lol, this is the most passive-aggressive way of saying “known for absolutely nothing of value to anyone or anything” I’ve seen.

Jesus cinnamon crunch Christ. At least the blog posts are mercifully short. He somehow manages to have antivaxx nonsense there as well??

This is doubly funny because that already exists, at least in Computer Science, and is called a vision paper. You still need to put in a lot of work, perhaps more, into the bibliography and, you know, actually having compelling stuff to say.

It’s called a function plot for a reason!

If we grow AIs too big, say, bigger than the Moon, then well, the Moon could get jealous and mad at us.

Did no one tell them that “evangelist” is not exactly a positive term? Do they call their sales people “crusaders”, too?

I’m sorry but “evangelist” to me conjures an image of a techbro on a street corner with a makeshift shelf of Google Cloud brochures advertising free documentation study hours.

There’s Jehowa Witnesses doing the same schtick one block over and they’re absolutely furious he took their favourite spot.

Also, speaking from experience trying to do any database work for large corporate clients, no data house is in order. It’s basically saying “assume a spherical cow, then AI works”.

Google Cloud Chief Evangelist

That cannot be an official title someone has, can it?

I just want to latch onto one more thing there:

GPTs are great at transforming information. Transformations include compression, decompression, and inter-language translation, among others.

Okay mister computer scientist, sure, what is “transforming information”? From what you’re saying it appears like you’re describing basically any map from information to other information. But AMONG OTHERS that includes a map going from NO INFO to CONFIDENT BULLSHIT. And I do agree LLMs are amazing at it.

Here, I’ll sketch it out for you in fucking LaTeX:

$\emptyset \mapsto \mathit{Nonsense}$

How do they sysadmin a server that doesn’t have any display devices aside from the terminal then? Which in my experience is almost all of them?

Amazing.

I could “publish” my homeworks from the 5yrs of college onto arxiv and that’d be a more scientifically valuable endeavour. Better formatted, too.

Dunno, the funniest thing about them to me is that they’re still divided into 7-8 sections, each one-paragraph long. Just a guy who was never told he was wrong in his life and his idea of what research looks like.

There’s one classified as “SSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal article”, I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the “almost”, but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an “electronic journal”? No fucking idea.

I am unfairly misrepresenting that for sneer purposes but if you want to see what happens when someone with typical cryptobro brainworms gets access to a paper-looking PDF template:

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17616.99845

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13443.99364

Those “papers” are gold, they’re mostly a few pages long, and they span such a wild range of topics as:

• How to calculate a mean of numbers?
• What is a number?
• Atheism is actually a religion.
• Ethereum is a store of energy.

I’ve never seen someone in such a dire need of a wedgie, come on man, you spend the hours of your life writing your farts into LaTeX and generating DOIs for them, this isn’t healthy.

This thread is an unending source of amusement.

Someone there found his ORCID and… It’s not great: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2835-3521

He has basically nothing published, but has like 40 different “preprints”, read PDFs he uploaded to arxiv with no peer review.

I use these tools daily. I have also built software which utilizes genAI. I have also worked on fine-tuning GPTs. I have written extensive [sic!] on the topic. I also have formal training in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and anthropology¹. [emph. mine]

🤡

¹ No he doesn’t? His Education lists A.S. in Engineering, A.S. in Computer Science, and B.S. in Mathematics, that anthropology claim seems completely made up.

I’m sorry, but you’re wrong. You’re also mansplaining to an expert. While I admit that I am not an expert on law and am listening when corrections related to LAW and the practice of LAW are concerned, you do not want to admit your lack of understanding of this technology.

My god DANIEL, no, people are not mansplaining to you, unless that’s a mask for a Danielle.

EDIT: Down the thread he responds to Kathryn Tewson, an actual expert, with

Yeah I’m not obligated to answer every question by a horde of people. You should change your name to Karen, because you sure act like a fucking entitled white bitch.

This guy has such a punchable face, even though I’ve never seen him. I can just tell.