Christopher Wood
Reading, Shadowrun, walking. Living and working in Toronto. Sysadmin (or whatever it’s called this month). He/him.
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- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Venture capital is having a bad time — and AI isn’t going to fix itEnglish12·8 个月前
As usual, the business fundamentals thing happens after the compensation has been paid out.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•even DHH suggests Mullenweg might wanna cool itEnglish5·8 个月前
I’m getting the picture that governance is a great thing until you find out that other people want to govern you back.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Want to hear the truth about Automattic, the not-like-the-other-girls company that still thinks it is a startup after 20 years and his founder acts like he invented remote working?English13·8 个月前
The encouragement of a situation where you disconnect with those outside, the sleep deprivation, the drip of hints that you’re not meeting the standard, the trust in the great leader.
It also sounds corporate, yes.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Grindr proposes ‘AI wingman’ to optimize away the gay sex bitEnglish25·9 个月前
You know how sometimes you use a grocery app and it’s fairly obvious that the people writing them don’t spend time in grocery stores? I’m getting that same impression here.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunchEnglish7·9 个月前
That startup founder. Is he okay?
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•A radical idea - stop talking about things that don't exist like they doEnglish14·9 个月前
With so many parts of tech operating like a mixture of religion and fandom this would be the atheistic answer. (This is my diametric opposite of a sneer.)
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Ilya Sutskever's new AI super-intelligence startup raises a billion dollars. Unclear what they actually do.English3·10 个月前
Well look if you no longer had a Silicon Valley executive’s salary you might have opinions about that situation too.
Weird sort of wartime to be investing new dollars into Israel though I thought?
Oh wait right. https://bdsmovement.net/news/israel’s-most-important-source-capital-california
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•No, intelligence is not like heightEnglish25·10 个月前
Imagine being a skilled San Francisco-style tech worker, at the apex of your industry, and the heights of intellect and rigor you can scale outside of that very specific context turn out to be “race science” apologia. Probably a lesson in there somewhere.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoButtcoin@awful.systems•use a blockchain, they said. Fabulous efficiency, they said. Will revolutionise stock trading in Australia, they said.English14·10 个月前
To your edit, there do seem to be very many people emotionally invested in append-only ledger technology.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteriaEnglish9·11 个月前
This reminds me of the reaction when I point out that to non-native English speakers that Canadian students may not have had as much English grammar instructions as they did.
Also this brought to mind all those times I’ve been taken to task about my own phrasing.
Gatekept by non-readers indeed.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoButtcoin@awful.systems•Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTCEnglish3·11 个月前
Weird, I thought that policies such as improving the uptake of asset-backed commercial paper(1), loosening restrictions on beneficial owner(2) anonymity in shell corporations(3), and even protecting network marketing(4) companies from innovation-unfriendly regulations would be far bigger vote getters than this.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•StackOverflow is blogging about Web3. Please put it out of its miseryEnglish12·11 个月前
The author’s company is listed which happens to be in the list of companies using the blockchain being shilled.
That’s practically above board in the land of blockchain companies.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is outEnglish8·11 个月前
Even just saying it was mescaline would help it make more sense.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is outEnglish12·11 个月前
I’m starting to think that some writing classes would really help the EA/LR crowd.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•The CIA is using generative AI as a search engineEnglish14·1 年前
Just a minor paragraph rewrite for clarity.
“The reality of generative AI is you’ve got to have a foundation of cloud computing,” AWS Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector Dave Levy, whose compensation relies on him successfully growing Amazon’s computer rental income, told Nextgov/FCW in a June 26 interview at AWS Summit. “You’ve got to get your data in a place where you can actually do something with it.”
It’s always so tedious when these little conflict of interest notes are left out of articles.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Balaji's movie "Technodemocracy" bombsEnglish7·1 年前
People who seem impressive until you listen to their ideas are a real theme around here.
Is there some EA culture thing where every thought has to be expanded into essay form?
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•"Google Gemini tried to kill me"English18·1 年前
I applaud your optimism that most people can do this without AI but have you gone and met people? Most people are not that capable of producing torrents of shameless bullshit as conscience or awareness of social and/or professional costs rear their head at some point.
- Christopher Wood@awful.systemstoButtcoin@awful.systems•Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough $4.5 billion and then liquidate itselfEnglish13·1 年前
Now is that number total in actual money or in fake internet money?
I can’t tell which of these profits are in actual currency and which are in fake money.