Answering my own post here, but some of the comments reminded me of this one.

This is honestly just a story I ran across while studying Japanese, not a story that happened to me personally. (I swear. Heh.)

But I remember reading a story about someone who wanted bread crumbs for breading things. They’re called “panko” in both Japanese and English, but in Japanese, the “a” makes a sound pretty much like the “a” and “all”.

The guy confused himself and asked folks working at the store to point him to where he could buy “manko”. The word “manko” is a very vulgar term for women’s genetalia. So he was trying to ask “where are the panko crumbs?”, but was actually asking basically “where’s the pussy?”.

The newbie omenmaxxers have to start building up their tolerance to bad luck.

I’ll just quote another comment I made on exactly the same topic:

First, this might well be the event that fully pops the AI bubble. There were signs it was already happening, but this may be the “final nail in the coffin”. The bubble popping now rather than later would mean 1) it’d fuck everyone less than it would if it were allowed to grow more before popping, 2) it’d be sooner before it’ll stop ruining every single good and beautiful thing in this world (for instance, it’ll kill a lot – maybe all – gigawatt data center projects), and 3) some time in the next few years I’ll get to wake up one morning and think “you know, I haven’t even thought about LLMs in a long time”. (The blockchain bubble was fucking insufferable and we’ve largely gotten to the “almost never have reason tho think about it” phase with blockchain. The AI bubble is unspeakably worse and the sooner we can get there with that bubble, the better.) When the bubble pops, the effects will ripple through all the companies in on the generative AI grift, all of which are evil as absolute fuck. For every one of them that dies or becomes less relevant in the future, the world will be a slightly less terrible place.

Second, schadenfreuda. Nvidia and Huang have been personally fucking us all in every possible way and today we get to see them taste the tiniest modicum of the suffering they’ve inflicted and will continue to inflict in the future.

Just for a few examples.

I don’t really care about Huang personally. What matters is the effect this is going to have on Nvidia and by extension OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Coreweave, SpaceX, Xitter, etc etc etc and by further extension on the whole tech industry and on a whole lot of other industries. Dumbass CEOs are making their employees use Claude or whatever. Google has an “AI overview” on its search pages. Students who use LLMs lag others by a grade level. People are losing their professional skills because they’re outsourcing their brains. Generative AI was always a fucked up scam. The sooner we can put it behind us, the sooner we can start moving in a less horrible direction.

Yes, our pensions and 401Ks and shit are going to suffer. Yes the economy is going to be fucked for a long time. Yes the gorillionaires are going to get away with gorillions while the rest of us take the brunt. That was always inevitable from the moment that a significant portion of every economy invested in this snake oil. But the sooner it collapses, the less terribly it will affect us. If it went another, say, year, even more of the economy could be tied up in the bubble by then and we’d have been fucked-er.

Maybe I’m full of shit and the bubble is going to continue strong as ever for another year. But the possibility of a decisive and roughly permanent crash in the very near future seems more likely now than it was yesterday (and more likely yesterday than the day before, and more likely the day before than the day before that…) And fuck yes that puts a smile on my face.

First, this might well be the event that fully pops the AI bubble. There were signs it was already happening, but this may be the “final nail in the coffin”. The bubble popping now rather than later would mean 1) it’d fuck everyone less than it would if it were allowed to grow more before popping, 2) it’d be sooner before it’ll stop ruining every single good and beautiful thing in this world (for instance, it’ll kill a lot – maybe all – gigawatt data center projects), and 3) some time in the next few years I’ll get to wake up one morning and think “you know, I haven’t even thought about LLMs in a long time”. (The blockchain bubble was fucking insufferable and we’ve largely gotten to the “almost never have reason tho think about it” phase with blockchain. The AI bubble is unspeakably worse and the sooner we can get there with that bubble, the better.) When the bubble pops, the effects will ripple through all the companies in on the generative AI grift, all of which are evil as absolute fuck. For every one of them that dies or becomes less relevant in the future, the world will be a slightly less terrible place.

Second, schadenfreuda. Nvidia and Huang have been personally fucking us all in every possible way and today we get to see them taste the tiniest modicum of the suffering they’ve inflicted and will continue to inflict in the future.

Just for a few examples.

I don’t really care about Huang personally. What matters is the effect this is going to have on Nvidia and by extension OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Coreweave, SpaceX, Xitter, etc etc etc and by further extension on the whole tech industry and on a whole lot of other industries. Dumbass CEOs are making their employees use Claude or whatever. Google has an “AI overview” on its search pages. Students who use LLMs lag others by a grade level. People are losing their professional skills because they’re outsourcing their brains. Generative AI was always a fucked up scam. The sooner we can put it behind us, the sooner we can start moving in a less horrible direction.

Yes, our pensions and 401Ks and shit are going to suffer. Yes the economy is going to be fucked for a long time. Yes the gorillionaires are going to get away with gorillions while the rest of us take the brunt. That was always inevitable from the moment that a significant portion of every economy invested in this snake oil. But the sooner it collapses, the less terribly it will affect us. If it went another, say, year, even more of the economy could be tied up in the bubble by then and we’d have been fucked-er.

Maybe I’m full of shit and the bubble is going to continue strong as ever for another year. But the possibility of a decisive and roughly permanent crash in the very near future seems more likely now than it was yesterday (and more likely yesterday than the day before, and more likely the day before than the day before that…) And fuck yes that puts a smile on my face.

Respectfully disagree. This shit has made my week. My month. It remains to be seen whether it’ll make my year, but I’ve got my fingers crossed.

Probably most (all?) people “come up with” new ways to use language, and not infrequently. Whether something takes hold and goes into common usage or not depends on a lot of factors like:

• How well it “rolls off the tongue”.
• Whether someone famous popularizes it.
• Random chance.
• Whether it’s related to an item of popular media or other sort of trend/fad.
• Whether certain powerful ideologies or agendas artificially try to boost its popularity for whatever reason.
• Streisand effect.

“Rizz” certainly embodies the first one. “Maxxing” seems like a second-to-last bullet thing to me, as do “alpha”, “beta”, and “sigma”. I don’t know enough about the history of the word “based” to have an opinion.

And I’d say the line between “internet jargon” and other slang/jargon/terminology/whatever is pretty fuzzy. Like, does “enshittification” count? How about “woke”? Or “slop”?

the more AI there is, the more the human nature of Reddit stands out.

Lol.

it could change the entire future of AI.

Assuming (generative) AI ever had a future is a bold move.

I have to admit, though, I’m glad to see the bubble going down so sensationally. It would have been disappointing if it just kinda faded out of existence with a whimper.

Let people be giddy. Good news has been in short supply until recently.

I’ve also lived through NFTs and Beanie Babies. The argument that “technological advancements have happened in the past therefore such-and-such isn’t a scam” only goes so far.

I want to hear how bad his throat singing is.

Are the bronies ok?

The trick is to floss for a couple of weeks before your appointment. One week in a pinch. They might still be able to tell from the plaque buildup that you don’t usually floss, but if you also eat almost no sugar like me, that’s largely mitigated.

• sincerely, someone who always flosses 3x/day, I swear.

!CRT@lemmy.ca

Jesus Fucking Christ.

The decomposing corpse of the blockchain cult is getting even weirder than it was at the peak of the mania.

More importantly, what should be Anon’s SSID?

Paywall bypass.

“Does your house go buzz in the night? Don’t know whether it’s a light switch or a wight witch? Call Steve’s 24/7 Electric and Exorcism Service. 1-800-ZAP-GHOST. We’ll put your noisy circuit or your grandma’s spirit to rest so you can rest too. Licensed by the Office of Electrical Workers and the Vatican.”

I had a coworker who was really into Berzerk. I 3D-printed him a behelit one time. He was thrilled.

In other new, Morn is broke.