Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?
from dgerard@awful.systems to sneerclub@awful.systems on 01 Dec 2024 22:46
https://awful.systems/post/2967272

featuring nobody’s favourite e/acc bro, BasedBeffJezos

pivot-to-ai.com/…/does-ai-startup-extropic-actual…

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istewart@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 01:15 next collapse

But we suspect Extropic is just burning through the $14 million and will go broke within a year or two, if that. We look forward to Verdon’s “our fabulous journey” post.

This guy seems like the type to totally skip that, embezzle the last million or two, and go straight for “messianic cult in the woods.” Possibly with a side order of “amateur experimental stimulant laboratory”

dgerard@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 01:18 next collapse

guillaume and trevor are sitting in the dark in their office counting sugar cubes and cursing the untermenschen holding them down

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works on 02 Dec 2024 15:29 collapse

Why embezzle when you can just pay yourself an exorbitant salary?

blakestacey@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 03:29 next collapse

From the linked Andrew Molitor item:

Why Extropic insists on talking about thermodynamics at all is a mystery, especially since “thermodynamic computing” is an established term that means something quite different from what Extropic is trying to do. This is one of several red flags.

I have a feeling this is related to wanking about physics in the e/acc holy gospels. They invoke thermodynamics the way that people trying to sell you healing crystals for your chakras invoke quantum mechanics.

dgerard@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 09:18 collapse

that’s Beff too

the guy is actually almost a physicist, even flunked out of a Ph.D

V0ldek@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 15:02 collapse

the guy is actually almost a physicist, even flunked out of a Ph.D

Great credential for trying to “integrate physics and AI” if he’s demonstrably too lazy to understand physics at an advanced level.

slopjockey@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 16:45 collapse

Not just physics, but the physics of the world. Which makes it sound as if AI and physics are fundamentally separate somehow.

Is BasedBeef aware that AI is already fundamentally merged with physics on the basis that it already physically exists? Just because your six finger, no light in her neon eyes gen AI waifu is 2D doesn’t mean that the bits that comprise her are exempt from the physics of the universe. Really, what could that quote possibly even mean?

V0ldek@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 17:09 collapse

Ahhh you see, the physics of 2D waifus were actually covered on the seminar a year after he flunked out. Womp womp.

YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 02 Dec 2024 04:36 collapse

This dude learned at miminum the word “stochastic” from LW.