Joseph Dromboski

Got into AI back in 2020 as a hobbyist training GANs. Currently working on a variety of projects in the space and testing the capabilities of the latest tools.

[Joseph Dromboski @JosephByDesign]

@edzitron Hmmm... So that's what a shoggoth sounds like....

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@DaveShapi I was a pallbearer for my grandfather who was a Jewish American WWII vet. He just passed last year at 101. My family and I attended several events honoring WWII veterans with him while he was around. I’m honestly grateful for your post because I hadn’t thought of it in months.

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@InigoMontoyaDPR @DaveShapi Ahhh… the old “I totally think that an underclass is needed and should consist of everyone who isn’t as clever as me” argument. Alas, many of those with the most power in our current system agree with you. This does not bode well for flourishing future for humanity.

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@DaveShapi Especially once it becomes clear that neither the Republicans nor Democrats will jump on the types of polices that would be necessary to create the post-labor future you envision. Presses have always been the ones for wealth redistribution, they just need to get past labor.

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@DaveShapi Politicians, despite their beliefs and goals, are stuck in the Overton window of their base, which in the progressives’ case is still rooted in 70s union politics. The window/priorities will shift towards wealth redistribution as labor continues to decouple from wealth creation.

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@0xmitsurii It seems like all of the people who were concerned about violence in video games in the 90s and 2000s were proven directionally correct, but instead of gamers committing violent acts, they're just building technology that let soldiers feel like gamers as they kill people.

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@DaveShapi As a long time Bernie supporter I’m disappointed, but not entirely surprised, by his position on AI. He’s listening to some of the wrong people (Yudkowsky) and his roots in 1970s union thinking render him possibly incapable of seeing past labor rights as the main struggle.

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@DaveShapi These are the types of designs I was referring to when I said humanoids aren’t going to be the one-size-fits-all solution in robotics that leads to physical automation. There will be some humanoids as generalists in factories, but I think they will mostly be in human facing roles

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@treebahark The honest reason is that their compute and talent are over diversified in areas that are non-profitable (Sora, legacy models, etc) all while their competitors (specifically Anthropic) are laser-focused on enterprise customers and are destroying their market share.

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@WesRoth I was literally just building this for myself. Depending on the privacy policy around this feature, I may still build it as an open source application

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@edzitron I’m sorry, but can you elaborate on what makes that threat imaginary? Sure the business model of software incumbents won’t disappear overnight, but their moats are quickly draining and they are under pressure to adapt. Have you used Claude Code(just the tip of what’s out there)?

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@DaveShapi Because Star Trek is not the default guaranteed outcome. People, existing incentive structures, and current distributions of power present roadblocks to achieving that. Also most Trekkies are aware that there was a long period of strife before prosperity, even with advanced tech.

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@DanielCaulder1 @historyinmemes A lot of them seem AI generated (one was by a self-proclaimed AI founder). Many of them demonstrate the level of understanding you would have if you only read the text of the post, lacking the context of the visual innuendo of the photo.

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@kimmonismus That first shot is completely stolen from the film The American Friend by Wim Wenders. Here’s a screen grab from the trailer. And yes, the text is covering a suitcase under his arm. It’s not even a variation. That is the shot.

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@kevinroose It is truly a sad state of affairs. Most of us are trying to figure out how to integrate very powerful yet ill understood technology into our lives, relying almost entirely on personal intuition/experience and anecdotal information shared in online spaces by mostly biased parties

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@RamonPrietoX @DavidOndrej1 Yeah, we also keep getting more powerful smaller models, so you'll be able to stretch your compute leverage further over time. Also, even having the ability to run one powerful agent decoupled from API costs and fully private opens up new affordances in your agent strategy.

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@_CynicalCyanide @kshvbgde Sounds like a good time to be investing in personal local compute.

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@DaveShapi Is that just when they predict that the working class will no longer be needed for productivity?

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@emollick Is this because I mentioned Borges in one of your recent Genie 3 posts? Hmmm…

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@emollick I would be really interested to see Borges or Escher inspired worlds.