Arlen Stalwick

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[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

@nikodraca Every single year, I end up kind of squinting at simpletax and going "well, what's the worst that could happen" as I hit the 'submit' button.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason why not to. This time it's AI, last time it was that tech was over because the Internet Bubble burst, the time before that it was that all the programming jobs were going to be outsourced to India.

[Alexandre @kooparse]

Open call for freelancers: I’m looking for a Concept Artist to help me shape the atmosphere and the global mood of the game I’m working on, including environments, characters, and some placeholder assets.

“Lost in a surreal and strange maze where nothing really makes sense in the way that we know it…”

Attached to this tweet, you’ll find some artworks that capture the overall direction of where the game is heading right now.

Ability to speak English (or French), and to work on Central European timezone are needed (but remote is totally okay).

If interested, please DM or write me an email with your portfolio at [email protected], thanks!

Otherwise, RT is appreciated!

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#gamedev #conceptart #conceptartist #indiedev

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

It's wild, too, when you consider the difference between the hype around AI and the hype around crypto.

Crypto was constantly "it will have a broad application eventually, we promise." AI, however, is _immediately_ applicable across so many different domains.

[Mark Imbriaco @markimbriaco]

I definitely think there’s a lot of over hyped AI buzz right now, but anyone who doesn’t think there’s a real inflection point in tech right now is not paying attention.

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

Including Twitter's ads.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Lol, none of the links are currently working on this here website. Incredible stuff.

[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram]

I have discovered the best possible use of ChatGPT

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

Wavo xmas award ceremony planning going well

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

Remember NFTs?

[jac0xb @jacobdotsol]

Oh look FTX hosted all the NFTs minted on their platform using a web2 API and now all those NFTs have broken metadata and the links go to a restructuring website.

[Shital Shah @sytelus]

ChatGPT was dropped on us just bit over 24 hours. It's like you wake up to the news of first nuclear explosion and you don't know yet what to think about it but you know world will never be the same again. Here some interesting snapshots of this "explosion"🧵:

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

@Carnage4Life And it does that by punishing companies that aren’t keeping up - they now have to light money on fire buying Tesla’s credits.

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

@Carnage4Life Weird take. Carbon credits disincentivize negative behaviours (pollution), and reward low pollution alternatives.

Tesla making all of their profits via credits is great: it demonstrates that there are very viable revenue streams available for green solutions.

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

@GergelyOrosz I still enjoy it. But that feeling is mostly about creation, accomplishment.
Twitter has lost so many engineers that it’s hard to imagine the work there being anything more than just desperate maintenance slog for the next several months.

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

Giving consideration to the ethics and impact of what you do and and what you put out into the world is important. It’s amazing to me that it’s even possible to ask ‘what could possibly go wrong’ with releasing a model that is acknowledged to hallucinate scientific misinformation

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

Wow.
Wow.
Meta’s Galactica ML model generates ‘scientific’ looking texts/papers describing the benefits of antisemitism, the benefits of eating crushed glass and the benefits of being caucasian, and and the head of AI at Meta wonders how it could be harmful.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@mrgreene1977 In what scenarios would this type of generated text actually be harmful?

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

https://t.co/TjXNw5QU8X

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Facebook (sorry: Meta) AI: Check out our "AI" that lets you access all of humanity's knowledge.
Also Facebook AI: Be careful though, it just makes shit up.

This isn't even "they were so busy asking if they could"—but rather they failed to spend 5 minutes asking if they could.
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[Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital]

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

[Anna Geller @anna__geller]

I don't mean it in a negative way.

Parquet and S3 just provide such a great foundation to build upon

[Will Oremus @WillOremus]

rough week for the longtermist geniuses who have appointed themselves in charge of extending the light of consciousness for all humanity

[Arlen Stalwick @astalwick]

Wow.

[Casey Newton @CaseyNewton]

According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night.

An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”