Bill Ding

anti-robosex

[Bill Ding @billding314]

i once saw a hilarious video of a machine built to mechanically actuate the two polarities of marital aids. i think often about the economic, social, and philosophical implications of robots fucking robots.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

i mean this is cool and all i guess, but what is done with the 2-3 hours per week? more netflix? it's not really a big deal to go to the grocery store and this hyper-optimization mindset is killing us as a species.

[Matt Griswold @griswold]

It's happening. My wife told her friends how I set up a @bot to handle weekly meal planning and grocery shopping, saving 2-3 hours per week.

They lean forward. "I want that! How do I get that?"

The AI factories are pitching travel agents, but mundane convenience seems like a killer feature to usher the Instagram crowd to Muse/Bot/Dot/etc.

Most people right now "use AI" the way I use a Swiss Army knife to lift the tab on a soda can, so everything she describes next lands like "The Turn" of a magic trick.

Every Sunday, "Sylvia-bot" sends 15 meal ideas and we choose 5-7 based on the week. It knows to assign the easy meals to the nights when our family calendar shows football practice. It knows to use ingredients 2-3 times in different ways, like a chef balancing COGS and flavors. It knows the components of a successful taco night.

We had years of weekly grocery orders for training, so it knows the brands, flavors, and sizes we prefer as a family. (I wonder how long it will take others to get to this point without the archive.)

We're still working on the idea that "grape tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are interchangeable" and "don't buy berries that aren't on sale!"

In 5 minutes, we approve the plan. It does the shopping on H-E-B, double-checks the pantry assumptions (e.g. soy sauce, spices, etc.), adds the kids' usual extras, and emails a clean PDF of every recipe for the week.

At the end of each week, we log our favorite to a 'recipe book' memory for future rotations.

For now, my wife will scan the cart (another 5 minutes) and confirm tomorrow's pickup window. Soon, I expect our Tesla will do the grocery run on its own.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@mamalahoa @eigenrobot i know you know the nyt's framing is dumb, but i still smh whenever "different" becomes synonymous with -ist

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@heisei_ramen @Pirat_Nation @esrtweet yup. software business is toast in 6-12 months. get a dataset or some hardware.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@CeciliaGlennon but it did revolutionize society. could we make a three minute video of animated farm animals doing the hokey pokey in the beforetimes? nope! checkmate, libtard.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@NoVA_Campaigns every time i drive west on 50 from chantilly to aldie i get depressed

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@vegas_scumbag @ploughmansfolly @ProdigalThe3rd blackpill if you want, but despair is a sin.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@tszzl the bad guys won in "the revenge of the nerds"

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@vegas_scumbag @ploughmansfolly @ProdigalThe3rd would things be better under kamala? get a grip.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@AuronMacintyre dang i need to go to your church... mine keeps saying "silence your phones, dress a little nicer on sundays, and stop sinning"

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@MuseZack @elonmusk the real answer is both longitude- and latitude-based time zones. we have computers, they can keep track.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

so it's been another day of codex on fpga and i have to say, the jury's still out. however, i've learned a LOT more about digital design in practice (not theory) and how to close timing than i knew before

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@MiraZephyre i'm going to have to think about this more. i'm starting to lean towards not knowing what i'm doing

[Bill Ding @billding314]

i can't tell yet if codex is making me more or less efficient at fpga design... but being able to have an llm generate a custom location constraint file based on actual function that works better than vendor tools seems pretty cool. either that or i don't know what i'm doing...

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@AntonTwerkovitz @mattbramanti indeed. talked to coworker yesterday, he has big plans for ai in the family hotel business. i kept probing him, and then he admitted the main problem is getting people to do their job. it always boils down to shitty people, ai can't fix that.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@LeMangy tell me more, is this a game engine you are developing? how are you doing this? are you running pixels through a filter that models the response of phosphor elements? screenshots?

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@mc_swm do not engage. this is the same guy who claimed "insects are more important than humans" which swept twitter a couple weeks ago.

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@eigenrobot please help me with my garden. i leave tools out for you but the weeds still grow :(

[Bill Ding @billding314]

@normonics #madewithai

[Bill Ding @billding314]

i am conflicted about the ai torture nexus. obviously the idea of llm pain is stupid, so it's all just advanced math to calculate numbers, but being the kind of person to engage in activities purporting to torture something probably comes with spiritual damage.