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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
āCursor YOLO deleted everything in my computerā:
The response:
My T-shirt is raising questions already answered, etc.
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I looked this up because I thought it was a nickname for something, but no, Cursor seems to have a setting thatās officially called YOLO mode. As per their docs:
So this guy explicitly ticked the box that allowed the bullshit generator to execute arbitrary code on his machine. Why would you ever use that? Whatās someoneās rationale for enabling a setting like that? They even name it YOLO mode. Itās like the fucking red button in the movie that says, donāt push the red button, and promptfans are still like, yes, that sounds like a good idea!
There is an implicit claim in the red button that it was worth including.
It is like Googleās AI overviews. There can not be a sufficient disclaimer because the overview being on the top of Google search implies a level of usefulness which it does not meet, not even in the āevil plan to make more money brieflyā way.
Edit: my analogy to AI disclaimers is using āthis device uses nuclei known to the state of California toā¦ā in place of ādrop and runā.
Can you imagine selling something like a firewall appliance with a setting called āYolo Modeā, or even a tax software or a photo organizer or anything that handles any data, even if only of middling importance, and then still expect to be taken seriously at all?
Yolo charging mode on a phone, disable the battery overheating sensor and the current limiter.
I suspect that they added yolo mode because without it this thing is too useless.
Setting my oven to YOLO Mode and dying in a fire 7 seconds later
I set my car to YOLO more by pointing the vehicle roughly the direction I wish to travel and then dropping a brick on the accelerator.
We already have this, itās just a Tesla with āFSDā on
I thought FSD only works if there are kids around for the car to aim at.
My tax prep software definitely has a mode called āgive me Deus Exā
Well, they canāt fully outsource thinking to the autocomplete if they get asked whether some actions are okay.
deserved tbh
I was reading a post by someone trying to make shell scripts with an llm, and at one point the system suggested making a directory called
~(which is a shorthand for your home directory in a bunch of unix-alikes). When the user pointed out this was bad, the llm recommended remediation usingrm -r ~which would of course delete all your stuff.So, yeah, donāt let the approximately-correct machine do things by itself, when a single character substitution can destroy all your stuff.
And JFC, being surprised that something called āYOLOā might be bad? What were people expecting?
--all-the-red-flagsThe basilisk we have at home