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by api 1mo ago
So much work is being done on running these things more efficiently, and it’s why I think the data center build out is a huge bubble.
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by api 1mo ago
The truth is that the web is a shit GUI framework. It's slow, clunky, incredibly resource intensive, hard to make uniform, verbose to code. It's terrible. The way the whole industry adopted it is understandable given the install b
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by api 1mo ago
Accessibility is a giant problem with almost every open source GUI library too. It seems like an absolute slam dunk for AI. Create an integrated AI screen reader app that observes the screen and talks to you. It wouldn't even need to b
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by api 1mo ago
I kept saying "policing" here because unfortunately this is the absolute worst kind of evil for a society to have to deal with: the kind that is not absolutely black and white. Murder is a tidy kind of evil. If you murder someone
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by api 1mo ago
In my opinion at least, any attempt to intentionally engineer addiction is morally wrong and should be at the very least civilly if not criminally actionable (if it can be proven). It's mind control. That phrase is often associated w
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by api 1mo ago
That just means one giant corporate entity runs the country.
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by api 1mo ago
Most don’t vote. That’s a form of voting. A lot who don’t vote have this mistaken idea that “well nobody perfectly fits my values.” They never will. It’s always a vote for what you think is a somewhat better outcome, especially if you only
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by api 1mo ago
People get what they voted for.
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by api 1mo ago
Another thing they got right was the merger of governments, large corporations, finance, intelligence agencies, and globalized organized crime into one big sprawling mass of Machiavellian nihilists scheming for power. None of these people r
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by api 1mo ago
Only true in the 20th century. Since George W. Bush it's been Republicans by far. These are objective numbers. I'm not sure how people can argue with them. Clinton's balanced budget and surplus is a bit of an outlier, and my
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by api 1mo ago
Is that really true or are a lot of these books out of copyright? And if they're not out of copyright why can they train on them without permission? They probably argue that training is fair use, but if I take a film and compress it wi
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by api 1mo ago
If they were sharing the scans it would be great but they’re not.
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by api 1mo ago
It's a lot worse. It's like comparing a bow and arrow to an M-16. Yes they both shoot projectiles, but... The quantity is endless. You can run out of channels, sweep through them a few times, give up, and get bored, while doom scr
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by api 1mo ago
I’m not afraid of AI, even AI with extreme abilities. I am afraid of humans with AI. That’s because I’m afraid of humans. When I look around the world I see humans murdering and robbing each other. When I get online on almost any social med
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by api 1mo ago
… or the safety argument is an attempt at regulatory capture and an effort to outlaw open models. The absolute nightmare scenario for these people isn’t terminators. They’re fine with that, and in some cases are already doing it or supporti
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by api 1mo ago
There's a deep failed idea here. It's the idea that technology is an alternative to politics, period. I think that whole idea has failed. You can't avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state, because lit
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by api 1mo ago
Isn't a MoE model basically a cascading tree of smaller models or some variation of that?
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by api 1mo ago
Wait there’s a mouse that requires an account? I’ve been using just Linux and Mac long enough to not know this, and I’m glad.
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by api 1mo ago
I'd say the code I see coming out of leading models today is okay. Not great, but not terrible. It's also easy to get LLMs to code in more efficient languages, and you can also goad them via prompts and CLAUDE.md type stuff into
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by api 1mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but there is a devils' advocate argument: Most compute loads are bursty. Most PCs and phones sit idle almost all the time. It's an inefficient use of capital. In the cloud you can be idle and then sudde
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by api 1mo ago
This is part of why I think the data center build-out is a bubble. We've barely scratched the surface when it comes to hardware optimization. We'll see exponential improvements in energy efficiency and speed over the next decade.
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by api 1mo ago
I'm glad I splurged years ago and got an M1 Max with 64 GiB RAM. Still fast enough for everything, don't plan to upgrade until this cools off.
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by api 1mo ago
Memory in the cloud isn't free either.
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by api 1mo ago
You really think Lobster Jesus is what most of this is doing? It's doing code, analytics, training, research, operating services. The silly slop stuff is a small rounding error of usage.
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by api 1mo ago
That's true. Making them pay enough for water might mean the data center doesn't even get built there. It gets built somewhere more logical with abundant cheap water.
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by api 1mo ago
I've done a bit of research into it, and I think it's a mix. The energy thing is exaggerated. Want to compensate for a week of heavy AI coding usage? If you drive to work, telecommute for one day. Skip one long-distance DoorDash o
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by api 1mo ago
Industry build-out in the USA? It's raising our energy and water costs. Lack of industry build-out in the USA? We're losing our industrial base to the Chinese. Social media always promotes the angry take because that's what m
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by api 1mo ago
It was really the touch screen UI, which was brought to market by Apple. Always been curious if it was developed there or if like the desktop windowed UI it was pioneered elsewhere. Prior efforts were menu oriented or attempts at desktop UI
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by api 1mo ago
This is new? There were tons of fake news sites, fake blogs, and sock puppet and troll farm accounts before AI. I guess the new angle might be that AI scrapers have even less discernment than humans, so you don’t have to put much effort int
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by api 1mo ago
Ahh, yes, the cosmic horror hypothesis about how anesthesia works. You can't move and experience everything but remember nothing. But hey, I don't have cancer anymore. So if I had to endure four hours of agony that I don't re

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