captainbland

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by captainbland 7mo ago
It's got to be said that rewarding people who make content on a regular, frequent schedule seems to A: be a way of coercing a fairly high minimum level of labour out of platformed accounts and B: a good way of flooding feeds with conte
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by captainbland 7mo ago
I don't know, I think if you weighed up the costs of AI related datacentre spend vs. the average mathematics academic's salary you could come to a different conclusion.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
I think the issue is that LLMs are a cash problem as much as they are a technical problem. Consumer hardware architectures are still pretty unfriendly to running models which are actually competitive to useful models so if you want to even
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by captainbland 7mo ago
Not for long, presumably. Apparently the majority of marketable skills will come from a handful of capex heavy, trillion dollar corporations and you will like it.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
We've all seen shovelware, now introducing excavatorware. A single shovelware studio is now empowered to deliver on the order of kilogames per month.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
Honestly it's really weird that it was ever allowed to get this stage. Their leadership has been pretty "mask off" for a good while now.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
I feel like this is a feature which improves the perceived confidence of the LLM but doesn't do much for correctness of other outputs, i.e. an exacerbation of the "confidently incorrect" criticism.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
They'd already taken VC money hadn't they? It's got to be said though that tech startups are getting very formulaic. Monster of the week vibes.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
When I say language model, I mean of whatever form would make it native to the wetware medium. This brings with it a few key distinctions. The distinction I think is most relevant is that human neurons including in chips like the CL1 have t
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by captainbland 7mo ago
It's an interesting question as to what that level is likely to be though. The chip in question apparently has around 800,000 neurons ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/06/04/hardwa
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by captainbland 7mo ago
On top of the stringent border checks and Minneapolis, Brits are now seeing things like this and thinking twice: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton...
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by captainbland 7mo ago
I hadn't until you mentioned it but now I have! I expect one day they'll generate a language model on one and then we can just ask it, assuming they don't give it a special rule about never describing its experiences.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
While I'm sure that subconsciously influenced what I wrote, it was more a general jab at the sentiment that negative externalities can always be justified so long as a technology has users who prefer to use it.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
Today: this Tomorrow: trillions invested in new technology for simulating human torture accurately at the molecular level, requiring twice the level of all consumer electricity use on the planet. Advocates claim "all use is valid"
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by captainbland 7mo ago
After seeing natural gas prices spike like that I'd probably pull out of such an energy intensive investment too
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by captainbland 8mo ago
For Nvidia's part they're just giving money to one of their largest customers. They make money back even if they "lose" the bet
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by captainbland 8mo ago
Strictly speaking governments can and do create new things, e.g. NASA.
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by captainbland 8mo ago
A few reasons, "AI" as used by non-experts often has correctness and security issues. Even when it doesn't, its outputs are often not reproducible/predictable because they're probabilistic systems. AI systems are al
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by captainbland 8mo ago
I think the particular problem is if AI is just producing large volumes of code which are unnecessary, because the LLM is simply not able to create a more concise solution. If this is the case it suggests these LLM generated solutions are l
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by captainbland 9mo ago
This is more like neat-scrolling, I like it
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by captainbland 9mo ago
I guess the good news for Apple is their margins are so high to begin with that they can probably swallow it for a while before pushing increases onto their consumers who will probably largely be happy that it improves the perceived status
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by captainbland 9mo ago
In fairness we essentially ban scooters from practically every public path/road but they're still everywhere
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by captainbland 9mo ago
Yeah in principle funded PhD positions are quite competitive and as I understand it you tend to be interviewed and essentially ranked against other candidates. But I guess if you're paying for yourself to be there you'll face lowe
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by captainbland 9mo ago
What's wild is so many of these are from prestigious universities. MIT, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge are all on there. It must be a terrible time to be an academic who's getting outcompeted by this slop because somebody from an
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by captainbland 9mo ago
https://now.synthetic.services It pretty much has one post explaining what the blog is (it's a custom system) and why it exists. Enjoy?
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by captainbland 10mo ago
> That's because starting JVM 22, the previous so-called "dynamic attachment of agents" is put behind a flag. Ok am I being stupid or is the pragmatic solution not to just to enable this flag for test runs etc. and leave
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by captainbland 10mo ago
I use both but really don't see it. There are so many scenarios I've come across which jetbrains products do "out of the box" that vscode require plugins which usually don't install with sensible defaults. Just deb
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by captainbland 10mo ago
> Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished I don't know, you ever seen a video of a cheetah hunting a gazelle? Lots of hurrying going on there.
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by captainbland 10mo ago
It probably wouldn't be significant as executive function and overall intelligence can change independently.
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by captainbland 10mo ago
I think this is broadly well considered although I have a bit of trouble understanding this point: > Social awkwardness refers to social ineptness without meaningful impairment Isn't social awkwardness sort of inherently impairing i

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