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by dofm 3mo ago
Thanks for the extra detail here.
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by dofm 3mo ago
That is exactly what got me past just enough of my cynicism to get started. I am still cynical but now I have meaningful knowledge.
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by dofm 3mo ago
If you point it at a huggingface model identifier, it will download it, I assume. No way around that. It reads like it is keeping only the core and the active layer loaded at any one point, and streams layers from disk; there are several ot
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by dofm 3mo ago
Right but the question was: "Do you guys think we're going to see a de-evolution of human beings due to technology?" Not LLMs specifically. Insofar as I believe there is value in IQ tests, this is a technology-driven effect
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by dofm 3mo ago
"That's great for you, I'm not going to read it" is a phrase I have had to use.
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by dofm 3mo ago
I find it interesting that people see Money For Nothing as evidence of technical limitations of the era. It’s not. That blocky appearance and limited lighting was deliberate comic aesthetic choice as a response to budget , not a result of
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by dofm 3mo ago
> You are claiming that unions are what push the country forward Again, no, you are rather mischaracterising what I said. I have certainly argued that unions did in the past push the USA forward in terms of labour rights and worker pr
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by dofm 3mo ago
I am not saying they shouldn't because they'll be censored. I'm saying they shouldn't because it is lazy, crass, distasteful and clickbaity.
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by dofm 3mo ago
It's a logical mistake to think anyone cosies up to a politician because of what they have already done to benefit them. It's much more about what they could be persuaded to do or not do, or worse, might do if they don't re
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by dofm 3mo ago
But it's another benchmark on how good models are at generating intensely average, unwanted things with unthinking design. Just scaled up.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Especially since the whole AI IPO concept seems at least somewhat predicated on creative accounting! ;-)
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by dofm 3mo ago
And you could almost always tell a "game construction kit" game from a real one, couldn't you? Whatever was missing from those is always missing from these, and it seems just as rare that the game will reach much beyond its o
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by dofm 3mo ago
I saw that, tested it in Qwen. Elias Thorne, on the first run, as a clockmaker too.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Worse in a very specific, bland, uninteresting way, too. Early generative AI at least had the virtue of relentless, unsettling weirdness, in the same way that generative art from the late 90s and early 2000s did. A handful of people made cr
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by dofm 3mo ago
Anthropic spokesman [0] Andrej Karpathy is here to tell you about token-wasting loops, and insists on the weird idea that they are "~free", when in fact, they are fuelled by expensively burning investor money. [0] Seriously. Get u
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by dofm 3mo ago
> I really dislike this AI programming thing of “Mr LLM, go slam your face into the problem until there’s no problem left, then call me back”. Not difficult to see why the employees of AI firms are thrilled with it though, eh?
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by dofm 3mo ago
Elias Thorne!
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by dofm 3mo ago
The comparison is the unambiguous gains for society union labour organisation achieved through industrial history, which was a clear public good, and what is lost if there are no longer unions to defend those gains. Stuff can go backwards
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by dofm 3mo ago
It's an analogy . In that sentence I'm not saying that one has to do with the other. I am talking there about the relationship of people arguing against a concept with the status quo for that respective concept. The way those arg
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by dofm 3mo ago
Again, I am literally not saying that they are. I very clearly say that, in some significant measure, the former is the product of the latter. That is the word I used. Not "the same thing". Don't do these silly bad faith, s
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by dofm 3mo ago
I literally did not say that vaccine and vaccine adoption has anything to do with unions. Why would you ever think I did? It's an analogy. (Though as it goes, I suspect vaccine rollout and universal healthcare does, in fact, owe some o
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by dofm 3mo ago
I have additionally gone down a bit of a rabbit hole on this bit: > the public realizing the need for stronger labor laws To a meaningful extent, especially in 19th century Britain, the concept of the general public is the product
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Where would we be without them? Where will you be without them, you mean. The current trajectory of the US government is the opposite of strengthening the rights of labour.
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by dofm 3mo ago
> I have never understood why it's okay and not wildly illegal for anyone to interfere with unions at any level in the USA The entire conversation around unions in the USA is a cartoon, basically. But if people don't know what
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by dofm 3mo ago
> I'd never understand why tech workers should. You may unfortunately understand this soon, if the products of the tech industry do what they promise to do. But it will be too late.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Thank you. Almost all of the US discourse around unions seems to involve accepting the literally cartoonish framing that the US corporate right managed to force into popular culture. The fact that union culture in the USA is broken is not a
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Child labor now outlawed. For now. Many US states are currently trying to roll back these laws though, aren't they? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/child-labor-... https:/
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by dofm 3mo ago
> I think that’s less of a factor of unions existing themselves and more so the public realizing the need for stronger labor laws. Though certainly unions were advocating for stronger labor laws (as they should have been). > […] >
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by dofm 3mo ago
The non partisan source is the history of the industrial revolution itself. I am not saying that you are doing this, but I tend to find that people who think we don't need unions anymore are engaging with the status quo in the same way
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by dofm 3mo ago
Nerd / geek / spod / dork etc., very complex shifting meanings. But what you're talking about in the first paragraph is what people used to call "geek" culture, and what you're talking about in the second

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