dwoldrich

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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
Because an LLM is the only way to express intelligence with a computer. So your conception of ram/cpu/storage/networks and learning (training on huge corpus of data) is the only way to do artificial intelligence? LLM's
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
I should think so! I wonder what those original AI were used for.
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
> so unless the military ran a giant expensive program just to hide the fact that they actually had machines 10000x faster than the $50M (in 80s money) supercomputers of the day, and had trained them on a corpus they whipped up out of no
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
Why are you so certain you know what tech existed in the 80's? NASA used Commodore 64's as part of the constellation of computers needed to launch the space shuttle. That whole program was pretty hokey. That silliness doesn&#x27
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
I'm not saying the movie War Games was a limited hangout for a super-intelligent secret military computer system/network that already existed. I'm just saying it could have been. I see those trillion dollar data centers we&#
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
> Well, that didn't happen. The military had stealth aircraft in the 70's. I'll bet they had LLM or better in the 80's and the tech we have now is the consumer-grade version they seeded into industry in the 2020&#x27
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
That is to say that (practically) all software has a finite utility timeframe. So it's a lot like an organism in that way in that it 'dies' when it is no longer useful.
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
This is more than enshittification, it feels like purposeful brand destruction. Are governments going to institute more lockdowns? Is this some topdown control thing? I will root this POS android phone I have and forego any Google Play ser
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
AI propaganda crew hasn't rolled on yet today; not seeing the "it's different now, code is cheap/free with AI" messaging yet. 80% of the cost is maintenance, and all software dies so there will always be work to do.
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by dwoldrich 3mo ago
I'm not a fan of state management in React apps, and it took me a long time to come to peace with it. What I landed on that works with the system rather than against is useContext at the page level containing Jotai atoms that wrapper
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
Yes, I hope I didn't contradict you, the economy has been shite. Was just trying to leave a positive note on recent developments that will continue, God willing.
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
Some enjoy their local cultures, customs and sovereignty and do not wish to dissolve into a homogenized nowhere-land of world culture/governance. Some people do not cheer for dystopia. Continue with the scold though, very convincing a
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
There are upward and downward revisions this year at least, it seems like a mixed bag with many policies juicing the economy. [1] Job opportunities differ by state and de-growth hostility to business policies and crony investments. Where I
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
Modern invented flag peddlers only seek to have us fly flags of the division they seek to generate. I only fly the flag of the country I live in and give side eye to anyone that does otherwise.
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
> I'm referring to the model itself. The `.ckpt` file is clearly transformative wrt its training set. Or, at least, substantially more transformative than other things that have long received fair use protection. Oh, I see. And the
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
> But I don't think there is any sort of fundamental barrier that prevents us from building appropriately constrained LLM-based systems. This iteration of the tech, I agree. In future iterations that use intensive persuasion techni
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
I've considered there's probably no ethical way to use contemporary AI when it is "out in front" doing anything of consequence. Your "AI is a tool and nothing more" frames ethical use of the technology for me.
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
1619 project is Jacobin-style, revisionist history politics. Defund the Police, Jacobin. To flood drugs, homeless and immigrants into sanctuary cities is intentional Jacobin tactics to cause normal people to become fed up and to overturn
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
Somehow "centrist" has taken on a negative connotation in Democratic circles, but I don't understand it. Far left politics are wrecker politics that have their moments and then (hopefully) get sent back to the political dese
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
> I also agree that Democrats are too invested in themselves and the status quo to put forward a candidate who will make the kinds of meaningful changes that Democratic voters actually want. The old saying "the customer doesn't
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
And he won the popular vote if you believe that all U.S. elections are secure and sacrosanct. He is diabolical at getting people to talk about him and think about him constantly. Joe Biden on the other hand was a senile wrecker for Build B
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
> I think developers have these amazing connections with the work and hope for what connecting can be, what the internet means, and are so inspired by having help with the labor of building. Yes, this is it, you understand! The little s
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by dwoldrich 4mo ago
'Hate' and 'fascist' seem to reliably trigger people to stew in anger and give up their power. Don't fall for the divide and conquer. You have agency, you can do your part to steer the ship if you can resist the le
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
Time for a shameless plug for my friend's product: dependencies built from source and served up a la carte. Removes a lot of trust issues with rando tarballs uploaded by bad actors. There's nothing quite like it. https:/&
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
They sound like very important people no matter what the circumstances are, haha. Having "house rules" on a team that new members must agree to follow tends to flush such people out and they usually exit on their own when their sh
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
No offense taken, I see you are wrestling with the idea of faith. The way I look at it, God doesn't just meet you where you are, he pursues. So, if you are meant to surrender, it's a good thing. That just means you were one that d
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
Just philosophically speaking, an accidental entropic universe eventually producing Labubus doesn't work either. History, law, civilization, anti-slavery and the dignity of man all come from judeo-christian teaching, it's not just
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
Very cool, sweet baby chose you two and you saw it happen, maybe.
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
I think we're experiencing the world like seeing through a pinhole. It's all too much to take in and process, so we've got most of it filtered out just to keep it manageable. But, that mental filter doesn't stop all of
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by dwoldrich 5mo ago
The voices sounded human, like hushed. I can't say in my case. In Christianity, Satan and demons are recognized as a reality. God allows them access to humanity. That doesn't make God evil, and in fact God uses evil forces to d

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