squeefers

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by squeefers 8mo ago
because nvidia owns half of its own suppliers AND customers. intel completely missed out on the AI gravy train
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> Back then it took a lot of effort over an extended period to do what can now be had for a few dollars of LLM tokens, we are just prone to hysteria id say, predating the invention of internet, phones or even print media (though they ce
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by squeefers 8mo ago
i feel like peter hitchens saying this, but i agree the british social life is decaying. i thought you meant something else by social plumbing. i cant argue other than i dont think the village churches actually do prevent brigading, locally
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by squeefers 8mo ago
social media in uk law = any website with a message feature. social media in common parlance = anything from whatsapp and discord to youtube and tiktok, even sometimes aliexpress. anything with a doomscroll feature. anything showing videos
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by squeefers 8mo ago
thank goodness! our jobs are safe lads!!
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by squeefers 8mo ago
unless the book contains instructions on how to do things... then youre just outsourcing thinking to the book right? people have to remember less with the printed word full stop. so whats the difference?
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by squeefers 8mo ago
for a guy that talks an awful lot about how things should be but does absolutely fuck all about it himself, this is progress
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by squeefers 8mo ago
*whometh
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by squeefers 8mo ago
i could use "airheaded" instead, "vacuous" maybe? dim, dizzy, duncey or daft if we want to stick with the D's
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by squeefers 8mo ago
shame on him for linking his ditzy wife's article where she thinks shes the first to notice lootboxes are gambling
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by squeefers 8mo ago
what you said is true about books, and people made the exact same arguments when the printing press hit the scene - "you get hypnotized by the tube into a passive state of consumption" - "Watch their slack jawed faces....and
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by squeefers 8mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&vl=en this same thing was predicted 15 years ago, and im sure before that. its nothing new. anyone can claim tech progress eliminates jobs, its almost a truism.
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by squeefers 8mo ago
il give him credit, at least he makes partly verifiable claims. they wont come to pass however, but at least he tried.
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by squeefers 8mo ago
sure, elephants exhibit material intelligence (whatever that means), but the individual whiskers? and also i thought cats whiskers could only determine the width rather than the texture of a gap theyre trying to fit through, though maybe ca
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by squeefers 8mo ago
i find its the opposite, LLMs can be made to agree with anything.... largely because that agreeability is in their system prompt
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> Similarly, we have a lot of social plumbing that became–with the benefit of hindsight–obsolete with social media like what? because weve been able to send messages to each other on a computer since the 50s... or do you mean tiktok and
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by squeefers 8mo ago
every culture EVER said that human culture is in decline. its big-babyism. i dont-like-it-ism.
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> I think AI is going to create a whole new class of people that take a tiny output and turn it into an outsized output. and thats a problem because? you know people said very similar things about digital music and synthesizers.... &quot
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by squeefers 8mo ago
you make a good point and everything but have you considered the way people using LLM is similar to the way we review code together as humans? but if you think about it, they just swapped one of the humans with an LLM
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by squeefers 8mo ago
ai is slop and thats the consensus here for some reason. even before looking at the code, it MUST be slop. its why i have no time for anyone harking on about the evils of social media (for kids and somehow not adults) yet telling me this on
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> There is appetite in some circles for a consumer boycott its not being used anywhere lol where are they meant to boycott?
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by squeefers 8mo ago
"they"? i see companies jacking their prices up, plain and simple. and us idiots still pay. ask yourself does intel no longer wish to sell CPUs to consumers? doesnt sound reasonable that intel would want to decimate their main mar
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> pushing consumers out of the tech space. post consumer capitalism
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by squeefers 8mo ago
it goes mainframe (remote) > PC (local) > cloud (remote) > ??? (local)
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> It really does rot your brain, this is obvious to anybody who doesn't watch TV, but completely imperceptible to those who do. how do you block video on your PC? or do you literally mean audiovisual information broadcast onto actua
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> When I said “take it up with God”, that wasn’t just a figure of speech. Isiah 55:8-9 how come our lord and saviour only seemed to do magic tricks around 2000 years ago? has he lost mana or something?
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> Is this not something to wonder about? no, i dont wonder about it, i worry about it. it means the theory is wrong - works most of the time like newtons, but cant explain these weird edge cases... highly likely to not be the full story
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by squeefers 8mo ago
has this ever been tested in court? ie you can release copyright code and just let them sue the developer instead? Linux foundation or whoever claims ownership of the code basically unless they get sued for it breaching copyright, in which
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by squeefers 8mo ago
> "we're about to ruin a high-quality resource (the Internet) that we carefully built over decades" I agree but would say many people have noticed this over the years... successive waves of normies (aol endless summer bein
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by squeefers 8mo ago
why arent books accused of addictive engineering? simply move the printed words from paper to digital and it becomes addictive somehow.

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