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by tombert 7mo ago
The cheapest Aliexpress calculator can multiply much bigger numbers than I can in my head, and it can do it instantly. Does that mean that the calculator is “smarter” than me?
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by tombert 7mo ago
I didn't think that regular DOSBox had support for stuff like 3dFX does it? Or other weird APIs? I had to use PCem to get support for that stuff.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I've been on a bit of a rabbit hole with Digital Research in the last few days, specifically because I am utterly fascinated with Concurrent DOS. I played with Concurrent DOS (and later MultiUser DOS) in PCem and I was utterly amazed.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yes, but you also wouldn't need a corpus of hundreds of thousands of projects to crib from. If it were truly able to "reason" then conceivably it could look at a language spec, and learn how to express things in term of Brai
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by tombert 7mo ago
You're being purposefully obtuse. People have been hearing for the last three years about how a specific acronym, "AGI", is the final frontier of artificial intelligence and how it's going to change the entire economy ar
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by tombert 7mo ago
Oh, no, before everything kind of converged to OpenGL and DirectX, there were oodles of different things trying to be the next graphics API. There are the more obvious ones like 3DFX/Glide, but there was also stuff like the Diamond Edg
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by tombert 7mo ago
No, it's actually a lie, and it's different than the Hopper GPU you mentioned. People have been seeing every big AI company talk about how AGI is the holy grail of AI, and how they're all trying to reach it. Arm naming a chi
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, there appears to be this idea that "being smart" is the same thing as "knowing facts", which I don't think is realistic. I know plenty of people who are considerably smarter than me, but don't know nearly
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by tombert 7mo ago
Well I have a job now so it's not as big of a deal. This was awhile ago. I live in NYC, and when I was laid off from a job in 2023. I looked into the COBRA options, and they wanted something like $3500/month, which is a lot of m
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by tombert 7mo ago
> I just don't believe even a person with a poor understanding of the market or the underlying technology tosses out bets so casually based only on a name, in the sense that they believe 'oh wow this is actually AGI, I should b
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by tombert 7mo ago
Where did I say I was smarter than everyone else? I certainly don’t think that and I didn’t mean to imply it if I did. I do think I know more than the average person about computers. Probably most people on this forum can say that. People
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by tombert 7mo ago
It's not "being cheeky". They know that the holy grail for AI is AGI. They know that people are going to see the acronym AGI and assume Artificial General Intelligence. They know that people aren't going to read the f
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by tombert 7mo ago
> What does AGI look like in your opinion? Being able to actually reason about things without exabytes of training data would be one thing. Hell, even with exabytes of training data, doing actual reasoning for novel things that aren&#x
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by tombert 7mo ago
I don't believe in "spirits" from the get go. I think it's certainly theoretically possible that we could mimic human thought with a computer (quantum or otherwise) but I do not think that the LLMs we have now are doing
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by tombert 7mo ago
> There is a long history of people arguing that intelligence is actually the ability to predict accurately. There sure is, and in psychological circles that it appears that there's an argument that that is not the case. https:&#x2
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by tombert 7mo ago
Touché. I guess I should have said "I call it a lie".
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by tombert 7mo ago
I didn't say it would be a wise decision to pick stocks that way, but this has already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp . Does an iced tea company changing their name to Long Blockchain
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by tombert 7mo ago
Sure, but there are plenty of cases where a deceptive name has been considered enough to at least warrant an investigation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp . I'm not saying anything is going to h
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by tombert 7mo ago
Ok, but it's not AGI. People five years ago would have been wrong. People who don't have all the information are often wrong about things. ETA: You updated your comment, which is fine but I wanted to reply to your points. > I
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by tombert 7mo ago
I hear this a lot, but she did deserve to be punished. Her defense tried to act like she innocently and accidentally sold some stock based on something a friend told her, but they neglect to mention that she her career started as a stock
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by tombert 7mo ago
I don't own a Windows computer so I only play the Java Edition, which still shockingly gets regularly updates and is very mod-friendly even still. When MS bought Minecraft I assumed that they were going to drop support for the Java ve
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by tombert 7mo ago
My urologist, and I swear I'm not making this up, has the last name "Wiener".
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by tombert 7mo ago
The name of this CPU is bordering on securities fraud. When people see the term "AGI" now, they are assuming "Artificial General Intelligence", not "Agentic AI Infrastructure". Of course people don't real
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by tombert 7mo ago
I think they're arguing that it should not be up to the companies being nice. Yeah, Epic's layoffs were nice, but a lot of companies give shit or no severance at all. I've been laid off and I only get paid until the end of t
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by tombert 7mo ago
Just a note, on Linux at least, if you use the Heroic Launcher, you can get your games from the Epic store without using their awful launcher. You can just run the games through Heroic, which I find less irritating.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I broadly agree, though it does seem like Minecraft has some plot armor here. I think people are still buying and playing Minecraft a lot. I like Minecraft, I play it occasionally, but I guess it's a game that has much more staying p
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by tombert 7mo ago
Wine is a project that I've grown a near-infinite level of respect for. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that a lot of the work for Wine is boring and thankless. Digging through and trying to get exact parity with both the doc
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by tombert 7mo ago
I actually think it'll be the opposite. Even for games that have native ports I pretty much always run the Windows version with Proton, since that just tends to be more stable. People develop against the Windows API because it's
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by tombert 7mo ago
For that matter, Linux has been better than Windows for decades. Yes, Linux has some jankiness, I don't dispute that, but when people say that they're often smuggling in an assumption that Windows doesn't have jankiness, wh
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by tombert 7mo ago
If you can even get Excel working under Wine. Older ones work fine, but AFAIK there's no way to get the modern Excel working on Wine.

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