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> It's made and maintained by linux enthusiasts who are incapable of understanding how the average person wants to use a computer They understand, but they don't care. The 5% want to have a system that is designed for themselve
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> No this is not a plausible scenario. COBOL exists. Billions of lines of COBOL still in production today. The scenario is already happening now.
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Wow. I'm impressed that you were crazy enough to come back and post this detailed review that no one else will ever read. > and no motion blur which makes them sharper any time you view a moving image (yep I'm aware that you pe
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by xcv123 3y ago
Citation: Decades of research in artificial neural networks Here's a paper from 1990 by the Godfather himself https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/AIJmapping.pdf "This 1990 paper demonstrated how neu
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by xcv123 3y ago
If deep learning algorithms are "autocomplete" then so is the human mind when it strings words together. No, that's not how it works.
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OK, will do, but of course it's too late to edit this one now.
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>> why just 44GB tho??? You can order one with 1.2 Petabytes of external memory. Is that enough? "External memory: 1.5TB, 12TB, or 1.2PB" https://www.cerebras.net/press-release/cerebras-announces-th...
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by xcv123 3y ago
Part of me hopes this is true, that AGI (or even worse - ASI) will never be fully realized. Too disruptive. A counter example to nuclear power or space travel is integrated circuits. This technology has transformed our society and we haven&
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by xcv123 3y ago
AGI is being developed by companies which have billions to fund it, such as Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Their goals are not subjective. These are ruthless for-profit entities that exist to increase shareholder returns.
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What if this is a boring business text summary task that takes additional hours of my time at work? Why should I waste my time? I have better things to do. I can leave early while you sit there at work typing like a fool.
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> It's something a clever fourth-grader would write. This level of cope and denial is amazing to witness. The most powerful (multi trillion dollar) companies on the planet are pouring practically infinite resources into developing s
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These models can do something in a second that would take many hours for a human writer.
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> Most writers have already realized that LLMs can't write in any meaningful way. I know a professional writer who is amazed by what LLMs are capable of already and, given the rate of progress, speculates they will take over many wr
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by xcv123 3y ago
Fix your prompt. Just accepting the default style is a rookie mistake. Ask it to "rewrite that in the tone of an English professor" or "rewrite that in the style of a redneck rapper" or "make that sound less like ge
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by xcv123 3y ago
> They produce generic, amateurish copy that reads like it's written by committee. If you were only using GPT 3.5 (free ChatGPT) then your opinion is irrelevant. With GPT-4 you could directly ask it: "rewrite your previous resp
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by xcv123 3y ago
> the easiest thing to do is yell "they took er jerbs If the goal with AGI is to literally take all of our jobs (all jobs in all sectors) then what are you suggesting we can do instead?
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> inept leadership Their leadership are worse than "inept" or "incompetent". Actively evil psychopaths running the show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall:_The_Case_Against_Boe...
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Most of them would be retired already. That was 27 years ago. The mandatory retirement age for executives at Boeing is 65 years old.
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That's right, but there is a 21 Million BTC supply limit. Would anyone bother to mine these coins if the supply was unlimited?
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It is for the Venezuelans. 28 million people were completely fucked by hyperinflation. Life savings destroyed. The peer to peer network enabled them to circumvent the banking system, which is why BTC was created, according to the original p
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by xcv123 3y ago
What's strange about it? The creator of Bitcoin could not predict that volatility. The inflation of fiat currency is one major reason why crypto exists. Bitcoin has a 21 million BTC supply limit. That's the point. However even wit
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> I honestly cannot understand why crypto exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe https://www.usinfl
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> You don't know what you're talking about. I used CRT for years until 2024 and I've lost count of how many Dell Ultrasharp and Apple LCD screens I've owned. > LCDs were completely unusable until the mid 2000s We&#
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by xcv123 3y ago
LOL the $1k stand. It wasn't until I bought a $200 stand when I realized how they can justify $1k for something that works properly. These days I'm using a Chinese "professional 4k" monitor that covers 98% of DCI-P3 colo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
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Well those cost tens of thousands of dollars. But even a cheap (by comparison) Apple XDR display is properly calibrated and surpasses the color gamut of professional CRT monitors. (100% of DCI-P3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by xcv123 3y ago
> even today I have yet to see an LCD screen that can display an image with even a single solid color accurately Have you tried professional calibrated monitors? https://www.eizo.com/products/coloredge/
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I remember the constant eye strain from years of CRT monitor use. Blurry and flickery pieces of shit. I dumped mine in the trash and never looked back. Good riddance. > it'd be nice if in 2024 we had screens at least as capable as w
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by xcv123 3y ago
> Text summarisation routinely hallucinates LLMs are trained to summarize text with extremely high accuracy. There is no confabulation of text summarized within the context window. Confabulation only occurs with facts recalled from outsi
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by xcv123 3y ago
ELIZA had no ability to translate language, summarize text, generate poetry or anything like that. Extremely idiotic comparison.

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