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I’m on board with wanting this :)
LLMs will get worse and shittier Why would they?
Not from the side of them gaining more knowledge but from the side of companies creating them monetizing and otherwise enshittifying them.
If we had a competitive open-source LLM…
So you’re not wrong, I agree; but I was speaking of a different angle. heh
They’re also notoriously terrible build quality.
I will give Tesla credit for one solitary thing: They did help jumpstart electrics. Help. Not cause.
But that has been picked up by real car manufacturers, who just need more encouragement to continue to increase numbers, along with infrastructure projects to bring more charging stations to more places. A critical area would be for installations in places like apartment parking lots and various public parking lots (i.e. paid parking but I mean shopping lots)
Pedo nazis are trying to take over the U.S.
Alas, not sure about “trying”, but yes.
Precisely that one, yes :)
So kinda like an ethical LLM[1]. I’d be on board with that.
I know it’s unpopular to say, but I’ve found the latest version of Gemini to be pretty useful. But you have to know what they’re good for and not. General knowledge? Generally pretty decent. But you have to ask for sources and check those sources, and don’t tell it what you think, ask it what it knows and to admit when it doesn’t know things. I wouldn’t put my life on the line, but for looking up random stuff, it’s pretty decent.
I know LLMs will get worse and shittier, which I think is a bummer, because they could be so damned useful.
But I get your distinctions and I’m on board with that. It’d be nice! ↩︎
I have two methods for scrambled eggs:
Butter on the griddle. Crack the eggs on the griddle. Carefully cook the whites leaving the yolks unbroken (if possible). when the whites are basically cooked, break the yolks and scramble. The idea is to get the whites all cooked and the yolks barely/mostly cooked. Remember that heat continues to build in the egg, so pull slightly before they’re where you want them. You hopefully end up with scrambled eggs that are full of barely-cooked yolk savory flavour. Along with the salt, msg, and freshly cracked pepper put on them while cooking the whites, and the butter they were cooked in.
If I don’t want to deal with that and get something almost as tasty and more uniform: Crack and scramble the eggs in a bowl until they are well scrambled and no strings of white can be detected. Melt butter on your griddle all the way across it. Pour out the eggs, which because they are well scrambled will spread out thinly across most or all of the griddle. A layer will quickly cook, as soon as it forms, start moving the egg around to make uncooked egg touch the griddle - fold it, scramble it, move it around. The idea is to get uncooked egg touching the hot surface and minimize the cooked egg doing so. It won’t take long for the eggs to cook - soon as they are almost all cooked, pull them because heat will finish the job. This cooking method should also not overcook the yolk (although it will more than the first method), resulting in very tasty eggs. I stir the sale, msg, and freshly ground black pepper into the scrambled egg before they go on the griddle.
However you figure out to cook them that you like is best for you. :)
Also, either of the first two methods works so well in a sandwich (griddle-toasted bread or soft untoasted bread) with a bit of mayo. You can also use mato+ketchup. Or again whatever you want like salsa or… whatever.
Knowledge rot is already a problem and has been for years – where you try to follow some links only to find they’re dead, or people deleted their content. The anecdotes of finding some old problem and someone just said “I figured it out”. Sure, archival won’t fix that specific example, but the principle is there - we lose so much information.
It would be nice if we had a government that worked for We the People and made information archival mandatory — likr the Library of Congress already does with printed materials.
SSA recently began shifting new swaths of its workforce to phone answering duty, including those who normally receive and process retirement and disability claims, manage the agency’s technology and work in the agency’s finances unit. Those employees received brief, three-hour training before they began answering calls.
As part of that training, they were warned some callers may express suicidal ideation and presented with examples using a theoretical employee named Fiona.
“It’s important for Fiona to keep the caller engaged and to remind her that suicide is only one option,” the animated trainer told employees in the video, a copy of which was obtained by Government Executive, “and that there is no urgency to make any decisions.”
Employees at the training, which occurred on Jan. 26 for benefits authorizers and post-entitlement technical experts, were taken aback by the comment and asked their supervisors for clarity. One employee at the training said there was “disbelief that it was just said” among those in the room.
Pardon me, but…. What the fuck?
I wonder if they used AI to create that training or something stupid like that. I kind of hope so because if a human did that, that is BULLshit.
You da real MVP
Your point is that progressives in america aren’t progressives because progressives in other countries are more progressive?
No. As I stated, the “radical left” in the US is not radical.
Anyway, we’re not gonna agree on this, which is fine. I’m not forcing you to. I hadn’t felt you addressed my points, but this time around you did seem to do so, so I still want you to have a lovely day. :)
Seems like you wish to ignore all of my points.
Fair enough.
Have a lovely day.
the only version of government spending Americans are okay with is for cops.
LIES.
They also support subsidies for the rich, for example.
;-)
Yes, but they unironically try to say this bullshit.
Dammit, all the times those nazis hid in plain sight made me a damn nazi. I’m DEFINITELY punching them now if I catch them! ;-)
You are correct, although such imagery encourages organization, dialogue, and consistent civic action. :)
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Worth checking out, though, thank you1 <3
Precisely. As a progressive, what I want is generally considered pretty normal and basic in any of the other 32 OECD (“developed”) countries.
There are a few that would be “radical”, but they are a tiny minority.
Tell ya what, though, after putting up with fascist bullshit all my life, while I just want basic freedom and a social safety net, I’m willing to listen to these “radical” left. Certainly the regressive right has done fuck all for us.
There is nothing radical about progressives in the US. As a progressive… we are centrist in most of the other 32 OECD (“developed”) countries.
Radical left would start with things like no private property, ownership of everything by all, things like that.
So no, friend, I’m not changing the meaning of anything. Calling progressives in the US “radical” is already changing the meaning and wussing out on what actual radical change would be.
And your comment has what to do with mine?
I suppose the real issue is paying for the servers. There’s already pushback against the datacenters needed to power LLMs as it is. I suppose the capital to build would have to come from somewhere.
It’s a pity we don’t have a good government for a project like that. That would truly be a public service.
Did some calculations recently. If we took the cropland on which we grow corn strictly for ethanol production and put solar on it, something like 5% IIRC could power enough EVs to replace ALL vehicles in the US. Which means we could use a little more land for solar to power datacenters designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible. A government-run LLM run for the public.
It’s a pipe dream because in our current reality, it could never happen. But like universal health care and a living minimum wage, it should exist.
I know, I’m straying from the topic again. ADHD gonna ADHD. heh
I suppose as long as we were able to regulate AI companies to make sure they were forced to be upfront, honest, useful… it would be a sufficient compromise. But I’m sure we can’t even have that little.