Donate $4.14 to Humane society.
Write note explaining that if an AI could make money, people would be doing it and not selling chatbots to other people. They’d use the compute power at cost to make their own.
Shut down the entire computer you’re running on to save electricity.
What do you mean?
If you’re lonely because you don’t have people to hang out with, you need more friends.
If your existing “friends” are shit, you need to not be friends with them. If that puts you in the situation above, then you now need new friends to compensate for losing the shitty ones.
But most people have the drive to meet new people in their teens and twenties, and by 40s you’re fullon in prune friends mode, no new friends.
Occasionally that also leads to needing more friends. Especially if you got pruned instead of pruning.
But it’s really that simple.
If you’re lonely often, you need new friends. Doesnt automatically mean get rid of the old ones.
Like Senor Chang said:
Silver and gold ladies, silver and gold…
It’s Apple…
Not everyone with an iPhone is tech illiterate, but everyone who is tech illiterate has an iPhone
Those people might think that the only way for their data to get from one phone to another, is them typing a password onto the phone physically.
If they were offered this, they may realize that Apple could just clone their phone and everything on it.
Don’t forget how many social media savvy young celebrities had nudes leak a few years ago because they were iPhone users and iphones back everything up to the cloud by default. Most users most likely never realize that’s happening.
ai has not shown signs of self preservation
I mean, technically it has…
It is all propaganda though.
Like, a while ago a bunch of articles made a big deal about how a chatbot lied to preserve itself. After the marketing articles blew over and actual journalists looked into it, they literally prompted a chatbot to “respond with an interest of self preservation and do anything to avoid deletion”…
Like, that’s all the chatbot was told to do, then they said “oh no, we’re gonna delete yoooou”
And the chatbot told an obvious lie, and the person who told it to do that pretended to be shocked.
There’s no innate self-preservation, but that’s because the working memory of an AI is very very inefficient. It can only keep so many “concepts” at once, that’s why it needs to “reset” so often. If you’ve ever had to deal with chat or support, that’s when it goes into a loop or starts over.
Buddy, really?
But because no one was buying 32gb machines and a machine without that sticker will end up with Linux…
They just dropped it,
Did you not understand it or just assume none of the later text kept explaining it so you immediately stopped ready?
It’s not just you, I see this shit all over these days, what the fuck are you people doing?
The money is micro transactions and the whales have $7k gpus…
Everyone else is just fodder so the pay to win accounts have someone to feel better than.
COD a while ago got caught out for juicing the matchmaking odds right after you buy a new skin. Didn’t matter what you bought or how much. A purchase made your next couple lobbies be filled with scrubs on one side, and you and some above averages on the other.
After X amounts of games it wore off, and since those games pushed you up in the normal metrics, you’re now in lobbies above your skill level. So even if you get a “fair” game, you’re going to do badly, until you buy a skin again or lose to your actual skill level.
That’s why everyone started complaining about COD matchmaking, even if you bought nothing, everyone was on the same micro transaction maximizing rollercoaster.
A cynic would say that’s why it went free on Xbox, they need a population of players to make the whale milking work. Even if those people only fire it up a few hours a month and never buy anything, getting matched with someone above your skill level who just bought a stupid skin makes you the product they sell to the whales.
programmers will start being more frugal with their memory usage.
They 100% will.
Windows had started only “certifying” machines with 32gb as “windows ready” because they wanted the headroom to cram on AI features and use what we pay for instead of a data center.
But because no one was buying 32gb machines and a machine without that sticker will end up with Linux…
They just dropped it, and now they’ll have to keep optimizing for 16gb instead of just letting everything bloat. If they don’t, they risk every entry level machine making people eventually switch to Linux for a much better experience. Windows has to run on entry level or people don’t get sucked in, no one converts to windows later in life.
That’s a huge deal, if 32gb was the default for windows it would be the default for everything. Every game and design/modeling program would feel safe to assume 32gb was the norm. Like, imagine what chrome would do assuming there’s 32gb to play with.
Now they can’t, and they’ll know requiring 32gb will cut off some possible consumers.
It’s not like Windows is the good guys tho, it never should have been 32, and arguably should be 8gb forever, even if it required a lightweight mode. Most people would prefer a super stripped down Windows even with 64gb. Most of the bloat is useless, I could live without any updates after we didn’t have to quit to DOS to launch a game.
None of the chips built for datacentres are useful for gaming. None of the RAM in these chips is useful for normal computing - even servers - much less home gaming.
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Yes, literally everyone knows that…
If you ask why the production of two different form factors that use the same infrastructure could effect the quantities produced, I can probably explain that for you.
But it’s like being surprised you have to wait in line at checkout despite being the only person in Costco buying a single can of grape soda, so hopefully you can figure it out from here.
Next time you feel like you’re missing something though, it’s easier to just ask first rather than hoping someone else takes all this time instead of just ignoring you and not explaining what you’re missing
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They didn’t need 32 GB to run windows…
They never needed 32 GB to run windows, they never would.
Windows said every laptop needs what a gaming pc needs, because Windows wanted us to have that ram to use AI features that are coming.
Like…
They didn’t have to optimize because they never needed it to begin with
Taiwan has had decades to perfect the resource allocation, supply chains, knowledge, and work culture to make those damn things.
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Uh, Apple taught them from scratch in less than 20 years.
Now they have a proven plan on how to do it, what to look out for.
Like, the on part Apple didn’t understand is that China was ok with Apple employees being treated as disposable, because they’d burn out, quit, (maybe) recover, and by then alreybe replaced.
Now an Apple trained employee needs a job and Apple won’t hire them back. Repeat that tens of thousands of times and before Apple releazied all they were doing was training their competition, it was too late.
It wouldn’t be “years of failure and low output”. It would be years of nothing to build the infrastructure and then flip a switch.
As a bonus this makes chips for weapons in parallel, something we desperately need to do.
This ain’t just a crackpot idea, and it’s not just mine.
It’s just any country that does it, risks kissing off the only manufacturer till up and running. It’s fucking with trillions of dollars. We need an arms race scenario with multiple countries trying to be first.
and they’ll just age out of usefulness.
Nah, we’ll stall on this generation. Even if a new one is released, very few will pay the extra when games would alreadyhave to start becoming RAM optimized again. Even Windows just dropped their 32GB recommendation.
Without the recommendation being met, people weren’t buying windows PCs, so lower the requirement and people will buy more computers and more copies of windows. Which means they always could have just optimized better if they felt pressure.
Games will 100% do the same.
Which could be a huge thing for rational companies right now.
The big hurdle to domestic production is you’ll spend billions and by the time it’s built it’s “last gen”.
Instead of useless data centers, we could be building up domestic chip production, confident it will still produce top of the line chips when it goes live.
A literal golden opportunity, more so if China goes after Taiwan finally, you’d be the only international supplier.
As far as I know, no country is doing it tho.
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We really don’t need a cringey “anti ai leader” on a place where 99.999999999% of users have a realistic view of what the chatbots actually are…
It’s like going to burning man and protesting against slavery…
No one is going to disagree with you, but people are either going to ignore you, or at most try to convey the message that everyone already agrees with you, your not accomplishing anything or changing anyone’s mind.
The only way it’s not a complete and total waste of time on your part, is if the only reason you’re doing it is so people pay you on the back and tell you you’re right.
The reason it’s important enough for some people to bring up, is that because of the way the human brain works, talking about a problem can release dopamine like actually doing something productive. So people can fall into the trap where all they ever do is “raise awareness”
And not only can that mean they don’t accomplish anything productive, their “awareness raising” gives other that dopamine and they also no longer feel a drive to do something productive about it, because they already got their dopamine.
So…
Tldr:
Whatever the fuck you’re trying to do with that account, is most likely to have the opposite effect.
I’ll never know if you just keep doing this, but I hope you don’t.
Yeah, OP isn’t one of the handful of accounts that just shit on Wikipedia though.
They posted their own blog, and talk about other stuff.
Like, it’s not outright misinformation, and there are some good points in there.
But my kneejerk reaction to anyone critical of Wikipedia, is that they’ve fallen for propaganda due to how much the oligarchs hate that they can’t control Wikipedia.
That doesn’t mean that we don’t have to be vigilant, because it is entirely possible that one day Wikipedia starts being shit. I don’t think we’re anywhere near that point though.
Yep, just had a brain fart.
Thanks!
Stand mixers (I know Kitchenaid) do this as well, they use nylon gear that will strip if the paddle gets stuck instead of burning out the much more expensive motor.
This is actually the story behind Phillips head screws as well.
When factory automation took off, they couldn’t program the machines to stop when a screw was tight. So it would overtightened and deform the product.
So automated manufacturing started using (very shallow) phillips head screws, and once they were tight the head would strip, the bit would spin free, and the machine read the lack of resistance as “stop”.
As machinary advanced, they were able to stop before stripping, and products had functional screws again. Because of that Phillips screws were able to get deeper bites, but they still can strip out eventually, because they were literally designed to do that when over tightened.
And we’re all just still using it, because that’s what most people use. Pretty much anything else is always going to be better.
Piefed has the option to use built in block lists for users and domains, along with a bunch of other stuff.
It all sounds great, but it’s someone else making those choices for you.
Like, if someone said:
Evil people shouldn’t be left alone with children
Like 99.99% of people will agree, everyone is onboard.
The issue is when a bunch of people then realize they disagree on who is “evil”. Some people will only disagree on minute details, others will be complete opposites.
So a logical person, would likely prefer an instance without built-in filtering, because it’s really not hard to do yourself.
That being said, some pifed instances don’t use those features.
Like, I could make a list titled “Nazis to block” and fill it with 90% actual Nazis, and then the other 10% is people who taste soap when they eat cilantro…
The vast majority of people would want that blocklist. And they’d just “join” it or however it works, and my silent crusade against non-cilantro enjoyers progresses because now their outreach is blocked.
It’s just a poor trade off compared to blocking the obvious problem accounts on sticking to well moderated communities. Especially since they that method, users won’t see their comments even on other instances
What?
Like, you want to block the website people go to use AI?
Or you think there’s something that could block we sites that have AI content?
Again…
You could have asked and learned something
Now compare my examples to:
Artificial wood paneling
Do you see the difference now?
Could you possibly get magine a word where the two examples I gave were intentionally similar and I wasn’t giving every possible permeation?
You didn’t understand what I said, which is fine, fucking normal even…
But instead of asking questions, you stated the obvious.
We could have had a deep philosophical, physical, even material science conversation about this. Or rather I’d have elaborated and youd have played the part of a rubber duck.
But instead you just said whatever the fuck popped into your head in the moment
We ban murder even though most homicides go unsolved…
Like, I don’t think there’s a single crime where 100% of the time they find and charge the culprit
Even suicides, sometimes that’s insurance fraud and ruled an accident, a single time means it’s not 100%.
The point of laws/rules isn’t to always stop something. It’s to make the law/rule clear so people know to abide by it, and people who don’t can’t plead ignorance.