scarabic
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- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 days ago:
Don’t feel bad. I don’t think shorting can do any good. Betting we won’t need powerful chips in the future seems like a bad bet. The main scenario where we won’t is if we’re all dead, in which case all stock market bets are worthless anyway.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 4 days ago:
Yes. Please remember to downvote this post and all others that are based on overblown articles from nobody science blogs.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 4 days ago:
I’m ready for this entire category of “science blog” website to disappear. Mainstream media are bad enough at interpreting movements in science, but these shitty little websites make their entire living off of massively overblowing every little thing. Shame on OP and anyone who posts this kind of garbage.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 4 days ago:
I don’t say loss of ALL function.
You have lost functionality, sir. But people who overpaid for early Nest products have always been amazing at justifying their own purchases, so I’m not surprised you’re now minimizing this move.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I agree. This word does not mean what they think it means. AI may be theft, it may be complex, it may be bad for the world. But none of those is what Machiavellian means.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 4 days ago:
I’m not going to excuse ICE and all the shit they are up to. I’m just going to point out that immigration status doesn’t require the same process to determine as the guilt or innocence of some other crime. In a murder trial, you have to prove motive, opportunity, etc beyond a reasonable doubt. With immigration status, it’s simpler: either you can document your legal right to be in the country or you can’t. When someone isn’t supposed to be in the country we don’t jail them for years to rehabilitate them and then release them into the population. We remove them. So everything about this feels and looks different from a standard criminal due process because it is different. Even without the aggressive tactics, masks, and all attendant bullshit, it would still be different.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 4 days ago:
With their mask-wearing they’re practically advertising their methods. We should take the clue. Everyone still has their COVID masks, right?
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 4 days ago:
I’m not going to spend time on how dumb it is to compare a speculative total valuation to the real economic output of a single year.
If we zoom out, it’s not that surprising that emerging tech is going to require greater and greater computing power. We thought that our desire for our laptops to be faster was driving this, Moore’s Law, whatever. But now there’s a new technology that seems to raise the requirements by an order of magnitude. In the short term, this is fantastic news for the makers of computer chips. We’re living in the late Information Age. Is it all that surprising that there would be moments like this where our ability to consume computing power outstrips our ability to produce it? So Nvidia has a high valuation. BFD. Investors are confident in its future. That doesn’t make it 16% of the US economy.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 4 days ago:
Yes, thank you. A lot of people live in a house that’s worth more than they make in a year. We can write a breathless sentence that makes this sound shocking if we like.
“Think about that number. You have tethered 450% of your economic output to the fortunes of one structure!”
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 4 days ago:
Thank you. I mean what??? The phrasing is idiotic. This company has a large market cap, therefore the US has “tethered its economic output” to it? What’s that even supposed to mean?
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 6 days ago:
I’m just seconding the consideration of UV curing products because they are cool and have many benefits. I have zero experience with anything to do with nails.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 week ago:
This question is too vague. “Higher beings” is not well defined enough. “Other planes of existence” is not defined well enough. For that matter “the Gods” is not very specific. And in a weird way, what you’re saying seems somewhat circular. Like what do you call it when you believe gods aren’t gods? If you don’t believe they’re gods then who are you even indicating?
Are you asking if there’s a name for someone who believes that humanity’s major religions do worship real living beings, but those beings are simply advanced alien creatures and not metaphysical in any way.
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 1 week ago:
I use UV curing wood finish for my woodworking projects now and it’s amazing. Nothing evaporates so there’s no smell and no respiratory health risk. Every bit of the liquid turns to solid, so you don’t have to use very much. And it’s done and set in 5 minutes instead of hours.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 week ago:
There was a “n——r regime?”
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
They were rude to you about it too? Jesus. I’m pleased to say I’ve never bought any Samsung product.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
Heh I guess this is my work self showing through. I’m a software developer and “loss of function” is a very severe term to me :D it’s only surpassed by loss of data, accessibility/legal issue, and security/privacy breach. On the less severe end we have loss of telemetry, degraded function (meaning there’s still a workaround) degraded performance, and finally cosmetic defect.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
On the other hand, one can understand why Google doesn’t want to continue to pour resources into an ancient platform just to keep it on life support.
Bullshit. “Pour” my ass. Issue a legacy build of the app that controls them and walk away. What horseshit. This is shameful. The only reason it won’t blow up into a huge debacle is that these products targeted wealthy early-adopters in the first place and those folks can afford to upgrade, and most probably already have.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
This isn’t “end of support.”
This is “loss of functionality.”
Totally inexcusable.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 week ago:
Yeah… I mean billionaires have at least as much information as a random person on Lemmy :D
- Comment on How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent? 1 week ago:
Do what generation after generation of people have done: move to find opportunity. There are plenty of places where the economy is active enough that you aren’t caught between union gatekeepers and starvation.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 week ago:
00.15% sound small but if that many people committed suicide monthly, it would wipe out 1% of the US population, or 33 million people, in about half a year.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 week ago:
You don’t have to read far into the article to reach this:
The company says that 0.15% of ChatGPT’s active users in a given week have “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”
It doesn’t unpack their analysis method but this does sound a lot more specific than just counting all sessions that mention the word suicide, including chats about that band.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 week ago:
Over the long term I have significant hopes for AI talk therapy, at least for some uses. Two opportunities stand out that might have potential:
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In some cases I think people will talk to a soulless robot more freely than to a human professional.
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Machine learning systems are good at pattern recognition and this is one component of diagnosis. This meta analysis found that LLM models performed about as accurately as physicians, with the exception of expert-level specialists. In time I think it’s undeniable that there is potential here.
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- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 1 week ago:
SMH. You could get hit by a meteor tomorrow, or you could not. I guess you have a 50% chance of dying! Good luck with it man… I hope you make it.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 1 week ago:
Two outcomes does not mean 50/50 chances. Maybe you were being sarcastic about that, but people actually use that reasoning in the real world all the time.
- Comment on OpenAI valued at $500B in new deal with Microsoft — too big to fail? 1 week ago:
Oh that was good
- Comment on OpenAI valued at $500B in new deal with Microsoft — too big to fail? 1 week ago:
I think many of us will feel satisfied seeing it burst, but we might be too busy dealing with the side effects of that crash to be able to enjoy that satisfaction much. It will not simply bankrupt Sam Altman.
- Comment on Join Tech Workers Coalition and help unionize tech workers - Onboarding Call Oct 29 1 week ago:
Good! If I find out you were hand rolling a video service so you could hold a meeting, I’d roll my eyes and move on :D
- Comment on Join Tech Workers Coalition and help unionize tech workers - Onboarding Call Oct 29 1 week ago:
You can Google tech worker coalition and check out their website. This post deep links to a zoom meeting url which isn’t the most helpful for folks in your situation, but yes the TWC does have other resources online.
- Comment on Join Tech Workers Coalition and help unionize tech workers - Onboarding Call Oct 29 1 week ago:
I know, idealists think that even if we cant change the world immediately, we must at least keep our movement completely pure. They end up painting the coalition as compromised sellouts and do their all to kill all progress from within. By all means, let’s have a huge argument about what tiny, open source video service to use so that we can even talk to each other. Fuck!