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- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 23 hours ago:
It also applies to technologies that don’t in fact exist but could. Those are much harder to name (besides sci-fi) since almost by definition we don’t know about most of them. Nor how many, compared to existing tech.
I’m not actually saying it’s impossible, just saying that local maximums (as described by the other users here) are a thing and it’s possible to be trapped for a very long time by them. Potentially forever, but you’re right that odds of breaking out do increase over time.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 day ago:
It’s true that I can’t know for sure that they won’t lead to AGI (or like you say give clues) - however it’s definitely a scenario I can imagine, and that’s what I was responding to: The idea that incremental improvements Must lead to a given goal. I don’t think that’s the case. Here in particular I think it’s not only possible that it won’t, it’s even somewhat likely.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 day ago:
In this scenario reaching the goal would require an entirely different base technology, and incremental improvements to what we have now do not eventually lead to AGI.
Kinda like incremental improvements to cars or even trains won’t eventually get us to Mars.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 day ago:
I can imagine it really easily for the foreseeable future, all that would need to happen is for the big corporations and well funded researchers to stick to optimizing LLMs.
Yeah that’s not the rest of human history (unless the rest of it isn’t very much) but enough to make concerns about AGI into someone else’s problem.
- Comment on Long-running tech forum DSL Reports goes offline 1 week ago:
Oh wow, I haven’t thought about that place in ages… Naturally most others who knew about it haven’t either and that’s why it’s gone I’m sure.
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 week ago:
Also The Hive, just being huge and underground:
- Comment on Honda says the Acura RSX will be the first original EV with the Asimo operating system 2 weeks ago:
No description at all of the OS itself.
What kernel? Can the user interface do Android Auto? Will it have 3rd party apps?If it’s going in the headline I think at least some details would be nice.
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 2 weeks ago:
I think that is awesome, but the thumbnail image is totally giving T-Virus vibes.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
Genshin Impact just released a new version that for most of the world became playable on Jan 1, but where I live it started several hours before the end of Dec 31.
So that.
- Comment on Seamantic: A Semantic-Web-Bridging Mastodon Client 4 weeks ago:
querying raises the “sea-level,” and contributing lowers it, encouraging collaboration. When the sea-level goes over a certain level, posting queries is blocked
Yeah, this seems to assume that the set of people able and willing to make contributions overlaps the set interested in simply asking questions, and I can’t imagine that working. You know the rule that in any community 90% just lurk, 9% comment, and maybe 1% actually contribute. For everyone but the 1%, I foresee querying until they hit the limit, then they leave.
This might be somewhat mitigated by it being a very technical system to begin with, so even being interested in queries is a barrier.
- Comment on lewd noodles 2 months ago:
Send danger noods
- Comment on punchable babies 2 months ago:
It’s just the American spelling.
- Comment on Choose Your Fighter: Microblogging Edition 2 months ago:
Yes because as I understand it the custom domain is basically just a pointer. Everything still goes through the bsky servers and you can be deplatformed there at the whim of an admin/mod (On Mastodon if you don’t run your own instance that can still happen, but you can instance hop. If you run your own then other instances can block your instance but it’s not the whole network all at once)
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Wind turbines also.
But some solar does focus it on a tower to make steam to drive a turbine.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
I’m talking long before digital channels existed. (In the US anyway)
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
Even before the 2000s they started showing a blue screen instead of static.
That wasn’t just a digital or flat panel thing.
But of course old sets were around for a long time.
- Comment on Give them space!! 2 months ago:
I’m surprised it’s not by Eiffel.
- Comment on Kill it with fire! 2 months ago:
Yup. Kids are jumpy alright. I expect to see a lot more of them this evening.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 months ago:
Link please? Looks more informative than the one in another comment
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 3 months ago:
In opposing corners no less
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 3 months ago:
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say tildes.net
- Comment on Sea Krits 3 months ago:
Rate or dmg?
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 3 months ago:
They won’t be able to afford it.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 3 months ago:
Assuming it’s a surprise, this is Earth All Along. Genre Shift is similar, but that’s more about tone than plot
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 3 months ago:
If you don’t mind gacha games, I’ve been enjoying Honkai: Star Rail. The battles are turn based, some of the puzzles and events are a bit reaction time dependent, but not difficult generally.
- Comment on Reddit communities will require permission while going private or switching to NSFW 3 months ago:
The answer is simple: Even a single popular subreddit has more users and content than all Lemmy instances combined.
That ‘mass migration’ a year ago made Lemmy viable as a social network, but barely affected Reddit at all in terms of numbers, and numbers are all they care about.
I’m still here on Lemmy, but to the Vast majority of Reddit users, nothing has changed (at least not enough to leave the place where all their communities are)
- Comment on Jazz hands 3 months ago:
Sadly, it is. (But not for Fallout specifically.)
- Comment on The Signal 4 months ago:
- Comment on never 4 months ago:
“Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees. with perhaps the tallest being Euphorbia ampliphylla at 30 m (98 ft) or more. The genus has roughly 2,000 members, making it one of the largest genera of flowering plants.”
- Comment on Why Vacuum Cleaners Are So Loud 4 months ago:
After the first part I expected “Cleaning the vacuums from a room allows more sound to survive”
