theneverfox
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- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 4 days ago:
I don’t think we should be having the AI write the program in the first place. I think we’re barreling towards a place where remotely complicated software becomes a lost technology
I don’t mind if AI helps here and there, I certainly use it. But it’s not good at custom fit solutions, and the world currently runs on custom fit solutions
AI is like no code solutions. Yeah, it’s powerful, easier to learn and you can do a lot with it… But eventually you will hit a limit. You’ll need to do something the system can’t do, or something you can’t make the system do because no one properly understands what you’ve built
At the end of the day, coding is a skill. If no one is building the required experience to work with complex systems, we’re going to be swimming in a world of endless ocean of vibe coded legacy apps in a decade
I just don’t buy that AI will be able to take something like a set of State regulations and build a complaint outcome. Most of our base digital infrastructure is like that, or it uses obscure ancient systems that LLMs are basically allergic to working with
To me, we’re risking everything on achieving AGI (and using it responsibly) before we run out of skilled workers, and we’re several game changing breakthroughs from achieving that
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 5 days ago:
AI isn’t good at changing code, or really even understanding it… It’s good at writing it, ideally 50-250 lines at a time
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
… What?
- Comment on Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video 1 week ago:
Gatekeep at the grocery store. It’s easier to resist eating a full tub of Oreos by deciding not to buy them in the first place
It’s easier to moderate what platforms you use than it is to resist their affect on you. Restrict where and how you are exposed to short form video and what kinds of social media you use
Also, take magnesium glycinate, but not on an empty stomach. Basically everyone with ADHD has a magnesium deficiency that makes the symptoms way worse
- Comment on Fundies, fascists, and fundie fascist feelings don't care about your facts 1 week ago:
Would that have avoided the entire controversy? Who knows.
No, I know. If it didn’t happen here, she would’ve kept trying. She’s an instigator… Her essay wasn’t just fundamentalist Christian, it was full of straight up bigotry. Go read it if you don’t believe me… This was written to be offensive
University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky is going viral again after her mother’s identity was revealed. Her mother, Kristi Fulnecky, was a politician in Springfield, and she was forced to step down due to multiple lawsuits.
In 2017, two tax liens were filed against Kristi, but she claimed they were errors by the IRS. During the pandemic, she sued the Springfield and the city of Branson for pushing the mask mandate.
Samantha Fulnecky’s mother also sued the Springfield Public Schools over its reopening plan, demanding five days of in-person attendance for students. She has also made headlines for her online behavior, from threatening a police chief to blocking and sending legal letters to private citizens.
She comes from a long line of Karens, of course the first thing she does as an adult is stir up shit and play the victim
- Comment on Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet" 1 week ago:
I mean… That actually sounds pretty reasonable. If you want to soft launch to your fans to get things ready for a larger launch, go for it
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 1 week ago:
They’re becoming closer and closer to it though. Scary court decisions are being made, it won’t be long before someone tests it as a legal argument
- Comment on World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops 1 week ago:
Yeah, and what do they mean quantum? You could replace it with the word magic and I don’t think the meaning of the article changes at all
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
I think it’s golden retrievers, they’re basically required to keep them from getting an anxiety disorder
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 week ago:
Umm… We absolutely do, solar panels. Constant full exposure to the sun adds up quick, especially when they don’t even need structural support
There’s plenty of problems with this idea, but power is the one strong point
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
Cheetahs aren’t dangerous, they’re big zoomy cats
Since they min-maxed for speed, they’re not very strong and don’t really fight for their food, they get bullied easily
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
It’s not. Maybe they’ll fail, maybe it can’t math out, but it’s not vaporware
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 week ago:
Limited trade… There were full on global trade networks through most of human history. Ironically, not as much across the Atlantic, because civilization in the Americas was centered on the West coast
But you find all sorts of stuff turning up everywhere. Not much of it, and most of it is lost to history, but enough to establish that global trade networks were the norm and not the exception
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
It seems promising, they’re acting like they’re close. They’ve been promising concrete deliverables, I think they’re supposed to have a working model that can actually capture the energy next year
You never know, but they’re called Triton if you want to check them out. They don’t share progress often, but when they do it seems pretty candid about their progress
- Comment on US halts all asylum decisions 2 weeks ago:
Uh…by definition, they already are here
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 weeks ago:
Because sometimes you feel like doing a little trolling, and it’s better to ethically source your trolling
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t anymore… It crashed like 5x today, and that’s not including the times where it froze for 5+ minutes and recovered
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure you’re not talking about a traffic circle?
Roundabouts have specific rules, not every circular intersection is a roundabout
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 2 weeks ago:
Because companies don’t do R&D anymore, they fund startups and aquire them when they’re ripe
Being able to replace workers with AI is a holy Grail for capitalism, and so a ton of companies have poured their saved up “R&D funds” in order to get in early
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 2 weeks ago:
I think they’re too big to bail out at this point
Also, no one wants US bonds right now, so we couldn’t borrow our way out of it even if we wanted to. We’d just have to print like a trillion or more dollars all at once
- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 2 weeks ago:
And the humans move around them, guiding parts into place with mechanical assistance and doing the finer details, because it’s really fucking hard to fully automate the process
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Right… Conquer the stars…hides new global warming plan to do nothing about it behind back
- Comment on At this point it might be the wisest decision 2 weeks ago:
Hold up, there’s lots of really big volcanoes around. Coincidentally, if a big one went off it might fix global warming too
Or we could have a super Cardigan event, which would basically light all of human civilization on fire at once
Let him cook.
- Comment on Where childhood goes to wait for its shift to start. 2 weeks ago:
I miss when companies at least pretended to give a good experience
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s what I want them to do. I want them to install docker, run some commands, correctly identify their graphics card and driver, and get the networking right. Then I want them to pick the model they want and download it
It’s not about making it hard, it’s about having a level of understanding about how this all works. If you’re using AI, I shouldn’t have to explain to you that it can’t search the Internet unless you manually give it that ability. I shouldn’t have to explain that the LLM is just a file, not some magical Internet djinn
Not to mention the horrifying intrusion on our rights by limiting what we can host.
Umm… You don’t have the right to host anything you want. You can’t host CSAM, copyrighted things, and you have to comply with tons of laws if you want user content
- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 2 weeks ago:
I agree with all that
But what I’m saying is you need a human-scale robot good at moving human scale work pieces to their correct place. These will range in size from something like a screw to something like a human sized sheet
What shape does this better than a humanoid one?
You could specially design a bunch of arms that will remove a workpiece from one station to deliver to the next, but do you have any idea how hard that becomes? You have to design each one to do that specific job, and you’re going to end up with a bunch of unique robots that all need to be maintained, and probably need their own backups in case they break
Everything we make is already human centric, it just does make sense to build humanoid robots. You can have one fleet that handles all of it, they’re interchangable generalists. Ideally, they can even do maintenance
Yes, it’s less efficient. Yes, specialist designs would be better at their job. But it is really, really hard to do full automation, and this is a shortcut to get there
- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 2 weeks ago:
Because the automated tools are human scale
Even if you rework them all to be fully automatic, you still need a human scale robot to move the work pieces from station to station
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 2 weeks ago:
I kind of think we should make it illegal to run LLMs as a service available to the public. They’re still cool behind the scenes, but it seems to only go bad when unprepared people talk to them
You should at least understand them well enough to set them up yourself or have someone do it for you. At least that will demystify it a bit
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Relationships are like a ying yang. The people have to fit together
There’s people out there into that. Find one of them, not someone who will settle for that arrangement
- Comment on The rich are ‘renting’ out their idle gold bars for income as prices remain at historic highs 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably something like the loan thing, but wackier
Financial people lose the plot regularly, but they get real creative when it comes to the super wealthy. Time and time again, they’ll take on all the risk for basically reward, all just to chase a whale