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- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 2 weeks ago:
Not sure what retails stores you go to, but most basically say fuck you multiple times per visit. The easy one is the self checkout, or if they don’t have that, the one checkers with the massive line while the manager looks on from not too far away. Then you got the grocery stores constantly moving things arpund even though everyone hates that. And the fake sales price that is really just the price… I could go on.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
I finally had a chance to take a look. But I didn’t last long on the first link. Lots of fancy words, but it wasn’t really coherent. At the same time as it talked about removing the hierarchy, and not necessarily listening to the experts, it was spending a lot of time name dropping and raising people up on a pedestal. They only real path forward is to stop idolizing individuals.
The second link was much better. I correctly identified that the issue isn’t the hierarchies themselves, but the people drawn to them and such. And there in lies the rub. You can’t just change the instincts of all humans on the planet. It would take hundreds or thousands of years, assuming there was any pressure to change. But their isn’t. So right now, through luck of mutation, some people are born who don’t want to idolize a powerful leader and such. But those people are at a disadvantage currently. So they are essentially selected against.
A change is needed, but I don’t think we can make it happen. Something external would need to do that. In the mean time, I think we should simply try to ensure noone gets selected against. That way at least the pressure to be more authoritative is removed.
Overall, I support much of what anarchists support in general. But I don’t think tearing down the hierarchy is going to do anything but make room for a new hierarchy. And that will probably happen naturally anyway. It seems to have in the past, it probably will again. The quesion at hand is mainly about if we will cause our own extinction before it does.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I get what you are saying. I’m just not convinced that it needs to be able to update it’s model in real time to be capable of high level reasoning. And while human readable files are inherantly lossy, they do still represents tracking an internal state.
They also have vector dbs. My understanding is that they are closer to what you are talking about as far as internal state. But they still don’t allow th AI to update the vectordb in real time. Mainly they worry about what happens with live updates being similar to how people are easily manipulated into believeing BS. So they are more careful about what they feed it to update. I do wonder how they generate those vector dbs, and if that is something users could utilize locally. - Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
Even the AI doesn’t say as many bullshit things as he does. Though I guess if you gave it the instructions “say anything that might make the nvidia stock price go up” then an AI might say the bullshit he does.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
Not sure what this internal state you are referring to is. Are you talking about all the values that come out of each step of the computations?
As for your second half… integration. That is a tricky one. Because the inputs it is getting aren’t necessarily correct. So that can do more harm than good. The current loop for integrating new data is too long though. They need to reduce that down to like an hour so it can absorb current events at least. And ideally they would be able to take a conversation and identify what worked and what didn’t. Then integrate what did. This is what was mentioned about claud.md files and such that essentially keep track of wwhat was learned. There is room for improvement there, as I seem to have to tell the model to go read those or it doesn’t.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
I agree, ut not because of lost state. As mentioned by others, state can be managed. You could also just do a feedback loop. These improve, but don’t solve. The issue is that it doesn’t understand. You mention that it is just a word predictor. And that is the heart of it. It predicts based on odds more or less, not on understanding. That said, it has room to improve. I think having lots and lots of agents that are highly specialized is probably the key. The more narrow the focus, the closer prediction comes to fact. Then throw in asking 5 versions of the agent the same question and tossing the outliers and you should get pretty useful. Not AGI, but useful. The issue is that with current technology, that is simply too expensive. So a breakthrough in the expense of current AI is needed first, then we can get more useful AI. AGI will be a significantly different technology.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
That man is a verbal slut. He will say anything.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
Wow. Learn to read.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
The answer to that is literally the last sentence of my first comment. I’m pretty sure you have a very narrow definition of what evolution means. But even the normal narrow one covers what I said above. It’s practically a textbook case.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
So both are true. Humans are the most co-operative. But if you look at the achievements, most are done to better one group of humans over another. Rarely is something done for the good of all humans. I’m actually struggling to think of even one thing that was done for the good of all humans. There must be a few, but I just can’t think of any.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not excusing it in any way.
I wish I had a way to advance our evolution past this point so that we didn’t have a significant portion of the population that are monsters. - Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
The issue here is humans. In large groups humans do terrible things. Usually in small group interactions they are pretty decent. It’s very odd. But probably the result of evolution. Other branches of “human” that didn’t act this way were probably wiped out by those that did.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who was proud of america before was just drinking the coolaid. There are things america did that were worth being proud of individually, but soo many more not to. It’s the same idea as idolizing a person. The vast majority of the time they are really a bad person overall. Instead focus on the event or achievement and not the person.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 weeks ago:
Nice that is in fact what I was going to say. I get a lot of people with that joke.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 weeks ago:
I think though, you get the point.
Now here is a bonus question for you. If I give you a coin and ask you to flip it 20 times, and they all come up heads. What are the odds that if you flip it again it will come up heads?
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 weeks ago:
Luck is a factor, but the differentiator is that they have the. Isplaced confidence and drive to just do what they want first. Then the luck let’s them get away with it. It’s kind of like if you get a million people to flip a coin 50 times. Some of them will get all 50 to be heads. So with billions of people in the world. Some have this drive to be on top, misplaced confidence, luck, and situational oportunities (also a good part luck) to end up able to sign 250 million dollar contract. None of that actually requires they have a clue. Sometimes they do, but it isn’t required.
- Comment on A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning" 3 weeks ago:
This vid is almost obligatory when talking about qa testing… youtu.be/baY3SaIhfl0
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
On your edit… yes, and the problem there is that should be considered coercive for all work. We shouldn’t work for money. We should work because the work has value to the population. A lot of work is the opposite, and yet people do it because they have to pay the bills. Working in scam call centers is an extreme example. There are people who go to sex clubs and such where they have sex with semi strangers and what not. There would probably be a lot more if it wasn’t considered taboo. So the “industry” as it is would not go away, it would change if paying the bills wasn’t the driver.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 3 weeks ago:
There are two parts. First, they aren’t as underpaid as most people think in most cases. The union isn’t dumb. When they negotiate they look at the long term. A career teacher (30 to 35 years) can retire at about 55 give or take depending on the district. And they will get something like 80% of thier salary for the rest of thier life. They will also get subsidized health insurance. And in some states, all of that is tax free. That is a ton of money and a ton of security. And for many, they can retire, collect pension, and go get another job at the same time if they want. I make more than double what teachers make best case, and my wife works too for a 6 figure salary. I can’t possibly retire at 55, let alone feel secure doing so. I also have been laid off twice over the last 30 years, where as most teacher don’t have to worry about that after 10 years. Now, I get to take vacation anytime of the year, I can change jobs or move and not mess up my future benefits. I don’t have to deal with parents. Lots of intangible benefits to not being a teacher. But the point is the union ensures those less obvious benefits, which keeps the current salary low. This keeps the optics of drastically underpaid teachers so that the union can still negotiate for more with public sentiment on thier side. So while they are still underpaid, it isn’t as drastic as it would appear.
The other reason is simple. There are a lot of teachers. Like a lot a lot. And schools are generally built to a higher standard of saftey, so they are much more expensive than other building types. All of this adds up to a very high cost. Education is typically one of the largest expenditures for a state budget. Poloticians could dump more money into it, but it isn’t likely to be enough to make a difference that will get them reelected. So they put money other places that will get them votes.
That’s your reasons why.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
You said the answer is no AI.
And I want AI to do the non-thinking mundane crap while I do the thinking and directing. I don’t need to spend time wrestling with an sql query to produce a report the boss “wants”. I can tell AI to do that if it has the access it needs. Eventually the boss can tell AI to do it him/herself, so I can solve the real problems. - Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that you “needed” it. I said it was good for that. It’s a simple task that is easily verifiable and unlikely to go astray due to hallucinations.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
The days of stack exchange and such are numbered. Web searches turn up less and less hits that help you solve problems and learn. It won’t be long before AIs replace old school web searches. Software projects will stop writing documentation, when instead and ai can just read the code. The way we learned things is dieing. I don’t know how the juniors will get to be seniors in 5 to 10 years. But following th AI instructions to test out it’s theories isn’t going to work for the vast majority.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
I do in fact. Recently I have dodge the night time pages, but a few years ago I was up plenty of time in the night debugging issues. In many of those cases an AI would have been very helpful. Developers do far stupider things because they are sure they won’t break anything. But most of the pages were the result of not enough time spent to make the systems resilient. I dodged the pager currently because as a startup we had so few customers, we couldn’t afford to hire enough people to have a rotation. So I was sortof on call. Like the boss had my number, and if needed he would call it. But it never came to that, partly by luck, and partly because I know how to make things resilient. With the low load, resilient isn’t as hard.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
Good luck with that. Most search engines use AI now. Not only where you see it, but in finding the content to make it searchable. AI is here to stay. There are things it is good at, and things it isn’t. Learn what they are, and use it where it makes sense. Or stuck your head in the sand and see how that works put.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
Someone created that database. And all those other parts of the infra you use. AI is pretty good for that. But you have it turn on deletion protection, and set up a system that requires another person to approve turning it off. Or you can give it access at creation time, but remember to turn that access off when it is finished being verified.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
I did say “and guardrails to stop a single point of failure.” A cicd pipeline itslef doesn’t protect you if it can change that too. You need the same kind of guardrails that would allow a junior dev to f things up. Require multiple people to sign off. Turn on deletion protection… those sorts of things. I work in infra, so I often have direct access to production. More than I should. But not all companies can afford to build out all the tools needed so that I don’t need production access.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
Have you met software. Nearly all of it is a cautionary tale. Even before AI. So this is just business as usual for the software industry.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
Wrong answer. If you don’t give them access, the alternative (ruling out not using AI because leadership will never go for that) is to hire high school kids to take a task from a manager, ask the ai to do it, then do what the AI says repeatedly to iterate to the solution. The problem with that alt is that it is no better than giving the ai access, and it leaves you with no senior tech people. Instead, you give it access, but only give senior tech people access to the AI. Ones who would know to tell the AI to have a backup of the database, one designed to not let you delete it without multiple people signing off.
Senior tech people aren’t going to spend thier time trying things an AI needs tried to find the solution. So if you don’t give it access, they won’t use it, and eventually they will all be gone. Then you are even further up shit creek than you are now.
The answer overall, is smarter people talking to the AI, and guardrails to stop a single point of failure. The later is nothing new.
- Comment on What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use? 5 weeks ago:
Lol. Unless you know where to smash, the data is still recoverable. And she is paranoid.
- Comment on What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a very old one. Iphone 4. It’s been collecting dust for years.