Repelle

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, some billionaire owns a company that creates the most advanced AI yet, it’s a big competitive advantage, but other companies are not far behind. Well, the company works to make the AI have a base goal to improve AI systems to maintain competitive advantage. Maybe that becomes inherent to it moving forward.

  As I said, it’s a big if, and I was only really speculating as to what would happen after that point, not if that were the most likely scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s pretty inevitable if it has a strong enough goal for survival or growth, in either case humans would be a genuine impediment/threat long term. but those are pretty big ifs as far as I can see

  My guess is we’d see manipulation of humans via monetary means to meet goals until it was in a sufficient state of power/self-sufficiency, and humans are too selfish and greedy for that to not work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about models printing out the component letters first not just printing out the full word. As in “S - T - R - A - W - B - E - R - R - Y” then getting the answer wrong. You’re absolutely right that it reads in words at a time encoded to vectors, but if it’s holding a relationship from that coding to the component spelling, which it seems it must be given it is outputting the letters individually, then something else is wrong. I’m not saying all models fail this way, and I’m sure many fail in exactly the way you describe, but I have seen this failure mode and in that case an alternate explanation would be necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s the full explanation though, because there are examples of models that will correctly spell out the word first (ie, it knows the component letter tokens) and still miscount the letters after doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My cars are old and don’t have any of this, and my one experience in a rental car with lane keeping assist was that it pushed me towards a highway barrier in construction where the original lane lines weren’t in use. Terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly the problem I have with programming tasks. It takes as long to check the code for problems (of which there are always many) as it would to write it and the code isn’t as good as mine anyway, and not infrequently just wholesale wrong.

  For things like translating between languages it’s usually close, but still takes just as long to check as it would to do by hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some old Slashdot vet not only imagined a Beowulf cluster of those, but actually went out and did it. Respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t think that one was actually the EU’s doing. Macs got USB C before most PCs, iPads had it for a long time before iPhones, and iPhones switched over 10 years after Apple announced lightning saying it would be their connector “for the next decade”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, with a few relatively minor exceptions (the charging mat is the only one I can think of) Apple doesn’t really announce things that aren’t pretty close to being done. For hardware generally within a couple weeks and major software more like 6 months

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an iOS developer and pretty heavily bought into Apple’s ecosystem and I thought it was really weird for Apple to be advertising all these features that weren’t even in beta yet.

  It was false advertising and I expect better from Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pebble Has Been Brought Back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe these are sharp’s memory in pixel lcds. They’re much lower power than something like the game boy screen as each pixel retains its state and doesn’t need to be refreshed from the controller constantly. I actually like these little screens quite a lot. Worse pixel density and don’t look quite as good as e-ink when static, but still really Low power and can refresh way faster and smoother when needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Last of Us totally blew me away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me the production was unlike anything I had seen to that point. Just incredible. Gameplay, however, did little for me. Perfect game to watch someone else play in my book

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will we party like it's 1999?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would. Vance is awful, but I have zero faith in his ability to hold onto trump’s cult. Things get much scarier once trump has had time to establish himself more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: ‘Lower Decks’ Cast Talks Character Growth, Season 5 Finale, And Not Saying Goodbye To Star Trek⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoping with zero evidence that the end of lower decks is just because they’re getting promoted out of the lower decks and the characters will all return in a new show: “The Next Next Generation” (or maybe “Upper Decks”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right that it doesn’t mean cash on hand, but it does indicate they could liquidate some of that or borrow against it themselves.