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- Comment on Public trust in AI is sinking across the board 8 months ago:
Well sure, why would the world aspire to fully automated luxury communism without the communism? Just fully automated luxury economy for rich people and nothing for everyone else?
- Comment on Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated 8 months ago:
My favorite are the gigantic companies falling all over themselves to buy this for their workforces before it’s even clear what value a bot that can’t reliably do arithmetic is going to add to Excel
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
Yeah, AI’s been a whole field for many decades, machine learning and deep learning is a whole field that existed and was doing tons of interesting work before transformers came out. Companies use party tricks to gin up interest and money for their work all the time. None of this changes the fact that AI is important? You think ChatGPT is the end of the line for modern AI research, for real?
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 9 months ago:
The pandemic triggering a cultural shift to WFH is a big part of the problems in the commercial real estate market. Basically, America becoming 10% more technologically sophisticated may have unhinged the financial system. Story about the impact of tech on society, I guess?
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 9 months ago:
So more or less, since many businesses are only keeping their offices because they have multi-year leases preventing them from simply packing up and moving, we can expect occupancy rates to continue falling and slow-burn exacerbating the commercial real estate crisis. And really, the literal problem here is just that banks are overinvested in commercial real estate, not knowing that a pandemic would alter work patterns in a lasting way. So again, we’re all in for a fun ride on the roller coaster that is capitalism, literally because of problems caused by real estate speculation.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
There’s no denying it, they really are believers over there at OpenAI. Who in history would have the gall to ask for more than the federal budget for a single company unless they thought they were gonna change the world? He’s a billionaire, he already won capitalism, he’s got more than he could ever spend. You only ask for $7 trillion if you think you can change the world. However, he’s downright megalomaniacal.
Basically, if he’s right that this is the most important tech in world history and deserves $7 trillion in research, it’ll make OpenAI the du jour monopolist over said most important tech in world history. Outright dystopian.
I believe strongly in machine learning/deep learning, but not capitalism.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
If only someone could have predicted this long-term crisis of profitability within the capitalist system to which no permanent solution existed!
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
Spoiler, the Butlerian Jihad and the prohibition on AI was actually a problem runs away before Dune fans can tar and feather me
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
For perspective, global annual GDP is $105 trillion, which means Altman is asking the world to invest 6.7% or so of the entire world’s economic output for one year in his company.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
Arguably since mainly what people actually want from the Web is just a cross-platform document renderer/UI system, if you designed something new from the ground-up with zero legacy nonsense, well, those are both complex problems, but I somewhat suspect we’d end up with something better and easier to develop for than the Byzantine nightmare that is the web.
Network effects would limit growth, but I think as the web gets shittier and shittier there would be growth.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
I found the stats re Firefox usage a little surprising/hard to believe so I double-checked them. Indeed, most rankings show Firefox use hovering at around 2.5%. The open web is sort of already dead, I think. It’s honestly not that uncommon now that I come across websites that don’t work in Firefox and there are zero hints or info that you need to use Chrome. It’s like the world has already forgotten that the web isn’t just an app you access through Chrome.
Google’s been working on this more or less since they launched Chrome, so it’s not surprising, but wow, that fucking sucks.
- Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair 9 months ago:
Right to repair also has an environmental angle. Consider which one uses more resources and likely produces more pollution:
- The RAM in your laptop dies, you take it to a repair shop, they swap out the dead RAM. Dead RAM goes in the bin, laptop has years of life left in it
- The RAM in your Macbook dies, the RAM is soldered to the board, you throw the whole thing away and buy a new one, and when a single component in the new Macbook dies, lather, rinse, repeat
Considering how much extra e-waste is generated when people can’t repair things, there’s really no way to buy Apple and call yourself an environmentalist.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 9 months ago:
no. but put this clustering software i wrote in ti-basic on 40 million of them? still no