brucethemoose
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- Comment on Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. 15 hours ago:
And that’s why Sora sucks, because it’s censored, closed weights, totally opaque, largely toolless, and peddled like spam.
- Comment on Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. 19 hours ago:
I mean, I’m as big a ML fans as you’ll find on Lemmy, but this is a slop machine to build some Altman hype.
A controllable, integrated version as a tool, with augmentations like VACE or SDXLs controlnet would be neat. It’s also great because it’s not so easy for 1 click zero effort automated spam.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 1 day ago:
No, I just skimmed the transcript because it’s an hour long, heh.
I did get that bit about SETI and the original paper, which is interesting, and also agree that astronomers looking for them over the paper is hilarious and stupid.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 1 day ago:
Man, I miss my jailbroken iPhone 5.
It was like having your cake and eating it, and somehow its stock (much less tweaked) UI is less clunky than whatever TF Apple has done to my discount 16.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 1 day ago:
With the caveat that I only read the transcripts, I don’t find that compelling at all.
The initial sentiment is correct; folks like Sam Altman responding to existential problems like “oh we can just build a Dyson Sphere in 30 years” should be in freaking jail instead of power.
But the only other justification I see is “well, this is stupidly impractical in the context of current humans.” Things like:
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“What, we make all those nanobots and get all that energy with fusion and use it to disassemble Jupiter?”
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“Why don’t we just use that energy to leave the solar system?”
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“Say it’s a Dyson Swarm; what do we do living on all those solar satellites?”
She’s fallen into the same trap of “existing sci fi” she accuses other of falling into.
We’re not talking about a bunch of people in space looking to expand a habit. At this point, we’re talking about some AI that’s already converted an entire moons worth of mass into computronium, can upload folks to VR and simulate realities, that can reconfigure atomic nuclei into ultradense strings of matter or construct and control tiny black holes to generate energy and elements.
It’s left the solar system loooong ago.
Its capabilities, needs, and goals are completely umhuman, and at that point pondering how to efficiently capture the output of all this stellar mass sustainably is absolutely practical to plan. A Dyson Sphere (or more practically a swarm) isn’t the only way, but it’s not the worst idea for a “young” intelligence. And in OA, at a certain point, the Sephrotics seem to construct dyson spheres as habitats for aesthetic reasons, whereas their actual industrial/computational bases are different arrangements of masses.
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- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 2 days ago:
Yeah, I buy the filter being early. That does seem like a freak accident, even with all that time for it.
But on the spread of civilization, this is why I love Orion’s arm: if a civilization like ours makes it another few thousand years, it’ll basically expanded in a bubble at a high fraction of the speed of light, meaning civilization should have spread across galaxies by now:
www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49333a6b7d29f
And the fiction, even as wild as it is, gives the somewhat unsolved Fermi Paradox a lot of thought:
www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464d087672fe7
I particularly like the ‘Ginnungagap Theory’ that, perhaps, there’s some unknown barrier to expansion.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 3 days ago:
I have, but I’m also concerned that humanity got “lucky” so far and that this won’t happen again. There are theories positing that there are several blocking “gates” to civilization, and humanity passed an exceptional number of them already.
It’s reasonable to assert that’s a misleading, human centric perspective; but I’d also point out that the Fermi Paradox supports it. Either:
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The conditions that gave birth to our civilization are not exceptional, and spread intelligent life is hiding from us (unlikely at this point, I think)
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They are exceptional, and we just happened to have passed many unlikely hurdles so far (hence it is critical we don’t trip up at the end here).
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They are not that exceptional, and there is some gate we are not aware of yet (which I have heard called the Great Filter).
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- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 4 days ago:
Humanity survived though. Even ‘humans’ dying out but some form of life expanding out would be not terrible.
My biggest fear is Earth ‘fizzling’ and never expanding, and the odds of that happening are pretty high.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 4 days ago:
Billionaire seem to have a… unscientific view of a sci fi future. Especially Musk, since he thinks he’s so transcendental, but apparently Bezos can’t help himself now either.
It doesn’t look like Star Trek.
It doesn’t look like a Cyberpunk movie.
I’d recommend diving into this for a more scientifically ‘thought out’ extrapolation: www.orionsarm.com
Interestingly, this is a neat idea waaay down the line. But not anytime in the near future, not until humanity is very, very different (assuming we survive that long).
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 4 days ago:
YES. That’s a HUGE one, for the maser in particular. I can’t even think of a precedent for operating something so high power in space.
It’s honestly a bad idea, lol.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 4 days ago:
That’s a more interesting idea but still quite questionable, given how expensive sending anything to space is, and then maintaining it.
It made more sense with solar was expensive per square mm, but that is no longer the case.
Also, transmission is a huge problem. It’s easy to say ‘make a maser,’ but making giant one and aiming it reliably and making (without frying nearby terrain as the satellite moves to track the sun), and making a receiver big enough from how much the laser spreads out from geosync orbit is a tall order.
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 4 days ago:
Why not both? One section for owners, one for pre-purchasers (maybe it has to be in their wishlist?)
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 5 days ago:
They probably don’t know.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 5 days ago:
Yep.
Vivaldi is basically the real Opera now, including some of its devs IIRC.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 6 days ago:
I think all of Twitter is probably better to ignore?
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 6 days ago:
You are overestimating how technical most folks are. I know kids and older adults, on either side of my age, that have no concept of a filesystem, a URL, an APK to download, things like that, because they’ve never needed any of that.
Attention is finite.
Hence, web app’s aren’t really blocked by iOS/Android, but that’s still a basically insurmountable hurdle simply because it’s not the usual procedure for operating a phone. Default and accessibility are king (and Apple/Google know it).
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 6 days ago:
Barrier to entry.
Many (dare I say most) folks don’t know how to use a web browser, much less find a web app. Installing an app is much easier.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 6 days ago:
It wouldn’t help.
In this case, even if the app was side-loadable, that’s enough of a technical hurdle to kill its critical mass. It doesn’t have to be banned, surprising ICEBlock is basically enough to kill it.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
This is spot on.
And on the apparently contradictory “AGI” development, I’ll add the Big Tech kingpens like Altman/Zuck/Musk are hyping that while doing the opposite. EG hyping that up to investors on one hand, but turning around, cutting fundamental research, and focusing more on scaling plain transformers up or even making ‘products’ like Zuck is.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
I said it in too many words, but everything’s magnified. ‘AI’ is an extremely useful tool, yet the current overhype is even more insane. It’s like a caricature of the dotcom bubble, but real.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
That doesn’t work because people like the algorithms, unfortunately. They win the attention war, and Trump is perfectly emblematic of this.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
There are local ML honbyist/tinkerers here. I’ve seen it on zip, db0, itjust.works.
But it all gets downvoted, and I think those folks (me included) tend to keep their heads down.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
Allegedly Google, early in this craze:
“We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
semianalysis.com/…/google-we-have-no-moat-and-nei…
Ultimately the dotcom fantasy kind of panned out. A few tech companies have massive control over society now, with what is essentially cloud/internet business. They have a moat.
…But with the AI bubble, I think folks are underestimating how fast and low the “race to the bottom” is.
As random examples:
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Look at something like Nemotron 4B, which makes a lot of mundane ‘AI’ data processing people assumed to be big and power hungry (with these data centers) basically free: huggingface.co/jet-ai/Jet-Nemotron-4B
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Look at GLM 4.6. I can run it on my Ryzen/3090 desktop, for free, and for the first time, I feel like it’s beating Claude and Gemini in some stuff, at 7 tokens/sec.
And all this is accelerating. Alternate attention is catching on, bitnet is already proven and probably next.
In other words, AI as a “dumb tool” is rapidly approaching “basically free to run locally on your phone,” and you don’t need all these megacorp data centers for that. There’s no profit in it.
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- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
I think the flip side of this is Facebook or wherever the link was pushed to them (which is what I’d guess happened) feels… empowering. Those apps are literally optimized, with billions of dollars (and extensive science, especially psychology), to validate folk’s views in the pursuit of keeping them clicking.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
It’s absolutely insane that anyone pretends Google Play and the App Store are fine though. Has anyone scrolled through any search and not seen a sea of heavily marketed scam apps?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
Thing is, Play Store is already filled with malware or near malware from seemingly verified developers. I ran into several scame clone apps just today.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
That’s the issue, isn’t it?
I see this on the internet a lot. People posit things like “wouldn’t it be awesome if these fired devs got together” or “Why don’t they make good stuff anymore? Wouldn’t it be great if somone made a thing like this old beloved thing…”
…Except it’s already happening. Or happened.
And there’s just so much noise on the internet, it’s largely unknown to the folks who’d be interested.
To be clear, I’m not blaming OP, and I’ve done the exact same thing myself. But I still find it kind of… sad.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
This makes me think of the Ellisons buying Star Trek and Avatar.
Why wouldn’t they shutter or castrate two notoriously ‘woke’ franchises?
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
Yeah. There’s domestic pressure for this anyway, unfortunately.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
Gundam
The physics of the mechs are pretty questionable, lol, which is fine because they’re there to be spectacular.