brucethemoose
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- Comment on flouride 1 week ago:
You are spouting assertions about what sounds right while ignoring bodies of scientific evidence contradicting your viewpoint. Just because Lemmy users are unwilling to spend 20-30 minutes digging through arixv to refute you doesn’t make you right.
You don’t want to go and look up and analyze evidence that floride in the water supply is beneficial, you want to just assert the hypothesis you’ve formed as likely truth without evidence and research into related work, and I can confidently say this because experts who spend their lives reading papers and writing them on this very topic are qualified to make these assertions.
…This “sounds right” line of thinking has been the bane of civilization for eons. You aren’t breaking up some scientific fallacy like the church believing the Earth is the center of the universe, you are perpetuating one.
- Comment on flouride 1 week ago:
The meme is now this is not US policy.
Its like stating the world is not flat… when in fact NASA’s official stance is that the world is, indeed, flat.
- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 2 weeks ago:
I feel like they are dropping the ball in the GPU space though, both on desktop and in servers.
And their not really leveraging it. They killed the steam deck line of “small core count, GPU heavy APUs” which is why Valve hasn’t updated it. They all but killed server APUs, making them mega expensive and HPC only. They’re finally coming out with a M-Pro like consumer APU, but it took until 2025, and pricing will probably be a joke just like their Radeon Pro GPUs…
- Comment on is that real? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine if it found its way into musk’s feed!
I would not be against this. I absolutely know how.
We can rebuilt him. We have the technology…
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 weeks ago:
I never liked Musk, even when he was “In.” Even the Mars colonization thing rubbed me the wrong way, as the science does not line up with that.
It felt like a cult of personality to me. He was always a fickle jerk, a mixed bag.
You have a point though, people’s opinions were largely political, I think. Or just based on pure hope/cultism
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 weeks ago:
+1
They should discourage institutions from using it (and use government Mastadon instances of course).
- Comment on wrappers 2 weeks ago:
I’m so glad I’m not a tiny bug.
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, I’m not sure every single Palestine supporter in the US could have tipped the vote.
I know there are communities in PA and such, but still…
- Comment on USA | Trump speaks with Putin and advises him not to escalate Ukraine war – report 3 weeks ago:
The US president-elect advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of “Washington’s sizeable military presence in Europe”, the Post reported.
It added that Trump expressed interest in follow-up conversations on “the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon”.
This is so weird, almost worded like he just discovered/barely grasps the war in Ukraine.
“We have a big military in Europe. Huge.”
Putin nods. “Ah. I didn’t know that.”
His grudge against Zelensky though… there’s no way he forgot that.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, they should fight fire with fire? Another vision model (like Qwen VL) would catch this
You can ask it “does this image seem fake?” and it would look at it, reason something out and probably conclude it isn’t, instead of… I dunno, looking for smaller patters or whatever their internal model does?
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 5 weeks ago:
I agree.
But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable, and I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 5 weeks ago:
The localllama people are feeling quite mixed about this, as they’re still charging through the nose for more RAM. Like, orders of magnitude more than the bigger ICs actually cost.
It’s kinda poetic about how Apple wants to go all in on self-hosted AI now, yet their incredible RAM stinginess over the years is basically derailing that.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I am just out of touch, but I smell another bubble bursting when I look at how enshittified all major web services are simultaneously becoming.
It feels like something has to give, right?
We have YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Google Search, and more just racing to enshittify like I can’t even believe, yet they’re also at the ‘critical mass’ of ‘too big to fail’ and shoved out all their major competitors already (other than Discord I guess).
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 5 weeks ago:
Also imagine being in the water with all those jellyfish the turtle didn’t eat.
- Comment on Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too 5 weeks ago:
There are already open source/self hosted alternatives, like Perplexica.
- Comment on Microsoft accuses Google of secretly funding regulatory astroturf campaign 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 5 weeks ago:
CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as
nobody reads it.they keep generating sign-ups and selling ads… till next quarter, at least. - Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
Soldered is better! It’s usually faster.
But TBH the only thing that really matters his “how much VRAM do you have,” and Qwen 32B slots in at 24GB, or maybe 16GB if the GPU is totally empty and you tune your quantization carefully.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
TSMC doesn’t really have official opinions, they take silicon orders for money and shrug happily. Being neutral is good for business.
Altman’s scheme is just a whole other level of crazy though.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
I dunno about that.
I keep Qwen 32B loaded on my desktop pretty much whenever its on, as an (unreliable) assistant to analyze or parse big texts, to do quick chores, to bounce ideas off of or even as a offline replacement for google translate (though I specifically use aya 32B for that)
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
the model seems ok for tasks like summarisation though
That and retrieval and the business use cases so far, but even then only if the results can be wrong somewhat frequently.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
the term AI will become every bit as radioactive to investors in the future as it is lucrative right now.
Well you say that, but somehow crypto is still around despite most schemes being (IMO) a much more explicit scam.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
Current LLMs cannot be AGI, no matter how big they are. The architecture just isn’t right.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
It’s selling an anticompetitive dystopia. It’s selling a Facebook monopoly vs selling the Fediverse.
We dont need 7 trillion dollars of datacenters burning the Earth, we need collaborative, open source innovation.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
web.archive.org/…/openai-plan-electricity.html
When Mr. Altman visited TSMC’s headquarters in Taiwan shortly after he started his fund-raising effort, he told its executives that it would take $7 trillion and many years to build 36 semiconductor plants and additional data centers to fulfill his vision, two people briefed on the conversation said. It was his first visit to one of the multibillion-dollar plants.
TSMC’s executives found the idea so absurd that they took to calling Mr. Altman a “podcasting bro,” one of these people said. Adding just a few more chip-making plants, much less 36, was incredibly risky because of the money involved.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
Well there is a very specific architecture “rut” the LLMs people use have fallen into, and even small attempts to break out (like with Jamba) don’t seem to get much interest, unfortunately.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
And he things its great at, namely brainstorming, fiction making, a unreliable intern-like but very fast assistant and so on, get overshadowed by OpenAI and such trying to sell it as an omiscient chatbot and (most profitablly) an employee replacement.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
I mean… it is machine learning.
- Comment on Wake up babe - new conspiracy just dropped. 5 weeks ago:
I swear, I want a extension that blocks videos with pointing arrows in the thumbnails.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
As a fervent AI enthusiast, I disagree.
…I’d say it’s 97% hype and marketing.
It’s crazy how much fud is flying around, and legitimately buries good open research. It’s also crazy what these giant corporations are saying what they’re going to. TSMC’s allegedly calling Sam Altman a podcast bro is spot on, and I’d add “manipulative vampire” to that.
Talk to any long-time resident of localllama and similar “local” AI communities who actually dig into this stuff, and you’ll find lots of healthy skepticism, not the crypto-like AI bros like you find on linkedin, twitter and such and blot everything out.
