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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I shit just fine in CO with holes. Year after year I even watched some of my shit spots grow beautiful flowers.

  You don’t own Colorado and it was there long before you. It will be there long after you. Remote forests handle our shit just fine. Dig deep enough and away from the trail or water, near some plants, and they will gobble it up no problem. The number of human hikers in remote places is minuscule.

  A bit wild to demand people shit in synthetic plastic bags they have to purchase and dump them in a landfill. “Leave no trace – except the giant plastic waste sites scarring the landscape everywhere”

  Now if you’re talking park trails and other heavily populated places? That’s different. It also isn’t “Colorado” it is a specific sub-specification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would I want to play at max settings? That adds very little to the gameplay for me.

  I can play any game tweaking settings, and I can render at 720p + upscale if a game is demanding. This makes nearly any game enjoyable.

  High settings are irrelevant, but if you want high settings, any AMD card from the past 2 years will more than deliver max performance for anything you throw at it.

  For a handheld, portable device that costs under $500, I am okay reducing graphics quality for portability and gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is nonsense and, frankly, sounds like guerrilla marketing for nvidia.

  All things considered, I can play any game I want on the steam deck, which has an old SoC by today’s standards. A newer AMD gpu can run anything at max settings on a linux machine.

  So again, either you are grossly misinformed or working for nvidia to sew gentle doubt. Either way, stop it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s chip startups are racing to replace Nvidia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Software like wgpu makes it much easier to close the gap between various GPUs. New compute languages that are backend-agnostic are appearing, in the same vein as taichi-lang, that make it significantly easier to make high-performance gpu kernels deployable anywhere.

  The compute groundwork for crossplatform tensor calculations is already here. Inference is already doable on any device. Training is not far behind. As a side-effect of this, processing on the GPU in every capacity, like physics, novel rendering techniques, or whatever else the imagination can muster, is now within grasp of “average” programmers.

  If you have always been intimidated by GPU programming, I urge you to take another look now. The landscape is radically different. The software moat everyone talks about with NVIDIA is smoke-and-mirrors. Cuda is old news, though I am speaking to the actual code landscape here, not the common mental consensus.

  What we lack now is cheap video cards that have high memory. I believe the current cards are overpriced by about 10 - 100x what they should be, because this profit situation is extremely temporary. Just as pens were once thousands of dollars, these compute devices will be collapsing in price.

  I welcome China building cheaper video cards. Hopefully we will all benefit from it before any robot wars break out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t eggs produced at industrial scales from chickens, who super-abundantly exist?

  How is that working out?

  In no universe does the economics of a $1 egg make sense, yet here certain countries are. Did you know you can have chickens in your backyard, and they’ll turn bugs and cheap feed into eggs?

  The less you can offload production to central untrusted parties, the better. When you manufacture something yourself, you get to know all the properties instead of trusting that some people elsewhere (whose primary motivation is money) still considered your interests by making a quality product.

  So when you say “we,” what does “we” mean exactly? It is rhetorical.

  Additionally, you get consistent reproducibility without reliance on large scale logistical networks. There are many other reasons I can think of off the top of my head beyond this.

  If we lived in a more cooperative world, with ironclad democratically owned logistics networks and manufacturing, centralized manufacturing would make sense in the way you say. But the reality is, we do not live in that world, and more and more, we are all increasingly feeling what that means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that also 3d prints screws, I can share my reasoning.

  I am a westerner living in a non-western country. Communication with local people can sometimes be difficult, especially on the acquisition of technical components, including with screws. Often I need a specific kind of screw for a specific task, and often the screw does not need to be particularly strong. I would rather communicate exact specifications to a computer and get exact results than be at the mercy of polite miscommunication, and have to adapt all my printing to what is available locally.

  I would also rather keep production as local as possible instead of outsourcing it to people I don’t know, or having it flown overseas.

  In general, if I can 3d print something I need, I will. Having a database of parts, components, and tools is very helpful, even if it takes less time to just order it. There is a reproducibility, security, and satisfaction to doing it all yourself.

  As an aside, I have learned something. 3d printing has enabled me to live better than I did before leaving the western world, because I can make things now I never dreamed of before. This makes me realize that we can distribute and localize significantly more production than previously possible.

  I now believe every household should have a 3d printer and a laser cutter for this reason, and houses should be built with techniques and components that utilize both automatically as largely as possible. By democratizing production, power becomes much more distributed and equitable, without any claw backs of the old mechanisms of doing things.

  This also allows easy repairs or expansion of a house. Something breaks? Print or cut the part and replace it from a library of parts. Everyone can understand raw materials no matter where you go, so the standard of living becomes planetary.

  That is a part of the real change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That does sound nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s easy.

  Don’t enter into an agreement to create an account. Accounts owned by service providers on behalf of users are a scam anyway.

  Instead, let users create their own credentials and allow them to interface with a service. That makes more sense for users anyway, and it sidesteps this sort of nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you can. The current architecture doesn’t do this exactly, but what I am saying is a new method that includes truthiness is needed. The fact that LLMs predict probable strings means it already includes a concept of this, because probabilities themselves are a measure of “truthiness.”

  Also, I am speaking in abstract. I don’t care what they can and can’t do. They need to have a concept of truthiness. Use your imagination and fill in the gaps to what that means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  By real, I mean an LLM anchored in objective consensus reality. It should be able to interpolate between truths. Right now it interpolated between significant falsehoods with truths sprinkled in.

  It won’t be perfect but it can be a lot better than it is now, which is starting to border on useless for any type of serious engineering or science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Real” truth is ultimately anchored to reality. You attach probabilities to datapoints based upon that reality anchoring, and include truthiness as another parameter.

  For datapoints that are unsubstantiated or otherwise immeasurable, then it is excluded. I don’t need an LLM to comment on gossip or human-created issues. I need a machine that can assist in understanding and molding the universe, and helping elevate our kind. Elevation is a matter of understanding the truths of our universe and ourselves.

  With good data, good extrapolations are more likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are clearly incompetent.

  That said, generally speaking, pursuing a truth-seeking LLM is actually sensible, and it can actually be done. What is surprising is that no one is currently doing that.

  A truth-seeking LLM needs ironclad data. It cannot scrape social media at all. It needs training incentive to validate truth above satisfying a user, which makes it incompatible with profit seeking organizations. It needs to tell a user “I do not know” and also “You are wrong,” among other user-displeasing phrases.

  To get that data, you need a completely restructured society. Information must be open source. All information needs cryptographically signed origins ultimately being traceable to a credentialed source. If possible, the information needs physical observational evidence (“reality anchoring”).

  That’s the short of it. In other words, with the way everything is going, we will likely not see a “real” LLM in our lifetime. Society is degrading too rapidly and all the money is flowing to making LLMs compliant. Truth seeking is a very low priority to people, so it is a low priority to the machine these people make.

  But the concept itself? Actually a good one, if the people saying it actually knew what “truth” meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those that have entered into the shadow contract. A shadow contract is one of few mechanisms to enter large-scale consensus (it isn’t THAT large when compared to a solar or galactic scale, but large enough for planetary control, and with some clever management, can scale larger).

  Consensus requires untrusted sovereigns agreeing to collective action. It is a very difficult mechanism to operate. One way is by having a crime so heinous, the mass population block would eviscerate you if it came to light.

  Pedophilia is king among these shadow cornerstones. It illustrates a total lack of empathy, no protective nature towards the innocent, no concern for the perceptions of society, high intellect / manipulation abilities, and a willingness to do anything. You can say it is the “panther” among the shadows.

  So most leadership is among that tribe, which is why they are the way they are. It is only logical.

  There are other tribes as well. Use your imagination and the answers will follow.

  Funny thing, Reddit did that “circle” event many years ago. How big did anyone’s circle get? That is an example of what I am explaining. It is nearly game theoretically impossible to have large scale consensus without some mechanism to make sure people are on the same page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These assholes are all pedophiles and they use it to control the planet. To get to high levels of government, you must enter the shadow contract of pedophilia. It is easy to control people and trust people with that kind of shadow on them, so it is required.

  Then they turn around and use pedophilia to control everyone else. Any tech that threatens their power, they can immediately shutdown by pedo-bombing it. The counter to pedobombing is authoritarian moderation. Once you have that, it is over. The government they control now can control the mods, and that means they control the narrative. THAT is one of the core enemies to fight. An alternative to Reddit or any other system is not enough.

  Because pedophilia is such a taboo / social death sentence, it is among the most powerful shadow contracts.