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- Comment on Someone should digitally remake the Bourne movies and make everyone in the films Jason Bourne 6 days ago:
Yeah, yeah it is. It’s got Conor McGregor in there as a villain, so you have to be ok with that, but if you are, it’s honestly just a lot of fun.
- Comment on Someone should digitally remake the Bourne movies and make everyone in the films Jason Bourne 1 week ago:
It’s not just shaky cam, the sequences straight up don’t necessarily make cohesive physical sense. Like they show hits and moves in orders that DKNY properly flow into each other.
I find it funny that one of the director’s latest movies is Road House, where they used a new technique that lets them show every impact in incredible clarity. Feels like he really took the shaky cam criticism to heart.
- Comment on Someone should digitally remake the Bourne movies and make everyone in the films Jason Bourne 1 week ago:
Yeah, iirc first book is basically the length of the first three movies and entirely revolves around Carlos. I loved it when I read it in high school.
The movies were also pretty great, but i think I always expected that as I grew up I would understand the action sequences more, and it turns out that no, the action sequences are just nonsense and don’t actually make sense.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
And your point is wrong because you spend too much time on the internet and view the world in simple black and whites.
The Nobel prize is not purely political and is not devoid of merit.
Grow the fuck up. The world is not binary of systems.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
Thank you for finally spewing out the point you wanted to make from the jump. It’s irrelevant in the context of the original discussion, but you got to hear yourself talk.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
Lmao, it’s binary cause you say it’s binary.
Bro grow up. The world is not black and white. Literally not a single award on the planet is meritocratic if you insist on dealing in absolutes. Every award is awarded by some committee and there is some room left for human judgement, which leaves room for human bias, which makes it not perfectly meritocratic.
If you want to go an unhinged rant that no one wants to listen to them email the nobel association directly.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
Lol if you regidly define things binarily in a way that doesn’t reflect real world systems, then sure they’re binary.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
This is false, it’s not a binary system. The prize is both.
- Comment on Metal on the inside, business on the outside 1 week ago:
We’re all just different parts of the universe looking back at itself in different ways.
- Comment on Metal on the inside, business on the outside 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue, that it sometimes adds complexity to an already fragile system.
You don’t have to argue that, I think thats inarguably true. But more complexity doesn’t inherently mean worse.
Automatic braking and collision avoidance systems in cars add complexity, but they also objectively make cars safer.
Direct control over systems without unreliable interfaces, semantic translation layer, computer vision dependancy etc serves the same tasks without additional risks and computational overheads.
But in this case, Waymo is still having to do that. They’re still running their sensor data through incredibly complex machine learning models that are somewhat black boxes and producing semantic understandings of the world around it, and then act on those models of the world. The primary difference with Waymo and Tesla isn’t about complexity or direct control of systems, but that Tesla is relying on camera data which is significantly worse than the human eye / brain, whereas Waymo and everyone else is supplementing their limited camera data with sensors like Lidar and Sonar that can see in ways and situations humans can’t and that lets them compensate.
That and that Waymo is actually a serious engineering company that takes responsibility seriously, takes far fewer risks, and is far more thorough about failure analysis, redundancy, etc.
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 2 weeks ago:
I think the first Bat Radio debuted in the 1966 TV Show, so from that point onwards the signal really has served no practical communications purpose.
It has however, always been canon that the signal is not just about communicating to Batman, but also about communicating to criminals that Batman is out and on the loose. It’s more psychological warfare than communication device … That being said, Gordon apparently isn’t allowed to use the Bat Radio so it’s his only option.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 weeks ago:
People over use blocking like crazy.
I constantly see people blocking others just for making a point they disagree with. Rather than actually think through the logic and reasoning of what the other person is saying they go ‘oh I have no counter point to that, that must mean that you’re arguing in bad faith, blocked’.
The internet is already an inherent filter bubble, you don’t need to accelerate that.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
“hur durr AI bad”
Read the fucking link. It literally won the Nobel prize.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
They should. That’s how automation works. We should be building a society that doesn’t require as much work, not insisting on doing work hat machines could do for now reason.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
You keep saying y’all and it’s telling.
Learn how to communicate with people, not boxes you out them in.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
LLM is what usually sold as AI nowadays. Convential ML is boring and too normal, not as exciting as a thing that processes your words and gives some responses, almost as if it’s sentient.
To be fair, that’s because there are a lot of automation situations where having semantic understanding of a situation can be extremely helpful in guiding action over a ML model that is not semantically aware.
The reason that AI video generation and out painting is so good for instance it that it’s analyzing a picture and dividing it into human concepts using language and then using language to guide how those things can realistically move and change, and then applying actual image generation. Stuff like Waymo’s self driving systems aren’t being run through LLMs but they are machine learning models operating on extremely similar principles to build a semantic understanding of the driving world.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
I am treating you like a child because you refuse to use your brain.
No you’re doing so because you started doom scrolling before you had coffee and now you’re trying to justify your uncalled for rudeness.
You gave me one obscure
It literally won the model prize.
very early stage example
It is not early stage, predicting the structures of those proteins has already actively changed the course of biomedical science.
that isn’t even connected to the overall rise in value of LLMs and other forms of AI
It is in that it uses the same underlying type of algorithms and is literally from the same team that developed the “T” in ChatGPT.
So you are claiming the next real AI revolution is justtttt around the corner with a totally new technology you swear?
I have not claimed that, I said that AI algorithms are likely to be part of our climate solutions and our ability to serve more people with less manual labour.
Calm down and go talk to a person irl. The infinite scrolling rage machine seems to have done its job already.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
You seem to be projecting about warped perspective.
Sure LLMs and other forms of automation, artificial intelligence and brute forcing of scientific problems will continute to grow.
That’s not brute forcing of a scientific problem, it’s literally a new type of algorithm that lets computers solve fuzzy pattern matching problems that they never could before.
What you are talking about though is extrapolating from that to a massive shift that just isn’t on the horizon.
I’m just very aware of the number of problems in society that fall into the category of fuzzy pattern matching / optimization. Quantum computing is also an exciting avenue for solving some of these problems though is incredibly difficult and complicated.
You are delusional, you have read too many scifi books about AI and can’t get your brain off of that way of thinking being the future no matter how dystopian it is.
This is just childish name calling.
The value to AI just simply isn’t there, and that is before you even include the context of the ecological holocaust it is causing and enabling by getting countries all over the world to abandon critical carbon footprint reduction goals.
Quite frankly, you’re conflating the tech bro hype around LLMs with AI more generally. The ecological footprint of Alpha Fold is tiny compared to previous methods of protein analysis that took labs of people years to discover each individual one. On top of the ecological footprint of all of those people and all of their resources for those years, they also have to use high powered equipment like centrifuges and x-ray machines. Alpha fold did that hundreds of thousands of times with some servers in a year.
Don’t come at me like you are being logical here, at least admit that this is the cool scifi tech dystopia you wanted and have been obsessed with. This is the only way you get to this point of delusion since the rest of us see these technologies and go “huh, that looks like it has some use” whereas people like you have what is essentially a religious view towards AI and it is pathetic and offensive towards religions that actually have substance to their philosophy and beliefs.
Again, more childish name calling. You don’t know me, don’t act like you do.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
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I don’t have to dream, DeepMind literally won the Nobel prize last year. My best friend did his PhD in protein crystallography and it took him 6 years to predict the structure of a single protein. He’s no at MIT and just watched DeepMind predict hundreds of thousands of them in a year.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
Your issue is clearly with capitalism, and yet you’re brain deadly bitching about AI instead.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
my brother in christ what are you saying? you know that rich people are the biggest polluters?
Yes, and what do you think is happening as other countries rise out of poverty? We have way too many humans on this planet to support everyone having a middle class lifestyle.
you know how ai datacenters literally destroy our planet?
Yeah, right now. But if you tried to render 4k videos in 1990 it would also take a full data center and enormous amount of power, but computer chips can do this thing where they get smaller and orders of magnitude more efficient over time.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
AI is not just LLMs, and it’s already revolutionized biotechnical engineering through things like alpha fold. Like I said, “AI”, as in neural network algorithms of which LLMs are just one example, are literally solving entirely new classes of problems that we simply could not solve before.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.
If your solution ignores the site of human psychology it’s not a solution, it’s a quixotic quest.
Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.
Yes, and as their standard of living rises to meet ours, the whole becomes increasingly unsustainable without technological advances.
We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.
There is a more plausible path for neural networks to be involved in climate change solutions then their is for you to replace capitalism.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
From a long term environmental standpoint that’s not at all clear cut.
We objectively have too many humans in our biosphere for our current rate of resource consumption and we should significantly drop the overall number.
However, our current standard of living is mostly the result of a shared economy where we pool and share our resources and have a shit ton of people working.
Right now neural network algorithms consume a lot of processing power and resources, but they also solve whole new classes of automations problems that computers haven’t been able to solve before.
If we actually want to maintain our standard of living and reduce the population size, we may very well need AI automation utilities. They can keep scaling down in size and power consumption in the way that a real human can’t.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 2 weeks ago:
Leftist movements are literally known for infighting and falling apart, it’s the subject of countless memes.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 2 weeks ago:
The whole world is not America.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 2 weeks ago:
Your assertion that more is conservative is a meaningless assertion in the context of this discussion.
More can be conservative on average but you don’t see an average view of the internet, you see your filter bubble, and that source backs up the original assertion that yes, Russia is targeting leftists too.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely and utterly false. They try and promote fighting, anger, and distrust of government to everyone.
They target leftists with things that will upset them, make them angry at the right and the government and sow further discord and polarization.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 2 weeks ago:
There is literally no one I know in the real world that feels that way. Pretty sure the alt left and alt right you mention both speak Russian as a first language.