AFaithfulNihilist
@AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 1 day ago:
A lot of people want a good tool that works.
This is not a good tool and it does not work.
Most of them don’t understand that yet.
I am optimistic to think that they will have the opportunity find that out in time to not be walked off a cliff.
I’m optimistically predicting that when people find out how much it actually costs and how shit it is that they will redirect their energies to alternatives if there are still any alternatives left.
A better tool may come along, but it’s not this stuff. Sometimes the future of a solution doesn’t just look like more of the previous solution.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 1 day ago:
These kinds of questions are strange to me.
A great many people are using them voluntarily, a lot of people are using them because they don’t know how to avoid using them and feel that they have no alternative.
But the implication of the question seems to be that people wouldn’t choose to use something that is worse.
In order to make that assumption you have to first assume that they know qualitatively what is better and what is worse, that they have the appropriate skills or opportunity necessary to choose to opt in or opt out, and that they are making their decision on what tools to use based on which one is better or worse.
I don’t think you can make any of those assumptions. In fact I think you can assume the opposite.
The average person doesn’t know how to evaluate the quality of research information they receive on topics outside of their expertise.
The average person does not have the technical skills necessary to engage with non-AI augmented systems presuming they want to.
The average person does not choose their tools based on what is the most effective at producing the correct truth but instead on which one is the most usable, user friendly, convenient, generally accepted, and relatively inexpensive.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 1 day ago:
A lot of those things have a business model that relies on putting the competition out of business so you can jack up the price.
Uber broke taxis in a lot of places. It completely broke that industry by simply ignoring the laws. Uber had a thing that it could actually sell that people would buy.
It took years before it started making money, in an industry that already made money.
LLMs Don’t even have a path to profitability unless they can either functionally replace a human job or at least reliably perform a useful task without human intervention.
They’ve burned all these billions and they still don’t even have something that can function as well as the search engines that proceeded them no matter how much they want to force you to use it.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 1 day ago:
Every particle accelerator that has been built has paid for itself in research value. There’s basically nothing that comes out of AI research except the need for a bigger model.
The comparison is poor. Particle accelerators are science, LLMs do not produce science.
That’s not to say that we couldn’t build LLMS that would be useful for scientific purposes but we’re not. That is not the function or the goal of the people building these things.
- Comment on Trump loses bid to overturn $83.3 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll defamation case 1 week ago:
Every loss he suffers is a win for decency and you just know that someone in his circle is catching fire and brimstone because they had to tell him the news. I hope he fires someone who was working in earnest to help him. I hope he lashed out at someone who didn’t deserve it while others witnessed him being a shit heel.
Really I just wish them all the worst.
- Comment on hygiene 1 month ago:
I just let all the cat hair collect there and it seems to do a pretty good job of holding on to the crumbs until I vacuum.
- Comment on South Dakota election office publishes voter list labeling thousands as public assistance applicants: Information is included in newly required free version of statewide registration spreadsheet 1 month ago:
After the 2000 election it was obvious that Republicans played by different rules than Democrats.
After 911 this country lost its fucking mind. Like millions and millions and millions of people just became fucking psychopaths. All of a sudden everybody was willing to split hairs on torture, child murder, forced starvation, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, double tap drone strikes The list goes on.
We became completely fucking insane. It was obvious at that point this is where we were headed. That was when I realized I needed to register as a Republican. Democrats don’t care about my primary votes if they even hold one but in my youthfully naive hope I entertained the idea that you could democratically affect anything.
Aside from the extra good feels of getting to vote against Donald Trump multiple times, The only real benefit is that I get visits from local Republican party officials and they think I’m one of them.
I always put on my home accent and complain about liberals but I don’t think they understand that they are just liberals of the God bothering type to me and I seek to dismantle them from root to stem. … … But please tell me about this canvassing operation you have in my town… What kind of cars are they driving? Just curious
- Comment on pocket knife 2 months ago:
The officer should have asked. That’s when you could tell him you don’t consent to a search. It’s a bad idea to do this for a lot of reasons but that’s not one of them.
If someone is searching through your pockets without your approval and against your wishes, they better hope they are right to do so and are taking all of the necessary precautions.
You’re not under any obligation to make the private contents of your pockets safe for other people to rifle through.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 2 months ago:
Or this is the fall she was brought in for…
- Comment on Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 2 discussion 2 months ago:
Some of these seem to be the, “pounded in the butt by my own butt” kind of nonsense.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 2 months ago:
I’ve seen two this year.
I’ve seen More bald eagles land in the yard year than I have seen lightning bugs.
- Comment on Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1% 2 months ago:
I worked at a dental lab once and we had a patient who The doctor said wanted bigger teeth.
Having made teeth for a while, this was a first for everyone in the lab. At some point teeth don’t get much bigger. At some point the amount of metal and porcelain were putting into the mouth of this 82-year-old woman is a substantial weight of material not to mention its volume.
When one doctor refused to make any bigger teeth she went to other doctors who required her to pay up front. We got this lady’s case back a dozen times.
We’ve remade this thing from scratch at her expense and she looked downright cartoonish every time we’d get photos back.
The frame for her full arch mandibular implant retained PFM was the single largest cast of gold alloy anyone in the entire lab had ever poured or seen poured for dental work.
Some people have money and they’re addicted to the process. I can’t think of any other reason for this lady to have done that.
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 4 months ago:
Pizza King. Tell me it was Pizza King?!
- Comment on HBA Mode vs IT Mode to connect disks for ZFS 4 months ago:
I second this.
I have three large disk shelves, one made from a J23 CSA connected to an perc h730 in HBA mode, one made from a super micro connected to a LSI HBA card, and one that uses a repurposed DATTO unit with its original raid card flashed into IT mode.
They are all extremely reliable, handling dozens of drives and I use only ZFS for all of my bulk storage. The best part is how much faster I can replace a dead drive with ZFS than I could with any raid 5 anything. Also, ZFS is flexible enough that you can put ssds in to use for journaling and slog.
I have one machine with 192gb of RAM and I just use the ramdisk for slog. It’s all streaming media so if it crashes only the buffered streams are lost, and this way I’m not burning holes through SSDs quite so quickly.
- Comment on Winning 4 months ago:
I think if you lose therapy, The witnesses will need therapy.
- Comment on A quarter of a century after its original release, Capcom’s legendary Breath of Fire IV returns to PC! 4 months ago:
I can’t help but think it would do serious numbers on handhelds. This game was so fucking amazing.
Four was good Three was so very very good.
- Comment on How to love 5 months ago:
that shit isn’t as easy as they make it sound.
Yeah it is. You must be remembering it wrong.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 5 months ago:
And it gets worse as they get older.
I have friends and relatives that used to be people. They used to have thoughts and feelings. They had convictions and reasons for those convictions.
Now, I have conversations with some of these people I’ve known for 20 and 30 years and they seem exasperated at the idea of even trying to think about something.
It’s not just complex topics, either. You can ask him what they saw on a recent trip, what they are reading, or how they feel about some show and they look at you like the hospital intake lady from Idiocracy.
- Comment on Whats the green shape in between the three circles ? 6 months ago:
That was a particularly fun read.
Apparently it’s a circular horn triangle!
- Comment on Voice Actor David Wald Leaves Role as Gajeel in Fairy Tail, Will Not Return to Crunchyroll Following Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents 9 months ago:
I really hope they do. An example needs to be made of crunchy roll too, but the individual human person who made this decision and anyone who participated by opening the mail themselves needs to be hauled into court prosecuted, and then spend some time in prison.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 10 months ago:
