p03locke
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- Comment on AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking 1 day ago:
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
Then those companies will die, as they should. There are also companies who will fail to adapt, either because they are so anti-AI that they actively refuse to do so, or because they are luddites that weren’t well-tuned to technological changes in the first place. Those companies will also die, as they should.
What’s left are companies having measured conversations about how to make use of this new technology without ignoring the problem areas, figuring out ways to work around them, being careful of security implications, and acknowledging the importance of human review and architectural design.
This is how all bubbles and trendchasing works. Investors in the 2000s learned pretty quickly that dumping billions of dollars into every company that was even vaguely connected to the Internet is not a long-term business strategy. All topics have nuance, and everything must be consumed in moderation.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 week ago:
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted. Had a co-worker fully adopt a VR workplace set up, which saved on physical monitors. So the technology had promise, even in a professional setting.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 week ago:
They funded some of the best VR games ever made.
Oculus Studios published Beat Sabre, so I’ll give you a pass.
- Comment on Big Tech slapped with $3.5bn in fines for using your personal data to train AI — and 'it could be only the beginning,' warns Surfshark 3 weeks ago:
This is also rich coming from its parent company, which is involved in the Incogni scam.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 4 weeks ago:
Your responses are the equivalent of “I don’t use the internet, because nothing beats the experience of walking to your library and looking through the research material yourself”.
Sure, I can do all of those things. But, sometimes I don’t want to spend hours going through the searches, bang my head against the wall with useless tech forums, and get frustrated with shifting through the results. The LLM can get it done in a minute or two, and I can still ask follow-up questions if I don’t trust anything, or want clarification.
And yes, like Wikipedia, I still review the sources and review the code.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 4 weeks ago:
I also just plain don’t know what I’d use any LLM for.
PewDiePie has been on a tear lately with recommending everybody switch to Linux and recently experimenting with LLMs. He put out a legit good local LLM project that showcases the different kinds of things you can do with a model.
My biggest LLM use cases have been:
- A replacement for search, since you typically need multiple searches and multiple sources to get the information you need
- Code generation, because it’s so good at producing entire fully-featured utilities or just let it spin away at implementing some new functionality
- Helping me out with some random Linux error or difficulty, because support forums are fucking garbage
- Comment on This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability 4 weeks ago:
Well, when the conversations comes up talking about the Windows 11 crashing or has some horrible bug again, then yes, they will definitely tell you. It’s kinda hard not to educate people that it’s fairly easy to just switch to an OS that actually works.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 4 weeks ago:
I generally favor local LLM usage, but I will sometimes use Kagi’s assistant tools. I trust them to throw out my data a fuckton more than I do Google.
- Comment on IBM and Red Hat commit $5bn to secure open-source software 1 month ago:
Remember, IBM is the company that fucked over CentOS when they acquired it, and then tried to block their forked OSs from getting updates.
IBM’s acquisitions over the last couple of decades have ended in sadness, so I wouldn’t trust that company to take out my trash, much less “secure enterprise open-source software”.
- Comment on US | Anthropic is blacklisted by the Pentagon and being used by the NSA at the same time 1 month ago:
OpenAI already at the stage of begging for a government bailout. So, they are in the process of imploding, and Hegseth will come crawling back to Anthropic, anyway.
- Comment on Milei’s proposal to allow ‘non-human corporations’ run by AI causes concern in Argentina 1 month ago:
At first, I thought this was the next step after the whole AI minister is preggers with 83 AI babies scam, but realized that was Albania. Still, “non-human corporations” is close enough on the corruption scale.
- Comment on How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart 1 month ago:
So, you’re a robot?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Government incompetence and lack security practices have been around waaaaay longer than AI.
- Comment on AI Assistants Are Leaking Your Conversations 2 months ago:
What’s this, you say? Does it involve running LM Studio with a GLM-4.7 Flash model? And it only costs the kilowatts for my video card? And it can only go out to the internet if I allow it to?
- Comment on AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent 2 months ago:
“AI data center”? Do we actually know it’s a dedicated data center for AI?
You and I are typing a message on a server that’s hosted in a data center.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Gen X here. You want me to pay $60-70 for a game with Denuvo crap on it, littered with microtransactions, and has shit scores on MetaCritic?
Fuck that bullshit!
- Comment on Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks 2 months ago:
Well, only when they are forced to. The rest of the time, it’s all “here my social security number and credit card and all of my PII”.
- Comment on Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed 2 months ago:
Solid journalism from… *reads notes* Yahoo Finance.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 2 months ago:
No, no website does it. There is no such thing as 100% uptime. If it happens, great, but I can guarantee you that no website even aims for 5 nines of uptime.
Google is the benchmark for website availability and in 2022 they had an outage that lasted an hour, meaning they didn’t meet 4 nines for the year.
In 2022. In the other years, they had 100% uptime.
Also, yes, there are plenty of clients that ask for five-nines. Is it realistic? Probably not. But, they definitely ask.
If you miss your SLO target for the year, then you missed your SLO target. If you’re down for 60 minutes but fine for the other 11 months, 29 days and 23 hours, you still missed your yearly SLO.
I understand how SLO targets work. If somebody is asking for a five-nines as an SLO, they are basically asking for 100% uptime, because there is no such thing as a “five minute outage”, especially not one that is fixable without total automation.
Again, a human hasn’t even gotten paged and out of bed in 5 minutes time.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 2 months ago:
No, that’s infinite nines, which isn’t possible.
It’s not impossible. Large reliable websites do it all the time. It’s call 100% uptime.
Sure, it’s measured per year, and sometimes they have some outage that breaks the record. But, it is possible to have 100% uptime throughout the year.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 2 months ago:
Five nines means that you need people at their desks in shifts ready to start fixing something the moment there’s a problem
No, it means you don’t have outages. Ever.
Five-nines is something like 7 minutes of downtime throughout the entire year. At best, you might have automated failover systems that require tiny outages. No human involving, though, unless you’re deal with some major breakage that would have killed the five-nines commitment that year, anyway.
It’s takes a human something like 5-10 minutes just to get out of bed and figure out the situation, anyway.
- Comment on The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril 2 months ago:
The NYT is now compromised. Has been for several years now.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
Violence doesn’t solve core problems you dangerous idiot.
Then, tell me, my man, what’s the next step after protests that do nothing and failing to convince cult-programmed individuals to vote correctly?
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
You were the one suggesting that all of human art could be compressed into a file that could easily fit on a USB stick:
AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.
These are your words.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.
If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
Remember when Pixar and DreamWorks destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in order to erect enormous Gray boxes filled with computers that run complex operations 24/7, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water, leading to unmitigated pollution; not to mention political corruption, global surveillance, rolling back privacy protections, and economic gangsterism that hasn’t been seen in 100 years?
You act like data centers are a new concept that was invented in the 2020s. We’ve had data centers even before we had the Internet.
Rich assholes make those kind of decisions to pump trillions into AI pipe dreams, just like the rich assholes who run Hollywood.
The fact that we find ourselves in these patterns over and over shows that the ruling class has learned to fuck us in a way so that we complain but not actually try to do anything to change society. Which shows the lack of actual freedom we have in order to live by our actual human impulses.
That’s because we’re too scared to project violence to solve the core problems. The best we have is useless protests that don’t sway psychopaths, because psychopaths don’t have feelings.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?
It’s like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
We didn’t need AI for the Hollywood slop. It’s already in the streaming services. Miles and miles of terrible movies with glowing 8.5 scores (according to their own rating systems).
- Comment on ‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet 4 months ago:
Stop fucking call it “age” verification. It’s identity collection.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 months ago:
Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.
Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn’t agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.
You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.
I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.
None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.
This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.
