Tiresia
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- Comment on Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech 1 week ago:
Yeah, like with personal motor vehicles.
You all remember when it turned out leaded gasoline and tire dust were poisoning everyone and the cities filled with smog and noise pollution and commute times increased because everything had to be further apart for parking lots and arterial roads and traffic jams and entire neighborhoods were demolished and millions of businesses went bankrupt because foot traffic died out because all the cars and asphalt made it intolerable to be outside a car and children became unable to safely play outside and sedatery lifestyles lead to obesity and a massive loss of people’s ability to just do physical things and everybody’s lives noticeably got worse over a single lifetime, that people rebelled and stopped the motor industry?
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 5 weeks ago:
The difference between 97.1% uptime and 97.2% uptime is far less important than the difference between 99.98% uptime and 99.99% uptime, even though this graph shows the former as 10 times larger.
You are right to complain that a graph that exaggerates uptime differences on the scale of 10%, i.e. showing the full linear range from 0% to 100%, would be useless. But by the same token, a graph that exaggerates uptime differences on the scale of 1%, i.e. the OOP, is also useless. That we happen to live in a world where github’s uptime is varying at the scale of 1% doesn’t make the scale any more useful.
In this case, the graph of
-log(1-uptime)would get you the “number of nines”, which is commonly used because it’s more insightful and more indicative of actual quality. Better still would belog(uptime(t)/(1-uptime(t)), which is functionally the same above two “nines”, but also allows the plotting of low uptime services, such as individual seeders for torrents or specific nodes of a mesh, on the negative part of the scale. - Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 1 month ago:
To be fair, a lot of that 40% could be people whose first step of building a new PC is checking if it’s worth it, meaning they may well decide not to build one.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs 1 month ago:
You guys are using Windows?
- Comment on Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator 1 month ago:
The quotes seem to be strawmanning Anthropic’s report. AFAIK Anthropic’s claim was that it could find bugs and make exploits at a similar level to an expert, except as an LLM and thus more easily deployed at scale.
Most experts spend most of their time not reinventing the wheel.
But I guess people are now literally doing the I, Robot meme.
- Comment on Why are AGI and conscious AI just a marketing scam? 1 month ago:
Ah yes, you’re talking about an unprovable and unobservable thing that makes no testable predictions and doesn’t demonstrably correlate with any sort of behavior at all. That’s a very productive thing to talk about, I’m sorry for intruding.
- Comment on Why are AGI and conscious AI just a marketing scam? 1 month ago:
If consciousness can only be observed subjectively, why do people sometimes say someone is unconscious?
Nothing can ever be proven (even math proofs assume you aren’t hallucinating about having seen a convincing proof), but that usually isn’t the standard of evidence.
LLMs seem to meet most standards of consciousness formulated before GPT-2 released. They’re dumb in predictable ways, but so are human babies and horses and chickens and bees.