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  • Kurt Busiek's Astro City's Samaritan is a good take on that.

    He's basically Superman (except from the future, not another planet), down to working for a newspaper.

    I don't recall if he's got superhearing, but he's got a pocket supercomputer that tells him where he's needed in the optimum order to maximise how much he can help.

    He counts every fraction of a second he spends flying from place to place, because that's the only part of the job he really enjoys, the only time he can relax. Forty-five seconds is a great day.

    And when he finally gets home, exhausted, to sleep for a few hours before starting the next day, he dreams of flying.

  • What do you think about reaching AGI?

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  • You're not taking into account the fact that LLMs are an obvious dead end.

    Once that bubble bursts it'll take decades before anyone invests in AI research again and for anything attached to the term “AI” to not be seen as a scam (LLMs are obviously not AI or anything close, but they're being sold as such and that's what the term will be associated with), not to mention we'll need decades to clean up all the LLM slop spillage before proper research of any kind can proceed.

    What you said was valid before the well got poisoned.

    Now it's extremely unlikely we'll survive long enough to get back on track.

    LLM peddlers murdered the future, in the name of short term profits.

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  • We were on track for it, but LLMs derailed that.

    Now we'll have to wait for the bubble to burst, which will poison the concept of AI (since LLMs are being sold as AI despite being practically the opposite) in the minds of both users and investors for decades.

    It'd probably take a couple generations for any funding for AI research to be available after that (not to mention cleaning up all the LLM slop spillage from our knowledge repositories)... but by that time we'll almost certainly be extinct due to global warming.

    The LLM peddlers murdered the future for short term profits, and doomed us all in the process.

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  • Egalitarian, too. Sithrak doesn't discriminate. Everyone will burn, regardless of race, gender, or creed.

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  • Sounds like a typical enlightened centrist.

    Curiously, once you Scooby Doo their mask off they're always quite far to the right of the centre they claim to value so much.

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  • Nah, Sithrak's followers are chill, they know eternal torment awaits everyone eventually, there's no rush; they just spread the horrid word, no need to implement it themselves.

  • Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses

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  • Not everyone hates life like you do

    Work isn't life.

    It's the opposite of life (no, death is just its absence).

    hang out with co-workers all the time

    Bonding over shared trauma and Stockholm syndrome is not a good basis for a relationship (though there's probably no relationship other than you pestering them while they try to work).

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  • Unions aren't community.

    They're a necessary defence mechanism against capitalism.

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  • So they ruin it for everyone else.

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  • Sounds horrible, glad I have no intention of bringing a child into this torturous world.

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  • Well, just from reading that I can assure you your coworkers don't.

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  • sense of community between you and your coworkers, which is a very real and normal thing

    No it fucking ain't.

    Forcing people together doesn't create community, it creates stress, and resentment, and burnout, and migraines.

    “Workplace community.”

    Biggest oxymoron I've ever seen since military intelligence.

    ALSO miss the sense of community with my coworkers which I used to get from lunches together, sharing the train ride home, or just working side by side at our desks

    Oh, you're one of those fucking extroverts.

    I can't begin to imagine the extent to which your poor coworkers must have despised you while you constantly bothered them while they tried to work, or have a quick decompressing lunch, or disconnect after a long day of work during the train ride home, the poor bastards. As if work wasn't bad enough by itself.

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  • No we don't. Work is work, not fucking community.

  • Getting the LLMs to Think For You

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  • Machine learning would be an interesting advancement indeed.

    Sadly all resources are focused on LLMs, which are incapable of learning once trained (and don't really learn anything during training that winRAR wouldn't “learn” when compressing a file... much less, in fact, since LLMs are extremely lossy compressors), and which are an evident dead end when it comes to AI.

    LLMs are barely better than Eliza at producing text (and equally useless at producing information), and several orders of magnitude costlier.

    They are extremely harmful to society, culture, human rights, research (especially AI research) and, in the mid to long term, the economy.

    They are a scam, a criminal misuse of money, time, and resources, and the sooner the bubble bursts the sooner we can start recovering from the damage they've caused and the sooner we can get back to researching proper AI (though at this point I'm fairly certain it's already too late; they've caused too much damage and global warming will kill us before we have a chance to invent something that might actually help).

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  • Because IBM built the PC as a side project out of mainly off-the-shelf parts, except for the BIOS, never intending it to be more than one of many personal computers in the market... and then Compaq and Columbia Data Products reverse engineered said BIOS making PC-compatible clones a possibility.

    Open BIOSes and a personal computer made of essentially off-the-shelf parts led to everyone and their aunt making PC-compatible machines, and the personal computer boom, and most personal computers being able to run mostly the same software.

    IBM tried to lock it back down with the PS/2, and Microsoft also later tried to lock it down to Windows with some shady schemes like ACPI, but all attempts ultimately failed because by that point the PC ecosystem was so large that any attempts at lockdown were sidestepped by other vendors, or eventually reverse engineered or bypassed.

    Sadly the same never happened with phones. The PC thing was a serendipitous fluke to start with, phones aren't made of off-the-shelf parts, and manufacturers were wise to the "risk" and made sure to keep as much control as possible.

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  • All according to plan.

    The Israeli government needs Israel to be a perpetual victim to justify perpetual war.

    When no enemy is attacking they need to force an attack, lest their citizenship stop living in constant fear long enough for them to question the need for perpetual war.

  • It's Father's Day in the United States. What is a memory of your father that left the greatest impact on your life?

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  • To this day I still can't tolerate the smell of cigarette smoke.

    It killed him in the end, of course, but we'd lost contact for several years by then. I wouldn't be surprised if it kills me too, even though I haven't directly smoked a cigarette in my life; my lungs definitely accumulated enough crap over my childhood to kill several grown men; couldn't breathe properly until I was an adult.

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  • All according to plan.

    The Israeli government needs Israel to be a perpetual victim to justify perpetual war.

    When no enemy is attacking they need to force an attack, lest their citizenship stop living in constant fear long enough for them to question the need for perpetual war.