yardratianSoma

Microslop - since 2014, initiating slow but controlled flight into terrain!

I know eveything in France is not sunshine and rainbows, but come on, cheap high speed internet, fantastic pedestrian infrastructure, great social welfare program, and now linux being adopted by the government? France seems pretty cool to me

And this is why I use an android based ereader. Something as simple as displaying words on a screen shouldn't be held back by the will of any company.

You know, i think i might learn how to set up ad hoc networks to prepare for this sort of thing. I know its essentially wartime there now, but without internet, its harder to transmit the truth from the eyes of the civilians. Fucking sucks whats happening there. Repressive government, but filled with people who simply want a life free of the conflict, the endless battles, various ethnic groups simply wanting freedom from those who have invaded and partitioned their people. This cant end well. . .

fuck the authority, chaining down anything digital because the law is far behind the relative breakneck speed of technological progress.

FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR

Literally why I'm here. Some bullshit in their bot detection flagged me as a bot, and disabled my account, that I had for 7 years.

yeah, I was looking at the Moto G15 for my next phone, but with this news, I'm considering waiting a little longer for a better OS

which is fine, I mean, you'd want decent specs + a secure OS in this day and age

episode #205 of How big tech is ruining tech again

Yeah, makes sense. I “solved” that issue by still doing handwritten notes but then scanning them and converting them to digital notes afterwards. That being said, I grew up in the 90s so I was never deprived of the skill of handwriting as a kid. It wasn’t until apple made touchscreens popular that shit kinda went downhill

We've collectively probably lost years, if not a decade of our human lives just trying to fix autocorrect fuck ups.

“Oh no! We must protect the poor MPA! The poor organization that’s been hell bent on policing what films and media ought to contain and ensuring the multi-million dollar corporations make their millions in peace!” ~ Denmark’s Ministry of Culture, probably

Well, I’m still glad offline LLM’s exist. The models we download and store are way less popular then the mainstream, perpetually online ones are. Once I beef up my hardware (which will take a while seeing how crazy RAM prices are), I will basically forgo the need to ever use an online LLM ever again, because even now on my old hardware, I can handle 7 to 16B parameter models (quantized, of course).

capitalism worked pretty well in the 40’s and 50’s, in the USA, and then the corporate leaders realized that they could be overlords if they just stopped caring about everything but money. We know kindness and money can coexist, but if little boy jack is taught from day one that if you don’t game the system, you will lose, he’s going to grow up to be Elon Musk.

I mean, even open source LLM’s at the moment can solve somewhat tedious and tricky problems, and just on somewhat mid-tier consumer hardware. Supercomputers exist, and it just seems, with time, breakthroughs are inevitable. But I will admit, like you say, we have limits, but in the realm of technology, the only real limitations are energy and hardware.

If you don’t see AI replacing many roles, yet you know that LLM’s are not what many seem to think they are, text generators and not AGI, then it seems you don’t believe that AGI will ever happen. Technology will continue to develop for decades and maybe centuries to come. To only see the short term possibilities is to forget how quickly technology advances. And even just limiting the discussion to the short-term, what makes you think billionaires aren’t taking advantage of the hype and coercing governments to forego safety and regulation? Maximizing profit over enhancing the lives of common man?