Rhaedas

Your point of Ubuntu guides is one reason why I settled on Ubuntu this time around. I didn’t want to have to dig deeper to make things work when there’s usually Ubuntu install instructions. Granted they can often be just .deb, but Debian is a bit too far for me (I tried it a number of years ago and it was too “Linux” for me. But Mint (which I do like, and actually have on a spare laptop) is too Windows-like and doesn’t feel like I can alter it like I want. I guess I’m just saying that Ubuntu has always hit that sweet spot for me, and this time around I’ve stuck with it and very rarely boot into Windows now. So when I see everyone recommending everything else but not mine, I wonder if I missed a memo.

I’m curious why I never see Ubuntu recommended in these kind of questions. I do see people suggest Ubuntu-based, but then name Mint or others and not an Ubuntu variant. Is it strictly a Canonical dislike or anti-snap thing, or something else? The reason I ask is that I’ve tried many different distros over the years on and off, but this time when I went all in because of Microsoft’s pressure, I went with Ubuntu 22.04, and it’s been flawless. So it just seems weird that it’s never named while others that I know of but seem very niche are mentioned.

But maybe not AI. AI goes off training of real photos and would have variation in the surfaces, while someone doing this in Blender would be lazy and use the same texturing for all.

I’ve said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he’d be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn’t have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn’t going to happen.

I can still have back in college dreams where I’ve missed class or don’t have an assignment. I obviously got scarred with my real experiences, as when I wake up I find it ridiculous to still have such anxiety to try and fix what was broken so long ago. It doesn’t help that they usually are combined with the regular impediment of my bad dreams of not being able to move well, just walking is like being in quicksand.

The weirdest dream I’ve had in my adult life that still bugs me was some liminal horror from watching too many Backroom type videos. I can’t recall the setup or anything, all I can remember is that I was looking up at the sky and the sky was becoming not darker but felt like it was closing in and projecting an oppressive feeling, and there was this ominous low level sound that was paralizing me. Nothing appeared, nothing happened (except I woke suddenly), but that hopeless feeling was terrible.

My first experience with this was when I was young and watched a Monty Python episode with my father, thinking that since we shared a sense of humor it would hit him the same way it did me. Apparently we shared some types of humor, but the combination of British higher level comedy satire mixed with absurbism didn’t hit well, and he found nothing at all funny. Which now I’m fine with including him not pretending to get it, but as a kid it really stung to expect a connection that totally failed.

From then on when sharing stuff I try to just put it out there and not force anything to happen. The last experience was on vacation at a hotel with my wife. One of the nights I saw The Big Short on the movie selection and suggested we watch it. I just introduced it as a dark comedy documentary about the 2008 crash and it had Steve Farrel, and let her watch without expectation or prompting of moments. I was really pleased when not only did she understand and enjoy it during the watch, but asked questions and we talked about it afterwards. Now, yeah, she’s my long time wife, but that doesn’t means things often click like that as we are different people with different viewpoints and taste, so it was definitely a wonderful experience to have that kind of feedback.

It may be overused, but I swear any comedy bit that uses a well done “What?” always gets a laugh from me. A simple word, but says so much.

It started off as something legit, trading and bartering. The idea of money as a substitute for direct bartering made sense too, since dividing some things isn’t practical. As to where things went bad, I’m sure there’s tons of debate on that. And there’s always been scammers, like that guy Ea-nāṣir and his damn sub-standard crap he passed off as copper.

That’s actually not how the movie goes. The script is online. It’s much more tragic because by that point Sam and the others have started transitioning to ASI and moving beyond matter, and from her perspective only talking with Theodore was like being trapped in a box. Her last conversation with him she tries to describe how interactions with him are like reading a book one letter at a time while everything else is happening between the letters. It’s a good capture of what AGI to ASI could be like, so fast and so alien to us.

Now do training centers, since it’s obvious they are never going to settle on a final model as they pursue the Grail of AGI. I could do the exact same comparison with my local computer and claim that running a prompt only uses X amount of watts because the GPU heats up for a few seconds and is done. But if I were to do some fine tuning or other training, that fan will stay on for hours. A lot different.

*Sapient

And Bladerunner 2049 (Joi) although both of those are much further advanced than LLMs acting as a mirror of your interactions pretending to be an entity. It’s even debatable if Joi was sapient, or if it can be determined where the story leaves it. Sam certainly was, given the final results, and presumably we know when that happened, although not how.

People becoming attached to chatbots is hardly new, it’s just that the bots are a lot more realistic now, especially for people who are vulnerable and want them to be real. Yet more damage that was predictable and yet no rules or safeguards were put in place to restrict these companies in doing what they want, or in how they got to this level.

And Black Mirror was before that with the idea.

Just put duplicate programs up in each, some scrolling to look busy, and one window to hide the Galaga game.

Status maybe. The guy with the two monitors is probably doing most of the heavy lifting, and his manager with just one screen in his office watching him remotely or behind his back. The guys with the laptops, they’re the engineers who tell everyone how the spreadsheet says everything is great while there’s actually a fire. Which is what the guy with the two screens is doing, trying to figure out how to put it out.

If you’re having success with your use cases, then good. Just be sure to verify the results, and that’s key because many people using LLMs aren’t looking hard at what they get but just copying it as right. When LLMs fail, they fail gloriously, because they don’t understand what they’re outputting since they aren’t AGI, even though they’re sold as such.

Positive feedback from Trump trying to fix an economy he is beyond understanding.

And if the data doesn’t agree with your model, your model is wrong.

Yes, earlier models we used were far too conservative and it’s worse that we thought.

Charlie Kirk: No, not like that!

They took a path they believed would develop into something, and it’s a narrow alley they can’t turn around in. They have to keep going with more compute and power to continue the chase. Thing is, everyone else seemingly thought they were onto something and followed as well, so they’re all in the same predicament where reversing course is suicide. So they hope they can keep selling the dream a bit longer until something happens.

To be fair, it’s a lot more than just autocomplete. But it’s a lot less than what they wanted by now too.

The market for AI is not a valid product. It’s the highest level we’ve ever gotten for snake oil. And for some reason the top businesses are all grabbing the bait, I guess for fear of being left behind if it actually becomes a real thing. Or maybe corporate America is really that stupid. I can’t tell.