YurgenJurgensen

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by YurgenJurgensen 12d ago
To elaborate: A lot of that labour was what we would term ‘strategically important’. It is well understood today the importance of stabilising demand for strategic industries (such as those involved in the construction of weapons, siege en
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by YurgenJurgensen 27d ago
Or: The world could truly be a fundamentally awful place, and smarter people are just closer to comprehending the true nature of reality.
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by YurgenJurgensen 28d ago
‘Neurotypical’ is starting to seem more and more like a slur every day.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1mo ago
This “billionaires couldn’t spend their money” thing comes up a lot, and it show’s a child’s idea of what people might spend money on. “$1000 a month buys more ice cream than I can eat and more toy cars than anyone can play with, and I don
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by YurgenJurgensen 1mo ago
Fandom and Reddit are not the old Internet, they’re ad-driven middlemen that create nothing themselves. Self-hosted or at least self-maintained sites were the old Internet. After that point, the rot had already set in then, it just took un
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by YurgenJurgensen 1mo ago
They already have all the data, all the money and all the chips. It’s actually the best it’ll ever be, as newer models will have to start paying off all that capex, newer models will be trained mostly on slop, and the SEO and influence op
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
Just another trillion, trust me bro.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
I’m pretty sure that bands I’ve seen live aren’t AI. Of course, I’m still yet to hear an AI track that approaches ‘good’, so it’s irrelevant, for now.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
Show me. AIvangelists love to say what AI can do, but never bother to provide any examples.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
This terrible argument comes up in relation to AI over and over again. I don’t care if you built a brain surgery robot that outperforms the average person at brain surgery, I care if you built a brain surgery robot that outperforms the ave
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
https://xkcd.com/993/ A friend also called this the “Party Cannon effect”, in reference to black metal festival posters. When lavish detail is available at the push of a button, simplicity stands out far more.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
Who are these “everyone”? I suspect that you actually mean “many random social media users”, which only proves that getting negative reactions out of the average social media is trivial; not exactly a groundbreaking discovery.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
That’s not the problem. These machines only have so much thrust, and are only aerodynamic in one direction. Sudden high-speed lateral acceleration is very costly from an energy budget perspective. Randomly dodging around bleeds off speed
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
There’s a pretty big gulf between “very quick” and “capable of dodging air bursting autocannon rounds without sacrificing forward momentum”. Incidentally, modern drone footage is actually not nearly as bad as stuff from earlier in the war.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
“Attack drones” have been around for basically as long as civilisation itself. It’s just a recent development that they’ve been made out of metal and not meat. So we never got to this point, we’ve been at this point the entire time.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
Modern dedicated AA gun systems claim multi-km engagement ranges against small drones, and 60 degree/second slew rates. A drone capable of beating that engagement time would be better described as a guided missile, and will certainly
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
You’re talking about dodging bullets or shrapnel here. Source on that a multi rotor has that level of manoeuvrability while also carrying a lethal payload and enough battery for a viable engagement range?
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
That’s just a restatement of your previous point. Pretend I restated my response.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
Brand awareness is a Red Queen’s race. Attention is a finite resource, and ad spend mainly exists to counteract the spend of your competitors.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
And? They’d be banned too.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
I’m going to shock you, but you can pay for magazine-like content through the Internet right now.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
In the olden days, those people wrote for things we called ‘magazines’. Without infinite free content at people’s fingertips, actually paying for curated content will likely make a comeback.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
They buy ads too. It’d adversely affect their campaign budgets. (Sure, it would adversely affect their competitors’ too, but second-order effects are usually too complex for politicians to understand.)
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
…and nothing of value would be lost.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
Vendors won’t see RoI on their ad spend and will stop buying. Simples.
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by YurgenJurgensen 2mo ago
Good idea. There’s an objective measure of alcohol content. All you need to do to make this analogy work is to create one for social media. Best of luck with that.
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by YurgenJurgensen 3mo ago
You need to stop eating fried chicken and then immediately rubbing your greasy fingers all over your disks. I have ripped over a thousand optical disks, including a lot of second-hand ones with only a handful of read errors coming from dem
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by YurgenJurgensen 3mo ago
Just another couple of years and a few more trillion, and the whole world’s semiconductor and data output and it’ll be useful. Trust me bro.
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by YurgenJurgensen 3mo ago
Culture is also an expression of real-world concerns and values held by those who create it. AI-vangelists will say “all art is copied” over and over again to justify generating their slop, but no matter how many times you ask them, you’ll
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by YurgenJurgensen 3mo ago
“Intelligence is the ability to learn.” That is a meaningful measure of intelligence that every LLM completely fails at.

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