piloto_ciego

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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
It's just doomer nonsense to me. On the internet you have 4 possible outcomes. Say things are going to suck and they suck. You look brilliant. Say things are going to suck, and they don't suck. Nobody cares because it doesn&#x27
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
The kids thing isn’t an economic thing, read the paper about the iPhone basically being birth control…
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
It astounds me that the commentary here is overwhelmingly negative...
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
Well, if Gary Marcus says it's not AGI, chances are it is.
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-cybercab-officially-launch...
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
Why would you assume that a pile of linear algebra would want anything at all?
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
To be honest, I wonder if anyone has ever looked at how many jobs MSFT Excel has actually killed? That's an interesting thought.
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
We have self-driving cars right now. The average 17 year old is not formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem proofs either? The frontier is spiky, but it's AGI. I swear at the rate the goal posts are moving we're going to have to s
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
The fact that golf courses use an order of magnitude more resources than a data center should certainly factor into the context.
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
I love to see a successful union drive. Pretty cool!
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
The "leftist" take is "we should seize the means of computation" not "we should protect intellectual property rights!" The hate for data centers is a liberal thing, not a "leftist" take. Although, be
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
I seem to recall that data centers require orders of magnitude less water than a golf course too if you want to compare apples to apples. Look, just say what you mean. If you think "AI is BAD" just say that, don't try to cou
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
> We are also in a time when most people would prefer to use that water for drinking, washing, cleaning… basically anything except data centres. And those people are stupid or to be charitable "ignorant." Full stop. I'm no
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
Most people don’t realize that yet here in America. The fascists are still in our OODA loop.
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by piloto_ciego 13d ago
Didn’t I just see a thing about how actual unemployment is at like 24% a few days ago?
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by piloto_ciego 13d ago
Hilariously it is, I'm just reading more on this!
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by piloto_ciego 13d ago
I agree, like the average human isn't generally intelligent. IMO, AGI is literally no different from ASI, though people think it is. Like, Imagine you have 1,000 generally intelligent humans working for you (which nobody is really) an
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by piloto_ciego 13d ago
I rest my case.
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by piloto_ciego 13d ago
99.9% with the right harness? Ok, we're at AGI then. Prediction: We will now see the goalposts moved towards "well, a human costs less / is more efficient" - that will prevail for a few months until they come up with so
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by piloto_ciego 16d ago
It's not bad per se, but even something like a dark mode is a giant pain in the ass. Last time I had to make a quick tkinter interface was like a month ago for a project I was working on just for me and I wanted a cleaner interface a
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by piloto_ciego 16d ago
This is a fun idea! Are you using Guile-tk?
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by piloto_ciego 16d ago
Well, they talk about the "barebones" Tcl version - tbh, I didn't even really know that was an issue in Python, and he is right that you have to remember to install it, and basically whenever I get a new computer I screw it u
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by piloto_ciego 16d ago
Tkinter or other Tk based GUI interfaces are the immediate tool I reach for whenever I build something that's not in the CLI or in the browser. My general "daily driver" is python and I love that I can just spin up a cross-pl
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by piloto_ciego 17d ago
Well, I'm certainly not in favor of empire... especially as an Alaskan I find the fact that I live in an oil/minerals/fisheries resource extraction colony somewhat distressing. I will say that "Empire" in the "
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by piloto_ciego 18d ago
So, any legit climate scientists or oceanographers here? Or agronomists? How abnormal (and not just, the climate graphs for the last century say this is bad) is this on a longer timescale. Like, when was the water this warm last? I feel
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by piloto_ciego 20d ago
That wasn’t it; I just found it, it’s called Ill Wind by Kevin J Anderson
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by piloto_ciego 20d ago
There’s a fantastically silly but fun book about this the name of which eludes me.
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by piloto_ciego 22d ago
> I didn't say anything about the Dems, and a huge number of them suck on environment. I said you should vote for nuclear, geothermal, wind, and solar. Oh I agree with that, but the NIMBYs aren't going to get out of the way of
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by piloto_ciego 22d ago
I hate to be a "debbie downer" with regard to the politics of this, but... the mid terms aren't going to change what happens with the environment, even if the Dems got a super majority. There's a global war on, we'r
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by piloto_ciego 22d ago
This is the correct take here. SSO is where they'll park these things.

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