Alphane_Moon

Alphane_Moon , 5 days ago

While a lot of the technical details are beyond my paygrade, this seems to be a potentially large game-changer in the medium term (with possibly a massive impact on Nvidia's share price).

Alphane_Moon , 5 days ago

Some context on what the fuck is rabbit and r1 would have been helpful.

Alphane_Moon , 5 days ago

It all depends on what areas of technology interest you. Some context (e.g. in the body of the lemmy post) for more niche areas is always helpful.

Alphane_Moon , 5 days ago

Hahaha, that's a pretty wild read.

The fucking Gamaverse,

Alphane_Moon , 5 days ago

Do you have any more info on this?

I use Mastadon pretty regularly and I feel like I somewhat know how it works, yet I read the Threads FAQ on federation and I have no clue what's going on.

But yes, the ability to subscribe to "mainstream" accounts in Threads from mastadon servers (if they allow federation with Meta) would be a good feature.

Alphane_Moon , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

He'll be back to supporting russian imperialism and working with russian security services. Even more people will end up in russian concentration camps (where they have it way worse than he did in British prison) because of his actions.

The guy literally worked for russia today and admitted that he had a personal policy of never criticizing russia in a substantive manner.

Alphane_Moon , 6 days ago

Zoldyck is not lying.

Look up Assange and his connection with Israel Shamir, who helped Lukashenko's regime in Belarus target opposition activists.

This wasn't a mistake, he knew what he was doing.

People just buy into the PR around him (also spread by security services in russia and not only) without taking a critical look at his actions.

Do better!

Alphane_Moon , 6 days ago

You are the traitor for siding with the oppressor.

Right supporting Lukashenko's regime is such a noble endeavour!

Alphane_Moon , 6 days ago

Sure he had some shady connections, but all accusations of actual wrongdoing supposedly comitted by Assange himself were brought forward, sourced and verified by the same US authorities, that employed or protected the criminals he exposed, which makes them basically worthless.

Opposing the Lukashenko regime is being a criminal?

I get tankies and right-wingers, they actually know what Assange is about.

But allegedly well meaning people thinking that he is some sort messiah or saviour, that's what's sad.

He is a genuine supporter of russian imperialism and he has no qualms with sending opposition activists to hellish prisons, all the while positioning himself as some sort of fighter against US imperialism.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ab5a68ca-043e-43d6-80ca-0e41b53474a5.jpeg

Former russia today employee, Julian Assange after British prison, Volodymyr Tsema-Bursov, Ukrainian POW, after 20 month in russian captivity.

And Assange support the russian regime and enables what they do to captives.

Alphane_Moon , 6 days ago

The Wikipedia article is a good starting point if you wanted to actually get an alternative perspective.

But you don't.

Alphane_Moon , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Representatives for developers of the remaining three plugins couldn’t be reached because they provided no contact information on their sites.

You're asking for trouble if you're using such random plugins on production sites.

Alphane_Moon , 6 days ago

Funnily enough, I was hearing this from developers in the early 2010s when I was just starting my career (IT adjacent, but not a developer).

Alphane_Moon , 7 days ago

They are correct in that encoding is a super geeky topic even by the standards of technology discussions.

It is fascinating to see how encoding has changed across generation. Take a relatively high bitrate source file and encode it with XviD, x265, x265 and whatever is the top AV1 codec at the same bitrate x resolution.

Not surprisingly, the biggest jump in quality will be from XviD to x264, but x265 does offer notable improvements.

Alphane_Moon , 7 days ago

AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.

This is not being done though right? I haven't heard anything about content ranking with connections outside of Google seemingly using authors name is articles from large news sources.

Alphane_Moon , 7 days ago

Thanks! Too bad it's not more activity.

Outside of job searching, I can't stand LinkedIn, the "content" and self-promotion you see there makes me want to become a committed misanthrope.

Alphane_Moon , 10 days ago

183,200 TV episodes is pretty modest compared to alternative "non-approved" sources.

One datapoint is one source (that has a rule against any TV/show content released in the last 5 years) has a total number of 19.5K shows and TV movies/specials, with ~80 K releases. For many shows a single release can be a full season.

Alphane_Moon , 10 days ago

I had a pretty decent self-hosted setup that was working locally. The whole project failed because I couldn't set up a reverse proxy with nginx.

I am no pro, very far from it, but I am also somewhat Ok with linux and technical research. I just couldn't get nginx and reverse proxies working and it wasn't clear where to ask for help.

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

This honestly looks like a grift to get a nice salary for a few years on VC money. These are not random sales goons peddling shit they don't understand. They don't even bother to define "superintelligence", let alone what they mean by "safe superintelligence" .

I find it hard to believe this wasn't written with malicious intent. But maybe I am too cynical and they are so used to people kissing their asses, that they think their shit doesn't smell. But money definitely plays some role in this, they would be stupid to not cash in while the AI hype is hot.

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

What do you mean by anti-commercial style? I am not from North America, but this seems like pretty typical PR copytext for local tech companies. Lot's of pomp, banality, bombast and vague assertions of caring about the world. It almost reads like satire at this point, like they're trying to take the piss.

If his intentions are literal and clear, what does he mean by “superintelligence” (please be specific) and in what way is it safe?

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

I don't consider tech company boardroom drama to be an indicator of anything (in of itself). This is not some complex dilemma around morality and "doing the right thing".

Is my take on their PR copytext unreasonable? Is my interpretation purely a matter of subjectivity?

Why should I buy into this "AI god-mommy" and "skynet" stuff? Guy can't even provide a definition of “superintelligence”. Seems very suspicious for a "top mind in AI" (paraphrasing your description).

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying he acts like a movie antagonist IRL, but that doesn't mean we have any reason to trust his motives or ignore the long history of similar proclamations.

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

Just noticed that the cropped image makes it look like he is doing a nazi salute and then the first sentence of their "manifesto" is "Superintelligence is within reach." :)

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

Thank you for the clarification regarding ASI. That still leaves the question of the definition of "safe ASI"; a key point that is emphasized in their manifesto.

To use your example it's like an early mass market car industry professional (say in 1890) discussing road safety and ethical dilemmas in roads dominated by regular drivers and a large share of L4/L5 cars (with some of them being used as part-time taxis). I just don't buy it.

Mind you I am not anti-ML/AI. I am an avid user of "AI" (ML?) upscaling (specifically video) and to lesser extent stable diffusion. While AI video upscaling is very fiddly and good results can be hard to get right, it is clearly on another level with respect to quality compared to "classical" upscaling algorithms. I was truly impressed when I was able to run by own SD upscale with good results.

What I am opposed to is oligarchs, oligarch-wanabees, shallow sounding proclamations of grandiose this or that. As far as I am concerned it's all bullshit and they are all to one degree or another soulless ghouls that will eat your children alive for the right price and the correct mental excuse model (I am only partially exaggerating, happy to clarify if needed) .

If one has all these grand plans for safe ASI, concern for humanity and whatnot, setup a public repo and release all your code under GPL (and all relevant documentation, patent indemnification, no trademark tricks etc.). Considering Sutskever's status as AI royalty who is also allegedly concerned about humanity, he would be the ideal person to pull this off.

If you can't do that, then chances are you're lying about your true motives. It's really as simple as that.

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

Unfortunately Terminator 2 is bit childish and naive in its script.

More realistically, these individuals will try and fly away with oligarch Peter Thiel to his end of the world bunker in New Zealand.

If in some fucked up reality this ever happens (IMO there are far more pressing problems in the world), I hope the New Zealanders will have a very long and unpleasant surprise in store for these individuals.

Alphane_Moon , 10 days ago

Funny thing is that while the landing page is for "web development services in Florida", their US location seems to be a virtual office in LA.

Alphane_Moon OP , 11 days ago

I don't think it's supposed to have a cohesive narrative structure (at least in context of a structured, more formal critique). I read the whole thing and it's more like a longer shitpost with a lot of snark.

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

Yeah, this one is the bomb.

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

Fascinating, I am not surprised at all.

Even beyond AI, some of the implicit messaging has got to strike a nerve with that kind of crowd.

I don't think this is satire either, more like a playful rant (as opposed to a formal critique).

Alphane_Moon OP , 10 days ago

It's not that commonly used these days (especially online?), I think the phrasing is a bit old school, but it's a totally legitimate phrase.

Alphane_Moon OP , 11 days ago

Had a very similar experience in pretty niche-use cases. LLMs are great if you understand the what you are dealing with, but they are no magical automation tool (at least in somewhat niche, semi-technical use cases where seemingly small errors can have serious consequences).

Alphane_Moon , 11 days ago

Yeah, I was curious what new use cases were being deployed; was disappointed not read about this in the article.

Alphane_Moon , 14 days ago

Looks like a pretty typical crypto scam/ruse.

Alphane_Moon , 14 days ago

Pretty dystopian article.

But this will continue, until oligarchs like Altman, Cook, Nadella etc. start getting put into difficult situations; ones that create very strong incentives for them to show humanity (or at least emulate it).

Alphane_Moon , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Only recently have they started leaving companies like OpenAI and taking a stance because they‘re actually seeing what their creation is used for and with how little care for human life it‘s been handled.

Is this true though? From my understanding, Altman was able to overrule the board largely because the employees (especially the one who had been with the company for more than 1-2 years) were worried about their stock options.

I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of the OpenAI team are ghouls just like Altman, that fundamentally lack humanity (incapable of honesty, inability to tell right from wrong, incapable of empathy).

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean this in the Hollywood sense, like the evil antagonists in say star wars, I am sure they come off as "normal" during a casual conversation. I am referring to going deeper and asking subtle questions referring to matters of ethics and self-enrichment in an off the record environment. They will always come up with some excuse to justify their greed as being "for the betterment of humanity" or some other comical word salad.

Alphane_Moon , 15 days ago

The article could benefit from some additional context; is this a one off thing or can we expect to see this in mainstream solar installations? If yes, then kind of time scales are we talking about? What is the cost difference between this type of panel and "mainstream" panels? More information on Longi would also be helpful.

Alphane_Moon , 14 days ago

Thank you for this! Nothing wrong with "tech demo" type initiatives, but they need to be clearly labelled as such.

What caught my attention was that this was likely a "centimeters sized lab based sample" and "they degrade in air"). These two factors make it seem like, while this is interesting tech achievement, it's not really viable for mainstream use anytime soon.

Alphane_Moon , 20 days ago

Not going to happen. Elmo is too self-centered to develop a phone in the spirit of FOSS. And then there are reputational issues to consider; many would be opposed to working for the benefit of Elmo.

Alphane_Moon OP , 21 days ago

That's wild! 692 "partners", I wonder if anyone even sees the irony of that message.

Alphane_Moon , 21 days ago

Crypto/blockchain is the kiss of the death for the legitimacy of any project.

You just know the whole thing will built around pump-and-dumps or quick rug pulls.

Alphane_Moon , 18 days ago

This confuses me… I thought that a project being attached to a crypto/Blockchain was a good thing? Because things you create on the Blockchain stay yours and are secure and the project can somehow self fund itself. All very confusing, but something like that. Are you saying that ALL Projects built on a Blockchain are suspicious? Very interesting

I do think blockchain/crypto is a massive red flag.

From a product perspective, the focus will always be on "pump and dump" not the actual product/service. See "web 3.0 gaming" for a perfect example.

Not sure what you mean about "staying yours" and "secure".

Alphane_Moon , 21 days ago

They will also assure you that Apple totally doesn't not collaborate with the CCP and allows them full access to all Chinese users data.

Apple users like to assure people of many things. :)

Alphane_Moon , 21 days ago

Medium's initial no-account view is awful though:

Medium

Alphane_Moon , 21 days ago

This looks pretty cool!