chemical_cutthroat

chemical_cutthroat , 12 days ago

I read and write, so I imagine I look like the tip picture, but really I look like the bottom.

chemical_cutthroat , 17 days ago

Before anyone jumps on the Anti-Musk train, read the article, please. They admit that they don't understand the complications that could arise and that they don't have any hard figures for the damage being caused. I'll be the first to jump in and say that it's probably a bad thing to just let metals burn in in atmo, but let's make sure we discuss the facts, and not just the politics of the potential polluter.

chemical_cutthroat , 17 days ago

Nah, this is a different method. It's the one where we get all of the facts before we take action. Maybe you aren't up on it, but knee-jerk is so 1700s.

chemical_cutthroat , 17 days ago

Oh, you mean a study on the Satellite Internet Constellations that have been in orbit since the 1990s, a full 30 years before Starlink launched? As with nearly everything else, Musk isn't the first to do whatever he does, he's just the loudest. If Starlink hadn't launched we would still be facing the same problems. Thankfully, he's a big enough ass that he makes a easy target for these kinds of things.

chemical_cutthroat , 19 days ago

Pro gamer move

chemical_cutthroat , 26 days ago

I'm not sure how you messed up, because this has never happened to me, and I stay up to date.

chemical_cutthroat , 26 days ago

Nah, just calling out bullshit when I see it.

chemical_cutthroat , 26 days ago

Yeah, well that's the difference between us. I don't believe OP, and I think this is just a troll. You can believe whatever you want, but I'm calling OP a liar liar pants on fire.

chemical_cutthroat , 26 days ago

Weird, because I surely installed windows 10 before that date, turned off the search bar, and have definitely installed that update, but the search bar never popped back up for me. Maybe I'm just lucky.

chemical_cutthroat , 26 days ago

I'm not trying to catch anyone. I'm just calling OP out as a liar. I don't give a shit how OP or anyone else feels on the Internet feels about me.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Weird, they don't have "My most recent attempt at a 401(k)" in there...

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

I'm just going to start reposting my reply to this story every time it's posted, because it's the same story being recycled by every tech outlet on the internet.

This reads as the same shit that was outed during the hullabaloo when Altman was fired, and even then, at the height of the controversy, everyone around him shot it down. Take anything she says with a grain of salt. She’s been critical of the company for a while, tried to stage a coup for the company, and got judo-couped when Altman came back and she got fired. I don’t want to appear dismissive of her or whatever problems she allegedly has faced, but so far she has yet to put forth compelling evidence, and is just beating on the same drum repeatedly. Coincidentally, she is returning to the forefront as the recent drama around the Scarlett Johansson voice model is cooling off, which comes across like an attack to keep pressure on the company, rather than anything with validity, especially when, as I’ve said, she isn’t offering anything new, just the same attacks that failed before.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

https://x.com/paulg/status/1796107666265108940

There is Paul Graham saying exactly the opposite.

Arguments can be made that Altman is making threats behind the scenes and forcing people to say nice things about him under duress, but 700 people from OpenAI signed a petition to bring him back as CEO, and only 3 wanted him gone. 700 people is a lot to quietly threaten, and none of them have come out to Toner's defense as she continues on her crusade.

I'm sure Altman has his own list of sins, everyone does, but I really think that he, and OpenAI by association, are constantly under attack in our new era of corporate warfare. You no longer need to sabotage the actual company, you just have to poison the well so that funding and potential employee base dries up, which is exactly what is happening with the constant stream of attacks against OpenAI. AI is the first quadrillion dollar industry, and OpenAI is the leader. It's not just companies that want a piece, its entire countries. Look at how the US has to deal with election interference and then look at what goes on against OpenAI. You'll see the patterns.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Well, when you make your name into a brand, then mark your followers with the same, and your brand is a plague on the world... yeah, that kinda is enough. I'd vote for an off-cut of shit-smeared shag carpet if it meant I could rest easy knowing that the next wave of vomit being spewed on Twitter wasn't directed at some of the most vulnerable and under represented peoples on the planet. And if you are wondering if I'm purposefully being ambiguous about to whom I refer, let me sate your curiosity and call former President Trump the cunt he is. Trump is a cunt.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Lol, mine too. My friend was probably worse, though.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Bury me with my backlog.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Ok. I went to that site, and I'm scrolling down... I get to the video demo of their searches, and it shows the exact same thing I last searched for... in the demo video? Am I losing my fucking mind here?

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Lmao, even though none of that is remotely accurate, it's still creepy as hell to read. Nice work.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Yeah, I go by Jon, and my dog's name is Abigail, but I call her Shabby. You nailed the blue coat part, though.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Only if you are blowing shit up.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

This story is blowing so fucking far out of proportion it's honestly incredible. Just so everyone is one the same page, here is a video timestamped to the voice, and immediately following the voice you can hear the voice from Her as well.

https://youtu.be/3BWjomtK-94?si=tDu574b4GySpnPIy&t=42

They are not similar other than they are both female.

The whole "her" thing that Altman threw up on twitter is just because the goddamned movie was a touchstone for the kind of thing that they are doing. They weren't cloning the fucking voice. It's like naming your new iguana Godzilla. It's not going to destroy Tokyo any time soon, it's just a cultural reference, you know, like a meme.

As far as Johansson goes, she is falling prey to this shit just like every other celebrity that has been railing against big bad AI. There are so many sheisty lawyers trying to get their hands on the first big win from an AI suit that they will say anything to get a celebrity to sue, because if their firm wins, they become the Anti-AI lawfirm that all others will seek in the future. They will print money, but only if something sticks, and so far, nothing has. This will be another case like any other, where they take it to court, and there is no real basis for anything, and it ends up being all over the news and then disappearing like the whole debacle over Sarah Silverman's book. In three months there will be another case against AI, and again, nothing will stick, because the people putting the bug in people's ears don't understand how to use most of the functionality of their cellphone, let alone how generative AI works.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

Just tell the judge that an AI wrote your post and you can walk away scot-free.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

By all means, rattle off some references that will make sense in the context.

chemical_cutthroat , 1 month ago

It's an end-user plateau for the moment, but there are still tons of things going on underneath the hood. From the outside it may not look like things are moving, but we've gone from Model-T to Chevy Bel Air fairly quickly, and while the difference is huge, the engineers are still trying to get us to Bugatti Veyron level. Until then, we are going to have a long "80 and 90s" period of sameness.

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago

Splitting the difference, then.

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago

Yeah, that one sucks. I really liked what he was doing, but... you know... those crazy South Africans.

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago

There are just so many to choose from.

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago

Britain is the abusive relationship you finally free yourself from, only to realize they are gonna keep the mattress.

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago

"Workforce" doesn't produce innovation, either. It does the labor. AI is great at doing the labor. It excels in mindless, repetitive tasks. AI won't be replacing the innovators, it will be replacing the desk jockeys that do nothing but update spreadsheets or write code. What I predict we'll see is the floor dropping out of technical schools that teach the things that AI will be replacing. We are looking at the last generation of code monkeys. People joke about how bad AI is at writing code, but give it the same length of time as a graduate program and see where it is. Hell, ChatGPT has only been around since June of 2020 and that was the beta (just 13 years after the first iPhone, and look how far smartphones have come). There won't be a huge demand for workforce in 5 years, there will be a huge portion of the population that suddenly won't have a job. It won't be like the agricultural or industrial revolution where it takes time to make it's way around the world, or where this is some demand for artisanal goods. No one wants artisanal spreadsheets, and we are too global now to not outsource our work to the lowest bidder with the highest thread count. It will happen nearly overnight, and if the world's governments aren't prepared, we'll see an unemployment crisis like never before. We're still in "Fuck around." "Find out" is just around the corner, though.

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago

You know what I love about blocking people?

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I'm pretty sure there is an extra "picket".

Edit: I may be wrong, but I don't know enough about calligraphy to be sure.

chemical_cutthroat , 2 months ago

ITT: Virtue signalling.

chemical_cutthroat , 3 months ago

When was the last good year for poor people? Anyone? Bueller?

chemical_cutthroat , 3 months ago

Jokes on them, there's no middle class to tax.

chemical_cutthroat , 3 months ago

I started taking nicotine lozenges to quit smoking. If I have one in my mouth when I fall asleep, my dreams are a lot more fun. I'm not going to tell you how to live your life, but information is power.

chemical_cutthroat , 3 months ago

Was there a string of similar murders in South Africa between 1891 and 1915? Cause that's where he went next. You may be on to something, OP.

chemical_cutthroat , 3 months ago

Anyone have any suggestions for a replacement that has the same features and is bug/issue free?

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

"Hi, Mr Knitcnithak, can Thojbrunku come out to power level?"

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

Becky, lemme smash.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

Especially by calling it "delicious." Ew. I can't imagine anyone ever saying that without immediately having to wipe the drool off their chin after.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

Zarf is Arabic, and plash is Dutch.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

You can make the same argument about humans that you do AI, but from a biological and societal standpoint. Barring any jokes about certain political or geographical stereotypes, humans have gotten "smarter" that we used to be. We are very adaptable, and with improvements to diet and education, we have managed to stay ahead of the curve. We didn't peak at hunter-gatherer. We didn't stop at the Renaissance. And we blew right past the industrial revolution. I'm not going to channel my "Humanity, Fuck Yeah" inner wolf howl, but I have to give our biology props. The body is an amazing machine, and even though we can look at things like the current crop of AI and think, "Welp, that's it, humans are done for," I'm sure a lot of people thought the same at other pivotal moments in technological and societal advancement. Here I am, though, farting taco bell into my office chair and typing about it.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

Computer power doesn't scale infinitely, unless you mean building a world mind and powering if off of the spinning singularity at the center of the galaxy like a type 3 civilization, and that's sci-fi stuff. We still have to worry about bandwidth, power, cooling, coding and everything else that going into running a computer. It doesn't just "scale". There is a lot that goes into it, and it does have a ceiling. Quantum computing may alleviate some of that, but I'll hold my applause until we see some useful real world applications for it.

Furthermore, we still don't understand how the mind works, yet. There are still secrets to unlock and ways to potentially augment and improve it. AI is great, and I fully support the advancement in technology, but don't count out humans so quickly. We haven't even gotten close to human level intelligence and GOFAI, and maybe we never will.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

You can believe whatever you want, but I don't think it's arrogant to say what I did. You are basing your view of humanity on what you think humanity has done, and basing your view on AI based on what you think it will do. Those are fundamentally different and not comparable. If you want to talk about the science fiction future of AI, we should talk about the science fiction future of humanity as well. Let's talk about augmenting ourselves, extending lifespans, and all of the good things that people think we'll do in the coming centuries. If you want to look at humans and say that we haven't evolved at all in the last 3000 years, then we should look at computers the same way. Computers haven't "evolved" at all. They still do the same thing they always have. They do a lot more of it, but they don't do anything "new". We have found ways to increase the processing power, and the storage capacity, but a computer today has the same limits that the one that sent us to the moon had. It's a computer, and incapable of original thought. You seem to believe that just because we throw more ram and processors at it that somehow that will change things, but it doesn't. It just means we can do the same things, but faster. Eventually we'll run out of things to process and data to store, but that won't bring AI any closer to reality. We are climbing the mountain, but you speak like we have already crested. We've barely left base camp in the grand scheme of artificial intelligence.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Holy wall of unparagraphed word salad,

Ahh, we are getting into the insult round of tonight's entertainment. I'll break this reply down for you.

Again you are not understanding what is and isn’t an evolutionary process

It seems our definitions differ slightly, yes.

You don’t have to be intelligent about it, all you have to do is continue to increase complexity due to an external force and that is it. That’s all that is needed to have an evolutionary force.

That, and the ability to self-actuate your own evolution. You see, that's what we differ on definition of evolutionary force. We didn't have some greater will forcing us down a path of evolution. There was no force. There was trial and error. The "lived long enough to fuck" survived, the rest didn't. Reproduction is a fundamental aspect of evolution. Computers can't reproduce. We have to facilitate that ourselves, though iterating on various aspects of computers. Right now we can fake it with increased processing power, increased memory, more elegant code, but at the end of the day, without some form reproductive system that doesn't rely on us, the computer can't exceed our grasp. If it could, we'd see true exponential growth, not compounding as in Moore's Law. We can't make them do more than what they already do. We can just make them do it faster.

With computers we don’t have to know what we are doing (to recreate consciousness), we just have to select for better more complex systems (the same way evolution did for humans) which is the inevitable result of progress.

Yeah, sure, and I can cram a hundred monkey's in a room with a hundred typewriters and come up with a better love story than Twilight, but it's gonna take time. Not Shakespeare time, but a few weeks at least. That's the thing, though, the evolution of any system doesn't happen overnight. We didn't wake up one day, walk out of our cave, and create TikTok. Evolution is a long process. You forget all of the things that happened before we figured out that our thumbs weren't solely for sticking up our own asses. There are millions of years that you aren't accounting for. Billions of attempts to create what we take for granted. Consciousness. You say that we don't have to know what we are doing, and you are right, we don't, but it's a crap-shoot with quadrillion to one odds.

And like the fractalization of coastlines, facts, knowledge and data are completely unlimited, the deeper you look the more there is.

Again, we can store as much data as we want, it won't make AI happen. We haven't spontaneously seen life form in libraries, but they have been storing data in them for thousands of years. Consciousness isn't data. If that's all you want, ChatGPT is passing the bar. It still can't tell me it loves me, and mean it.

On top of all of this you have the fact that progress has constantly been accelerating in a way that human intelligence is incapable of percieving accurately.

Funny, you seem to think that you perceive it pretty well...

Therefore computer intelligence is vastly going to outpace or own. And very soon too.

A well thought out conclusion I'm sure is based on all of the facts you failed to present. Bravo.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

Is Tesla in the wrong here? You betcha. Is it bad business practice to take a $16k order without payment up front? You betcha. I don't take a $200 order without at least holding on to a card. Why in the world would you take a $16k order without guarantee of payment?

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

Confirmation is worthless without cash in hand. She might have a case in court to cover the cost of supplies, but that's a lot of time away from your shop hoping to make the money back. Again, Tesla is a bunch of asshats for doing this, but there is a very real chance that the person in Tesla setting this up has no idea how long it takes to prep and make an order like this, and may have thought they gave enough heads up to cancel. Twice a month I get people asking to come to my restaurant with 80 people and all order individually. I tell them no, that's not how large groups work, I can't accommodate 80 individual orders at the same time along with the rest of the business on the floor. I have never had a person say, "Oh, that makes sense." Every single one tries to fight back and order separately. If you don't work in the business, there is a very strong chance you have no idea what is happening behind the scenes. The business owner REALLY should have gotten cash up front, and if Tesla told them no, then you tell Tesla to get their pies elsewhere.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago

Thats what worries me the most. I heard that Valhalla was pretty much just an action hack and slash, and that isn't what I want. I'm going to give it a go, but I'm not getting my hopes up.