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protozoan_ninja ,

You think the Bolsheviks were bad, just look at the guy they replaced. He made the Bolsheviks look good!

protozoan_ninja , (edited )

I actually meant the tsar, and I can understand feeling bad for Kerensky (poor man must have been so confused, when all he had to do was get on a train out of Dodge as of mid-late September 1917 and anyone with an ounce of sense could have told him this), but don't hold him up as a leading light of proper management and doing shit the smart way, okay?

protozoan_ninja , (edited )

Yup, it was a shitshow. If you're a socialist, it's good to study, but maybe in the same spirit as bourgeois revolutionaries might have studied the wreckage of the French Revolution. Or, you know, in the same spirit as Marx and Engels reflecting on the failures of 1848.

protozoan_ninja ,

Depends on how you use them, I think. Magic boxes that are tied into the cloud and just give you an app to control your lights, dumb. Setting up a system that automates your home electrical appliances in a thoughtful manner can actually deliver savings and maybe even improve your life. Even as someone getting into smart home stuff, though, mainly what I'm seeing is the ability to save power by having some kind of intelligent control over your devices. Everything else is flashing lights and surveillance.

Problem is, your average user isn't going to be setting up a LAN-only, zigbee-to-homeassistant automation. They need the magic box type of interface. So as a mass market thing it seems kind of doomed.

protozoan_ninja ,

Concept: unionized worker-owned co-ops using advanced, democratically-governed AI.

protozoan_ninja ,

"Would you give an arm? How about a leg?

protozoan_ninja ,

You're basically completely wrong about how AI is going to scale. We're not going to be stuck on, say tinkertoy models on our phones and gigantic mega-models exclusively in the cloud. That's insane. We have good language models that will run on an ordinary laptop already. You can scale models to more or less any size and there is amazing research coming out constantly regarding how to do AI more efficiently. People are running tons of ML code on their PC's already and the demand will only go up as companies -- like Microsoft -- bundle more and more features that rely on AI code into their software, more SDK's and libraries come out that support it, etc.

Also, the feasibility of deploying AI code to more users goes up the more users have them in their devices.

Also, the main trick of NPU's is efficient matrix math, especially the use-case of applying a single operation to entire matrices at once, which AIUI is foundational to tensor math. Plain old CPU's are trash at this because they have to iterate over each individual entity in the matrix and apply the operation separately. NPU's, as I guess they're coming to be called, are designed to do those operations massively in parallel. There are likely tons of applications for this beyond just ML code that we haven't even imagined yet.

It's a bit like asking in 1995 what the use case for a graphics card is when you can go to an arcade and gameboys exist. At that exact moment in time, based on the exact cards that were available in literally 1995, it might have been hard to imagine that by 2024 we'd all have dedicated graphics chips of some kind in our computers -- in fact, we'd be hard-pressed to imagine devices without them -- and that some of the biggest computing companies in the world would be graphics card manufacturers. Yet here we are.

You have to pay attention to the research as it develops, and you have to realize that they don't just show up to markets to satisfy pre-existing demands, they create markets and create new demand where none existed before. That's how the tech industry works.

protozoan_ninja ,

No no, the conspiracy is that by living in walkable cities, you're easier to track, because nobody in city has phones and there's no cameras anywhere in cities, and of course everybody in cities pays for things in cash...

Incidentally, the people I know who've fallen for this canard also live in the countryside, make it a point to never go to the city, and also have phones and debit/credit cards and spend time online....

protozoan_ninja ,

Who's going to be buying and using Bitcoin if it's not affordable?

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