Same thing happens with humans.

It's worth figuring out what your threat model is. There probably are ways that some government agencies can get into iPhones or decrypt these messages, and they probably are collecting all the encrypted data in case quantum computers can decrypt it later.

But are they going to waste any of that on you? Unless you are a high value target for them, and unless they intend to avoid any judicial process where their capabilities might become public, they probably aren't going to use their best tools to help the local cops break into your phone.

It's not just CUDA itself. AMD has HIP, which is basically a clone of CUDA and works well. But that's just the core pieces, the compiler and runtime. Then there's the higher level libraries NVIDIA provides for special purposes: cuBLAS for linear algebra, cuSPARSE for sparse matrix operations, cuFFT for Fourier transforms, and so on. AMD has mostly managed to create clones of those too. But then there are all the even more specialized libraries NVIDIA has spent years creating. Look over the list to get a sense of just how many and how specialized they are. cuLitho for computational lithography. cuQuantum for quantum computing simulations. nvComp for compression and decompression. And on and on.

And that's just the ones created by NVIDIA. Then there are the thousands of libraries other people have written with CUDA. In principle they could be ported to HIP for AMD, Metal for Apple, and whatever framework Intel is asking people to use this week. But most of them won't be.

To take a hike and the billionaire backing it just built it anyway and told the town to go fuck themselves.

You can't have billionaires and sovereignty. You can't have that much power in the hands of one person and pretend that you don't have to do what they tell you to do.

I mean I guess you can pretend. But at the end of the day when they say jump you're going to say how high on the way up.

Yeah what scares me about that is it's clearly automatic bots making those picks on the stock market and it really shouldn't be something that can move stock prices that much. I can see a few idiots running bots maybe even a few of the rich assholes doing it but not enough to take a dying shoe store and bump its stock to 127 million.

That's a sign of a fundamentally unsound system that's going to come crashing down soon.

I wouldn't care but every time it crashes it comes down on my head. The entire system is designed to wreck my finances and anyone's finances when they work for a living and leave the top 10% untouched.

It used to be the top 20% was untouched but that number gets smaller every year. Heck it's possible that only the top four or five percent is going to come out unscathed this time around

Genies are fun and good. The djinn are generally malevolent spirits seeking to take advantage of people's greed and gullibility.

Somebody did some math on one of the mega data centers they want to build in Utah and it's the equivalent of dropping 23 atomic bombs in terms of heat output. It's going to basically destroy the local environment.

There's another case of locals telling the data center no and the billionaire funding it just started building it and told them go fuck yourself I'm in charge here.

And there's another data center that guzzled down 30 million gallons of water without telling anyone and now the community has groundwater shortages and might even have serious structural stability issues that come from taking out too much water too fast.

All of this so that a handful of Epstein class members don't have to pay wages.

Because make no mistake that is what this is about. It's about replacing people with machines so the people at the top don't have to pay those of us at the bottom.

I remember when you could add crypto to the name of your company and your stock would shoot up because bots were buying any stock with a crypto in the name. AI has the same bullshit going on.

It sounds like he's just doing basically like a Google search for a news topic. Using Twitter chat as the source to determine what the highest ranking search result is. To limit the amount of searching he's doing and to get attention he's focusing on news stories discussing AI.

There is absolutely nothing new here he's just trying to use an algorithm to pick up popular news stories and display them on his website. And he is limiting the type of news stories to ones that discuss AI.

It sounds like a big thing until you actually stop and think about it. It's still just a shitty aggregator just an automated shitty aggregator...

It's not going to go anywhere as far as people using it but throwing the words AI here and there might get some clueless investors to give him some money. But man this reeks of desperation

Keep in mind there are dozens of other visa and immigration programs that we all just kind of lump under H1B as people who are getting replaced by cheap foreign labor.

If H1B was the only high skilled worker program then it's only about 60,000 people a year and it wouldn't really have much effect. But it's one of dozens of programs to bring in cheap labor.

The frustrating thing is as I pointed out on another comment without influx of immigrants we're going to go into a massive recession just like Japan did for the exact same reason and it's basically a permanent recession. However when those immigrants come here they take a limited number of slots in our society where someone is allowed to be a functioning adult. So you're basically trading social stability for economic recession.

If our economy did wealth redistribution so that the money generated by those immigrants didn't just line the pockets of a handful of Epstein class members this wouldn't be an issue but well, if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

Assuming our civilization survives the AI apocalypse, and I don't mean kill a robots I mean huge amounts of automation creating massive unemployment and leading to conflict in war, then it's a problem we're going to have to deal with anyway though because the entire planet has plummeting birth rates because we demand women into the workforce and women in the workforce don't crank out babies so it's going to be a problem we have to deal with someday but like I said, right now the solution seems to be to give religious lunatics the launch codes for nukes and let the Epstein class members hide out in there bunkers while we kill each other

Look we all know they're h1bs. GM didn't magically get less work to do in it just because they want to save money. There is a little bit of cutting back but most of that has already happened with the people in the EV division that got shit canned. So if they're firing people they are either shipping the jobs overseas which is tough to do because they've already shipped as many jobs overseas as they can or more likely they've got a batch of fresh work visas to replace Americans with.

But the question becomes what are you, me or anyone else going to do about it? And please don't suggest violence it doesn't work. Violence inevitably devolves into right-wing extremism and right wing extremism only benefits the people who are making these decisions and who have private armies to protect themselves from you. After Luigi they all bought a bunch of security and paid for it with money pulled out of your pocket or by laying you off. The only people you can get to are shitty middle managers who didn't actually make any of the decisions involved and they are just as much on the chopping block as you and me.

The real problem here is so far no matter how many of us lose our jobs it does not change how we vote. We still vote for pro corporate establishment candidates. Sometimes we desperately pick a lunatic because they look like they might not be establishment but when we do that they inevitably turn out to be pro-establishment because of course they do.

There are plenty of good candidates that would fix these problems but when we do elect one we never give them enough political capital and power to do anything. Biden was doing some damn good work up there right up until the midterms when the Republican party took over Congress because voters like to hand Congress to whoever isn't in the White House. As soon as that happened everything ground to a halt.

So again this just brings up the question what are you going to actually do about it? Are you going to change how you vote? Are you going to bring up politics and the changes you've made to your voting patterns at Thanksgiving dinner? Are you going to pay more attention to the media you consume so that you're not consuming obvious propaganda? And if you're already doing all this things are you going to make your family do all those things or are you going to go with the flow because it's fun to be the crazy right wing uncle but it is no fun being the crazy left-wing uncle or the crazy pro worker and pro-union uncle or the crazy pro government regulation uncle.

And make everything even worse while I do believe we are going to have to do a moratorium on immigration that's going to drive the whole economy into a massive recession because we don't have the birth rates necessary to sustain our system without immigration and we don't have the will to change our system to account for that.

I don't really have a solution so apologies if I sound like I'm trolling but I'm just bringing up a bunch of completely intractable problems that are completely unsolvable because of how humans work....

How many tons of CO2 have you personally generated over the last year by using AI assistants?

I'm serious. Do you know what the number is? Have you made any effort at all to find out, even just a ballpark estimate?

If not, did it ever occur to you that maybe you should try? Or do you think it's not your concern what harm you cause through your actions? Do you look forward to a future where only sociopaths are employable, and those who try to avoid hurting others get left behind?

Maybe you'll object that AI is no different from any other techology. You're wrong. It uses far more energy than most technologies, the energy use is growing far faster than any other technology, and much of it is being powered by the very dirtiest forms of energy. This article is a good place to start if you want to learn more about it.

Certainly no POSes who DGAF about anyone else like him

Virtually all vehicles now have a screen for a gauge cluster, except the most abject econoboxes. Nothing is less surprising than an EV having a screen for gauges.

"The only silver lining of Trump's demented Iran war is diesel hitting $6 per gallon and the sound of all those F150 tears."

150s don't run on diesel. Only Dodge has a half ton diesel pickup because only they have a mid sized diesel engine. Ford uses turbo gas motors for that market. Those are F250 and larger tears.

Most people don't know the difference between a SUV and a CUV, which is because the manufacturers deliberately created confusion on that point in order to sell vehicles consumers were rejecting. Most people don't know the difference between full frame and unibody either, they only know whether the vehicle crashes over bumps or not. It's irrelevant because it's irrelevant to the majority of buyers, who don't know shit about shit

"the Lightning was always a glorified grocery getter for people who didn't use a pickup for a work-use. It was suburban vehicle for those that didn't want to have an SUV. It was an upscale minivan that you could put plywood and crap in the back - if you didn't care about messing up your $70,000 truck. It was a great vehicle - but it wasn't a "Truck"."

Trucks are heavy vehicles. They're defined in the code as such. The lightning is a pickup. Like the lightning it was named after, it's not a great one in terms of maximum pickup ability. It's a lot more useful than the last one, though.