And it was a disaster. It turned into the samurai armor into cylons. When I first saw the screenshots I thought it was somebody making fun of AI instead of actual AI slop. They have the pull the game from steam.

So yeah we know it's being used in the industry and it's laughably bad and it's damaging the industry and costing the industry money for very little or nothing in return. Stop it already.

I don't condone violence. Just stop giving them money and they can shrivel up and die on their own.

They know what they're doing. This is France telling American social media companies to fuck the fuck off and stop fucking with our political system.

This is them kicking Facebook and Twitter which are both owned by fascists out of their country. If America can't do that themselves France is going to do it for them and try and let America go to shit. Of course that didn't work out really well when the rest of the world ignored Germany in the 40s so but you know how that goes

America can no longer be trusted and American tech companies especially cannot be trusted. This is Europe cutting them off but not in a way that could be challenged in their courts.

America elected orange pedophile twice now. The first time could be chalked up to a fluke but the second time not so much especially with threats to invade Greenland that carry the implied threat of invading the rest of Europe. That's a real thing that orange pedophile did and I don't think we freaked out anywhere near enough about it.

I think Europe was hoping that orange pedophile getting elected would just give their billionaires a leg up on the markets as America's economy collapsed. I don't think they were expecting full on fascism and neo-nazis in the White House. And they certainly were not expecting threats to invade Greenland that orange pedophile doubled down on several times and only backed off when Congress finally said knock it off.

I don't know if you're up will be successful with cutting America off and they probably need to do something about Russia running roughshod over our voting system but at the very least they're trying to do something about Russia running roughshod over there people. And these moves against social media which is really what they are are all about that

and I don't back this action.

Among a plethora is reasons (importantly this is anti-net-neutrality), a "tax" like this just ends up being passed on to end users. And they won't all be French. Google, Amazon, Netflix, et al, won't lose any profits here.

Here's hoping the inevitable price increases are limited just to France. They won't be. But we can hope.

Tax them the same amount that 3 full time office workers would pay on their taxes.

It's painfully obvious he was hoping that attacking Iran would get us a second 9/11 and he could ride that into a third term in office.

Trump put completely incompetent people even by his standards in charge of anti-terrorism. One of them is literally a 20 year old grocery store employee. That's who's in charge of keeping you safe from terrorism at the federal level at least.

Iran isn't stupid so they didn't bite. Trump is of course doubling down because that's all right wingers know how to do. But Iran has pretty good control over their non state actors.

Bush Jr would never have gotten the second term without 9/11. Trump looks at that and says hey that could work for me. A couple thousand dead Americans isn't even a price to pay in his eyes.

Particularly a situation that you have given up on having any control over.

And left wing spaces we call this complying in advance.

The implication isn't just that you're looking down on the person making the comments, the implication is that you don't have to care about the comments they are making. That you're above all that.

It's painfully obvious that we are not above the decisions Sam Altman makes. He gets to decide how our lives go. He's making serious decisions about the future of society, america, and the human race in general.

I think that's too big for most people to wrap their heads around and deal with especially because most of us have figured out we don't have a place in that future.

In a normal country, they would have gone after people for trespass.

That's why I always use football fields for everything. American football not any of that foreign stuff...

Yes, and?

Even if you tell a human programmer to make no mistakes, they'll still write security holes. Yeah no shit LLMs aren't perfect. Neither are humans.

LLMs will cheerfully write egregiously bad ones unless you tell it not to. I find that a bit strange.

This was mentioned in a recent Scott Manley video where he tours the factory. Iirc they can create a quite efficient power plant based on their supersonic engine design. And if it builds revenue while they continue to build their plane, that makes sense.

I predict that 3 years from now, the current DRAM shortage will turn into a glut.

Depends on how long it takes for the new fabs to come online. As of right now, there's about the right amount of capacity to supply the pre AI bubble world with DRAM.

Unfortunately unsold stock will be less useful because it's the wrong type for many consumer things. Though NVidia could rerelease some of the Quadro cards as consumer ones to make use spare HBM.

Robotics dweebs also deserve it, especially if their creations are used to (1) turf people out of jobs or (2) kill people - i.e. military purposes.

Meh. Firstly, I believe one of my creations is used to kill people, or as an important part of devices that do. But it's also used in a ton of other things. It makes as much sense to say steel is a bad creation because it's used to make guns.

Secondly, I'm not a pacifist. If someone's trying to kill me, I firmly believe in killing them first and I also do not think there is any such thing a a fair fight. Likewise I do not think it is evil of Ukraine to massively develop their arms industry and methods of killing people when it's in service of not getting killed or ending up in the dominion of Putin.

And if the world is going to develop weapons I really don't want it to be the sole preserve of the kind of dictatorial scumbags who don't jut not have your ethics, but positively revel in not having them.

The next AI Winter will be spectacular

One thing I am 100% confident in is that the that the AI winter following the oncoming crash will be every bit as bad as the internet winter following the dotcom crash.

Which is to say: not.

For a lot of things it works way too well and is way too effective to disappear. Sure we won't get frontier model inference for 1/5th of the cost. Some of the "growth at all costs" behemoths might crash as hard as webvan. But you know, online shopping and deliveries didn't die with them.

I mean take my futurology prediction with as much or little salt as you choose. But I'll lord it over you if I'm right and you can lord it over me if I'm wrong. Isn't that the true point of the internet?