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Comment Re:Parent's phone gets dialog to approve .... (Score 1) 102

Kid wants to play sports, parent has to sign a permission slip.
Kid want to go on school trip to museum, parent has to sign a permission slip.
School nurse wants to give kid an aspirin, parent gets a phone call to OK it.
Kid want to download app from App Store, parent's phone gets a dialog asking for approval.

Printed books must be required to be enciphered such that only those wearing special glasses are permitted to read them after having been deemed worthy by the state.

Any printed books not properly enciphered must be burned immediately for the sake of the children.

The role of the state is not maximization of freedom for all but rather demanding compliance to arbitrary precepts of morality by leveraging the states monopoly on violence to insist upon child proofing of all aspects of the kingdom from anything any child might do while unaccompanied by a parent.

Parental consent must never be left up to the marketplace where services or third parties parents trust expend resources to provide curated access. Anyone and everyone who provides any software to do anything must at all times think of the children.

Where is the great injustice here?

From text of SB2420:

""App store" means a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device."

Of course there isn't any injustice in requiring literally anyone operating a website that loads software (e.g. javascript) into a browser to obtain "consent" and do magical things like judge the age of the user. We all live to serve the state.

Comment Re:Dude you've got Google right there (Score 1) 102

Basically right wing thinking is a neurological problem.

The paper you cited states no such thing. It makes a correlation between brain activity and conservatism. Which I'm sure is the same sort of correlation that can be made about a great number of characteristics, subjective ideologies and belief systems. With a little model training fMRI can even predict what people are thinking.

You injected "neurological problem" because you are a left wing crackpot who has proven himself to be incapable of objectively processing information.

The study says conservative thinking but if you actually read the study the thought patterns they're talking about aren't conservative they are right wing, but the right wing has long since branded the word conservative to mean right wing so the study uses the word like that...

So basically about 30% of the human race is prone to right-wing thinking. This would explain how monarchs stayed in power for so long. An overactive fear impulse causes people to seek out safety in extreme ways.

Hitler got 89% of the vote a month after having publicly admitted to murdering dozens of political rivals and his own brownshirt supporters.

In this case they give all the money and power to a tiny handful of individuals expecting the those powerful people to protect them.

Like a communist dictatorship?

Comment Re:Legit defence against distillation attack (Score 2) 30

When you distil someone else's model, don't complain when they add some measures against you.
It's like robbers complaining about someone installing stronger door locks.

There is no such thing as a distillation "attack". Distillation is not an attack.

Imagine learning (ripping) off everything everyone has done and then getting all hot and bothered when someone else learns from you. There is nothing legitimate about this behavior. Closed model vendors have no such moral or legal right.

Comment Gotta hand it to Zhipu (Score 1) 30

Jacked up context size, loaded a small 1kloc project I had written over the past few days and asked GLM-5.2 to find the bugs. Had only looked it over a few times... compiled yet had never run. Took hours to run the model on my workstation burning so many tokens "thinking" I was getting scared it would reach the context limit and bail. Out of the 40 or so bullet points it had rattled off 4 that were actual bugs. One of them I would have found immediately during testing.. other 3 were more subtle so in the end was kind of impressed and it was worth while.

I see no need to pay someone else to spy on me when I can run this shit myself for free entirely locally. Personally would love to see all the vertically integrated closed model AI as a service companies go out of business.

Comment Re:Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 1) 126

Ah, so if a state government cannot solve a global problem, they should just stick there with their thumbs up their ass and do nothing?

I don't believe this and stated nothing of the sort. Where is this coming from? My remarks were mostly about what Florida can do to mitigate impacts it faces not asses, thumbs and doing nothing. I even expressed my opposition to the legislation yet apparently that didn't register.

Collectively solving any problem becomes impossible with that sort of reasoning. Do you work for la Presidenta? That's his sort of "reasoning".

People love to enumerate perils of climate change and engage in endless debates with deniers. Yet when it comes to states enacting serious policy or even discussing policy proposals to address problems the lack of dedication and seriousness speaks for itself.

Comment Re:Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 1) 126

I've long had a rule of thumb, that people who do not know what the word "devolve" means should never be taken seriously on anything of substance. It saves a lot of time. You are a case in point.

Next time check the dictionary before embarrassing yourself.

"to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution"
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Comment reddit sucks (Score 1) 89

I can't stand Reddit UX is horrendous always showing tiny amounts of data always requiring you to expand expand expand drives me absolutely nuts. Old is the only thing that made it usable. Governance is far worse... the whole site is a series of disjointed echochambers enforced by Nazi moderation. Really sad to see sites like Reddit eating so much of the Internet.

The other day was searching for something on a mobile which I rarely do and a nag came up demanding I install the reddit app... you couldn't dismiss it the best you could do was reload the page and read for a few moments before it came back.

There have been an increasing number of annoying popups saying the same thing and having to continuously push the I'm 18 button is beyond annoying. What is the point of needlessly harrasing people with this garbage? Old was the only refuge from bullshit and now even that is going away... I don't get what they hope to gain. Hopefully reddit is the new myspace.

Comment Re:Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 2, Interesting) 126

Florida already has major problems with hurricanes

Has this ever not been the case?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

sea levels rising is devastating for a state that's mostly flat with swamps. They can stick their heads in the sand about it or they can work to slow the problem, but the anti-science government doesn't seem to care.

The best Florida can hope for is better policies WRT land use and erosion control. There is nothing a state government can do to meaningfully impact global sea level rise.

Green policy (e.g. carbon taxes) tend to be ineffective at fighting climate change and almost always devolve into an excuse to impose regressive taxation to benefit the general fund. Other favorite green policies such as attempts to limit natural gas or rooftop solar mandates are actively harmful from an opportunity cost perspective.

Having said that I don't support this legislation because while green policies almost always suck this doesn't mean it is impossible to get it right the text seems to go too far limiting policies to manage GHG emissions.

Comment Re:Open Source Wins Again (Score 4, Insightful) 57

To be fair, you need at least 256GB of RAM just to run the 2-bit version of this model. Most people aren't going to be able to do that at home.

But yeah, the Chinese government is willing to throw lots of money at building AI models and giving them away, so Western companies are screwed.

Another way of looking at this if western companies are screwed.. hardware prices return to planet earth where more people are able to run this stuff at home. Three years ago the cost of 512GB DDR5 was less than the cost of a single 4090 GPU today.

Comment Re:It doesn't (Score 2) 57

I like free and local LLM, but they do not match the Frontier models of Antropic, OpenAI or Google yet.
The take here is either uninformed, sensationalist or fear mongering (possibly to ban Chinese LLM). GLM is good, but nowhere near Mythos/Fable or even latest Opus.

What is the objective basis of your statement? Do you reject benchmark results? If so what have you used in their place to make such a determination?

Comment Re:Next bubble (Score 1) 74

You cannot pick a handful of data points and then choose the type of curve to fit them, and that's especially a problem when you have only a few data points. You are using literally three data point. For any tech thing, if you ended up with a curve that shows negative progress, that should be a problem with your model. This is essentially the same thing the Trump people tried to do when they tried to do a cubic fit for covid deaths to argue that deaths would soon drop to zero https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/2.... But since you don't see where the exponential estimate is coming from, you could take the step of clicking through the link I gave which discussed it. But if you want here are other sources. For example, https://physics.aps.org/articl... discusses how decoherence times have gone up at an exponential rate, increasing by roughly a factor of 10 every 3 years. You are correct that successful use of Shor's algorithm has not gone up but that also shouldn't be surprising. Shor's algorithm has a pretty big jump in the number of logical qubits needed when you increase from very small n to medium sized n. Using those two data points to conclude anything about what is going on right now isn't useful. Once it does hit even n around 105 or so, we should expect then quick improvement from there.

What data points do you have to support exponential growth of logical qubit count with time?

Comment Re: "Powerful" quantum computer (Score 1) 74

No need to feel ashamed. If you want, I can teach you the difference between the two. I can also provide English language services to assist you as well.

Please yes, I would love an explanation how your reference is responsive to "Wake me up when they create one with even 100 reliable logical qubits." given the experimental device you referenced did no such thing.

Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 1) 172

another DEI/SJW film, and the people involved are baffled about why it failed?

My initial knee-jerk reaction is that it isn't woke enough which is why woke outfits like the bulwark are calling it boring. These are the same people who called the everything everywhere random AI slop movie "profoundly moving" and "great".

Keep in mind I have zero clue what is actually in this movie and most probably will never see it.

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