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Comment Re: They can only self-improve if they are capable (Score 1) 87

They have had that. The problem is that it's just like humans trying to improve themselves by directly reprogramming the brain.

So you get everything from lobotomies to "biohacking". None of it works well, because we don't understand ourselves any more than LLMs understand themselves. You get tiny incremental improvements, or human that can't even take a shit without assistance for the rest of his/her natural life and everything in between. Same for LLMs trying to improve themselves. Incremental improvements or utterly insane LLM and everything in between.

And so, there's a reason why we don't do lobotomies or try too hard to let LLMs improve themselves right now. Though LLMs are way closer to being able to hack themselves to be better than humans are due to rate possible iterations in any given time frame.

Comment Re:The real problem (Score 1) 87

No the real problem is that it guzzles water and electricity while devouring jobs.

I don't think the billionaires give a shit if AI cost more than an equivalent or even a better human being. They are sick and tired of being dependent on and having to pay lip service to us commoners. So any amount of money they have to spend to get true absolute freedom and true absolute power will be worth it.

As an added bonus we as a species have been so distracted by culture War bullshit for the last 30 or 40 years that we have been falling over ourselves backwards to give all the money in the world to the top 0.1%. so it literally costs them nothing to replace us all with AI and automation.

Even if I can't do everything it's a pretty safe bet it can do enough. Go look up the percentage of white collar workers and ask yourself what's going to happen if even a quarter of them become unemployable. How that's going to reverberate through the economy.

And no, we can't all be plumbers. Blue collar guys don't hire a lot of blue collar guys to do work. And that's before we talk about the actual wages those guys make when you look at the median instead of the average and take out a few crazy outliers working on oil rigs until they're late twenties when they have to give it up because it's too hard on their bodies

Comment Re:Remotely downloaded code (Score 4, Informative) 14

What, exactly, is the point or purpose of including code in your program that is downloaded from a third-party website every time you execute the program?

No, npm is literally the opposite of that.

If you want to include a function or subroutine or library in your program, why wouldn't you just download it and use that?

I run Drupal and it uses composer, which does basically the same thing. But then I want some javascript libraries that you can't get through composer repos itself, you need to get them from npm. So every time there's one of these npm exploit stories I say oh shit, some more shit I need to read. Luckily I'm only pulling in literally two packages from there. But I don't need to do this, I only do it specifically for the purpose of not having my site refer to some other site for those javascript libraries. That way, someone else changing their library doesn't automatically screw up my site, or more plausibly since I am not running any javascript on the server side, start back dooring other people who visit there. So npm is exactly the kind of thing you think people should be using, except with less oversight which is why we keep hearing about loads of compromised packages.

Comment Re:still bummed about SG-U (Score 1) 87

Disagree on this. That's like saying only shows that trek through the stars should be called Star Trek - and yet the best Star Trek series ever made was Deep Space Nine.

Yeah, they had B5 to crib from.

The Stargate is just part of the premise of the followup shows, not a required defining characteristic of them

If you're putting it in the title, yes it is.

Comment Re:8-1 decision (Score 1) 53

Dear friend,

We make certain rules so that we can live in the same nation together. For example, we must to a reasonable extent unify our motor vehicle requirements so that you can reasonably travel to other states without onerous additional inspections and harassment. Alas, with rights come responsibilities.

Signed,
Srsly

Comment Re:still bummed about SG-U (Score 1) 87

When the show is called Stargate, you expect Stargatey stuff. They set the expectation, then failed to meet it.

Disagree on this. That's like saying only shows that trek through the stars should be called Star Trek - and yet the best Star Trek series ever made was Deep Space Nine.

The Stargate is just part of the premise of the followup shows, not a required defining characteristic of them. Even for the original series, by about season 6-7 it was sharing the field with ships and other methods of travel.

As for Universe, it did stumble out of the gate (haha), for sure, but almost every show does. I think it had found its footing by the middle of the second season and season 3 was set up for some great potential. It absolutely deserved a third season.

Comment Re:It's insane reddit is "source of truth" (Score 1) 31

It's not a source of truth it's a source of free training data for your shitty AI.

There is a numbnut training in AI off of my comments here and I will periodically drop the phrase trump fucks kids into my comments and his AI chat bot picked it up after only a few comments.

What I'm saying is it's surprisingly easy to manipulate AI chatbot algorithms. It's no different than the early days of search engine optimization.

I don't know nearly enough about the math to say whether or not it's going to be fixable like it was for seo. SEO still has its problems but it's harder tha to manipulate that it used to be.

The real problem is chatbots are approached very differently by people with underdeveloped critical thinking skills then search engines. People get into a conversational mode with them and start to think of them as friendly friends and we'll start believing whatever they tell them. You're basically forming a parasocial relationship like people do with Joe Rogan and well think about how much this information Joe rogan's podcasts spews

Comment Re:Hope someone else picks it up ! (Score 0) 87

They are sitting on it and not using it. They would be happy to take in licensing money instead.

Not necessarily true. They might think they can make more with it in the future, or they might just want to stop a competitor from having a success when they do not at all need the money. You are thinking like a poor.

Comment Re:Yeah. Just like James Bond or Star Trek (Score 1) 87

I'd say the original series is the weakest of all of them... but this is understandable, because they were finding the formula. They didn't really hit their stride until a couple seasons in there either, but there was a lot more to like sooner than SGU. The state of the art was lesser at the time as well, so that made it more appealing, because the production values were really very high. It might not seem like it if you compare S1 of SG1 to S1 of SGA, but you just have to remember that time passed there.

If you watched it in period and were fresh off a high of watching the movie, it was a lot more appealing.

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