Is this something you do often?

No, it's pretty much one day a year (but usually several times on that day): spring cleanup (though my smizmar and I call it "truck day" (*)).

It's uncompostable/tainted yard waste, even furniture (if it's in truly horrible shape), and all sorts of other random trashy shit. When it happens, the amount of resulting trash is many times the size of our trash bin or what can even be put on on the curb for "large item pickup." The usual weekly process is overwhelmed and can't handle it; there simply isn't room. So we haul it.

* "Truck day" because I decided paying $72 to rent U-haul's big pickup truck for a few hours is preferable to paying $72k to buy a big pickup truck. And it usually gets used for more than just dumping trash; it's often a large-item shopping day too. (To be next decade's trash? Don't ask!)

Goddamn it! What's with this ticket about the CSV import being broken?!

With conveniently-streamed video evidence identifying the vandal / assailant!

It gobbles up half a gig of RAM. At a time when ram is at a premium that's a big deal. I am sure Microsoft has multiple departments fighting amongst themselves to see who is going to get access to your ever dwindling ram supply.

You see, Linus has embraced transhumanism and is testing out the new kernel as a supplementary brain function, using MOSIX to offload all of the irritable comment generation at yet more nonsense on the mailing list to an Elizabot that he has written specifically to do this. This saves his actual brain for real work.

AI is not currently capable of performing any meaningful conceptual abstraction, it is only capable of very basic mechanical abstraction. Abstraction is itself multi-dimensional. Nor is there any indication that AI could ever perform multi-dimensional abstraction or multi-dimensional decomposition. Precious few humans are capable of it either, but some can.

No, AI would need humans because the best system is not a pure system but a hybrid system, and that means transhumanism with AI operating as an additional brain function rather than as a replacement for a brain.

Tool calling is, yes, but the current approach to it is (a) overt not transparent to the user, (b) not designed for the purpose I've outlined, and (c) not remotely good enough for the AI to be able to manage data through such tools.

Yes, you can connect an AI to a PostgreSQL database. Whoopee. Not even close to an AI detecting via classifiers that some of the data is relational in nature, transparently setting up its own PostgreSQL database in response, and using that proactively as an additional way to examine the data. You would need to explicitly set up the constructs, explicitly set up the databases, explicitly tell it when, where, and how to use the database, and if that particular usage conflicted with a way the AI actually worked, the AI would not be able to use it effectively. That's not remotely close to what I'm talking about.

What I'm talking about is much, much deeper than that. AIs lose focus when there is too much information currently in the system. Absolutely nothing stops an AI from using a document database as a virtual memory in which it can page in and out conceptual spaces so that the focus on any given step of a problem concerns just the problem. Other than such a concept not existing yet, which is kind of a limiting factor. But you need to know what connects to what. The AI could use an ontology reasoner for that, or a relational database, or an external graph. But you cannot provide those tools and you cannot configure them, for the simple reason that the AI is the only entity with any detailed map of how the underlying neural net is connecting those ideas up.

The AI itself has to select the tools, has to configure the tools, has to do all the work. Which means YOU cannot use any sort of API. YOU should have no involvement in the underlying mechanisms needed for the internal NN housekeeping.

And that's your other error. You're assuming this is about user data. No. It's about housekeeping operations within the NN itself to maximise functionality, it has nothing to do with the user side of things at all. If the user was capable of setting up dynamically structured databases that mutated with each step of a decomposed analysis, you'd have done everything the AI would be doing and you wouldn't need the AI to begin with.

You cannot do this work, you cannot even assist in this work, it has to be dynamic and it has to be utterly invisible to the operator.

And say that if you've had a bug in your code for 8 years and the code is actually in production and being used then the bug wasn't all that important.

AI seems to be finding a lot of bugs that people just weren't bothering to find because why would you? I have certainly come across bugs in my own code that don't really hurt anything or that require such very specific and uncommon circumstances that I'm hardly surprised I didn't fix them sooner. Yeah a machine can and we'll find them but so what?

If it didn't cost anything to fix them that would be fine but I don't know about you but my power bill just went up 15% and despite the lies they're telling me it's painfully obvious that it's the fund data center power usage. Also Amazon is putting a data center online that is powered completely by pollution belching gas turbines that are going to crank out more greenhouse gases then literally anything in the entire country. Climate change is real and it's causing droughts. Those droughts are driving up the price of beef and chicken.

So how much is an LLM fixing esoteric bugs Worth to you? In a few years you might be eating bugs because of it...

We need to force these computers to join Psi Corps and obey their rules!

Firmware in most consumer routers is based on Linux, with the router vendor adding some UI and chip-vendor drivers to the open source baseline. Not written from scratch. And thus just as good or bad as routers whose hardware was assembled elsewhere.
China can't manufacture the high end chips yet, but they do have their own supply chain for midrange SOCs and memory. Gigadevices cloned some European SOCs. They work. Chinese contract manufacturers build to the quality level the customer pays for. You want cheap junk, they're happy. You want good, they can. And their native design capabilities are catching up. The US, in contrast, is now mainly an exporter of raw materials -- wood, scrap metal, animal feed. Plus weapons to allies and airplanes, though Boeing's reputation ain't what it used to be.

We don't need bigger models, at this point. What we need is multi-dimensional decomposition, problem space transforms, and the ability for AI to use external tools (such as SQLite, memcached, etc) so that it can externalise static data that it needs to not corrupt accidentally but still keep in easy access.

If we had that, most of the things "bigger models" will do will actually end up being done better, quicker, with fewer compute resources.

Sales tax is a regressive tax. The reason they switched to sales tax is that the Republican party let them do it because the Republican party knew that it was a bad idea. You do it with income tax for fuck sakes. Then you have progressive income tax brackets so that it's fair. Rich people have to live in society and so they have to pay for everybody else's kids to be educated. If they don't like it then they can die with the guillotine because that's coming.

The funny thing is guys like you are going to be the first on the shopping block. A bunch of angry young men are going to show up at your nice suburban home and they're going to fuck shit up. Yeah you'll go ahead and shoot one or two of them but there's going to be like 50 or 100 of them. Then they're going to beat you to death and that'll be the end of you. Hell of a way to spend your final moment so you could ship post on a dumb dying website but hey you do you.

Remember the guillotine doesn't come down just on the ultra wealthy in fact these days it's not even going to touch them because those guys have private armies and they're on touchable. Instead there's going to be chaotic violence and it's going to hit the bourgeoisie which is you and me. Guys who aren't working 60 hours a week just to do have a little food like gen z is. We are the ones who are going to get caught up in all that violence. We aren't going to have private armies to protect us

Honestly the thing they keep leaving out is they catch every one of these guys eventually and throw them in jail for several years. With the way our prison system works they will be brutalized in prison and when they get out if they go back to fighting for freedom the next time they'll do 20 or 30 years.

Hell Donald Trump just sent a bunch of protesters to prison for the rest of their lives for being at a protest. You would think that would be bigger news that a bunch of innocent people who just happened to be activists at a protest or now rotting in prison for their entire lives but it's not. I would wager most people didn't even hear about it

They run in primary elections and they often lose. If they make it out of the primary they lose again. That's because we allow voter suppression and limitless propaganda and we've been underfunding education.

It turns out education is ludicrously expensive when you're trying to teach people who don't just learn everything on their own. In the past we would split kids into two groups the ones who would learn on their own, aka the academically inclined and then the ones who needed to actually be taught. We would take the kids who are academically inclined and make them useful to the Epstein class to build stuff for them and then we would take the rest of them and send them off to factories. Well the factories are full of robots now.

So the cost of education overall has been going up because we can't just kick those kids to the factories and we've been trying to at least get them to the point where they can be semi-functional in society. That is very very expensive. If you look at rich people their kids have the same problems as everybody else's and rich people spend a fuck ton of money educating their kids.

Us poor plebeians don't get to do that because we're not in the Epstein class. So what's been happening is we can't abandon those kids because they get dangerous when they're just wandering around hopeless with no future so we have been forced to pour a bunch of money into teaching them but we don't want to spend that much money so we keep increasing class sizes.

What it comes down to is we got used to being able to only run kids through the school system who are literally just there to be tested to make sure that they could do the jobs we were going to stick them in. We weren't actually educating anyone we were taking people who are educating themselves and then administering tests. And yeah that's going to be pretty damn cheap.

And now we actually have to teach kids or we have to deal with the fact that somebody is sooner or later going to come along and give them weapons and point them at us. But I don't think we want to pay to teach kids so I think we're heading into world War 3.

As are every single security camera in the country. John Oliver brought it up. Anywhere there is money to be made somebody is going to make it and the wealthy want to be able to monitor us 24/7 for control. The wealthy are well, wealthy so they've got money and they're going to buy that footage with the limitless amounts of cash we keep letting them have.

There is a city in California where if you want to open a business you have to put up cameras for your business and then you have to share that footage with the cops on request. Warrants are of course optional because it's all privately managed. They have command centers where they monitor you. The Simpsons did a bit on it and as usual The Simpsons later episodes it wasn't funny but it was fairly accurate.

You don't build a big brother Network in America with government because we spent the last 70 years convincing Americans government bad so that they would leave a giant power vacuum that the Epstein class could fill. Every time somebody discourages you from thinking about and talking about politics notice that it's perfectly okay for your crazy uncle to talk about how great it is to have a billionaire be president of the United States but the moment you talk about giving everyone healthcare and free school lunches suddenly that's political and you need to shut up.

Trouble is the people who want the flock cameras are winning and at this point I don't think we can stop them. They have a pretty solid tactic of using county level voter suppression to win elections and nobody seems to want to do anything about it.