Comment Re:The only risk (Score 1) 40
And I thought the only risks to citizen yeomanry were ghetto bitch-ratchets Waters. AOC, Crockett & Omar
Comment Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Score 1) 40
Damnation ... Canada? I thought I dictated.... " only Manhattan, Portland, Chicago , Dearborn and La. ... and don't hit any churches." It's HRs fault ... a Biden leftover ... but you know how tough it is getting a real secretary to use Microsoft products ?
Comment Re:nice.... (Score 1) 86
One person in the world knows how to repair H-400 based AI data-centers. One person ... he's French, lives in Normandy and does not speak degenerate languages like English or Chinese. That Frenchman -- currently on leave at the Sorbonne -- works repairing 18-th Century wooden silk-looms and has your place on his work schedule for next January. Payment in gold bars or raw diamonds accepted.
Comment Re: Welcome our new overlords (Score 2) 86
I think you said the magic words: "Fast forward ten or twenty years..." . Maybe then AI becomes a generally reliable tool ... like a screwdriver or bastard. The danger now is that major AI companies have spent SO much money on a flaky product with meager returns to user. Those AI-companies are trying to force LLM results as "correct" ... by definition ... so AI products can be sold that give "correct" results. Like Mao and Stalin, AI-companies argue that not all truths need to be correct, just consistent. I believe that's a special case of "enshitification". Worth noting ... post-modern companies are "Jainsinist/Manechian " in nature ... that is a company HATES to see workers get pleasure from production . So coding ... done like writing 15-th Century blank verse ... is considered a great evil. Better to force coders into depression & pain; into writing mind-fucking PROMPTS ... kinda like writng RegEX all day.
Comment Re:so what, classism is killing people (Score 1) 60
Why are you fearful? I'm actually ... a retired academic. But, yes I have worked at private industry you could not imagine; earned returns for stockholders that paid my wage. I've won grants at uni and taught your children Maxwells Equations; prefer paleo/craft fly-tying to hipster coke-sniffing. Straight white Christian so never sucked a cock. Honestly, I do not understand your fear.
Comment Re:so what, classism is killing people (Score 1) 60
"... our planet rich people are evil ..." Envy your betters much ? Live for hate? Rather than toxic spew why not build one (1) item of material value for yourself or others . Tye a dry-fly, code a better "clippy", sculpt a wooden pot-holder, forge a paring knife, find compactified spaces, weave a sit-upon ... . Physical and cultural evolution has spent seven million years preparing you to be useful. Success of our race depends creation of that next "hand axe". Choose life.
Comment Re:We could just require the data centres to pay (Score 1) 43
Well spoken. And LLM is not a public service ... like water or sewage ... that benefits all. LLMs will benefit nitches & a very very select few.
Comment Re:That logic ends badly (Score 1) 138
Nailed it. But, how many /. readers know the name "Khmer Rouge"? Many will think it's some kind of womans' makeup.
Comment Re:OpenAI hasn't laid off tens of thousands worker (Score 1) 47
Human labor -- especially skilled human labor -- historically generated and supported capitol and the large industries evolved. Capitol pays labor to produce value. That's Western history. A minority ... but not a small minority .. of post-modern economists, financial institutions and hyper-wealthy believe something different. They believe that all human labor --- guilds & crafts excepted -- even doctors and lawyers will be replaced with *.ai . It's not a fad, not a phantom , but a 100% roll of the dice; these people have bet the shit-off-their back that *.ai/LLM will rule the future, rule everything including your wifes LED-flashing dildo. These foresighted folks will lay-off almost everyone today ... and every last man and women tomorrow. If their bet wins ! Make no mistake ... they have no "fallback" position. It's everything or nothing to them. Do regular humans have a say? Of-course ... we just ram our "purchase choice" steel spear right up their azzwhole and bleed them out. But ... we must make that decision .. and ignore all the ads pimping *.ai as sovereign solution for all our issues. /rant
Comment Re:When something appears to be too good to be tru (Score 1) 47
Fear ? With government willing/anxious to be the lender-of-last-resort for big companies they can take an chance with nothing to fear. If his friend eats a cookie, he orders a lemon cake. Like a rich families spoiled child he lacks the discipline which in fact he doesn't need.
Comment Re:A Graphics and Compute card company (Score 1) 47
Designed to the gold miners form .. that a successful pick axe and company. Too bad most Nvidia pick axes have handles too short or too long ... for the common gold miner. As if they had arm-lengths like a NBA hero ! Are we thinking gamr-boiz and AI-clouds ? /silly metaphor
Comment pal in the business (Score 1, Flamebait) 88
I have a different take on the AI disruption. For unsupported home users of modern Linux use of an "AI-adviser" is necessary. Both of my Ubuntu systems went down this week, and only the *.ai from a major company allowed me to make repairs. Complexity makes trouble-shooting modern Linux impossible ... in the AI-aided trouble-shooting I ran into so many Linux micro-"horrors" that only another computer could deal with them. Took about 30 hours over 4 days ... the *.ai never complained and I thought the intensity was pretty amusing ... I mean just two self-built home computers with decent cpu/gpu combos. WTF! When I first tried Linux you got the CD-disks, wound them up and you had a default working system. Not so now ... so AI will find a place on every home-Linux users computer . Now, is that a disruption or a practical service? I'd pay for it !
Comment Re:Cut lives saving USAID and spread job killing A (Score 0) 49
Nine million .. eh . And the USA is responsible for them because of ... reasons ? Twenty million American CITIZENS live in poverty; maybe they should get 1st-focus from the government they defend and finance. Oh yeah --- poor Americans pay taxes to the IRS.
Comment Re:Not a gun nut! (Score 1) 123
Absolutely true, but USA voters rejected Biden and His au' pair Kamala. Guess it's important many states ( government & culture ) encourage gun ownership at all levels.
Comment Re:Something big is happening (Score 1) 85
Very well written ... over-written I'd say. Skilled propaganda. Sounds like this guy has LOTS of stock options to dump. A true take-home message would be: computers will soon run themselves. That's a good thing, for such human-toxic devices; creating human coders/architects is a form of child abuse. Humans are concrete, analog,iterative, heuristic, intuitive, approximating, emotional, value-defining creatures. The field, sea, forest , work-bench or guild-shop is their natural habitat. Good fortune will allow our return to that "paradise" while toxic ( think mental Cyanide ) digital machinery takes care of its own.
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