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Cry more, liberal!

Would you care to rationally explain how Trump is involved in this story?

Now now, be fair. If he can't shout nonsensical political slogans at people, he can't participate because he doesn't know how.

We're all striving to be inclusive!

My suspicion is that with the Ram crisis in full swing, we're likely to see a lot of companies pulling back from the "We have 16gb as our baseline now!" mentality. And we really dont know how long this RAM crisis will be lasting for as there just doesnt seem to be new fabs coming online to resolve it, for now.

We're all just waiting for the AI bubble to burst. God knows I am. Had to spec up an upgrade to 512gb for our HPE servers at wortk the other day, and good lord have prices gotten obnoxious. The budget we put into those upgrades for this year wont come close to covering it. This shit will be gnawing on a lot of companies bottom lines.

Heres the thing. I had to borrow recently my girlfriends 8gb Mac M1 air with 8gb ram for a week while my 32gb M2 pro was in repairs after the cat managed to knock it off a desk and crack the screen.

I was fully expecting it to be a frustrating experience with limited functionality. I write code, and run a lot of complex apps.

But ...... it ran just fine? It chugged a few times, though most of my compilation is on a linux dev server which spared me that use case.

But the apps I ran, it ran just fine, smooth and fairly snappy. These Mac Neos are significantly faster than that. While they really are intended as just email/browsing/media consumption devices, they also have a use case as laptops for kids who need or want a mac for schoolwork and they'll do that just fine, but it turns out a lot of the requirements for that sort of work are pretty much the same requirements someone who spends their days inside Office 365, or in my case Jetbrains IDEs will require.

I remember proving to myself that it works as well as he did by sorting a deck of cards using the method. I was shocked at how quickly it worked. I rarely ever have to roll my own sort, the library ones work better than good, but when I do, its always a quicksort, just because its one I know works and works well. Its not the fastest, but it IS fast.

Yep that seems to work.

I really don't enjoy having ads promising to eliminate my job. Do better slashdot....

For a lot of the tasks people want to use them for, its worse than useless.

The task I'm using it for is as an opinionated search engine, and I think everyone agrees LLMs are pretty good at that, when not hallucinating, that is.

Loudly support terrorists or terrorist organizations or smuggle drugs, and consequences should indeed find you anywhere in the world.. regardless of your profession.

A friend got turned around at the border because he posted on facebook that he wasnt particularly fond of trump.

My dude. This is not "Consequences" , this is a war on free speech.

Mind you Threads actually DID implement ActivityPub

And got met by 3/4 of the mastodon network going "Oh hell no, keep your weird boomers out of our network, facebook" and blocked. I tried looking up the threads account my instagram account auto-created on mastodon, and there was nothing. Turns out the admin of my mastodon account blocked it to keep out the stupid facebook AI slop that besets the facebook , er meta I mean, networks.

Well they where GOING to do that, until they encountered a fandom even more fanatic. The Trump administration.

Break up a billionare company? Not under this administration!

I'm not sure people see EA as entirely "desirable" to work for. Just that its an AAA and for folks that want AAA on their resume then ....... well its better than hammering away on a Godot platformer in the bedroom while eating catfood and fighting off landlord eviction attempts..

I suspect most game devs if you ask them where they'd like to work would tell you Larian, Rockstar, MAYBE Ubisoft f they are interested in godlike project management (Ubisoft pump out a whole new Assasins creed every year.) something like that. But EA? Well I guess its still a AAA studio, but nobody goes in thinking it wont be a fucking nightmare.

Its AAA for 20yos wanting their first real big boy studio.

Bingo. I suspect thats exactly what they are doing.

They are looking at Fortnite where Epic is *still* making money hand over fist and recording 700K concurrent player counts close to a decade after release and thinking that sure seems like cheaper money.

Of couse they are missing that Fortnite is still actively worked on (Its the codebase against which the Unreal Engine is dogfooded) and 2026 fortnite is practically a whole different game than 2017 fortnite.

Also Am I the only person that finds the idea that 2017 is nearly a decade ago a bit uncomfortable? God I hate getting old.

Except thats nots whats happening here. They had them declared a "supply chain risk". That means that *any* company doing *any* business with the government are forbidden from *any* dealing with them. Its a designation designed for comanies like Huwei that are run by the chinese government. Its not designed for use to let the military threaten american companies that if they dont weaponise their product they can't even sell to the company that sells toilet rolls to the forestry service.

Regardless, this designation is fundamentally lawless in this case, violates anthropics first ammendment rights and ammounts to a bill of attainder so iI suspect its highly unlikely that the court wont throw this out.

Oh this ones a no-brainer, and I predicted it the moment I heard. There are constitution prohibitions on bills of attainder and long long judicial precedent against malicious targetting of individual or companies using the power of the state. Furthermore the president and hegseth both have quite publically expressed this designation as essentially a blackmail threat demanding Anthropic forfeit their constitutionally protected right to free association and expression or they'd be commercially sunk if they dont aquiesse.

This will be a walk in the park for anthropic and it would be *very* weird if they don't win.

No, but these devices do get used a LOT commercially.. A 512gb mac is a fantastic device for certain tasks, including as mentioned local AI.

Friend of mine uses a 256gig mac as an AI agent for processing forms in his law practice. No, its not doing lawyers stuff,, rather he's using an AI model and a python script (that I wrote for him), to sort documents and characterize the contents then store indexes to them in a vector database so he can come in later and find them. Since his job regularly involves discovery requests involving hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, this is a huge timesaver.

So by "consumer" read "not datacenter"

This only instills a false sense of what these things actually are into the minds of users leading to false expectations technically infeasible to fulfill. LLMs are in reality MechaHitler dressed up to look like a helpful assistant.

Be that as it may, Google used to have an AI safety team until shortly before OAI dropped GPT3 one of its members went a bit nutty and tried to hire bard a lawyer because he was convinced it was conscious. The bad publicity basically led to google firing its safety team. Thats a problem, because even if you can't properly "align" it, that safety team would at least be telling you to beef up measures to detect suicidal or mentally ill users and alert the company. OAI do that, Anthropic do that, why doesn't Google? I'd argue of all the AI companies, Google are the most reckless of the lot. I mean for fuck sake look at the carnage those AI summaries have done to the content industries. They released a lobotomized idiot onto the internet who'll tell people to add glue to their cheese pizzas and eating rocks for a healthy diet of vitamins and minerals, whilst simultaenously destroying the SEO of websites that hire thousands of people.