Umbrias
@Umbrias@beehaw.org
I exist or something probably
- Comment on China begins assembling its supercomputer in space 1 week ago:
Hm, that is unexpected. obviously that doesnt include the full manufacturing carbon cost of a rocket but it’s probably close enough anyway.
- Comment on China begins assembling its supercomputer in space 1 week ago:
not even a little, but matrioshka brains are cool
- Comment on China begins assembling its supercomputer in space 1 week ago:
i highly doubt 10 years is even remotely close to breaking even on a rocket launch.
- Comment on FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs 1 week ago:
many techbros think this unironically and do hire preferentially asian male employees. google famously got in trouble for this.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 1 week ago:
it’s criticized in general as a dark pattern that encourages toxic habits and is anti consumer. it is secondarily a problem because aint nobody got time for that shit.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
why do you care that someone didnt say it was worse enough? “x is a problem, if y is true then z is a problem” -> “why didnt you talk about x”
silly.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
Because these are often sold with profile building features, for example, recall. Recall is sold as “local only” with profile building features. So it continues to be centralized pii that is a point of failure. As the quote says, as i said.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
I don’t care if your language model is “local-only” and runs on the user’s device. If it can build a profile of the user (regardless of accuracy) through their smartphone usage, that can and will be used against people.
emphasis mine from the text you quoted…
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
building and centralizing pii is indeed a privacy point of failure. what’s not to understand?
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 3 weeks ago:
if you put the people making translation possible out of work, you will run out of sources for useful translations.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 3 weeks ago:
they cant actually but it’s convincing enough that you’ll think it’s the same, and in the process make it financially impossible for improvements to be made by actual translators.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
Yes we agree on the first part.
I will again direct you here re: the second.
Where is the world model you maintain? Can you point to it? You can’t - because the human mind is very much a black box just the same way as LLM’s are.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
It’s not really factually correct if you want to get pedantic, both brains and llms are called black boxes for different reasons, but this is ultimately irrelevant. Your motive may be here or there, the rhetorical effect is the same. You are arguing very specifically that we cant know llm’s dont hae similar features (world model) to human brains because “both are black boxes”, which is wrong for a few reasons, but also plainly an equivalence. It’s rude to pretend everyone in the conversation is as illiterate as wed need to be to not understand this point.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
Where is the world model you maintain? Can you point to it? You can’t - because the human mind is very much a black box just the same way as LLM’s are.
something being a black box is not even slightly notable a feature of relation, it’s a statement about model detail; the only reason you’d make this comparison is if you want the human brain to seem equivalent to llm.
for example, you didnt make the claim: “The inner workings of Europa are very much a black box, just the same way as LLM’s are”
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
Not understanding the brain (note: said world model idea is something of a fabrication by the ai people, brains are distributed functional structures with many parts and roles) is not an equality with “ai” make. brains and llm do not function in the same way, this is a lie peddled by hype dealers.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 4 weeks ago:
i see, the computer version of a prehensile tail…
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
depends entirely on the kind of drive.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
This is generally in line with ice, the drivetrain efficiencies anymore are in the high 90%s (applies to ev too), so from engine out you are losing basically everything to drag.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 5 weeks ago:
no, i mean theoretically who knows, but practically no. compressing something to be more dense than a solid is energy intense. you are surpassing the bond energy of moleculesto do it. second, compressing enough osmium is going to take less, but still bigajoules, of energy. the compressive stress is immense. anything that could hold thht stress is much too big to fit in the package.
- Comment on succession 5 weeks ago:
it kinda does both, there are more mice but the more naturalized habitat gives them more places to hide that isnt your house, especially in the spring/summer fall, but winter too. I dont know, others get mice all the time anyway, we occasionally do, i dont know if it’s an improvement or not. I do know that a well sealed house in the woods with totally native habitat for acres (not mine sadly, lol) has far fewer pests than in any suburb house so i think there’s merit.
- Comment on The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy” 5 weeks ago:
an attempt was made
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 5 weeks ago:
they are indeed very alien it’s true. And i suppose, i just dont really want people thinking bees are immune to smoke or other airborne toxin.
Another fun fact is that bee flight muscles are directly saturated with oxygen and have a power density comparable to helicopters. The whole bee in flight is comparable to a car. Crazy creatures.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 5 weeks ago:
am i the only one who notices that this logic makes no sense? it doesnt matter that they have no lungs, they still are susceptible to both heat and airborn toxins, they perform gas exchange. They lived because the heat and smoke were below toxic levels for them.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 1 month ago:
You ninja’d me lol. but that’s a good point about the interference.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 1 month ago:
many eyes are near the diffraction limit (for human sized eyes the diffraction limit is around 20/10 vision). To have better accuity you factually need larger eyes. Although it’s the size of the lens that matters more than pupil size strictly. The pupil modifies the lens optics but the lens determines the limit.
- Comment on OpenAI Finalizes $40 Billion Funding at $300 Billion Valuation 1 month ago:
Here’s a recent reuters report. reuters.com/…/ghibli-effect-chatgpt-usage-hits-re…
160 million active users is quite literally worse than many mobile games developed for a tens of, maybe hundreds of thousands of, usd. 160 million active users for 40 billion funding (they have needed more than this, but i cant be assed to go tally their funding) means theyve spent $250 per user, and their costs only grow as people use it. That is not including the massive server time subsidies Azure has provided them. This is not a profitable company and never will be.
“Block Blast” on the google play store has 40 million daily active users, 160 million monthly, and the studio has around 30 people. Its revenue from ads alone is in the tens of millions per month if this case study is accurate. Oai claims their monthly revenue in the hundreds of millions… with operating costs at greater hundreds of millions. oai profit is negative, with no signs of improving without entirely changing their business plan.
- Comment on OpenAI Finalizes $40 Billion Funding at $300 Billion Valuation 1 month ago:
except that “get em hooked for free” part isnt working, nor is the “then make money” part.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 2 months ago:
It’s not a strict rule, sex science is a thing that can be done with ethical review same as other medical research. the commenter im not sure is giving an accurate picture of this topic.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 2 months ago:
and now neural networks are suddenly the preposterous advance? Nonsense.
voice generators and generative ai are built with the intent of replacing artists, your incredibly reductive “history lesson” funnily illustrates only situations distinct from the current situation and you gloss over making any specific claims about the technology, just broad vagary about the trajectories of technological advancement. I dont think you are equipped to discuss this topic honestly.
luddites are corporate propaganda
??? actually just a plainly absurd statement. this isnt even worth responding to it’s so absurdly incorrect.
Yes yes ubi, but “technological labor amplification” in this case is driving human artists out of the market. make specific claims, quit hiding behind vague generalizations about automation. it’s a waste of everyone’s time and terminates your train of thought before you get to something relevant.
We can discuss further if you make an effort to understand this topic, but so far you are just speaking largely in cliches that arent worth responding to and arent worth your time writing.
- Comment on we are stardust 2 months ago:
many people, most actually, “do taxes” to file for a return. if they do not, they likely miss out on hundreds to thousands of dollars that were automatically collected with their paycheck that they did not owe. this is free to do, others linked freetaxusa, for example.