Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on do you think agi will be achieved? 1 day ago:
I think it’s inevitable.
I also think it won’t be possible on our current kind of computing hardware.The software of the human mind, seems a byproduct of the structure of the human brain. I think a major revolution in processor design and manufacturing tech will be needed. It’ll need some fundamentally new form. Closer to an ASIC or FPGA processor to run with any kind of reasonable efficiency. But it’ll have to be truly 3 dimensional, not just layers of 2d processors. It’ll also need to be extremely low power.
LLMs are as close as we have right now, and they have miles to go. But they need hundreds of times more power than the brain does. No it won’t be soon and it won’t be with this kind silicon processors.
- Comment on Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used? 5 days ago:
In some ways yes, others no.
In what way are you thinking? - Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 5 days ago:
I’m an X-Ray tech at a University hospital with Level 1 trauma. It’s a lot of physical work. A few miles a day of walking, pushing x-ray plates under patients, moving patients to and from the table. It’s also cognitive work, problem solving. Deciding what order to do exams in. Coming up with a way to get the image when the patient can’t move properly. Do we need extra images due to a fracture, or fewer images because the patient says only this part hurts, not the whole arm that was ordered?
I can say to everyone, any job you can do for 8 hours, you can do 50% longer. It’s surprising.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 5 days ago:
When I tell people I work 3 days, 12 hour shifts. They say something like “That’s way too long I could never do that.”
They don’t think about the fact that I get a 4 day long weekend… EVERY WEEK!
I could never go back to a 5 day schedule. - Comment on About bajoran's actors makeup 1 week ago:
Well that’s a personal judgment. It doesn’t matter really, does it?
- Comment on About bajoran's actors makeup 1 week ago:
Almost everything about TV makup has changed since then.
Those looks in the 80s & 90s were designed for SD broadcast on CRT televisions. Today’s 4K HDR TVs are substantially better in every way. You don’t need to push the makup as far for it to look good.
Also tastes have changed. In the 80s and 90s bold colorful looks were much more common and popular. Today, not so much. The trend is for natural looking makup. Shows and movies reflect the tastes of their time.
So yah, TV character makup has changed a lot over the last 35 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Neither does this. You just don’t know about it yet.
What exactly is this, that I don’t know about? And how does Moore’s Law apply?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The artificial computer wasn’t so much a scientific breakthrough as a conceptual one. It didn’t require anything that didn’t already exist.
The quantum computer does exist. And it’s functional principles are built on physics not engineering. It’s a fundamentally different situation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The concept of a general computer didn’t exist in 1927. Once it did, yes it was predicted and expected they would get smaller, more powerful, efficient, and common. There was no physics getting in the way of it.
- Comment on To quote a movie: Why is it when a person in the military dies we feel some sympathy for, but if someone killed a mayor or senator everyone loses their minds? 1 week ago:
Plan might be the wrong word. Intended Norm might be a better term.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As there have been many scientific breakthroughs to get to where we are now with smartphones.
Those were a long series of inevitable predictable progress.
This isn’t a matter of ordinary engineering challenges to be overcome. What I’m talking about is something that upends our understanding of reality. Not just an evolution of what we already know, but a revolution that changes almost everything about our understanding of how the universe works.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m pretty careful with absolute words like that.
There will need to be some major breakthrough in fundamental physics or material science to get the cooling apparatusuch smaller than it is. That’s highly unlikely.And quantum computing at higher temps won’t work because the nature if it requires the atoms being measured to have zero resting energy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They need to be cooled to absolute zero. The hardware to do that weighs a couple thousand pounds. There’s no real way quantum computers will ever be portable, or even home units.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Generally speaking (not just computing)
Front facing or Frontend is what the end user sees and interacts with. The public side of a system.
Backend is the hidden part of the system that allows the front actually do the things people want it to. - Comment on Why do people say "my taxes" 1 week ago:
Who else’s taxes do you pay?
Are you paying taxes for everyone?
Or do you only pay the taxes you owe? - Comment on 1 week ago:
In a truly open market with socialist rules, YouTube wouldn’t have enshitified.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Some of the devs do. I don’t know any people famous for being on Lemmy yet. It’s too small still, and network effects keep people on the larger services. But does any of that mean it’s not possible? No
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You say that on a social media platform built by volenteers, doing it for donations. People do things for lots of reasons, money is only one of them. And not even the strongest for most people.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not realy. Like Manhattan it has roads for cars, but it kinds sucks. Much better on foot until you get out of the city.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Those are details that can be organised on a company by company basis. It could be built into the original encorperation contract. I’d expect an automatic union would be created amd get some portion of the company over time based on milestones or simply time. It can done countless ways.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You should check out Cyberpunk 2077
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Yes. They would own it. So would the rest of their employees.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How far do you want to take this? Companies exist. They still would in a socialist economy.
Nobody is talking about a post scarcity world where money doesn’t exist, and nobody hast to work for a living.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To YouTube still. Which is now owned by all the Google employees.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Socalism is when people who work at a company, own the company, and share in the profits. But not everyone will want to do that. Some will still want to do their own thing. They’d be paid by people (viewers in this case) same as we do now.
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No. Even in a socialist utopia, there’ll still be “influencers” who become famous online.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Wanting a different world, doesn’t mean you don’t have to live in this one for now. There is no contradiction here.
- Comment on Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player? 1 week ago:
It’s almost certainly just your thinking different about the music. There could be real effects. Different masterings, different DAC in the old player. But those are less likely than it just being your own perception of music you own vs stream.
- Comment on SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says 1 week ago:
Nvidia has a current market cap of $5.2T (largest in the world) making it 7.6% of the S&P500. I’m sure that’s the point you were trying to make, but we aren’t talking about Nvidia.
If we assume Morningstar is wrong and SPCX realy is worth $1.8T, then it will become roughly 2.6% of the S&P. If they’re right, it’ll be closer to 1.3%.
In my 403(b) I’m 50% international, 40% extended US market, and only 10% S&P500. I’ve been expecting the AI bubble to pop this year, so I moved my money away from Nvidia and the Magnificant 7. It’s been good for me so far. YTD I’m up 14.2%, while the S&P is up 11.7%. Nvidia in my portfolio is only 0.78%
- Comment on SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t worry too much. Index only update every quarter at most. They won’t be buying in at the IPO.
It’ll also be a very small portion of their holdings when they do buy in.