Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
I can answer the “let alone 100” part: they get sold as cubes of 216, 512, 1000 tiny magnet balls, or as packs of 80, 100, 200, etc. tiny magnets.
Why would anyone swallow them… the sale is restricted to 13+ or 18+ in most places, but some (including parents) are unaware of the dangers, and they go for like $2 for 100pcs.
Using a complex GPT-4o prompt, they sought to pull out tweets that focused on “superficial topics”
Wait a moment… They asked an LLM, to tell them what was “junk”, and another LLM, trained on what an LLM marked as junk, turned out to be a junk LLM?
It talks about model collapse, but this smells like research collapse.
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Yes. The issue is the accepted belief (among professionals) that “IQ doesn’t change through life”… which is nice as a goal to develop a less biased “ideal IQ test”, but also a really bad preconception when evaluating actual IQ test results.
There are many preconceptions like that in psychology, they need a periodic kick in the butt from actual data.
The problems found on an IQ test are of a very specific nature. “Complete the following number sequence”, “Which of these shapes doesn’t belong”, etc.
A full IQ test has more kinds of problems than that, some of them more open ended and with multiple possible answers. It’s still kind of a mess, the tests need to be kept secret to have any value, and the interpretations of what is a valid answer, are sometimes dubious.
The problem comes from people responding to them, in communities that are text-first. You can flag a person as a troll… but unless you ban them, then eventually the discussions spill over.
Overwatch doesn’t have that same issue, because text is not at its core; you can mute people, and keep playing the game. Game-disrupting players though, still get banned.
That would work, if it wasn’t individuals who don’t see others as people. The moment someone dehumanizes others, there are dedicated professional who can babysit them back to sanity.
No matter how much epoxy you put on a broken condom, it’s not going to work. The moment ads get sent via the same encrypted “tunnel”/connection as the service, you can no longer separate them at the network level.
I downloaded Sora.
Not Sora, Sora’s app. Sora is a cloud service.
And if the business model of open AI is advertising
It’s not, it’s to sell AI services to other businesses.
Cuz the business model was supposed to be 40% of people lose their jobs
Was not, it was always to sell AI services to other businesses. Marketing hyperbole… that’s marketing for you.
in that world, maybe maybe it’s worth half a trillion dollars. In that world, maybe Nvidia is worth the entire pharmaceutical industry combined.
The largest breakthrough in AI so far, is precisely its use in the pharmaceutical industry.
But Nvidia is definitely not worth the entire pharmaceutical industry combined
No, it’s worth more.
if the business model is making slop talk worse by putting slop advertisements into it.
It’s not. Not to say there won’t be advertisements, and propaganda, and manipulation… that’s just an extra, not the business model.
I’m scrolling Martin Luther King Jr. going 67. Like, that’s got to be illegal somehow. Like, I’m pretty sure that you can’t just do that.
It was not, is not, and public domain is public domain for a reason.
Asking for something else, is censorship, like what Trump is asking for right now.
The friction matters. How easy it is to do this stuff matters.
Censorship talk again.
And then they put like a little watermark here that’s like extraordinarily easy to crop out. It’s never in the middle. It’s always at the top or the bottom.
Plenty of videos out there with the watermark right in the middle.
They shouldn’t be in charge of the kind of thing that could literally by their own admission destroy humanity.
Hook, line, and sinker. More marketing hype.
$8.76/kWh is a terrible fucking investment
Not kWh, it says watts not watt-hours.
Still a silly way to refer to computing power, though.
Ragebait misinformation video.
Funny that it’s criticizing misinformation, while doing it himself 😒
There is a long history of artists "pushing the envelope… by self-deprecating and making “statements” about how ridiculous the market for art is.
You don’t get to shove Dada, a Campbell’s soup can, canned “artist’s shit”, a black square on a canvas, a pile of trash, a shirt on a coat hanger, a self-shredding copy of a graffiti, and thousands of similar examples, all under the same label as the Louvre, illustrators, writers, etc… then magically have people value all artistic work.
There has been continuous, serious, self-damage done to the concept of “art”, and now come the consequences: the general public, thinks the value of art is close to $0, and that’s what they’re willing to pay.
Coincidentally, AI companies allow anyone to get “better than literal shit” art done for $0… so… 🤷
Customer perception of the value of art in general. You don’t get to call it all art, without muddying the perception.
Rule 1 of crypto: “Not your keys, not your money”
There is a reason why cold wallets are a thing.
“artists don’t deserve a living wage” or “they don’t do real art”
Blame the “Modern Art” movement, where a black square, or canned literal shit, can be worth millions.
At some point, people realized that they don’t need real art, just to decorate an office or house space with “artsy looking” stuff, so they went on a chase to the bottom. That used to be random people from third world countries working for peanuts… now it’s LLMs and GenAI working for fractions of peanuts.
Same thing has been going in all areas. Who needs a slab of real ice (from a mountain) for their fridge, when they can get fake ice much easier, for a fraction of the cost.
Silence protest, yes. “Involuntary lethal injection”… not yet.
Appearances, preconceptions, stereotypes… are shortcuts used to deal with complex issues. Since VCs don’t really care about 90% of the startups, they only need to weed out the worst ideas, in the quickest way possible.
Story time: When I was 20, I had some job interviews lined up, so a family friend helped me pick a decent looking suit and robe that weren’t too expensive. Got offered 3 different jobs in a single week 🤷
As long as you can re-disable it after playing the game…
I know, all background processes get impacted during gameplay, but that was the case already. The popup can explain the tradeoff, and who’s to blame (game dev).
Me. Tiny strong magnets, are good for reasonably strong attraction at short distances. Uses so far:
They should always be securely glued in place, though.
I’ve seen people use thinner ones, inside the lid of a gift box, as a latch. Also as a magnet for a LED throwie.
The problem, is stupidity like this:
Science for Kids: DIY Magnetic LED Lights
Don’t let dumb kids anywhere near them! 🤦