They could’ve had Guillermo del Toro.

Argumentum ad nuh uh.

Horseshit.

Every ‘AI makes you dumb!’ article gives people a tool, and the tool works and makes things easier, and then they take the tool away and people are less keen on doing things the hard way. Like any fucking tool. Give people a multiplication quiz, and yank their calculator away halfway through, and they’ll be surly about longhand math. Give people a geography quiz, and yank their map away halfway through, and they’ll mostly wish you hadn’t done that. Humans offload mental effort to external tools! What a fucking surprise.

This gets dangerous when it’s like, ‘doctors who used AI got worse at detecting cancer,’ and step one is giving doctors an AI that makes them better at detecting cancer, and then you take that away and they’re slightly worse at eyeballing things. Zero popular focus on the first part.

Cult.

Throwback to that time I questioned DRSyourGME, and absolutely nobody had any form of coherent defense.

Recently found out the GameStop in the Dover mall shut down, this year. I’d frequented it when it was still Electronics Boutique. Last time I visited it, it was a sad and sparse clearing-house for Funko Pops, and I didn’t even make a complete loop of the store before noping out. Long gone were the days of naked Game Boy games on a register carousel, let alone 3DFX hardware, or shareware CD-ROMs for a couple bucks. I think the last thing I bought for myself in a GameStop was a copy of Nemesis in Albany circa 2007.

In fairness - they’ve leveled off, since that disastrous thread from three years ago. Fuck knows why.

The Thingamajig.

Religions claim to answer that need. But they’re bullshit. It’s all just made-up, and the made-up bullshit somehow means minorities don’t get civil rights.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

"China is good!’

“I disagree.”

Removed by mod

How high, sir?

Right, it’s bad when one country invades another out of nowhere, like for flimsy historical excuses to use their land.

Fish attacks mirror.

I could hold up a blank sign and you’d parrot the same script about “fantasy.”

“We can’t moderate you for applying our rhetoric consistently unless you explicitly say which camp you mean!”

There are other ways it might work, like if there is a method of compression that is discovered that reduces the necessary RAM and Compute needs by 2-3 orders of magnitude. So models that are considered very large today (100-300 billion params at full quality) might be able to run effectively on a single 32GB GPU that costs a few thousand dollars.

You might want to check in on how well distilled / quantized models are doing, compared to gigundo datacenter versions.

Yes, wouldn’t it be terrible if one country claimed the entire territory of another.

They’re fucked.

Local models are already winning. Those benchmarked a year behind the biggest of big boys, a year ago. Six months ago they were six months behind. Yesterday Qwen released 3.6 27B and it outperforms 3.5 397B… from February.

Either we’re plateauing toward the asymptotic limit of LLM capabilities, and the endgame runs as well on a toaster as it does on a server - or breakthroughs use big fat models as a glorified search space to be rapidly discarded. Both options point toward neural networks as a lump of algebra that sits on your hard drive and occasionally spins your fans. Remote computing loses, as it basically always must, and the drastically reduced requirements for competing on local software favor clever new competitors who aren’t a bajillion dollars in debt.

‘It’s not any kind of independent intelligence, it’s just a mirror.’

‘Also we need to censor the mirror.’

Crime.

It’s not tunneling, it’s capacitance. Even truly disconnected components can accidentally become a transformer.

“我们现在必须建立圈子。”