I went to college for filmmaking. Being a field that revolves around communication, we ended up learning some fundamentals of communication theory. By definition, communication happens when the “listener” percieves a message - whether that message was intended or not. No matter how much work and thought you put into your message, if you shout it into the void, it isn’t communication. Likewise, you can say nothing in a room full of people, and still unintentionally communicate just by being seen.

The percieved intelligence of LLMs very much feels like a result of this. There is no intelligence in the machine, we’re just percieving communication from a probability machine, and thinking that it’s intelligent and trying to communicate with us.

Oh I have read and heard about all those things, none of them (to my knowledge) are being done by OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, or any of the large companies fueling the current AI bubble, which is why I call it a bubble. The things you mentioned are where AI has potential, and I think that continuing to throw billions at marginally better LLMs and generative models at this point is hurting the real innovators. And sure, maybe some of those who are innovating end up getting bought by the larger companies, but that’s not as good for their start-ups or for humanity at large.

I hate to say it, but if that’s what it takes to get Nettanyahu and his Zionist cronies turned into red mist, it might be worth it. But also in 2025 I’m not entirely sure anything would happen outside of some “condemnation.”

Unless the Vatican decides to reboot the Crusades, which also sounds about right for this Indiana Jones timeline we’re all living in.

It can be, but sometimes packages are removed from the official repos, but still available in AUR, only running yay -Syu will install the AUR versions of dependencies that are no longer needed, and can leave you with a bunch of unnecessary packages from AUR.

If you run pacman -Syu on its own the unnecessary dependencies will be removed and you won’t get the AUR versions, and then yay -Syu will only update things you actually want from AUR.

They’re probably gonna “90 days” this until the midterms, and then use it as a punishment if the democrats get a majority in congress so they can blame Democrats for higher prices.

I’m using “good” in almost a moral sense. The quality of output from LLMs and generative AI is already about as good as it can get from a technical standpoint, continuing to throw money and data at it will only result in minimal improvement.

What I mean by “good AI” is the potential of new types of AI models to be trained for things like diagnosing cancer, and and other predictive tasks that we haven’t thought of yet that actually have the potential to help humanity (and not just put artists and authors out of their jobs).

The work of training new, useful AI models is going to be done by scientists and researchers, probably on a limited budgets because there won’t be a clear profit motive, and they won’t be able to afford thousands of $20,000 GPUs like are being thrown at LLMs and generative AI today. But as the current AI race crashes and burns, the used hardware of today will be more affordable and hopefully actually get used for useful AI projects.

I firmly believe we won’t get most of the interesting, “good” AI until after this current AI bubble bursts and goes down in flames. Once AI hardware is cheap interesting people will use it to make cool things. But right now, the big players in the space are drowning out anyone who might do real AI work that has potential, by throwing more and more hardware and money at LLMs and generative AI models because they don’t understand the technology and see it as a way to get rich and powerful quickly.

He has taken several months-long breaks and things have been fine. There are other trustworthy devs (like Greg Kroah-Hartman) who he leaves in charge who do just fine at holding the line in his absence. They might not publicly shame bad pull requests as elegantly as Torvolds, but the kernel will probably be fine.

Unfortunately the phone call is the most important thing on my list. Bright side is I might get the house tidied.

This. If the attendant/clerk is telling me about the self checkout, I’m going to assume they don’t want to deal with ringing me up, and I’ll happily handle my own shit even if they are standing there on their phone not “working.”

Now if a manager tells me to use the self checkout? Fuck that, absolutely, I don’t work here. But I’ve got solidarity with the underpaid employees who’d rather not deal with me.

I’m in my 30s and could make 3.8 million last me the rest of my life. Even if I wasn’t good at investing and just put it in an interest checking account earning 1% interest, it would earn 38,000 a year. Which is right around what I make now. There’s two of them, and you do have to account for inflation, but it really wouldn’t be difficult to get 2-3% return on that and still be able to live off the interest alone.

It took me a second to realize you didn’t mean github.

At the very least heavy regulation to prevent unfair practices. Humans will pretty much always optimize the fun out of everything.

Take competitive video games for example, where once something becomes the meta, it’s used and abused until it gets nerfed. But people still play hundreds of games with whatever the most optimal meta is, even if it takes the fun and variety out of the game and makes it boring.

Pretty much every economic system ends up the same way, people figure out the most optimal ways to exploit whatever the system is, take the fun and fairness out of it, and ruin it for anyone who doesn’t want to play by the meta. In an ideal system, there’s strong regulatory systems in place (for example the FTC and the CFPB) that work to balance things and make sure the system works for everyone. But the people who like to optimize the fun out of things have decided they’d like the regulators out of the way so they can go crazy with their exploitation.

I’m still holding out hope that Valve becomes a worker-owned coop when Gaben goes. Internally they’ve been structured that way for years, without traditional “management,” everyone having moving desks where they work on whatever they feel motivated by and most useful at, etc.

It’s not any different from running a random bash script, which is why according to the Arch wiki, users of the AUR should “verify that the PKGBUILD and accompanying files are not malicious or untrustworthy.” That’s also why good AUR helpers ask if you want to look at the PKGBUILD every time you install or update anything, because best practice is to read them every time so you know what it’s doing.

The AUR there for convienience, which means it tends to get used by newbies who really probably shouldn’t be using it. But I also won’t pretend that I follow the guidance every time myself.

Is anyone even working on AGI or have any clue how to get there? Or are we just going to wait a few years, move the goalposts again, and let them call GPT X “AGI”?

Remember their names for Nuremberg Trials v2. All their talk about immigrants bringing crime, and yet they’re all soulless, assholes who lack a shred of empathy, and have convinced themselves they’re “taking out the competition.” Crime is fine with them as long as it’s their friends doing it.

As an aside I’m trying not to legitimize their twisted, racist views of immigrants, so I hope that’s clear in how I wrote this, but I’m also aware that I’m tired and should be asleep, so including this aside in case I didn’t make that clear. Immigrants belong in my country as much as I do (probably more than I do in many cases), and we should be working to treat them better, not worse.

It’s been revised since this edition. I was homeschooled with the “for Christian Schools” textbooks (and was sent to college at the University that produced them) I was just young enough to get the newer editions as they were being rewritten, my cousins who were 4 grades ahead of me weren’t as lucky and had the version shown in the picture. The versions I had were slightly better, they at least didn’t have this particular nonsense in them. But they still all taught a very warped view of science, and I was in my mid-twenties before I stopped believing in Creationism. The last ~10 years since then has taken both a lot of work to learn about reality, but has also been quite a lot of fun. Science is really cool if you aren’t stopping all the time to try to fit God in somehow.

Yeah, but then we have president JD. What we need is for Vance to snap, strangle Trump, get caught by Mike Johnson who he then uses his special anti-pope magic on to keep him quiet. Then in the power vacuum, America discovers we didn’t need a president this whole time, and we spend the next few years getting to know ourselves.

It’s the fantasy political thriller rom-com that could save the American movie industry.

Neither is his friendship with Epstein. Apparently half the country wasn’t paying attention in 2016.