F for Fuck

D for Dystopian, or for Disaster?

Alright Linux guys… how much RAM do you use on a normal day? Not looking at you power guys who are running every damn thing to max out your 128GB…

I have 32GB but rarely hit over 8GB, probably less, unless I’m running some serious apps like graphics.

I got that 32GB because of Win10 to give me more comfort room. Now I don’t need it as much running Linux.

If we take that approach with any change, that it might be possible but it also could fail or become corrupt, then we’re just going to spin wheels. Like we’re doing. We have to change something, this isn’t working.

UBI isn’t viable without other changes, but it’s just an improvement of various welfare systems, just without all the paperwork and exceptions. “Too expensive” is usually the excuse thrown around, which is funny given the news of how much killing or disappearing people is costing, all because some person in the White House needs a distraction.

See, that’s how you make actual users buy the badges. Now to be considered not AI you have to put money up. Who wins? Spotify does. And they don’t even have to make verification all that thorough, just enough to say they tried to filter out the worst of the bots.

The thumbnail didn’t do it justice. That’s a nice model. And given the time period, handmade, so even more impressive.

All pay rates (not just minimum wage) should be tied to inflation, so any raises are on top of that adjustment. That would of course bankrupt all companies (is what they’ll say).

Doesn’t fix the topic, but it does address the real wage increase of practically nothing.

“Lovely plumage”

I guess it’s a social thing, when you’d rather just do the thing and be done with it vs. extra interactions. Sort of what the character does, if there had been two trout then the encounter would have been done with and no potential drama of making the wrong choices.

And in the end if she just got the one fish, she may have been told when she got back, “that’s fine” and all the drama was inside her head all along.

Is it unreasonable to not have a few what-ifs in situations like this? My SO gets annoyed when I build up a tree of conditions, but why not be prepared, as it’s possible things aren’t as perfect as assumed. Also, my mind in reading that passage kept thinking, if this is the only source for fish, then get what they have, but can’t you get two smaller ones for the same price (they usually are sold by weight, afaik)? Maybe being too analytical of a fiction piece is a sign of something…

AGI might use LLM tech in their process, but LLMs by themselves aren’t going to become aware. What happened is LLM tech became a gold mine, some who were doing AGI research jumped on it instead, and others followed. There is certainly still AGI research going on somewhere, but it’s buried by the race to… something. The biggest problem I see, outside of the need for profit guiding all this, is that what they are building has become so complex they don’t really understand it fully, they just keep finding ways to tack on things to get to some higher level without knowing why it works (or why it will break).

And while LLMs aren’t AGI, they still have the issue of misalignment, even without a self-awareness. We’ve seen early on the misdirection to obtain a goal, and the models now are more sophisticated. Maybe it’s not their own goal, but a misunderstood goal that they’ll say and do anything to get to.

Good thing we’re not putting them in control of important things, or full access to systems, right? Right?

A long password made of different parts that you can remember in your head is far more secure than any manager that can get hacked.

Stealing is bad, but I have to appreciate the ingenuity. Also, that’s only about what, four sets?

And someone who did something important.

What you do with your life isn’t tied to either of those.

That’s one of the weak points of the idea. Things just don’t drop to the bottom of the ocean, there are layers that separate the waters. So to sequester the carbon as permanently as possible takes energy to get through all of that. The other issue is feeding this growth. It won’t grow without an input of fertilizer, and that requires more infrastructure and energy use, plus depletes those resources elsewhere. There is no solution to this. Even the real direction that we should take, reduction of emissions, has costs that are bad for lots of people.

This isn’t a suggestion of inaction, just a note of realism, since the post is framed in the tone of “here’s something no one knows about” that will solve things.

However sometimes it’s better to put it down for a while and go to something else. Just like with anything, you can get burned out and fixated on details, redoing things over and over in a circle.

Porn hasn’t helped it either. It’s a popular topic but you only see the brief moments and not the after, and like you said, it takes both compatible people AND an agreement on expectations. One person strays from that, and you’ve messed things up for probably everyone involved with each other. I think it would only work if each person cared for the others at the same level, and not one being an “extra”.

I met my wife 40 years ago simply from a casual message that I could have missed or ignored. The thing you have to remember is, it’s not that you had some destiny together that you almost lost out on, but that it’s simply how things worked out, and if you’re happy with it, it worked well.

See Tim Minchin’s “If I Didn’t Have You” song.

That’s been their business model for a while now. “Here’s something you also didn’t ask for”