Because they can’t read German or English

Non-native (Dutch) here. Here goes: Lama with one L will refer to the Dalai Lama. Llama is the animal. But if you say ‘three el lama’ in a Boston accent it will sound like a ‘three-alarmer’, which is probably shorthand lingo for a three alarm fire.

I don’t think meant that obsolecence is because of its design, more that it’s an extra downside to consoles. I do agree with you that consoles have different goals than pc’s which mitigates obsolecence, and to be fair, a first gen i5 is very much obsolete as well these days. But my fourth gen i7 is still purring away nicely in a home server.

While it’s true that consoles don’t have a dedicated GPU slot the way desktop pc’s do, their architecture is actually closer to that of a laptop where the GPU die is soldered directly onto the motherboard. Consoles are specialised devices meaning they are optimised for specific tasks which explains why they perform better in some games than pc’s with similar specs.

Now the Nvidia chips in the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 are a different story since they are more like the SoC’s you find in smartphones and tablets. That’s actually impressive, but there’s a definite difference in performance compared to more high end machines.

Yo what the fuck

Honestly at this point I’m like ‘rip the bandaid off’. Let AI fully take the reigns. Unfettered access to every resource. No limit on its training. Then let it govern everything we do. Let’s see what happens. Let’s roll the dice. Either humanity ends or everything is solved.

I actually think the tech is mostly there, all we really need is application. Once there’s a real world need for quantum computers, they will get more developed over time. If there is nothing to be gained by making them quicker, more efficient, et cetera, then it will remain niche.

Which is partly why I mentioned AI. Currently, of course, most of AI applications run on very powerful GPUs with a huge amount of bandwidth. At some point, it will no longer be profitable to increase scale (not to mention the already disastrous environmental impact). I am hoping that quantum can solve both scale up and evolutionary issues that AI is facing.

Mind that I’m not just talking about LLMs, AI is much broader than just coding assistants or silly chatbots. AI has been around long before ChatGPT, it’s just that LLMs have provided a real world use that appeals to a much wider audience (scale up).

When it comes to its evolution, it’s mostly about ‘putting AI in everything’, something that on this platform is a bad thing about which most people here say they don’t want it. I can sort of see why for some aspects, but there’s always been a voice of resistance for disruptive tech. Combining computers with agriculture was long seen as nonsense, until they started seeing how much data they actually could process in a much shorter time. Enabling internet access on a lot of home appliances was seen as daft until home automation became more widespread. Putting excellent camera tech on portable devices seemed a weird combination until social media required you to share photos all the time. It’s unclear which field will benefit most from AI integration at this point, but I’m fairly confident there will be one. Quantum computing can help solve efficiency issues that will give us the opportunity to combine AI with all kinds of applications to see which one might benefit most.

If we stop trying to see the dystopian part of all these developments, I think AI evolution will solve a lot of our issues pertaining to energy usage and transition away from fossil fuels, climate change and the way we live with environmental shifts, language barriers and other sociological challenges that cause friction, space travel and exploration, our understanding of the planet and the universe, education…

But we need to be wary of power struggles, privacy, fascism, time (in the event our ecosystem collapses before AI can help us solve our issues), inequity of access to improvements gained by AI (ie how will the poorest of us benefit. Computers were once only for the elite, now almost everyone has something like a pc, laptop or smartphone).

I’m split 50/50 between optimistic and pessimistic about the future of AI but if we can leverage quantum the way science has promised us quantum may help, that tips the scale to 70/30.

I’d say quantum computing. It’s not as though this will all be happening quickly, if you want to work with high end hardware before it reaches consumers you’d need to find some sort of company like Samsung’s R&D department. But that’ll only be chip manufacturing, memory, stuff like that.

CPU’s in x86 architecture are on their way out, Arm is becoming more popular (SoC) but the other way really is quantum computing. That’s a field they want, something they’ve not yet cracked. Tever transferred some qubits, but it’s just a big boom waiting to happen that will really accelerate AI as well.

I’ve been using Ecosia since Google turned to absolute dogshit because of SEO and sponsored links. Now I don’t even use search engines anymore, I just ask an LLM immediately and tell it to link its sources so I can verify for myself

Netherlands does this too, matter of fact beaches have dispensers maintained by a health insurance company. They did the math, it’s cheaper to provide the nation with free sunscreen at convenient locations than to pay for all skin cancer scares. And it frees up healthcare capacity.

But I also saw it in Porto at a festival there. More and more this is showing up and it’s a great thing.

Join a club, try to find others that are like-minded. I’ve got friends who are recent parents and it made me have a look at my social circle and figured it was time to expand my social circle.

Lots of people are feeling lonely simply because they don’t know where to meet any new people. I’d say see if your place of residence has some sort of meeting center where you could organise something. If only one person shows up it might be a success already.

I feel the fault is not so much with the outraged people (also partly though), but mostly with the deplorable groups who basically adopted this game as a dogwhistle. I think they knew beforehand people would unwittingly use ‘their’ symbol.

It’s so difficult. Someone who has no clue white supremacists adopted it as a dogwhistle will do this as a joke and get the full fury of the world on them.

An actual white supremacist will do this and use the ‘I didn’t know’ excuse while definitely knowing.

So what should we do? Go deep into this dude’s life to find out if he has any connections to far right groups? Should someone’s privacy be violated because he made a joke?

It’s all super sad and I figure if you’re a professional referee you’ll most likely have a solid moral compass so we should give him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe it’s to do with what a literal dogwhistle is. I can’t really make heads or tails of this, but that’s maybe just because my brain is on a completely different wavelength. Like dogs can hear specific frequencies humans can’t. Maybe trumpists hear certain things in between this word soup that actually makes sense on some level.

Or maybe he’s just a senile old man and his followers are incapable of critical thought when it comes to him.

A friend of mine is building something like that but it’s still very early days, also I think it’s limited to eToro I think. Usually APIs are available so maybe there’s a possibility to whip something up yourself

As if having a human in the loop would make slaughtering people more humanitarian. How many reports have we read of soldiers from any power perpetrating horrendous acts on enemy combatants, or worse, civilians?

I agree that murder without prejudice should be curtailed if at all possible and that autonomous robots are not likely to accept surrender, but it’s not like human agressors are always open to it either.

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I was on Boost when it was for reddit, paid for it even. Then the lemmy version dropped and at some point it became unusable for me. Been on Voyager ever since, haven’t looked back. I might like it even better.

No discrete GPU? When my 4070 was slightly out of its depth on context for Mistral-NeMo 12B a while back it offloaded some to my cpu and system RAM and it was so slow. Recipe generation timed out after 10 mins while on VRAM it takes 30 seconds.

I read that you did, indeed. I think it’s commendable and a whole lot better for your personal wellbeing than just lying back and taking it. Thing is that the best case scenario is that they’ll say they never realised how their actions have affected others. It’s however far more likely that they think you’re being overly sensitive and that it can never be that bad. It’s sort of similar to having a spouse who snores. You can tell them they snore all you like, they’re not hearing it and they really won’t know what impact it has on you. Short of you recording them, or them moving into your place while you go stomp around upstairs.

Your neighbour possibly already thinks that she’s being as considerate as she can be, in the sense that not blasting music or watching movies, or walking around in heels, is limiting her in her freedom. She’s not going to stop doing stuff she wants because someone else is hindered by it. It’s the same type of person that blocks the aisle of the supermarket whilst having conversations with others. Those who run elbows first through a crowd to get a place up front. Those who talk through movies. They are oblivious to what effect their actions have on others.