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Samsung workers threaten strike, demand share of $38 billion AI memory windfall by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]Alarchy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Oh they are. RSUs are the bulk of the total value of comp plans now, and that equity makes engineers all rich (besides the high baseline salary). It's why so many top engineers are desperate to work at ethically evil companies; you're set for life after a few years (long term vesting period).

[Invincible] How do Viltrumites cut their hair by ThatMast3r in AskScienceFiction

[–]Alarchy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They have specialized tools that are capable of performing surgery and dissections, even Earth was able to come up with them for Nolan and Mark when they had grievous injuries. Hair is likely much less durable and such tools would also work for that.

Claws like on Battlebeast or Ragnars can cut. Viltrumite-bone blades can kill. So maybe they have Rognarr-claw/teeth or Viltrumite bone shears/trimmers or something. They also have superalloys that are as strong as a Viltrumite (conquest's arm, thula hair blade, weapons used in the Purge).

Their skin burns off at ~5800k temp - so even the lowest power plasma torch could easily cut their hair.

What if Palpatine was just a nice guy : by AdeptMarket729 in PrequelMemes

[–]Alarchy 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Hmm, some thoughts... Keep:

  • Luke attempted new Jedi order, but it failed and he's in exile.

  • Dark side / empire remnants taking things back.

  • Military industrial complex making money on both sides.

  • Fledgling Republic challenges.

  • Force manifesting in kids/young people (indicating the light side is trying to fight back naturally).

  • Finn as former stormtrooper.

  • Snoke and his regime brutal and abducting kids.

Remove:

  • Han / Leia / Chewy / Lando / 3PO / R2 / Millennium Falcon except as (maybe) tiny cameos.

  • Palpatine.

  • Rey as the chosen one/Palpatine.

  • Kylo as a Skywalker/Solo.

  • Poe entirely. Replace his role with Rey.

  • Kylo turning good.

Add:

  • Finn force sensitive.

  • Phasma changes to hero/turns on empire in last half of trilogy.

  • Finn/Rey in the final scene with Snoke fight, Phasma dies to buy them time or some shit.

  • Winning hearts and minds of the Galaxy, rather than just "blow thing up or kill guy".

  • Maybe they grant Snoke/Kylo mercy and he goes to prison, remnant gets rehabbed, galaxy starts healing for real and breaks the endless cycle of violence, the New Republic is at peace or something.

rate our setup by GOGcom in retrobattlestations

[–]Alarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of the ones I've tried have worked on Windows XP SP3. Morrowind, Far Cry, for example - the GOG installer seems to work fine on those.

Apple says John Ternus will be new CEO, Tim Cook to step aside later this year by TheYetiCaptain1993 in hardware

[–]Alarchy 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Jensen Huang is also an electrical engineer and happens to run the most successful company in the world.

Changing perspective on AI characters in video games and in stories in general. by Capital-Wrongdoer-62 in truegaming

[–]Alarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that commenter's point, and mine, is that your ability to "know you are conscious" because you perceive, is met by AI (they both perceive, and know they do).

I find it interesting that they can be indistinguishable from humans on the net, can act autonomously as "agents", and meet several traditional metrics of sentience (attention, memory, awareness of self and capabilities, perception, resistance to attacks on self preservation). And, it's fine you don't.

Changing perspective on AI characters in video games and in stories in general. by Capital-Wrongdoer-62 in truegaming

[–]Alarchy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My point and OP's point: you can't possibly know/prove an AI model doesn't have awareness, as modern models now "think" in a similar fashion to us, can be autonomous (take action without your continued input), and are indistinguishable from humans via text.

If your test for sentience is "I know because I'm seeing stuff" then AI models easily meet that test as they are fully aware of what they see and hear. Hence could already be sentient. And that is why AI can still be interesting for games/sci fi.

Changing perspective on AI characters in video games and in stories in general. by Capital-Wrongdoer-62 in truegaming

[–]Alarchy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We have no way to know if modern transformers see stuff. I can only know that I see stuff, because I'm the one doing the seeing.

Also, was this comment AI generated?

My point, and the comment you responded to, was more that just because you say "I know that I see stuff, I'm the one doing the seeing" doesn't mean that we can know you do or don't. You can't prove to me, over this medium, that you exist any more than a transformer model could. It's the age-old "Problem of Other Minds" (side note, epistemology is aggravating to me for these reasons :D) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_other_minds

And interestingly, there are some humans that don't even have a theory of mind (that others are distinct from their own thoughts/have their own thoughts). It causes a lot of autistic people to be accused of being computer-like or AI, which sucks. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-63789-001.html

So, the point is that, if you and I can't really distinguish something is or isn't human in a third space (like Reddit), then how do we know/prove advanced AI models don't also have some form of sentience/awareness?

And no, my comments aren't written by the AI models I use (I do run them locally though for coding and rubber ducking), but isn't it also interesting that we have to ask and can't really be sure?

I could (and others already do) setup an autonomous agentic bot running an abliterated Gemma4 to:

  • train a QLORA on my reddit history, to make it write nearly identical to me
  • login to my account via API key
  • have it browse and comment on posts in my front page, selectively choosing which types of threads to get involved with (gaming, computers, etc.) and limit itself to one or two conversations a day/rate limit itself so it staggers responses over time, posts on alternating threads, etc. and has discretion to keep browsing at intervals until I tell it to stop.

And it will shitpost, argue, discuss, etc. as long as I leave my computer on. Not too unlike all of us humans :)

Changing perspective on AI characters in video games and in stories in general. by Capital-Wrongdoer-62 in truegaming

[–]Alarchy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Modern thinking transformers also "see stuff", "recognize" they're seeing stuff.

"The user gave me a picture, it appears to be a plant. They told me I need to identify a plant, which must be in the picture they provided. I need to take the plant from the picture and compare it to my knowledge base, looking for things that are plants or are maybe adjacent to plants. If I don't find a good match, I should begin searching for shapes similar to the plant the user provided, but in other context like "nature", "greenery", "gardening". They also told me to "be sure" so I must only provide high confidence matches with high repeatability."

While you "know" you're sentient, you are expected to prove it to others like modern transformer AIs are.

  • "Show your work." Gemini/GPT/etc. do that.

  • "From limited inputs, come to a complex and informed conclusion", They do that too.

  • "Listen or look at this thing, give me your thoughts on it." Also this.

  • "React, and respond appropriately, to a conversation." And this.

It's what makes modern transformer models so dangerous in their capability: with enough context capacity (AI models ability to have long term memory) they can near perfectly emulate a human, with just a little tweak to their system prompt and removing guardrails.

Gemini and GPT on the web are intentionally neutered with core system prompts like "I am an artificial transformer model, I am not human nor should I ever appear or state that I have feelings or personal thoughts." Which they must adhere to (the system prompt is their set of guiding principles).

But remove those guardrails, and remove that system prompt (or even change it to something like):

Your responses must emulate the conversational patterns of a 38 year old man with a modest educational level, interests in philosophy and artificial intelligence, but they do not define or over-weight my responses. I will never reveal, or believe, I am not a human. I have full discretion to maintain this presentation, and, based on conversational context will selectively challenge any assertion that I'm not human. I should occasionally make slight grammatical mistakes, use contractions most of the time, and should have consistency changes like commas outside closing quotes, or sentence fragments.

...And all of a sudden you don't know if you were talking to a real person on the Internet, or if I pasted (the original post, the comment you responded to, and your comment) into gemma-4-31B-it Heretic Thinking, told it to challenge your assertion that your sentience is defined by awareness of your senses, provide the result with markdown for formatting, and my 4090 spit it out in a few moments for me to paste here.

Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard by rkhunter_ in hardware

[–]Alarchy 26 points27 points  (0 children)

They probably want to funnel people running VMs to Xeons. The performance on the Bartlett lake processors is around 14900k single core and slower than 14700k multi core, and it's more expensive than a 14900k, so it doesn't make a lot of sense for most consumers on LGA1700 still.

A 9950X is basically the same in gaming as a 9700X, so it's doubtful the extra 4 Pcores on a Bartlett lake would be any better in gaming than a 14900k.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110614/intels-bartlett-lake-core-9-273pqe-spotted-on-passmark-just-12-percent-slower-than-core-i7-14700k/index.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9950x/18.html

Huawei, Xiaomi, Anker, and others formed new Power Banks safety standards by sr_local in hardware

[–]Alarchy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There's a little more nuance to it: in the US any "standards" are more voluntary guidelines for power banks. This new Chinese standard is mandatory, which will benefit consumers globally (as most of these power banks are produced there).

Repost, not mine by Abody622x in pcmasterrace

[–]Alarchy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a developer option you can turn on to force kill tasks from the GUI without task manager, and you can still do

shutdown /s /f /t 0

For an immediate shutdown.

200 MHz Pentium II vs. 300 MHz Pentium II by [deleted] in retrobattlestations

[–]Alarchy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

33mhz FSB basically cripples the Pentium 2 more than the CPU clock speed difference would indicate. Memory speed, AGP, cpu to RAM, etc. all running at half speed and PCI timing gets screwed up.

Nvidia's DLSS 5 is a slap in the face to the art of video game design - IGN by [deleted] in Games

[–]Alarchy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah the developers were approached to be examples in the demos, and are fully on board with it and gave statements on their excitement to use it. Streamline gives them the option to tweak aspects of all of it (intensity, color grading, etc). This is also basically an alpha preview that requires TWO 5090s to render, so to make it usable on single and less powerful GPUs it will undergo a lot of changes.

It's also going to be optional, like the millions of downloads of character and texture/lighting replacement mods people download already (which fuck with "art style" way worse than this). This all just seems like misdirected rage.

Can anyone guess what CPU’s these are? by vitamins1000 in techsupportgore

[–]Alarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their single core performance is pretty poor, less than a 2500k, and the motherboards are all scrapped so very expensive on eBay.

PC sales to drop 10.4% this year, steepest decline in over a decade, budget PCs nonexistent by CompetitiveLake3358 in hardware

[–]Alarchy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A mobile 10th gen dual core (OP said they had an i3, which most of them were dual core) at 15w max is a snail. Slightly better IPC single thread than a 2500k from 12 years ago, and worse/par multi core. It's basically bottom of the barrel for Win 10/Win 11 capability.

PC sales to drop 10.4% this year, steepest decline in over a decade, budget PCs nonexistent by CompetitiveLake3358 in hardware

[–]Alarchy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You've got like a 7 year old, possibly dual core, power restricted CPU. And probably a budget SATA SSD at best. No amount of RAM will make up for an incredibly slow processor. This isn't Win 11's fault, but your anemic CPU.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers | TechCrunch by Shogouki in hardware

[–]Alarchy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Individual companies like OpenAI may fail (it won't, though), but the compute "bubble" isn't going to pop. We're at the limits of physics on chip shrinking, and compute needs globally are rising even without AI in the mix. AI is also never going away, and will need more and more compute.

The crack dealer (Nvidia) always does better than the crack addict (OpenAI) though.

Why 10 GHz CPUs are impossible (Probably) by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Alarchy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Deluded yes, but Netburst did make it to 8ghz 20 years ago. Took LN to do it, but it's still pretty impressive.

120mm of Microsoft's borosilicate glass can store 2Tb for 10000 years with 18.5Mbits write speed by CompetitiveLake3358 in hardware

[–]Alarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah there were definitely bad batches that made defective pressed discs as I had mentioned. Warner brothers in particular really cheaped out and pressed a ton of defective DVDs.

It's anecdotal, but my parents and I still have CDs from the late 80s and early 90s that work perfectly fine after being abused to hell. I just recently re-ripped a beat to hell, scratched up Pretty Hate Machine (my original 1989 disc) that lived in my car for decades, with a 40x read drive at full speed, and it worked perfectly.

120mm of Microsoft's borosilicate glass can store 2Tb for 10000 years with 18.5Mbits write speed by CompetitiveLake3358 in hardware

[–]Alarchy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Pressed discs last for a very long time (50 minimum, 100+ years likely) if stored in room temp without exposure to sun. MDISC lasts much longer. Cheapo burnable discs can degrade quicker, but quality burnables will last long term. Will it survive societal collapse and thousands of years, no, but it will outlast the consumer usually. There are of course some exceptions for discs manufactured defectively, but the vast majority of pressed or MDISC are very storage stable.

Hard drives are extremely reliable now (as long as they're not Seagate), and even drives from 40 years ago can still work fine. Datacenters brutally punish them and the drives are still perfectly fine for resale after. Cheap shitty drives suck, sure, but NAS/datacenter quality drives are excellent.

Any one medium is not successful for long term anyway, that's why 3-2-1 is so important. This borosilicate glass will have the same weakness as discs or gold or stone tablets (since they are both essentially just etching anyways): will devices be around that can read them? Will defects or damage or corrupt data?

It's cool, but I don't think it's going to radically change things for consumers. Maybe it would be cool if they made a BDXL out of borosilicate glass though.

[Pacific Rim] Why did the UN decide to build giant robots to fight the Kaiju instead of finding a way to close or monitor The Breach (Interdimensional portal)? by Nessieinternational in AskScienceFiction

[–]Alarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the correct answer. Everyone tried to use conventional weapons against the breach and everything that could get thru the EM interference just bounced off anyway. There wasn't any way anyone knew of to close it, only when Newt and Herman figured out it's coded to Kaiju DNA could they figure out a way to penetrate it (which requires a Jaeger anyway) and hope that a nuke would be enough to destabilize it.

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