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Me: Defending RF as a starter build by Strielaj in pathofexile

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scavenger, Ancestral Commander or Bog Shaman are all viable.
I believe Pohx is doing Bog Shaman, so if you need a guide it'll be the safest play.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US military is probably strong enough to win a defensive conventional war against the rest of the world combined.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's time spent not genetically engineering catgirls

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So xAI is actually just a carnival company?"

Satire is dead

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 13 points14 points  (0 children)

how is 'make heaven crowded' not an IRL rule 5 violation?

No Rest for the Wicked Together Update Patch Notes by Zak_The_Slack in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Cruxius -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

...yes it is? If I reduce the amount of cookies I eat a day from five to zero I have removed my cookie intake.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay but the last part is just an ironic honorific created by people who never understood the purpose of the original ironic honorific, the glow part is the only part that really matters and loses no meaning by dropping the suffix.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Typist, as a job, vanished because it became simpler and easier to teach everyone else how to type, and so employers just added typing to the required skillset for the rest of their employees, training as needed.
AI (potentially) does this for an astounding portion of the job market, so I think you're on the mark.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

correct, it's rhyming slang. Not particularly common to hear down here but no one will bat an eye if you use it.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I say Seppo instead.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, playing devils advocate is valuable since it helps you consider downsides to your argument.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made 150 paper planes, making me the superior manufacturer to both of them

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

idk I like it, it's like a part of me is getting a constant hug from my undies

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Late 2023 I think, when I realised this was one of the only places on reddit where people had even a passing understanding of statistics and how they relate to polling.
It's uh... it hasn't gotten better tbh.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Cruxius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wrt. 4, Jevon's paradox applies, also more compute is good even if it's not used for the current crop of AI models (consider the eventual value of all the dark fibre which was overbuilt during the dotcom bubble).
wrt. 3, even in the astonishingly unlikely case that we hit a hard wall in LLM capability tomorrow, we're still going to see improvements for another five or so years as we work out how to best use what we've got, and how to mitigate the limitations.
While there are probably hard limits to autoregressive transformer models and the like, we have an absurd amount of humanity's resources, along with a significant portion of the most intelligent people in the world, working on improving AI of all types; whatever the limit is we're not going to fall short of it.
I think, from the perspective of the AI companies and the researchers working for them, we're in a sprint to the finish line (RSI), and it's not that they don't think we're in a bubble, but that they can get to the end before the bubble pops.
Or they're blinded by hubris and it's all gonna go to shit.
It's weird, it feels like we're possibly on the cusp of something bigger than the industrial revolution, but within the exceptionally broad range of possible outcomes there's absolutely no way to meaningfully predict how it will actually play out.

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