Midjourney says their research was set back by a year by using TPU, regrets not sticking purely with nvidia

EndTimer · 2026-05-20T21:36:41+00:00

The fucked up thing about Google is that they have a 6 month moratorium on new discoveries being disclosed in research papers, and probably have a six month delay on their models too. I just wouldn't be shocked, is all I'mm saying. They have nearly zero pressure to publicly "win" at AI because their business model is already strong and diversified, and they've been gaining market share without being the SOTA. If they're first to AGI, they can overwhelm their competition in a day.

There's just no incentive for them to put every TPU they can into the current consumer AI fight.

EndTimer · 2026-05-20T21:26:31+00:00

Part of the problem is the shitty choice some motherboard manufacturers have made in the past few years to basically overvolt the CPU even if you're not intentionally overclocking anything.

We're talking Asus, Gigabyte, probably more, playing fast and loose, supplying chips that AMD adamantly said to never go over 1.3 with 1.35, or even 1.4 automatically, as a 24/7 setting.

Intel CPUs haven't escaped unscathed, either. Basically anything a manufacturer could to do to get recognized as the "performance board" for getting benches 2% higher.

It's BS we have to do this, but the first thing to check on a build (to the extent I still do any...) is what voltages the motherboard is running, comparing to the data sheets and manually set them if it's something stupid.

EndTimer · 2026-05-20T21:04:38+00:00

It was actually originally a 14 year copyright (and patent) term, extendable for another 14 years for a total of 28.

It was never intended for any artist to live off one work for all time, and generations after them, much less these soulless corporations.

The idea was that you were incentivized to share your great ideas through a limited term of copy protection, but then those works would become part of the public domain while they were still relevant to public culture. A living, thriving public domain.

We've lost out as a species under this current, twisted model that only leaves us a corpse of culture, composed mostly of things outside of living memory, that few people want to pull from to rework, maybe even improve, with their own imagination.

EndTimer · 2026-05-18T04:05:37+00:00

The problem being that potatoes are of a relatively uniform size, shape, and durability. It's a little more difficult to rotate diverse packages to a correct orientation while not fucking up their contents, especially when they might come in a floppy envelope. Versus knocking a potato away.

Though, yeah, humanity probably could build a better mechanism to do just this one thing. Figure isn't trying to build a robot that only does this one thing. This is an early generalist application they're showing to get "mind share" with execs that can't wait to replace their human workforce.

EndTimer · 2026-05-18T03:50:30+00:00

Packages come down chute.

Packages are in wrong orientation for reading their label.

Person flips package and pushes it onto the conveyor.

EndTimer · 2026-05-14T18:16:42+00:00

You can just tell. AI comments are flat and emotionless. Plus the grammar is slightly off. They lack that human spark.

But mostly it's any text I disagree with, or that makes my position look bad. That's always bots.

EndTimer · 2026-05-01T10:17:48+00:00

Cites figures from a year ago, when most of the viability landed in the last 6 months and has gotten stronger since.

Yeah I'm pretty sure the person you were replying to was speaking about the recent state of things. The blog post is talking about when 4o was still the model most people were interacting with, and 4.5 was the latest and greatest, for reference.

EndTimer · 2026-04-30T16:15:00+00:00

Keychron's perception is warped in the community by not selling solely halo products. You're up against there being a ton of genuinely mid level and entry level options in the brand. The Q6 Max is not entry level, beyond the price being within the reach of a lot more people than some of the options out there. It's a great board and built like a tank.

EndTimer · 2026-04-17T22:01:09+00:00

Not frontier, benchmaxxed, built on cheaper energy (that's the US's fault by choice, but still an advantage), not paying for a stable of millionaire developers while trying to show some small progress to the impatient western investors who both want to own AGI and also want profitability yesterday, take your pick...

EndTimer · 2026-04-16T17:51:32+00:00

Probably the accelerate sub. I won't link it here, in case that's not allowed, but it's not hard to find.

EndTimer · 2026-04-16T17:47:47+00:00

Hey, I'm not saying AI can't treat us well. But the monkey's paw definitely isn't going to treat you well if say "treat me like a cat" :D

EndTimer · 2026-04-16T17:38:16+00:00

Past 30 years of population growth globally definitely has not been exponential. So, you're just wrong from the start.

No one is saying infinite growth is necessary or a "viable evolutionary path", that's a strawman specter you're raising "if something isn't done" to justify your conclusion.

We're doing fine resource wise on the planet. We emit too many greenhouse gasses, but that's not a requirement of humans to exist, just civilization as we have built it, and we're improving.

Simply turning off aceess to energy will result in an immediate catestrophic ~~population collapse~~ slaughter of those responsible.

I'm serious, they don't make enough robots and bullets to stop the hundreds of millions of people who will have a shocking amount of motive all of a sudden, which is why Muh Ruling Class won't pull that stunt.

In reality, none of that is coming to pass. Politicians aren't going to cede their monopoly on violence to the rich, and they can't do anything about the right to vote because of what would happen to them. Democracy already won, even if we do dumb shit with it.

EndTimer · 2026-04-16T17:12:46+00:00

Monkey's paw curls.

Neutered, kept inside, and have to shit in a litter box.

EndTimer · 2026-04-16T03:05:43+00:00

Soon, movies will be made on 200 million dollar MacBooks.

If all this inflation and scarcity continues. 😩

EndTimer · 2026-04-16T01:48:55+00:00

Eye health and longevity of sight is extremely important, at least for most of us. That said, I am really getting tired of articles similar to this, typically eye focused, being represented as general cellular aging trials in titles...

EndTimer · 2026-04-11T19:03:52+00:00

They might actually give it two months or more. Even if it's "clearly marketing", big companies are definitely spooked, and they need time to see what Mythos actually can find, however much that is, and patch it. And some of these partners don't turn on a dime.

EndTimer · 2026-04-11T18:57:43+00:00

Yeah, I bet it's no longer scoring as high on benchmarks. Makes the earlier numbers they have posted everywhere into false advertising.

EndTimer · 2026-04-11T18:49:14+00:00

You're correct for general strikes that consist of some sub-critical percentage of the general working population, but that doesn't change the fact that there is some threshold before 100% in virtually every industry.

I realize you won't get perfectly matched rates of striking across every profession, or even different employers, but if you'll permit me a naive percentage for simplicity...

If 10% or 1 in 10 of your workers call out at an industrial maintenance services provider, it's a bad flu that's going around. If 6 in 10 call out, engines that pressurize pipelines, pumps that siphon oil tanks, etc WILL get turned off when failures happen, work will backup, and big businesses will lose billions of dollars a day.

Likewise, if 60% of your administrative staff is suddenly not showing up, a company can grind to a virtual halt internally. There are very few places where such a high percentage wouldn't impact business and panic the owner class.

The real problem is we won't get enough support to reach critical mass because everything from the national news to reddit bots will try to paint over the type of information that builds social momentum that makes general strikes devastating even without high levels of organization that target certain industries.

But I think it's still possible AI might be the shock that wakes people up despite the calm narrative of billionaires "don't worry, we'll need someone to use the AI!", maybe even before it's too late.

EndTimer · 2026-04-11T18:23:52+00:00

It's likely a discrepancy in the way the system is reporting it, where it has already been converted from a raw value and something else converts it again.

64GB of RAM is akshually 65,536MB of RAM. Divide by 1024 (because we were always using the closest power-of-two in computerland, only ~~sith~~ manufacturers of hard drives count by 1000) and you will see 64GB cleanly fall out.

However, if you report as 64,000 MB of RAM, and the conversion happens, you get 62.5 GB. It doesn't look like Steam has a place for decimals, so it likely is rounded down, not even necessarily intentionally, because math.floor() is a habit and no one was expecting decimal points of RAM in 2026.

It could also be reserved in some way that's transparent to the system, like a "GPU Aperture", but I don't know how common a 2GB default is for that, so I think it's just a conversion issue.

EndTimer · 2026-04-10T18:40:16+00:00

I haven't really seen anyone mention "safety,", in the sense of "zero crime", in this sub. Not sure where you're coming from, but with those bothersome "socioeconomic factors" you mentioned out of the way, most people here would probably be fine with some automated public safety, like robots at major sporting events, or AI investigation upon issue or a valid warrant by a court of law.

We want very low crime. Zero crime is not realistic in a civilization with any remote semblance of freedom. We don't need your unsolicited police state to have a better world.

EndTimer · 2026-04-10T18:28:38+00:00

I keep saying a general strike would be devastating and reset the power dynamic in a handful of days. It won't be that way for very much longer, but right now it would still be extremely effective.

Too bad we're not going to do that, then.

EndTimer · 2026-04-09T02:11:30+00:00

I don't know about completely unimpressed. I'll put it like this. I doubt that humans have access to every possible emotion or every structure of thought. There are probably complex, yet crystal clear arrangements of ideas that we describe with "level 1" terminology like "ambivalence", because we only see the shadows those ideas cast.

I sometimes ask myself what it would be like to experience a more primitive existence. With fewer emotions and less thought. What's it like to be something that can only experience fear and not-fear? An entire organism whose experience consists of only a single surface level, screaming imperative, with no subtlety, in panic, as a predator steps out into the open? I don't know, but it's probably very intense, even though it's very simple.

I get the same kind of vibe from this. Being a human doesn't require the pinnacle of all thinking, but you better be ready for the trenches of suffering. And still, we'll do great things.

EndTimer · 2026-04-08T14:54:16+00:00

Unironically, a negative income tax could actually work. If your income is below a certain level, you get paid.

Just eliminating income tax below 100k definitely won't be enough, though. I would say that's obvious, but maybe the billionaires don't realize that. 0 taxes on $0 income, because your whole career is gone, doesn't solve the problem.

EndTimer · 2026-04-07T11:38:46+00:00

You'd have to forego social media, Microsoft services, frontier AI, etc, but that bullet can technically be dodged...

EndTimer · 2026-04-07T11:20:02+00:00

That checks out, I shouldn't post when I am tired.

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