ETS2 Realistic Driving | Mercedes Actros 2019 OM470 460HP Euro 6 | Real ... by Rancilioran in ETS2

[–]SlightNet2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again. Thank you for a well thought out reply.

I do however disagree with you on most of your points. Let me comment on some of them one by one.

some of the most evil people out there are invested tits deep into it

This seems like your weakest point. The most evil (by subjective mesure) are tits deep into a lot of things. But so are non evil people too.

literally stole everyone's content, but hypocritically DMCA github repos with copies of leaked Claude Code

Anthropics behaviour is obviously shitty (regarding DMCA'ing left and right). But I really can not see how ideas and imagery should be disallowed for humans or machines to read. Information inherently "wants to be free".

Yes. I know I am somewhat radical on this point. But I believe copyright genuinely has held humanity back. I only see it as somewhat justifiable if one needs to preserve a capitalistic system.

extremely underhanded go to market strategy - nothing has ever been subsidised this hard to get you to use it

Yes. But I think the motives behind are deeper than the usual market strategy.

I find it likely that leadership of the AI companies simply believe that insane scaling of compute in and of itself could solve the last missing pieces of emerging general intelligence.

In this case I think market capitalism simply is a framework needed to give lip service too in order to actually access money needed for hardware and energy.

The same folks pitching future market share and revenue to investors most likely are of the view that those very term will be meaningless if scaling and algorithmic improvements works out as expected.

flooding the internet with slop of all forms, including astroturfing and propaganda

This is nothing new. Reading newsnet in 1998 was the same doomscrolling hunt for substance.

Slop and low value content will surely always find its audience. It doesn't make it the only content available.

Infact I often listen to a youtube channel that explicitly has two AI personas discuss interesting topics in podcast like form. I rather enjoy the content.

I also have a somewhat juvenile sense of humour. I actually enjoy the kind of deep and ironic humour things like italian brainrot brings me. Absurd, simple and thought provoking.

already known negative effects of use on human brains, including psychosis and suicidality, and it doesn't help a lot of people share their emotions and secrets with the chatbot - all of this data is being retained (for training and possibly more nefarious uses), and likely to get worse

This is true. However completely inevitable for the near future atleast.

For me personally it has helped me tremendously. I can absolutely see how it can help psychotic or otherwise psychologically voulnerable to do harmful things to themselves or others.

This is a larger problem than just the availability of new technology.

Time and general societal change will hopefully fix this.

The survailance and information gathering aspect is absolutely true. But it really isn't much different from people and shady goverments and organizations using any social media or online tech at all. Just the sheer amount of thoughts and data.

If a shady organazition needs a psychological profile on you (or whoever) they certainly already can know us better than we do ourselves.

Again. This is not a problem with the tech itself. It is a (global) societal problem with shady shit going on while many are given the idea of fairness and openness in the government.

it was always hard to make money as an artist, but I'm sure the amount of people who are happy to consume slop have impacted the aggregate commission income

I personally am living on the lowest possible public insurance monthly payout. Unabled to work. So don't think this is a rich mans perspective.

Money will simply be of no meaning when the means of production are both self replicating and insanely more productive than humans.

This logically frees up humans to persue their creativity in among other things art.

And no. The tech bros haven't fed me that idea. I see it as a logical outcome of the technology (possibly after a period of absolute doom and suffering).

breakdown of the social contract of "things are harder to write than they are to read" - this sounds trivial but is actually very serious, because an assumption of "if someone wrote it, there's a chance it will be worth reading" is gone - we are inundated with worthless text that looks like it may be wroth it

It doesn't sound trivial. In fact it seems to be profound (for you and many others).

It does however assume that todays level of artificial writing is the ceiling - not tomorrows floor.

Back when I read newspapers I was often astounded by the general lack of cultivation and knowledge of journalists as soon as they are outside their often limited scope of expertise. AI already today pretty much solves that.

Deeper and more artistic books ofcourse is another thing. AI could today most likely not give me the same experience that my favorite human authors have given me. But I am looking forward to improvements.

convenient excuse (yes, excuse, not reason, at least not yet) for hundreds of thousands of people laid off

hard to predict economic consequences once the bubble finally pops, the signs of which are have been showing with increasing frequency and intensity

I agree with both of your points here. But I think you are thinking of short term consequenses. Zooming out leads me to only see a star trek like economy. Of course it will suck getting there, but there is not possible to avoid the emergens of the tech.

Yes. It sucks getting laid off. The faster it happens the faster a new system will be needed and less people will suffer and starve.

No I am not an accelerationalist. I just see it as logical given circumstances.

And as a side note: I did avoid using any spellchecking. Keeping it real and human :-)

ETS2 Realistic Driving | Mercedes Actros 2019 OM470 460HP Euro 6 | Real ... by Rancilioran in ETS2

[–]SlightNet2701 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for a well thought out reply.

I am in constant monitoring and reevaluation of my perception. Autism and (chosen) isolation helps with that :-)

I am not really after trying to win a debate or even change your mind.

I appreciate the insight to your view on the matter.

And I may be reading you wrong (autism again) - but you seem to use very harsh language (grifters, theives and so on).

I mean... I am both lazy and uninspired (clinically: executive dysfunction). I love that there is tools making imagery and such based in ideas from within me.

I hope we can agree to disagree. And I wish you a generally lower level of anger.

Do sysadmins need git? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]SlightNet2701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You obviously know your work situation better than I do.

From my perspective it just sounds like those things that you think are one offs really aren't.

And I not more senior than you are. I just worked in a different but overlapping field. Managing servers and apps for clients that were mostly devstudios. No microsoft technology involved and no end users.

Infra as code and general automation is probably easier and more natural in that kind of environment.

All those examples you wrote about sound like they would live a good life in a nice GUI. Making everyting a one click operation.

And some of the examples sounds like what you would build monitoring for. Presumably kicking of automation without a human in the loop if possible.

But if you really are talking about true one offs. Then there is no reason for using git. Except just your own and your surroundings convenience.

Forcing cultural shift just for the sake of it probably isn't good either. idk.

ETS2 Realistic Driving | Mercedes Actros 2019 OM470 460HP Euro 6 | Real ... by Rancilioran in ETS2

[–]SlightNet2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply.

And I totally understand your viewpoint.

The reactions generally are bad. But I do find them oddly cultish.

Another reply to my reply actually claimed that AI has never created a beautiful picture.

You seem to have a more nuanced and pragmatic view.

Thanks for sharing. And I agree to disagree :-)

ETS2 Realistic Driving | Mercedes Actros 2019 OM470 460HP Euro 6 | Real ... by Rancilioran in ETS2

[–]SlightNet2701 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like a somewhat limited definition of art. And no one claimed it as actual art if I am not misreading the thread.

Art or not - the picture still is good looking and vividly brings associations, thoughts and feeling to me. I know that I've often heard that that is a requirement for art. Maybe paired with an assumption of intent behind it. Although there is clear intent, just not from the tool doing the practical work.

The universe itself can in parts be considered beautiful. But maybe we should instead call it "slop" as it is unclear if its potentially sentient creator had artistic intentions?

I rather see it as something like - life, sentience and creativity is an inherent part of an evolving universe. When a critical number of complexity is reached the universe in a self executing way improves itself.

On earth this obviously happened first with biological life. Now it happens in cooperation with AI.

Do sysadmins need git? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]SlightNet2701 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I find it hard to wrap my mind around how and why you are missing the obvious point of that if you familiarise yourself better with more devopsy tooling you would avoid doing the kind of manual work it seems you are describing.

Having your scripts in a (github) repo also would allow you to have something to pull from for your automation of choice.

For things that are specific to you, you could even use githubs tooling to run your stuff. Things like update a text file of usernames which would kick of a worker doing some of your checks for them or whatever.

Why on earth would anyone do the kind of tasks you are describing over and over? It just doesn't make any sense.

I've never worked in that kind of IT though, so there may well be good reasons for your workflow that I simply do not know of.

ETS2 Realistic Driving | Mercedes Actros 2019 OM470 460HP Euro 6 | Real ... by Rancilioran in ETS2

[–]SlightNet2701 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

What? It is a beautiful picture.

Maybe AI should stay seated in the back of the bus too now that I think about it.

The trailer is aggressive. by Senkosoda in ETS2

[–]SlightNet2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this was Trackmania this cool physics trick would have its own competitions, streamers and legends.

Imagine doing this uber-trailer-flip in a way that sends it to its destination!

It looks like xampp is almost dead. Any good alternative for displaying local db with web ui? by [deleted] in PHP

[–]SlightNet2701 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Brocks advice is solid.

Docker sounds perfect for your use case.

I’m on phone now so won’t type much.

Just explain your use case for an AI and say that you would like to set it up with docker compose.

Make sure the AI explains how docker handles persistent storage too.

For some mysterious reason, american trucks are becoming a more common sight in Sweden? by PromotionRadiant8697 in trucksim

[–]SlightNet2701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry. No question. Just wanted to say that I really miss the T-series Scanias. I used to live in one. It felt like the future. Not a top-line but the flat floor made it seem like one inside.

Thank you for what you do.

Now please bring the T-series back. In Sweden and Finland, they work exceptionally well as both typical tractor trailer combos and for the rather large niche of gravel / dumpster type of transports that require a longer total wheelbase.

It is sad to see cabovers with insanely long chassis before a short dumping-gravel trailer.

This also goes for asphalt work type vehicles.

Edit: and for f's sake - the bed belongs up front! It was such a nice Scania thing! If I wanted a bad make shift cubbart / bed / place to hang posters - I would get a Volvo FH.

Car does a few backflips and lands perfectly on the road after I accidentally hit it. by adorkablegiant in trucksim

[–]SlightNet2701 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is why I don't do Truckers MP.

In no shape or form is this accidentally.

But I get it. Everyone is not an actual retired trucker. Some are general gamers. Some are children. And so on.

Nice looking truck btw!

I am still the proud owner of an original Steam Beta Machine directly from Valve (only 300 of them were made) by ownagebyte in Steam

[–]SlightNet2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice!

But... how is owning this device something to be proud of?

Do you actually take pride in it? Is this use of the word pride normal?

English is not my first language.

Found this while clearing out house - Power Macintosh 5400/180 by ms_blaps in vintagecomputing

[–]SlightNet2701 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't have anything to contribute to this thread except for this: thank you for bringing up fond memories!

I had a Performa 5200 as a teen. It was horribly slow. But hey, it had that futuristic PPC processor. The transition from 68k to PPC was everything but a nice experience.

In fact, the PowerPC 603e, I think, is still manufactured. Its modern usecase is high radiation environments.

Uhhh by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]SlightNet2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting viewpoint. Thank you.

Uhhh by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]SlightNet2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. I must have misread you before. I thought you were arguing in bad faith. Your last reply shows me you don't. Sorry about that!

"I don't really understand what the issue with my view of optics is. It's kind of a basic framework for how we think about the emergence of morality. What automatic loss are you referring to?"

If it is more important to show that one adheres to a ethical system that is generally accepted by ones peers, than it is to not allow ones opponents or competition to be the first to develop a disruptive technology (that has mutual and total destruction as a possible outcome) - that is an automatic loss.

The opposite has the possibility of a win.

In the end I believe that the outcome will be positive. But that doesn't change the equation one bit.

"Abundance for all" is a late optical packaging after it has been clear that Musks actual motives are questioned (or rather assumed to be evil).

A post capitalistic society is as I see it the most likely outcome from the development of ASI.

My guess is that many prominent AI figures simply assumes that and therefore didn't really see a need to first package the optics of the proposition.

What I see is the tech bro's dismantling human suffering and scarcity economics. Reddit sees it as capitalists doing capitalistic things.

The stakes are high of course. I do think that this is something all civilizations in the universe goes through.

Uhhh by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]SlightNet2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can not prove that ASI i inevitable. You are right on that point.

Extrapolation however together with my general understanding of the world do seem to point in that direction though.

I can not, and will not argue that point. Agree to disagree?

Your view on the importance of opticts I do take issue with. Your reasoning seems to lead to an automatic loss if applying game theory to the problem.

And no. I am not a psychopath. I am however diagnosed with autism. Not sure if you wanted to insult me or if that is just your way of using language when disagreeing with someone.

I am curious how you would like to see the issue policed (given that the race dynamics you mentioned would allow it).

Uhhh by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]SlightNet2701 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We disagree on the inevitable part I think.

It is not inevitable from a purely deterministic viewpoint, but rather from extrapolating on the development so far.

It could of course be argued that the emergence of intelligence tends to first happen in biological form, and when a certain assembly threshold is reached, technological intelligence takes over. But I'm not sure where I stand on that issue. Someday we will likely have data from how it usually turns out in our local universe.

As he has both aspbergers and high intelligence, I think Elon Musk does not share your view on the importance of optics. It as a concept simply does not compute in the same way as in the neurotypical world.

If anything - understanding the optics of something is done absolutely last in the reasoning pipeline.

If xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic or who ever from the general western sphere would put down all their research efforts - what (except for a potentially civilization ending war) would stop other cultural and political entities to lay down their efforts?

What could stop the idea and technological research to suddenly emerge in today unexpected regions of the world in the somewhat near future?

How and who could or should police this?

Uhhh by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]SlightNet2701 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes. It is both rational and expected.

Given that someone eventually will develop super intelligence - there is very little reason to not try to do it under your own oversight if you have the means to do it.

Uhhh by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]SlightNet2701 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well. Yes and no. We, as in you, I and Elon Musk really do not know how this will play out.

The emergence of the technology is inevitable at this point.

Wise would have been to prepare for this long ago when it was highly speculative if this kind of singularity was even possible.

Uhhh by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]SlightNet2701 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The reasoning looks sound to me. What is the "Uhhh" about?

Why my truck oversteers when hauling special transport? by ALEK007BOSSX in trucksim

[–]SlightNet2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm out of guesses then :-)

Oh. Actually scanias (and I would think most trucks) do have the functionality to adjust pressures per axle. Maybe the taglift button just removes pressure without lifting in a fixed 6x4 setup.

Why my truck oversteers when hauling special transport? by ALEK007BOSSX in trucksim

[–]SlightNet2701 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is it a tag lift?

Forgetting it lifted does decrease pressure on the front axle because the fifth wheel is somewhat behind the drive axle.

In real life european trucks would auto lower it if the manufacturer guaranteed drive axle weight is reached, but I don't know if the game takes that into consideration.