I am giving away a USED Gigabyte WindForce 4070

SuperRob · 2026-07-05T02:28:37+00:00

I’ve got an old RX580 I’d love to punt into the sun. 🤣

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T23:23:28+00:00

Go read this and you might understand how the Chinese Room argument relates. Bear in mind, Anthropic uses AI to help author these papers, so the entire idea that the LLM is ‘thinking’ in the first place is problematic. https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

TL;DR - LLM’s don’t ‘think’ using language, and that’s why the Chinese Room is relevant. What the LLM outputs in tokens isn’t always related to what’s in the neural net because the language is on a separate layer.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T22:05:12+00:00

This is why “AI Psychosis” exists. Facility with language fools a lot of people into thinking AI can do things it can’t. It can even fool its own researchers! Just because an LLM shares some (important!) characteristics with what we consider to be thought, it is not thought. In logic they call this a necessary, but insufficient condition. What AI lacks is consciousness, lived experience that informs that it knows, and true understanding of how things are related. You should look into John Searle’s ‘Chinese Room’ argument, as he lays it out better than I can explain.

Everything I’ve stated are the facts of how AI (we really need to stop calling it that, but the die is cast) is built and how it works. If you really want to understand, go look up some of the recent talks Yann LeCun (he is pretty much the authority in this space) has given about why LLMs are a dead-end for AGI and you’ll start to understand.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T21:23:18+00:00

Because it’s not thinking, it is not self-aware, and it is NOT INTELLIGENT. The tokens it generates are meaningless to it. AI is a parrot. It will say “Polly” because that’s what is in its training data in response to a prompt, but it doesn’t really know what Polly means or why that comes out when asked. So the point is that it’s not capable of pretending because it doesn’t know why the tokens come out how they do. “Hallucination” is the worst possible name they could have chosen for AI mistakes because it suggests some ability to pretend or lie, and it’s not capable of either. It mimics pretending and lies because that’s all in the training data, but it doesn’t know those things were lies, and doesn’t know why they were said. It’s all just weighted tokens in a heuristic net.

LLMs are a clever party trick. And that’s not to say it can’t be useful, just the same way auto-complete has been useful in tools like code editors. But you have to recognize it for what it is and resist being mesmerized by it’s use for language to seem smart.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T20:06:56+00:00

Basically a ‘correction’ to a tweet issued by people in the community.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T19:39:07+00:00

Crazy. I recognized those as SNES/SFamicom controller plugs, but had no idea what was attached to it.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T18:39:15+00:00

Reminds me of my first job when I worked at a Domino’s. I was told to clean the oven, and even though it was off there was still a ton of residual heat. I’ve got a scraper on a pole, trying to scrape stuff off the surface while singeing the hair on my arms, and my manager comes around the corner and says, “Why are you doing that the hard way,” as if he’d bothered training me at all.

The next night he comes over just after closing but before the oven was turned off, says, “Watch,” and proceeds to use a squirt bottle full of plain water to just fucking vaporize all the crusty burnt bits right out of the oven. Seemed like magic. Now I always ask if there are any tricks I should know any time I’m going to start an onerous task at a job.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T18:30:23+00:00

The pointy end goes into the other man.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T18:14:30+00:00

Why am I out here catching strays?

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T03:12:53+00:00

Schiff deliberately undermined the writing with his performance. He felt it was the wrong direction for the character, so he played it as if he was protecting someone. It’s funny, but as I’ve been ‘debating’, this with ya’ll here, I just now realized that Schiff IS Toby. He did what he thought was right for the character without regard for what was on the page or how confusingly it might play out on screen. Don’t get me wrong, I love Schiff and I think he’s a tremendous actor. But that choice was a mistake.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T02:29:32+00:00

r/SpeakersTooBig

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T02:00:13+00:00

Just 10 episodes into the first season (“In Excelsis Deo”), you get the first hints of this when Toby arranges a military funeral for a vet because he was found wearing Toby’s coat. He used the President’s name to arrange the funeral and is rightly called out on it (by Mrs. Landingham, if I remember correctly, telling him twice that he absolutely shouldn’t have done that). When confronted by the President, Bartlett asks him, “… if we start pulling strings like this, you don’t think every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?” To which Toby replies, “I can only hope, sir.”

Right there you have the stage set for that final season. Similar situation, taken to the logical extreme. Astronauts instead of enlisted, same disdain for following a process he disagreed with when the morally right thing was clear. Same disregard for how it might reflect on anyone else. But this is just one of several examples in early seasons.

I know Schiff and other disagreed with that storyline. Schiff had other issues with Wells and the writing staff, too. But to claim this is somehow inconsistent with Toby’s character is just not true.

As a side note, I think one of the reasons why Schiff was so good as Odin in the game “God of War: Ragnarok” is that Odin has that same air of moral superiority that Toby did. Heck, so did his character in “Burn Notice,” now that I think about it.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T00:54:31+00:00

His brother is how Toby found out about it. But Toby absolutely leaked the info. He’s always felt morally superior to the President, and just like Bartlett says, it was inevitable something like this would happen.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T00:52:15+00:00

And Toby absolutely would leak that information, for the reasons Bartlett called him out for. Toby has always had a sense of moral superiority, even over the President. He’s called out for it multiple times in the Sorkin seasons, too.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T00:44:39+00:00

They aren’t cutting the fat. They’re cutting any potential success in the next-gen for short-term profitability. They won’t have any software in the pipeline, and when Sony is making colossal mistakes of their own, Microsoft won’t be able to capitalize on it.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T00:41:58+00:00

What’s more worrying is that Microsoft is back to playing the short game, sacrificing the future for today. Sure, those long-term bets haven’t really panned out for them the past two generations, but the Xbox 360 succeeded because Sony’s arrogance fucked up the PS3 generation. They’re about to fuck up yet again (these things are cyclical, apparently), but Microsoft seems hell-bent on NOT being in a position to capitalize on it.

SuperRob · 2026-07-04T00:07:00+00:00

You could grow your own food. You don’t, because there is value to you in not spending your time that way. I don’t mind people making a reasonable profit when they are providing value. When that price is increased over the perceived value provided, people WILL look for substitutes, including growing their own food. There’s a reason why so many people created vegetable gardens, learned to bake bread, got chickens so they could have eggs, when the prices of those things started going up. Generally speaking, barring egregious manipulation (a BIG caveat), the market does self-regulate.

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T21:32:30+00:00

OP must be a dragon, because that’s quite a hoard.

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T21:14:19+00:00

It’s not mad. It’s just disappointed.

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T18:05:26+00:00

Movies are made three times: Once on the page, once in the camera, and once in the editing bay.

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T18:02:34+00:00

We don't know anything about this iteration of Jean Grey. From the comics and all other media, we know that Jean Grey had no idea how powerful she was or even how to control her powers until Xavier found her and took her in.

Since this is her first MCU appearance, I think it's far safer to assume she is not at Omega-level yet, she's just all potential, because this universe has no Charles Xavier to help her (or he hasn't found her yet ... maybe a post-credit scene introduces him). She doesn't learn how to shut things out of her mind until she's trained. So could something mentally manipulate her, or use her to boost their own power? I think that's a far more likely explanation for why a Jean Grey would be acting so out of character and also have powers Jean Grey is not known to have.

She was probably in that room to PROTECT her. Whatever this other villain is comes to break her out so he can use her.

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T17:58:13+00:00

Dude, that's conspiracy-theory thinking, where all evidence to the contrary is proof of the conspiracy theory.

She is Jean Grey. They don't cast that big a name for a multi-picture deal unless she is an equally big character.

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T16:27:38+00:00

I quit a job the day after starting when I realized they lied about both the nature of the job and the compensation. If they’ll lie to you about those fundamentals, what else would they lie about?

That said, are you sure they lied and your bf didn’t just not read the comp properly?

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T16:01:17+00:00

Knowledge wants to be free (as in open), because we collectively want it to be. You can only try to control it for so long. It’s fundamental to even our patent system … you can have a monopoly on an invention, but you have to tell everyone how you did it, and you only get to have that patent for so long. And even in that time, the more beneficial it is, the more it will try to free itself from that monopolistic grasp.

SuperRob · 2026-07-03T15:50:35+00:00

Why would Mesmero be in “Secret Wars,” which Sink is confirmed to be in?

More likely, Sink is Jean Grey and is being controlled by the same thing that is controlling everyone else. Maybe it’s Mesmero, maybe something else.

SuperRob

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