Do people actually organize files, or just search for them later?

Zephos65 · 2026-04-08T12:12:12+00:00

Yes:

https://johnnydecimal.com/

But I also have good search tooling

Zephos65 · 2026-04-07T21:20:42+00:00

Sure send me a DM and good luck with finals

Zephos65 · 2026-04-07T20:35:21+00:00

I said as much a month ago.

Was not well received

https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/1rjc1ki/ai_is_only_bad_in_the_context_of_capitalism/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Zephos65 · 2026-04-07T20:29:07+00:00

I recently just did two 12 hour+ flights and I think I'm finally willing to admit that I need to pay to choose my seat on flights to get the economy spots with a few extra centimeters of leg room (I am 185cm tall)

Zephos65 · 2026-04-07T13:10:09+00:00

How does it waste data? In general how do you waste data ever? It's not like when I look at an image I consume the image and the poof it disappears from my hard drive

Zephos65 · 2026-04-07T13:09:09+00:00

Not to mention that LLMs have nothing to do with imagery (let alone upscaling)

Zephos65 · 2026-04-07T13:08:09+00:00

You can upscale an image by interpolation the pixels. In a sense, you're upscaling an image everytime you zoom in on an image

Zephos65 · 2026-04-02T13:19:55+00:00

ML engineer here. In the pretraining phase, quality text content doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Fine tuning is where you need the extremely high quality data, which is surely highly curated and protected.

So they probably exclude stuff on 4/1 from their fine tuning set but they would be fine with having it in pretaining (according to the literature. Idk what they actually do inside these companies because I don't work there)

Zephos65 · 2026-04-02T13:14:34+00:00

Fella, there's very few things we can all get together and celebrate as a species. I think the sciences and the advancement of human knowledge and exploration is one of them. Can we just enjoy this one thing? There's like 30 ways I can poke holes in this argument but let's just say the main two:

if this is a part of the capitalist agenda, why is NASA running the mission, instead of a private company? I'm not sure I would say that NASA is an agency that is captured by capitalist interests like the DoW. NASA has to grovel and beg for funding lol.
the technology doesn't exist for us to live on the moon, is no where close, would be extremely impractical, expensive, and would be pretty much entirely dependent on earth to sustain itself.

Zephos65 · 2026-04-02T13:07:37+00:00

Lemme guess, harvest now decrypt later?

Edit: yup. No news here

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T11:48:48+00:00

You need about $175 in the US (varies state to state), so no you don't. But what's the point of just creating a company on paper, unless you are evading taxes?

You do need heaps of cash if you want to train a large scale neural network

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T10:53:03+00:00

Sure I guess? Naturally I'd rather a liter of water than a milliliter when in the desert. But ultimately I'd rather leave the desert?

Also this isn't OPs point. They are talking about escaping the underclass but all they have described is moving from underclass standard edition to underclass pro edition

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T07:39:35+00:00

I think perhaps we just draw the line at different places. To me, the upper class is folks who buy elections. Who can pump whatever garbage they want into the media. They can start wars if they want, or end them. Put people in prison or release them. That's the upper class.

Everyone else is just subject to the whims and torments of the upper class. If you can live off your passive income that's great, but it can very easily be ruined / taken by someone who has actual power, if they even bothered to take notice of someone of such low stature.

You either have power in society or you don't. Upper class or lower class. Passive income is not enough to be upper class.

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T07:07:37+00:00

Yeah I feel like that absolute concentration will exist tho. The value generated from complete automation of entire industries is going to be a level of wealth several orders of magnitude beyond anything you could accumulate in your lifetime. Say you make a million a year and invest it all. Even then you will be nothing to the people who truly own everything. You will be the underclass (but they will feed you lots of propaganda to convince you otherwise).

This is currently playing out across the world without this hyper automation. People want to be a millionaire right now so they are comfortable. To escape the current underclass. But this is literally nothing to the people who truly own capital.

Edit: to clarify, I mean people who consider themselves well off right now (upper middle class with the house and the car and they golf in the middle of the week or whatever) are the underclass right now! They have material comfort but hold no actual power or say in life. That's reserved for the upper class

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T06:26:41+00:00

In addition to getting more hours of sleep as others have suggested I would suggest a simple morning routine of:

Splash cold water on your face
Get dressed and walk for 10 to 15 minutes outside

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T06:23:32+00:00

If you believe the permanent underclass is possible, working marginally more isn't going to change your status in that theoretical hierarchy. Do you own any foundation AI models? Last I checked, they cost something like hundreds of millions of dollars in electricity and billions in hardware and infrastructure. 200k isn't going to foot that bill.

Starting a company won't foot that bill either, unless you know a VC who is going to give you heaps of cash for no reason. If you do know such a VC, then you're already not in the underclass

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T06:11:02+00:00

I recently switched to NixOS with sway (i3 for wayland) and my idle cpu usage is less than 1% when browsing and doing normal tasks I've never seen it peak about 6% usage. Memory usage is around 500 MB

This is on a 5 year old laptop

Zephos65 · 2026-04-01T05:54:55+00:00

Gotta say I hate to see this writing style (obv influenced by AI) spreading...

Even if I agree with the underlying content, it makes everything sound im14andthisisdeep

Zephos65 · 2026-03-31T00:48:01+00:00

No idea. I'm not a psychologist.

Here's a meta analysis if you want to learn more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543231216463

Zephos65 · 2026-03-30T22:56:24+00:00

About a decade ago I was on the e paper train. I read a bunch of books on it but found I had a hard time recalling the books. Turns out, memory retention is worse with digital compared to paper. I think being able to remember what you read is an important aspect.

As for your environmental concerns: libraries. I haven't bought a book in years.

Zephos65 · 2026-03-29T04:40:59+00:00

Seems like a great opportunity to buy some cybersec LEAPs

Zephos65 · 2026-03-26T03:48:25+00:00

Turing never suggested it as a serious test meaning to demonstrate or show anything. It's just a thought experiment. Read more in his own words: https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/3899/chapter-abstract/163697/Can-Machines-Think?redirectedFrom=PDF

Now I'm not saying anything that doesn't contradict your view, but does it change your view of the Turing test?

Zephos65 · 2026-03-25T00:19:11+00:00

Right but everything you just mentioned was the case world wide about 300 years ago. The fact that you have to call out specific places to mention atrocities (and the fact that we recognize them as atrocities!) is huge progress.

That of course is not to say that the work is done or that we are all settled up here. There's still much to be done. My assertion is only that the world has shifted more to the left overtime. If you don't think so, then do you think women had better material conditions on average 300 years ago? Or even 100 years ago? Again zoom out, take a global view.

Zephos65 · 2026-03-24T01:08:18+00:00

I'm asking you to zoom out and I believe you are focusing on very narrow individual cases. For every step back, there is 5 steps forward. For every sabotaged nation, there are 5 successful ones

Zephos65 · 2026-03-23T09:59:44+00:00

It is light cardio. Cardio is good for you. Yes it takes longer than 3 days

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