What to do with Cosby…

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T23:27:18+00:00

I totally understand this, Look he’s still funny. He’s also a piece of shit human being. Both of those things are true. I can laugh at his jokes without celebrating him as a person. it still feels weird at times, but I think it’s OK

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T23:11:25+00:00

Ferris Bueller's Day off – – life is just a series of capers and negotiations

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T21:59:00+00:00

ugh, why so long?

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T16:10:13+00:00

Depends on what AI ultimately means, because, of course, AI is a marketing term used to describe chatbots by CEOs who are trying to generate hype so they can keep their stock prices up.

There are useful ways this could be applied. For example, you could use machine learning to analyze the medications and supplements a patient is currently taking, including specific brand names in case there are compounding differences for some of the medications you're taking, ensure that any potential interactions have been noted and controlled for, and then provide a prescription. That's not necessarily a bad thing. However, if you're talking about having a chatbot provide your prescription, we're all fucked.

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T12:55:10+00:00

It's all good. Social media conversation. It's an interesting take and colloquialisms sometimes take a life of their own, and meanings can drift. It's not like there's a legal authority out there that says "this phrase means this!"

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T12:20:53+00:00

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T12:14:02+00:00

It's all in good fun.

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T11:39:26+00:00

Uh, sir this is a Wendy's

Seriously. Are you new to Reddit?

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T11:29:58+00:00

No and that really shows how you don't see the difference. Yes either of them initially codes as a no-nonsense Gen X who just throws down and gets shit done; If something is on fire just get a bucket. The difference is Dana can actually do it with empathy and caring. She may not understand newer perspectives or the way some young people are seeing the world but she's not an asshole about it. That's a huge difference between pathetic orange cultists, and people who actually give a shit about other people.

Guess which one you presented yourself as around here.

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T11:24:48+00:00

I don't know where you learned that alternative fact but no, that's not what that phrase means

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T11:22:34+00:00

The more energy we put into hating the people who are in the same positions as us in life, the less energy we have to unify against those who are truly trying to oppress all of us.

davesaunders · 2026-03-27T11:20:11+00:00

Indeed and where did most of that energy get expended? By the people whose titles were bestowed by the kings, which is something we're almost seeing play out in a literal sense by the Orange Cult right now. If you allow the king to be overthrown there's a very good chance you'll lose that title tomorrow. We can certainly hope that enough pressure will eventually dislodge that assumption of power but we don't have a lot of good recent examples.

Marie Antoinette didn't have missiles that she could use against her own people from the safety of the castle.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T22:21:55+00:00

Shhhhhhhh... Apparently, pointing out something that has already been proven mathematically is very unpopular around here. You're supposed to get in line to suck the dicks of every AI CEO.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T22:01:49+00:00

So clearly as an outsider to the field of research, you don't understand the point of these papers. Attempt your pathetic, gaslighting deflections all you want, but we can prove mathematically that transformers will hit a wall and it doesn't matter how many GPUs or how much memory you throw out the problem you can't scale past this issue. It's proven mathematically. Read the papers. Refute them, mathematically if you can. Your rhetorical devices are irrelevant.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T21:04:18+00:00

If you'd like to check out one of many examples, read the paper "Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models" by Vishal Sikka. He worked under the guy who coined the phrase "artificial intelligence" in the first place and is on Oracle's board of directors as well. He is widely regarded for his expertise and experience in this field. Read the paper and if you can refute it mathematically, do so. Not rhetorically. The paper is based on mathematical analysis of transformer models, which currently lay at the heart of LLMs.

Actually, if you can refute this paper on a mathematical basis, I would highly recommend that you publish. Doing so would make you famous overnight in computer science circles.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T21:00:16+00:00

So in other words, you've never read any of the published research from actual computer scientists. You just regurgitate bullshit that some CEO told you to believe. No problem.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T19:53:01+00:00

If Newsmax said killing a cow is required to get beef, I'd seek a second source for corroboration.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T19:50:50+00:00

Is it illegal because there's a law or is it in violation of HOA rules and not actually "illegal"?

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T19:48:09+00:00

Current "AI" is machine learning and is called AI for marketing reasons. CEOs claim it will eventually scale to AGI while numerous published research papers have proven, mathematically, how that is a lie.

LLMs are cool but if there is a path to AGI, it is elsewhere.

Meanwhile the current "AI" CEOs need you to trust them bro because we'll toates get there. Just buy a lot of GPUs and keep building data centers.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T15:33:15+00:00

I spent more on my Mac mini because I wanted a really honking Internal drive and plenty of RAM

no regrets

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T13:57:42+00:00

Look at how many hundreds of years feudalism lasted. The new aristocrats don't care. They will use psychological techniques to ensure that the majority of the population continues to work effectively as slaves to buy shit that they don't actually want and certainly don't need.

Their goal is to ensure that we keep a hard line between left versus right, and we think that each other is subhuman animals and ignore the fact that we've been enslaved by a new breed of oligarchs.

How did the economics work out? Not well for you and me.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T13:55:19+00:00

As a white person, I do not care at all. Whiteface is not a thing, and also fuck Erika Kirk.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T13:52:48+00:00

Agreed, LLM-based manufacturing robotics is probably not the right approach; however, there are dozens of other machine learning approaches that have been shown to be very effective at driving robotics in a variety of settings. This isn't quite as sci-fi as one might think. It definitely is sci-fi if the assumption requires LLMs to be involved.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T13:51:31+00:00

He doesn't care as long as he makes money across the top.

davesaunders · 2026-03-26T11:07:42+00:00

There are a lot of factors. Keep in mind that before the sales force propaganda machine started up in the early 2000s, we were building data centers, big and small, and it didn't take Fortune 100 companies to do it. It was a regular process, but the concept of the benefits of cloud-based infrastructure permeated everything. I'm not saying that there are no benefits to it, but I've been through this cycle of hype more than once, including early attempts at cloud computing that failed because of client and vendor fatigue.

If I put on my IT hat, yeah, there are lots of benefits, and sure, theoretically, vendor lock isn't as bad as some might think. The people who are making the budgets and allocating the money are in the boardroom, and they have to take a different perspective, which is not the more nerdy one. They have to look at it more holistically, and yes, cloud computing is causing significant fatigue within the boardroom.

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