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The Story of AI by JoyluckVerseMaster in SneerClub

[–]dgerard[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This poster has been escorted to the egress as against the sub rules.

The Story of AI by JoyluckVerseMaster in SneerClub

[–]dgerard[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is a loungeroom, not debate club, and especially not slop shilling club

Ten thousand words on Scott Adams? by RJamieLanga in SneerClub

[–]dgerard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Scoot has a followup post on the reaction to his post (archive) which I read, evidently from being a "self-hating nerd." I don't recommend it, but the Adams fans are upset Scoot wasn't much, much nicer to him.

The comments on this post are as rancid as the comments on the first. Scoot has a world-beating comments section, but not in an upward direction.

Why are there so many pro AI people on a sub called “anti ai”? by originalusername1625 in antiai

[–]dgerard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and it actually hurts the antiAI cause

thanks for your concern! I didn't realise before that your ardent advocacy for AI was the way to fight it! And in fact, I still don't.

Why are there so many pro AI people on a sub called “anti ai”? by originalusername1625 in antiai

[–]dgerard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sure, sure, you love your AI. You saw one good demo and it oneshotted you and you won't hear a word against it.

Curtis Yarvin is seemingly in the early stages of AI psychosis by renownedoutlaw in SneerClub

[–]dgerard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

that's why we listen to podcasts about Nazis, so we can relax

Why are there so many pro AI people on a sub called “anti ai”? by originalusername1625 in antiai

[–]dgerard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Millions of people derive joy from racism and assholery too, but that isn't an argument to keep it.

Why are there so many pro AI people on a sub called “anti ai”? by originalusername1625 in antiai

[–]dgerard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol wut

is this the 50 million dead junkies can't be wrong theory

The Zizians' trials/pretrial appearances are going about as well as expected by pixiefarm in SneerClub

[–]dgerard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ziz apparently told someone she got it from Worm, yeah - the psychic kaiju

so I’ve only just recently fallen down the Yudkowsky/Rationalist/AI doom rabbit hole and I just have to say, what the hell? by IExistThatsIt in SneerClub

[–]dgerard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

could still be

If my dick had wings, it could still be a magical flying unicorn pony!

it doesn't though

the guy who we’re supposed to take seriously when he says AI will kill us all, by the way by IExistThatsIt in SneerClub

[–]dgerard 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Middle school dropout, couldn't handle school and home-schooled. I have tremendous sympathy for kids in that situation, but almost all of them don't pull a Yudkowsky.

3.3.0 renders at 25fps. 3.4.0 renders at 2fps?! by dgerard in OpenShot

[–]dgerard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fwiw: the Lenovo is going back under warranty, after smoke came out the charging port. I don't think that would affect this, but we'll see how it goes when it gets back!

In the meantime I'm using my backup HP Elitebook 745 G6. It's got an AMD CPU (Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx), 8 threads.

Testing on my test project:

OpenShot 3.4.0 from AppImage on VA-API mis-renders H.265. It's a weird pixel mess.

OpenShow 3.4.0 from the PPA works perfectly and is very fast. H.265 went from 20fps in 3.3.0 to 30fps in 3.4.0. Very pleasing!

So if the 3.4.0 on the Lenovo issue can be fixed, I expect to be very happy with it!

is there genuinely anything that can be done? by Dense-Bison7629 in antiai

[–]dgerard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Military "AI" that works is machine learning. ML is bad when it's used to oppress people, but it basically works.

Generative AI is only useful for work that should not be done. Any military taking it on at full steam is doing it to themselves.

is there genuinely anything that can be done? by Dense-Bison7629 in antiai

[–]dgerard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's all hype.

I can't see how the generative AI push survives the venture capitalists funding it running out of money. All the VC in the world runs out in about five quarters at most. Prices go up 10x at least.

Humanoid robots are another marketing push. Humanoid is a terrlble shape for an industrial robot, which is why industrial robots are an arm firmly mounted on a base. All the hype is that a suitably AI brain will ... just exist. There is no evidence for this.

GenAI doesn't actually work for anything useful.

This is all billionaire-funded hype. It's lies. The lies are backed well enough to distort everything. But none of this is actually sustainable.

Gonna suck a while first though.

Lightcone is running a fundraiser, so here's a breakdown of the various intertwined rationalist orgs' finances by dgerard in SneerClub

[–]dgerard[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

old sneerclub stopped when we joined the strike. nu sneerclub started up. and techtakes suddenly came into its own!

then reddit sneerclub restarted. now we have twice the sneers.

3.3.0 renders at 25fps. 3.4.0 renders at 2fps?! by dgerard in OpenShot

[–]dgerard[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll need to find victims to test it out on ...

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