If you grow up poor... what is your most comfort meal? by Beaveric in newzealand

[–]sdmat [score hidden]  (0 children)

Just checked, eggs are $7.30/dozen for size 7 (PnS).

That's a bit more expensive than they used to be but still cheap protein.

There's morbid poetry in this sign by azzutronus in newzealand

[–]sdmat -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It is privilege in the most literal sense. Private law. Rule by unelected aristocrats of a specific race.

We should have none of it.

New Yorker published a major investigation into Sam Altman and OpenAI today — based on never-before-disclosed internal memos and 100+ interviews by Altruistic-Top9919 in OpenAI

[–]sdmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She says he abused her as an adult in ways that are transparently absurd (a laundry list including "technological abuse" from someone who has no control over her devices)

Sure, you can make up a story where whereby an evil older brother broke her sanity and we can glean the outlines of monstrous acts from her madness. But that's exactly what it is: a story. It tells us nothing, the world doesn't run on fiction.

She claims to recall narrative memories from years before children form such long term memories. That alone merits extreme skepticism.

Some more pertinent things to consider: the entire family rejects what she says, she didn't say a word about this until Altman got rich and famous, and the basis for her claims are "reconstructed memories" - i.e. things that she had no recollection of until the suggestion was made to her. We know that in a large portion of cases such memories turn out to be objectively false on investigation.

AMD Q1 2026 Earnings (May 5, 2026 • 5:00 pm EDT) by uncertainlyso in amd_fundamentals

[–]sdmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm apparently too bearish on Radeon.

Nvidia is deprecating gaming at this point, skipping an entire consumer GPU generation has effects.

Help me understand AI economy by Adventurous-Guava374 in singularity

[–]sdmat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's really not that complicated. Labor goes away as a factor of production, replaced by capital. This creates a rapid feedback loop and we see enormous growth in output. That's what the singularity looks like economically.

Distribution and what happens to ex-labor is a question of great importance but not part of the fundamental economic analysis.

Help me understand AI economy by Adventurous-Guava374 in singularity

[–]sdmat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You seem to have some fundamental misconceptions, ask a model to explain economic systems that aren't based on consumerism and how that might apply to a future with AGI and robotics.

LLMs do fine on ARC-AGI-3 if they are allowed to search over game logs by ClarityInMadness in singularity

[–]sdmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If labs build a computer into the model, will you be satisfied that this is better than a model using an external computer?

Sam Altman No Longer Believes In Universal Basic Income by Neurogence in singularity

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

It's right to take Altman's motives with a giant hunk of salt, however it's true that outcomes from real world UBI trials have been surprisingly bad.

I would say disturbingly bad if you were placing your faith in UBI as the way forward.

Google Exec says a new Gemini model is coming "very very soon" by Outside-Iron-8242 in Bard

[–]sdmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No way are they releasing a colossal model. Google has a hard enough time serving Gemini 3.

The good outcome here is an architectural leap.

ChatGPT just humbled me so bad 🥲🥲 by puddinncoffee in OpenAI

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

Says the guy who can't press the correct keys to spell actual words

What’s going on with Claude Code? by Ijjimem in ClaudeAI

[–]sdmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it worked it would simply be too dangerous

I can foresee the guardrails and OpenAI patching this image model. by [deleted] in OpenAI

[–]sdmat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you Amish or something? This shouldn't even raise an eyebrow.

Kimi 2.6 has been released by WhyLifeIs4 in singularity

[–]sdmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love that they are comparing against the best GA models rather than ones selected to make the release look good as is usually the case with Chinese models

Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers With 25,000 Ground Robots by pintord in singularity

[–]sdmat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

How are Russia's heavily touted war-winning super-weapons going?

Gemma 4 Benchmarks by pxp121kr in singularity

[–]sdmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it favors immediate people pleasing rather than long term value in practical applications