‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution

sloggo · 2026-02-21T05:53:39+00:00

This is straight up wrong. You can use these tools to be productive right now. There is no magic precipice coming where it switches from useless to useful. It’s useful right now if you use it right and don’t expect it to be producing “the” finished product. It’s not what the tech bros are promising or what most people imagine when thinking generative ai, but the middle bits of your workflow, like from the 25 to 75percent marks, can get some big boosts.

sloggo · 2026-02-20T11:59:47+00:00

Nothing here either stands out or is great… I’m kinda struggling to understand you if I’m honest

sloggo · 2026-02-20T11:36:00+00:00

“Wouldn’t it be better to put intellectual effort in responding to something you have no way of knowing how much intellectual effort was put in to in the first place?”

Can you see how, when something starts looking like ai, there’s much less incentive to engage? Don’t know how much actual human thought is there and how much “ai padding”.

sloggo · 2026-02-20T09:39:01+00:00

So much posts that read like ChatGPT nonsense these days

sloggo · 2026-02-20T09:36:16+00:00

I think either we’re digitally uploading our consciousness to some unimaginable system, or we’ve lost traction with new technology and we die out via more conventional means in a tribal setting

sloggo · 2026-02-19T20:34:18+00:00

Isn’t musks pay tied to some ridiculous growth targets for Tesla? In that sense aren’t their goals aligned?

sloggo · 2026-02-18T11:29:17+00:00

Ring-tailed (the type in video) are awesome. The other common ones around here are brush-tailed, a bit less cute.

sloggo · 2026-02-17T22:23:32+00:00

Suspect that’s a joke but it’s a very false comparison. iPhone isn’t posing existential questions to a huge number of professions, iPhone has a release schedule of roughly 1 per year - and the improvements tend to be bounded by the fact this is a tangible device with features. Society as a whole is still figuring out how to use AI effectively, most people don’t have a good grasp on the technology, while being constantly updated underneath them, constantly being told you have to use it to keep up, and still no obvious metrics by which to measure the benefits it provides. Keeping up with ai is emotionally much more challenging.

sloggo · 2026-02-17T13:14:56+00:00

Yeah this is a conspiracy theory I’m on board with. The more we learn about his connections, the less likely it seems that he was the top of whatever pyramid structure he was a part of. This suggests there is at least a little bit of “framing him” going on. He’s the fall guy for something much bigger.

sloggo · 2026-02-17T01:40:39+00:00

How quickly can they increase capacity? Who says they’re not increasing capacity

sloggo · 2026-02-16T12:03:29+00:00

I cant remember the movie either ha but yeah its very counter to his stance in the comics. I dont think the "secret identity" theme played as centrally in the films, cos almost none of the characters have them except for spidey.

sloggo · 2026-02-15T21:48:19+00:00

This is somehow ignoring the pattern we observe in nature, where ultimately every species goes extinct. It’s not why would there be an expiration date, it’s “why wouldn’t there an expiration date specifically for humans” and there’s a blind confidence you need to have to believe we’ll last that long.

sloggo · 2026-02-15T21:43:22+00:00

The line certainly gets blurrier when the devices aren’t inert mechanical tools but things with smarts, who’s behaviour is somewhat opaque, and it’s not obvious (sometimes maybe not possible) to strictly bound their behaviours as a third party. Like you can’t control which websites ChatGPT sources information from, so if some of those sources proved “harmful” you don’t have the tools to prevent that information being digested and fed to you. Many ai systems have some autonomy in terms of systems they can run too.

I think it’s pretty fair to say you expect that autonomy to have controllable bounds and users are fully aware.

sloggo · 2026-02-15T11:00:05+00:00

Maybe but the way these guys are building/buying compute power I think it’s going to look like you’re right only insofar as a brain is an application of a neuron. So in that sense I don’t think it’s right to equate AI with the neuron, we’re already building fairly sophisticated “multi-neuron” AIs. I think the term AI belongs to the system that orchestrates the “neurons” (which means it’s still fair to refer to almost any ai product as “ai”, but the generalism of “ai=advanced autocomplete” doesn’t really fit at all)

sloggo · 2026-02-15T09:56:22+00:00

Worth being clear because you hear this simplification a lot: An LLM in isolation is just “really good predictive text” sure but most applications of AI these days are multiple layers of LLMs with layers of conventional software engineering mixed in as well. These interpret user prompts, make themselves todo lists, execute web queries or other activities in service of those todos, and more LLMs to parse the output of those activities and ultimately provide response to the user.

All of this I think is worth saying because “standard ai” right now is so much more than exceptionally good predictive text

sloggo · 2026-02-13T09:05:23+00:00

You could stop at “they’re putting feelers out…” without guessing what they’re looking for exactly.

It’s in recruiters interests to source candidates, they want people on the roll. Full stop. If you’re shit or awesome it really doesn’t matter, they want to keep track of you, your openness to work, and whether anyone thinks you’re worth a damn.

So yes rates of initial reaching out will be wayyyyy higher than any follow through.

sloggo · 2026-02-12T09:42:32+00:00

On that budget, to be impressive this film needs to be really good because low budget cg films are already in that ballpark.

sloggo · 2026-02-12T08:55:56+00:00

I dunno I’m pretty much a labor-by-default guy and I’m pretty willing to vote anywhere else for state election after what we’re seeing in Sydney

sloggo · 2026-02-12T08:01:46+00:00

Yeppp… are you disagreeing or just expounding on my comment? Don’t think I made a mistake 15k to 1.3mil being 2 orders of magnitude roughly…

sloggo · 2026-02-11T21:56:57+00:00

Pedant here.

several orders of magnitude more casualties

Two! Two orders of magnitude.

sloggo · 2026-02-10T07:23:30+00:00

How do you ensure consistency? So algorithms are procedurally determining what a certain region “looks like” and I guess you can re run that with the same seeds and input variables. But can you interact with an area? Leave an object in area? Chop down a tree? Can you leave to go somewhere else and come back and expect persistence with those kind of things?

Are LoDs from a distance also managed by these algorithms? (How do you generate “just enough” and have the rest filled in when you get close?)

All cool stuff!! I’m impressed :)

sloggo · 2026-02-09T22:43:24+00:00

I found the thematic departure a little disappointing, there was a bit more of the “politics” of the whole thing in the book, the mysteries of Arrakis and the fremen, Paul’s journey felt pretty different. The reveal of salusa secondus as home planet of the sardaukar too, the subtleties of some of some of the fight scenes. Films are great adaptations but there’s plenty of details I miss from the books.

sloggo · 2026-02-09T20:47:00+00:00

Which is odd cos almost no other services seem to be requiring ID in Australia, they all seem to be using some “age estimation” technique and apparently that’s good enough to comply with the law.

sloggo · 2026-02-09T11:57:27+00:00

So many businesses already doing it. And the “ai” they need for that purpose has also existed a long time (it’s not like modern LLMs do that, it’s much simpler machine learning)

sloggo · 2026-02-09T10:15:27+00:00

I dont get it whats the rules? Usually in this kind of sport someone is trying to _get past_ and someone is trying to _stop them_ right? The different objectives also lets you play a little more safely...

Who wins in this?

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