Ampersander

Why would you need any of those listed capabilities these days? Just generate them with 100x AGI

Well, yeah, most social media posts that contain a list or a table these days are ai slop.

I believe a lot of the enthusiasm we had at the start of the smartphone age is also now gone. The phone is now a boring device made for scrolling and running apps that are mandatory to participate in modern society.

Where would those European customers go? China? Africa?

Programmers do woodworking in their free time and programming at the assembly line in the crud factory.

This forum is full of libertarians that might view bribes and taxes as synonyms.

I don't think the data support the conclusion that contraceptives are the main driver behind the decline in fertility. Contraceptives have been available for a long time and fertility is continually decreasing even when nothing changes in the availability of contraceptives.

Also, data going further back show that fertility has been declining since before contraceptives were widely available. Sweden for example: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033535/fertility-rate-s...

Even with extensive support and subsidies from the state, having children is an economic loss for the individual in today's society. Back in agricultural society, having children was an economic gain, because you could put them to do work for you.

Now if the state wants children it would need to pay both for the missed fun times and also the missed career opportunities that come from having children.

Yes, I might need to bet the farm on the IPO to make it

I do agree bigly. Calling what is basically a superhuman brain inside a computer just a "token predictor" is peak thinkslop.

You are exactly right! People do not find the writing obnoxious, they are backwards technophobes getting brought down by their superstitions.

You're not supposed to read it, just like you're not supposed to write anything anymore. Claude can read and write more than any human. We just lean back and relax now.

Testing is obsolete in the AI age. I just one shot every problem with claude, it never makes a mistake.

This site is the gathering place of the biggest AI zealots there are. If someone posted that they have stopped talking and started communicating with the world solely through a camera pointed at their face and having claude interpret their facial expression, I would not know if they were joking. That is the caliber of AI fandom here.

AI anecdotes posted here are also clearly exaggerated. When someone tells, it's a story of extraordinary feats, something truly spectacular. But then when someone shows, it's always some below mediocre slop. It looks like shit and the program does not work etc.

This is not a recent development either. Ever since chatgpt came out there have been people here posting that they use it for things it can't do.

And I'm not even of the opinion that LLMs are useless technology. They clearly are good for many things. Recent security vulnerability findings have been impressive for example. Automatic spam and astroturfing is an obvious use case. And it's actually easy to come up with potential use cases. This technology is not bitcoin.

That was then. Today the stock is trading at a lower price than in May 2024. Google is up over 100% in that time.

Biggest fan like in the Eminem song Stan

People can't even be arsed to vote in elections. Nobody is going to be burning anything. There's Netflix to watch and doom to scroll.

Then they all pump more every year

There is danger in people using a token predictor like it is some all-knowing magic computer oracle.

Isn't AI safety mostly a marketing thing? Like, we employ these safety people to make sure our chat bot does not turn into Skynet, implying the chat bot could turn into Skynet i.e. it's powerful and magic and please give us money.

Maybe the text prediction programs are too familiar to people for the Skynet marketing to bite like it used to.

Or maybe it was not just a marketing thing and the AI bros really did believe we were a few GPUs and some training data away from AGI, but now they no longer believe this.

Aren't they going to win in the long run with remote attestation?

"Not only were the colours and patterns unusually fine, but the clothes that were made of the stuffs had the peculiar quality of becoming invisible to every person who was not fit for the office he held, or if he was impossibly dull."

Sufficient status entirely changes how the act of asking dumb questions is perceived by others. A person with a small title is seen as asking dumb questions because they are dumb. A person with a big title asks dumb questions because they are smart. Of course it's not just title but also age, gender, race, appearance, etc.

It's not 100%. CUDA for example has math functions with special rounding modes, but HIP does not.

There needs to be other people at the office for there to be a point in going there.

Clojure is the biggest lisp by far if we measure by amount of programmers getting paid to write it.

There are many reasons web applications are more attractive. Web applications can't be pirated as the user does not receive the program. Users don't want desktop applications, as it's more convenient to login to a web application with a Google or Facebook account than it is to install a native application. A web application works on any device and most people only have a smartphone.