no, it uses ✨ tradition✨

We should have like a really big nuclear reactor that makes energy everyone can harvest, but put it a safe distance from the earth. Uh I'm being informed it's not a safe distance from the earth and you'll need to put on this lotion to prevent radiation burns.

Not sure if this is a hot take, but the apparently frequent cheating or borderline cheating with Ai in University seems to me less about Ai and more about how sick the system has gotten. Compare for example to learning from a teacher to graft trees. In that case, cheating would be absurd. Why?

I love universities. But the incentive structure is badly fucked up. Anyone who teaches has had the experience of teaching a class they don't want to teach to a room of students who don't want to learn. Like with a lot of things Ai is an accelerant, but it didn't create the problem.

Late night shower thought: At this point GPU should be renamed to Vibe Coding Unit

It’s not mentioned enough how entirely accidental transformer models were.

Z3! You're on WATCH! Latest update to lean.py is a drop in replacement for Z3! Everyone's trying to put SMT solvers in their theorem prover, how about putting a theorem prover in your SMT solver? and here's the crazy thing: One click install, if you know Z3, you KNOW lean.py. You are not ready.

Everyone says they want Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism until they learn the Communism will be endless amounts of charts, the Space stuff will be done mostly by robots, the Full Automation will come from AI, and the Gay part will also involve AI making up for the top shortage.

For my thousandth post, I'm asking for a job. Please?

Can’t wait for the first AI proof that contradicts an AI proof Are the AIs wrong, or is math inconsistent? It could be either one!!

“Hey Claude can you check how to change the timeline scale on nvitop” *clones nvitop repo and starts searching through the codebase* I can’t deny that at this point this is probably going to yield a more accurate answer than the Internet.

social media psychosis has to be about 10x or 1000x more frequent than LLM psychosis

This just in: Musk is harvesting the energy of Yellowstone to power Grok

I think that if you actually believe that a single building will raise the temperature of an entire state by 20 degrees, you're way too far gone for rational argument and most likely vote for whatever fascist comes next.

i mean like the whole state of whatsitsbutt being raised 20º OVERNIGHT yea we've fully passed satire, poe's law is dead RIP

Those claiming that data centers will heat up cities multiple degrees are as wrong as they were when they claimed a prompt for a 100 word email vaporizes a cup of water within a minute. More importantly, they don't actually care about either. They just went insane when computers started writing.

It is actually kind of striking how 2020 covid-era left-wingers had such a leg up on right-wingers over their overt anti-intellectualism, but now they're on the same level.

Your median tech CEO is some combination of sociopath and narcissist, but also there is a subset of the population that just kind of checked out at GPT3 and has refused to even engage with the tech since like 2023. They are, coincidentally, probably the most at-risk of being displaced by said tech.

I'm one application away from turning into the guy that delivered donuts with his resume inside

Also, it is obvious to me that most of the counter-arguments that people give against these ideas are surface technical and not fundamental, with the exception of principles like continual learning.

For context global primary power consumption in 2024 was estimated to be 176,737 TWh, or equivalently ~20.18 TW continuously for a year. It would take 2 thousand 10 GW power plants to equal this. ourworldindata.org/energy-produ...

Oh data center power consumption claims - my favorite! Here's an article from 2013 on radiative forcing due to climate change. The number at the time was 2.5*10^14 Joules per second, or 250 TW. Which would be 25k 10GW power plants. skepticalscience.com/4-Hiroshima-...

For context, 9GW is roughly equivalent to a scenario where everyone in New York City turns on their hair dryer at the same time. - it could warm up a lot of bathrooms or very small apartments - the volume of these is minuscule relative to the atmosphere and will not measurably effect the weather

Say what u will about LLMs but if you got all the tgirls together and made a company anthropic is acting exactly how they would behave

actually everything does have a physical cost, otherwise it's unphysical!!!! there's literally entropy costs with every bit of info that moves

the most midwit take on earth is that there must secretly be some quantity of, like, molybdenum or carbon emissions associated with every quantum of money which moves. gdp growth really doesn't mean anything because most things do not have naturally associated physical costs.

the arXiv stuff is a such a perfect litmus test sorry, antis, people should be able to use AI to help with research sorry, bros, people should be held accountable for the quality of their work I don't understand how any of this is controversial

llms are ontologically evil => therefore arbitrarily intense harassment of anyone using them is morally justified. Sure is an opinion to have.

I’ve been thinking about Einstein’s letter to Truman lately. Einstein was a generational talent. A genius, if there is such a thing. But he knew that he wasn’t the only genius, and that someone would discover the potential to weaponize his research. (1/12)

Fortune cookies but you have to add "in Rust" to the end of your fortune. Change can hurt, but it leads a path to something better in Rust.

so, they serve for life, are the sole authority on the law, and substantially choose their successors. tip of my tongue

Something that really hurts my soul is that when a white trans woman is killed, the community makes tributes, finds videos, and even writes poetry and music. But when the trans woman is Black or Latina, crickets. We're not even respected in death.

hot take: i bet that blockchain will actually have legit purposes in the future. not convinced it does today, but i do think it will

It’s beautiful technology that unfortunately has a casino built on top

I mean the thing is that courts derive their power from people not invoking the always available “no actually fuck this” option.

A lot of leftists wind up in a position where they think economics is fake, which is ironically a very anti-materialist, un-Marxist worldview

THE EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICIST FOCUSED ON OPTICS WHO DID THE EXPERIMENT ON THE BELL INEQUALITY IS NAMED ALAIN ASPECT NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM MACHINE GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Maybe a sufficiently smart local model could turn a whole OS into a sort of a self-modifying predatory shoggoth, that decompiles and reverse engineers anything you point it at. How to prevent that thing from draining your bank account and then bricking itself is left as an exercise to the reader.

Something something "your AI slop bores me" Seriously though, what *possible* criticism could anybody have about this use of an LLM?

On the plus side, solar panels are a better idea than ever! www.bloomberg.com/news/article... We were lucky to get ours in right before the big subsidies ended. I thought we'd roughly break even, but we've ended up saving a lot.

Once again, a president who just sat in the Oval Office playing Fortnite would currently be considered a genius. Without tariffs, deportations, and war with Iran, but with the massive capital expenditure for Ai and recent productivity jumps, the economy should be as good as it's been in a long time.

Some pretty bad inflation numbers at the producer level. www.bls.gov/news.release... Things are likely gonna get worse before they get better.

You're trapped in the last TV Show You Watched, Where are You?

"what if im too annoying and the cool people unfollow me" a good poster will give their followers no option but to endure their annoyance, so they may experience all the essential bangers in between

We have allowed social media to basically wipe out whatever traces of the Enlightenment remained & we are heading back to personalist authoritarianism & mysticism faster than anyone seems prepared to acknowledge. It's really fucking bad.

"But Gen Z may already be building something to replace what's been lost. Not institutions. Not gatekeepers. A distributed, socially negotiated sense of who earns the right to be believed. They're not abandoning truth. They're auditing who gets to deliver it." THAT'S NOT A REPLACEMENT!!1! 🫠