Uplifting News: US media resists Gleichschaltung, for now.

… I don’t think don’t think that news is really uplifting.

I mean I get it: that they resist is good.

It’s just that they have to resist against something like that is so much worse.

The mantra of ‘more compute, more data’ is still strong with AI companies.

I agree that the latest models haven’t had the massive gains that e.g. GPT-3 to GPT-4 had and people say that data is mostly used up. I also don’t see a big reduction in hallucinations.

Still, none of the big players have admitted that they hit a wall, either with scaling or data. Getting reliable information from such secretive companies is hard.

And their actions (building new data centers, new chip designs) seem to indicate confidence in their path.

If that confidence is warranted… who knows?

As soon as a reasonable bad news story breaks. For example if the LLM architecture shows it’s limits without a way forward, or that new laws make further AI research unfeasible. Multiple big players abandoning LLM research.

Something like that from a trusted news source would burst the bubble.

I even think that most people in AI know that it’s a bubble, it’s just that they gamble that AI reaches AGI or even ASI before the bubble bursts.

No, I will not peanut butter your hole. The dog has never been the same since last time.

Let’s consider AI would make you X% more efficient in your job.

Would you get X% more spare time?

Get a X% higher salary?

No, of course not! Your boss would fire more people until you are overworked again. That’s the way of capitalism.

Well, if there is a combination of drugs that will give you telepathy, Kanyes chances wouldn’t be bad that he took them.

… as far as we know. Victims of pedophilia often survive and could at least theoretically tell about the crimes. Dead people don’t.

Who knows how many people who “fell through the cracks” of society were picked up and hunted for sports? I don’t think anyone would start a manhunt if some homeless people disappear.

I would NOT be surprised if billionaires would do this.

There was a paper about this not long ago. The problem is, how LLMs get trained: a right answer gets a point, everything else gets no points. This rewards guessing (produces a point sometimes) over answering “I don’t know/I can’t do this” (produces never a point)

What about insects and other pests? I already hate if windows don’t have fly screens - I would probably hate this.

We have a openly homosexual and a openly lesbian politician here in Germany. He is corrupt as hell and she is the worst possible person you could imagine.

Having a hard life doesn’t automatically make you a good person.

The average IQ is 100. That is not a lot and half of the population is below that. I’m more surprised how bad our education system is in filtering out the dumb people. Someone who is ‘not smart’ but has good memory and is diligent can make it frighteningly far in our society. Not to mention nepo babies who are a different kind of problem

Either that or you are necrophiliac

“It would get old fast”? Op, I’m afraid you don’t have good friends. When I was a university student, I was in a shared apartment with two friends. It was great: you always had someone to do stuff with and group activities were much easier to schedule.

Now that I’m older it would be nice to easily check who’s up for something, spontaneously grill with everyone or simply sit together in the evening and talk.

My friends group still goes on vacation together from time to time and I love it. If your friends are only enjoyable in small doses… I don’t know… that sounds sad.

Also with a house of your own, everyone would have enough space to retreat if necessary.

Besides from the bad gardening that was mentioned by the other posts, I would love to live like this.

You know you have to get a cat named Anton now, right?

We had to read ‘Der Vorleser’ in which a 15 year old boy gets into a relationship with a 36 year old woman. A strange choice to force kids about that age to read (we were a bit older than 15, I think. But still…)

Plus he’s probably just not in the files because Epstein had young girls.

Oh sure. Suppress your feelings. Very healthy. Makes aaaaallll the problems go away. /s

I think that woman needs therapy. And all the people in her stories too - if they even exist and aren’t just a thinly veiled attempt to get suffering people to work more.

Burrowing your feelings like that is a fast way to a burn out or worse.

If productivity increases by x% they are going to fire x% of the workforce and give the saved money to themselves.

Or more realistically, they fire x+5 percent, just to see if you work slaves can’t be worked a bit harder.

Well, whatever you need to get hard, I guess /s

Projection. The fear of being found out.

Why are so many Republican anti-gay politicians gay?

Why are so many Republican tough-on-crime politicians corrupt?

Why are so many Republican think-of-the-children politicians pedophiles?

Projection: if they do it, everyone is doing it: so we have to do something about that.

Fear of being found out: if you are the loudest voice against your own crime, surely nobody will suspect you.

Every accusation a confession.