Not sure why you’re all through this thread trying to defend google, but the entire point of why google is doing this is to close both sides of app installation- AOSP support is getting deprioritized/dropped, meaning there won’t BE downstream OSes, and then they’re trying to lock development behind Google’s approval, blocking non-gapps stores from being able to be installed on Google’s OS.

It was illegal, then Reagan changed that.

Did you not read what they were saying? They don’t want to, they would HAVE to.

Nah, people jumped on that, but it was them misunderstanding a misattributing of some imessage stuff. The washer was still dealing with shitloads of bandwidth.

my man, my only experience with your comments is this very thread, and that’s all I need to know that your bans were justified. Your ban from this community is going to be justified too.

But it was an ingredient, and it’s hilariously tonedeaf to pretend it’s not. Should it be limited where possible? Yes, of course. Hopefully, it’s never needed at all!

But lets not pretend solely peaceful protests have ever worked when they weren’t backed by the threat of violence if the peaceful protestors were ignored. Even MLK Jr. had Malcolm X looming over his shoulder, daring people to try shit… and even then, MLK Jr. still got assassinated for daring improve american citizen’s rights.

As for constantly parroting the Hong Kong protests… you do realize that the Hong Kong protestors lost, right? Why are you using them as a guide for what to do?

These days, they’re usually racks and racks and racks of specialized rackmount servers with all kinds of hardware, hilarious amounts of ram, networked storage, tensor cores, etc stuffed inside, all networked together via fiber optics to run in parallel as one big PC with many CPUs.

yyyyes they do have tensor cores? Where did you get such an absurd idea from?

I think you’ve misunderstood what I was saying- I don’t have spreadsheets of statistics on requests for LLM AIs vs non-LLM AIs. What I have is exposure to a significant amount of various AI users, each running different kinds of AIs, and me seeing what kind of AI they’re using, and for what purposes, and how well it works or doesn’t.

Generally, LLM-based stuff is really only returning ‘useful’ results for language-based statistical analysis, which NLP handles better, faster, and vastly cheaper. For the rest, they really don’t even seem to be returning useful results- I typically see a LOT of frustration.

I’m not about to give any information that could doxx myself, but the reason I see so much of this is because I’m professionally adjacent to some supercomputers. As you can imagine, those tend to be useful for AI research :P

As I said, anyone with sense.

Source is the commercial and academic uses I’ve personally seen as an academic-adjacent professional that’s had to deal with this sort of stuff at my job.

Again with the conflation. They clearly mean GPTs and LLMs from the context they provide, they just don’t have another name for it, mostly because people like you like to pretend that AI is shit like chatGPT when it benefits you, and regular machine learning is AI when it benefits you.

And no, GPTs are not needed, nor used, as a base for most of the useful tech, because anyone with any sense in this industry knows that good models and carefully curated training data gets you more accurate, reliable results than large amounts of shit data.

Using chatGPT to recall the word ‘verisimilar’ is an absurd waste of time, energy, and in no way justifies the use of AI.

90% of LLM/GPT use is a waste or could be done with better with another tool, including non-LLM AIs. The remaining 10% are just outright evil.

Those are not GPTs or LLMs. Fuck off with your bullshit trying to conflate the two.

While that’s all a good question and thought provoking… unfortunately it’s literally just word of god that if Qui-Gon won, the light would win.

A common problem in Star Wars- the fans have put waaaay more thought and worldbuilding into it than Lucas ever did.

It could, but the supreme Court and other Republicans would never allow it.

Canonically the actual gamble was qui-gon vs Darth maul. If qui-gon had lived, the universe would have been fine. But he lost, so it was doomed.

The force on star wars is weird, because if you’re strong enough in the force things are basically fated.

Anyway, that’s the long reason why the background music during that fight is called “The Duel of Fates”.

Because ‘enemies’ has been narrowly redefined to be a country we are at war with. You’ll notice, of course, that we haven’t declared war since ww2. It’s all been ‘police actions’ and similar.

No, we did not accept any of it. There’s been massive, colossal protests about it all in fact. We don’t like this, and we’ve been TRYING to get it to stop.

The problem is that both parties, the media, and big tech companies are doing everything they can to normalize this shit and pretend that the protests are small, have no momentum, can’t accomplish anything, and it’s already too late.

It’s not.

US citizens do not want this shit.

More to point, the idiots that voted for this while thinking it would happen are a very, very small minority.

And even then, it’s looking reaaaal likely that a significant amount of those votes for this shit were faked.