Pennomi

Sleeping with your Vaporeon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EWMgB26bmU

What’s awful is that Musk shows all the incel traits without actually being an incel. You have to have a real shit personality for that to be true.

Good question! The answer can be found by looking at how most of the commercial open source products are monetized. Software hosting and technical support are quite lucrative if the software is valuable.

But let’s look bigger than just software. How do content creators get paid? That’s far less tested. I expect crowdfunding to be the primary vehicle for that. It’s popular for indies, but the big boys haven’t caught up with the times yet.

Indeed! My personal political alignment does in fact incorporate much of communism.

I’m a digital communist, at any rate. If something can be copied for free, it darn well ought to be free. Anything else is artificial and enforced by threat of violence.

Serious post: cost and shifting performance expectations make it impractical for consumer devices

Shit post: Because Nokia doesn’t make phones any more

Apocalypticism will always be in fashion.

Yeah, albedo of an object might be described as the true color of a thing, if you take away the shading, reflectivity, and metallicity.

Asking that question is the first step people need in order to finally come to that conclusion. We all just completed the process a loooooong time ago.

Our current campaign has a recurring mook named Qarl who the party has killed several times… somehow he keeps showing up every time they square away against the baddies. There’s a little riot every time they find out he’s back!

Sure, go for it. But good luck paying an army of copywriters to summarize every article you read.

That’s not what I’m implying. What I’m saying is that wasting time and effort on quality is pointless when the threshold for success is low.

For example, I could use aerospace quality parts (perfectly machined to micron-level tolerances) to build a toaster. However, while this would not increase the performance meaningfully, the cost would be orders of magnitude greater. Instead I can use shitty off-the-shelf parts because it doesn’t really make a difference.

Maybe in other words, engineering tolerances apply to LLMs too. They’re crude devices, but it’s totally fine if you have a crude problem.

The best thing would be that she doesn’t get any money. The second best is that her money depends on being trans-friendly.

It might be all I care about. Humans might always be better, but AI only has to be good enough at something to be valuable.

For example, summarizing an article might be incredibly low stakes (I’m feeling a bit curious today), or incredibly high stakes (I’m preparing a legal defense), depending on the context. An AI is sufficient for one use but not the other.

This seems to be millions of times more accurate, according to the article.

If AI is really that disruptive (and I believe it will be) then shouldn’t we bend over backwards to make it happen? Because otherwise it’s our geopolitical rivals who will be in control of it.

Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency” which is the whole point of RPGs.

That’s because they are serious about it. Chip fabrication will likely determine the victor of the next 25 years in world politics.

More realistically, a good deal of alcohol.

That’s where he keeps all the anger.