I was silly and got myself a 5950X. But I feel less silly about it now tbh. It’s gonna become my new homelab core whenever I get the chance to do a new gaming build again that’s not a high 4-figure investment.

…except that MS keeps fixing what’s not broke by adding AI to it, which is part of why people are ditching it.

The real trick will be in figuring out some sort of solid state device - probably at least partially (if not predominantly) analog, not digital - that can reliably mimic the behaviors of biological neurons.

The actual breakthrough of AGI isn’t going to occur until we figure out how to do machine learning with analog circuit design. Digital simply does not scale well - what we’re doing now with “AI” using GPUs is simply brute forcing the problem by layering dozens of markov chains on top of each other.

In point of fact: a friend I have from Europe expressed amused appreciation when I first used that term with her, because “American” implies that people from the US are the only population that matters in The Americas (as in, North and South America), and that the default/accepted demonym has some implicit ownership/overlordship overtones, and I don’t disagree.

Ok, I’ll bite: realistically, what would you have me do, in addition to going to protests and generally not giving the fascists the rhetorical space to spew their insanity unopposed?

Unitedstatesian here: seriously, tell our regime to fuck off.

It’s pretty easy to set up a cron job to fire off some sort of bullshit LLM request a handful of times a day during working hours. Just set it and forget it.

Wow you are making a whole shitload of assumptions about my beliefs - not to mention, you clearly do not understand strategic military and geoeconomic policy in the context of modern geopolitics.

Canada is in danger of invasion by a nationalistic US in the next decade or two, if the trajectory our current regime is on continues unabated. Having defense equipment and capabilities that are backed by literally anything other than US tech is a great idea in that context.

Because Russia (and, well, lots of other countries, including China and the US) commonly runs, amongst other things, foreign intelligence and influence operations out of consulates and embassies on a covert basis. Officially closing embassies/consulates tends to make it harder for hostile states that own those properties to execute hostile actions within the host country.

Or: SCP-1.1.1.1

Ew 😐

Who is “no one”? Because yeah, there will be splash damage, but some sectors (“AI” companies and the megacorps involved in the massive ongoing self-dealing circlejerk) will collapse, but others will simply see a correction. And I’ve already dumped anything LLM-related (as well as most US-based securities and ETFs) as of early this year. So I’ll take a hit (everyone will take a hit), but it’s not going to be nearly as bad as it will be for all the bag holders.

As a city person:

It’s not that I care about the personal impact that it has on me. It doesn’t affect me at all, to be blunt.

It may in fact be true that there are areas where there was nothing other than a DG (the company was founded in 1939, so it’s been around for a while), but in terms of the last few decades, it’s absolutely true that they’re undercutting an absolute shitload of local mom + pop general stores and driving them out of business, then exploiting their new captive audience and charging them more per unit mass/volume on everything. It’s literally their business model. That business model is predatory.

Anyways, if that’s not something that you can understand or admit, I don’t think any explanation from a random “city person” on the internet is going to convince you.

How did they squander being the name in autonomous vacuum devices…? It’s kinda baffling tbh.

That, or TempleOS

Tbh I refuse to patronize dollar general, because they are an absolute cancer of a corporate entity (yes, I know how little that narrows it down, but their business model really is unbelievably caustic, in that it specifically preys upon socioeconomically depressed areas and actively makes them worse).

Congratulations, <megaCorpName>! You have completed the Regulatory Capture research tree, and have unlocked State Capture!

Well, when did your whole life start?