• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    1 day ago

    Heads up, AI related bonds are imploding. Taking the entire bond market with it perhaps. There is a very real chance of a recession very soon.

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      12 hours ago

      What are “AI related bonds”?

      Bond yields are mostly being driven up by pensions cashing out.

      AI companies have no reason to invest in government bonds afaik, much too long-term for their immediate investment needs

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        AI companies don’t buy government bonds, but some AI companies sell their own bonds. Google and Oracle for example and I believe SoftFail is also looking to sell bonds so they can refinance a loan they used to get a stake in ClosedAI.

        Google’s most egregious bond is one that matures in 2126. You’ll only be paid interest until a century from now when you’ll get the principal back. A ridiculous investment if you ask me, but they say it’s fine because thanks to AI they’ll earn a gazillion dollars by then and surely won’t go bankrupt.

        It should also be mentioned that a large proportion of bonds aren’t government bonds at all, companies selling bonds isn’t anything new, there’s basically two ways for a company to raise funds: Sell bonds or sell equity. Bonds are preferable if you know you can pay them back easily because nobody gives up any shares.

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        Data center build outs, and whatever else. When it implodes the government will bail them out for concessions to fuck us.

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    Cmon this is getting ridiculous. How is this any different to being anti-vaxx at this point you are just straight up denying science for… Similar reasons to anti-vaxxers I guess? Keeping in mind anti-vaxx is psychological warfare and you are being crowbarred here for similar reasons.

    There was companies that overhyped medical breakthroughs that doesn’t make me hate medical science whats up with you guys? This crap has fallen on DLSS literal ethical AI that uses the GPU you are running a game on… It’s just nonsense anti-intellectualism.

    And don’t get me wrong there is plenty of problems with AI, but they have never been addressed here in the same way problems in medical research aren’t addressed in anti-vaxx spaces.

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      6 hours ago

      Your argument can be applied onto literally anything. If you dont drink Pepsi your an anti-pepsier and a anti-intellectual because it has so many proven productivity benefits!

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        No it cannot. The guy I replied to literally referenced a paper they didn’t understand. It’s actually a perfect comparison. Nice try science denier

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      Current “AI” is actually shitty tho’.

      Any frozen weight models are architecturally unable to lean anything new, while dynamic weight models require entire datacenters to run for every instance. The scale of low-effort slop has crippled the internet as a knowledge source, and we are currently poisoning entire towns and the earth at large making up problems to solve.

      Look at Nvidia, look at Huggingface. Huggingface literally offers their AI detection right next to their AI obfuscation. Meanwhile Anthropic is constantly hyping bullshit. I just read the “J-Space” article, and holy crap, LLMs use hidden layers to encode and infer relarionships, wow. I thought this was the whole idea behind machine learning, but I guess, saying that won’t secure another billion dollars.

      The entire space is full of people without any idea what they are looking at, and with LLMs taking up all the space and money, actually good ideas, like probabalistic proteine folding, are tossed to the side.

      The only kinda good thing I see is Markdown making a comeback. And that’s just “good”, because I like Markdown.

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        Any frozen weight models are architecrurally unable to lean anything new

        The sky is blue.

        while dynamic weight models require entire datacenters to run for every instance

        Erh wrong.

        The scale of low-effort slop has crippled the internet as a knowledge source, and we are currently poisoning entire towns and the earth at large making up problems to solve.

        AI is a force multiplier here yea but these are pre-existing problems target the source if you want a solution flailing your arms around in ignorance gets ya’ll nowhere.

        Huggingface literally offers their AI detection right next to their AI obfuscation

        Yea they are machine learning subjects Huggingface is a hub.

        I just read the “J-Space” article, and holy crap, LLMs use hidden layers to encode and infer relarionships, wow. I thought this was the whole idea behind machine learning, but I guess, saying that won’t secure another billion dollars.

        Are you trying to trick these people into thinking you understood what you read? Be careful with that, they will believe you.

        The entire space is full of people without any idea what they are looking at, and with LLMs taking up all the space and money, actually good ideas, like probabalistic proteine folding, are tossed to the side.

        Exactly my point, against you.

        The only kinda good thing I see is Markdown making a comeback. And that’s just “good”, because I like Markdown.

        So you have no integrity when it comes to Markdown being written for you okay.

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          Why would you replace " with “ ?

          You’re actually alluding to another good point here. Humans are naturally equipped with perhaps one of the most complex computers we know; free for life! Yet a bunch group of people are now increasingly unable to use it. Thanks to relying on LLMs, even for the most basic of tasks.

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            You wouldn’t take medical advice from an anti-vaxxer that wilfully misinterprets research papers.

            Just stop… Go learn so you can have discussion with decision makers and researchers then you can effect change. This place is bad for you. These are NPC’s that will reinforce stupidity evidently it is not an AI problem.

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      12 hours ago

      The medical research takes up less than 25%, so it is well within the statement of this meme.

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    This is the dotcom bubble on steroids. These chat bots have a low barrier of entry. The hardware shortage is the only reason they can charge charge excessive amount for access.

    In 10 years your phone will be able to run ChatGPT locally. They know this and it’s why they need to sell everyone on these models constantly improving but cannot provide metrics that satisfy anyone who isn’t all-in.

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    People really feel some type of way if you’re not impressed with AI. But it just isn’t useful enough for day to day and makes up stuff along with being destructive to the planet.

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    So what is up with the duck?

    Not sure with the ball either but seems to me it is a bit folk loreish in the US for some reason.

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    yeah, but the problem is that the world isn’t made for people who can use rubber ducks, magic 8 balls, wikipedia and good notes apps.

    the world is made for the people that need the obnoxious laugh track and a person reacting to an Instagram reel, otherwise they don’t know how to feel.

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      That’s why before any job interview I put a bluetooth speaker in my pocket. Then when I’m about to walk into the room where I’m being interviewed I play a sound file. 5 seconds of silence, followed by a studio audience reaction of when the hot person enters the room.

      You know the one.

      Hot person enters through the doorway, says 1 sentence, and pauses because the audience is about to lose their shit going WOOOOOOOOOOO!!! for 3 seconds. Then the actor says the line again, and continues with more that the one sentence.

      So as I’m opening the door, I hit play, walk through the door.

      “Hi, I’m here for the interview…WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Hi, I’m here for the interview. Here’s my resume.”

      “What was that?”

      “Oh, that was just the studio audience reacting to the arrival of the main character in your story.”

      So far it hasn’t worked. But I still get the ego boost!

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        they need a soundboard for federal hearings and trials.

        ‘the honorable judge peterson presiding’ <HONK><AWOOGA!><HONK>

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          If he doesn’t, he could always start. He has changed the deal. Pray that he doesn’t change it further.

          Because when darth vader brings princess leia on the deathstar, she looks around. What does she see? Nothing but open space. There’s nowhere for her to run. What’s she gonna do? Say no?

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      I was interested in this really hot chick, but what ground me down and made me lose interest was that she would not stop sending me these videos… Top 50% of the video somebody would be telling a conspicuously fake “funny” story, on the bottom half of the video was the SAME person but pretending to gut-laugh on a 3 second loop. Omfg… She was an 11 out of 10 but I just couldn’t take it. I cannot pretend I find these things funny.

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          I was okay with ignoring and replying LOL to them all

          But what I was not okay with was the alleged humor content repeatedly later coming up in personal conversation

          She would reference something from some reel that had critical impact on her, and it would go over my head because of course I had not watched it. “But you replied LOL” 😮‍💨

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    And at least 60% of AI could be done in a lounge on a cocktail napkin, without a subscription.

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    Running a local llm in obsidian is actually pretty useful but I’m not asking it to do much. Just search my human notes and find/summarize them. Is it a useful tool yes, would I let a cloud provider touch my notes absolutely not.

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    Also almost any package manager.

    Just use dependencies if you don’t want to bother with writing a parser library! You don’t need to ask AI every time for an XML parser every time you need to touch XML! (Personally I try my best to not touch it outside of text formatting needs, where XML actually excels at, it’s poopy at data storage you otherwise could use INI, TOML, JSON, or whatever other languages.)