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I find it offensive that comments that appear to be legitimate additions to the conversation are downvoted into oblivion and then flagged without even a single response to suggest where the author of the comment in question was in error. This is definitely not what I would expect to see on an ostensibly neutral platform that claims to be dedicated to technical discussion of issues on their merits.

If you're looking at the same comment I am, I suspect it just tripped AI-generated-comment heuristics, perhaps people's personal ones and perhaps the site's. It's an unfortunate world for people who like em dashes and have some genuine reason to be creating a new account.

America has absolutely been all of that and more within living memory. The problem is it's getting to the point where you need to be pushing 50 to remember a time when this was the case.

Seems like a slightly more topical analog of "mitthrowaway"...

The downvotes in absence of any reply suggest there's a group of individuals who think your position is so correct it's functionally unassailable but are offended you said it out loud.

"given 10-ish years at least to adapt, we probably can"

Social media would like a word...


We can adapt by shutting down social media. We don't really need that. It's been pretty bad since before the AI wave took off.

We needed a better phone book we ended up in a world where most of our fellow citizens fucking casino.

Really? Because GDP vs household income graphed over the last 40 years paints a rather clear picture.


Is it? The observation seems patently obvious if one has even the most superficial understanding of how LLMs work? Why is this not common knowledge?

Understanding LLMs require a few pieces of knowledge that are not very common in the industry, not only ML stuff, but I think that having worked in the past with NLP helps a lot.

I fucked around with dissociate press 30 years ago just to see what would happen if you fed it a combination of random chapters from Alice in Wonderland and the book of Revelations. This hardly represents insider knowledge.

Find others likeminded locally and cooperate where opportunities present themselves.

I'm fairly certain securing one's household's access to energy independent of rate increases triggered by a combination of aging infrastructure and data center power demand doesn't have a lot in common with tech bros attempts at reinventing trains badly from first principles but I'm open to hear the argument. Care to unpack that?


Im eager to hear rhis one...

_grabbing popcorn_


Easily: it's techbros again forgetting that an expensive asset only wealthy can afford isn't a solution to a mass scale infrastructure problem. And again, just like with Tesla bros, nothing about household solar is independent and requires infrastructure to support it - which, just like with trains, isn't going to get required investment because you're dreaming about individual investment.

Like you say, I want trains - proper infrastructure supported renewables, not Teslas - home individual infra only affordable by wealthy individuals at the cost of shared infrastructure while lowering resilience because it still uses shared infrastructure.


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