unless they hit some magic step function improvement in efficiency it seems very likely most of these companies will eat shit financially at some point. whoever manages to pull through with the correct cards will probably make a lot of money long term though

still borderline happens in parts of California ngl. wage delta between rich tech workers and undocumented migrants is ripe for this kind of thing

it's a line of argument that makes a lot of sense when you're 12

societal trust is incredibly hard to build and you really don't appreciate it until it's gone! and sometimes that means doing your part to uphold the social contract even when not doing so would materially benefit you

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

writing words about politics is a product produced by a D+50 demographic for a D+40 consumer base while trying to appear D+10

The ‘public trust crisis’ in science largely comes down to ‘scientists tell people things they don’t want to hear’. Applies equally to climate science

[Rhythm Doctor] 2-XN Bitter Times Visualized Rhythm feat. Beans YouTube video by funtm

a lot of tracks to talk about but 2-XN (Bitter Times) is just so cool for how difficult it manages to make holding the same rhythm just by shifting its context, all while sounding incredible

youtu.be/JiRtsfP_2Z4?...

it's crazy that it's one of the few rhythm games I've seen where I'm genuinely impressed at *the rhythms themselves*

just such smartly written music for so many of the tracks

finally beat Rhythm Doctor (7-X took me so long). What a brilliant game!

I don't know how it took so long to see a rhythm game realize that the coolest ways to increase difficulty and tell a story within the genre are with math rock and show tunes, respectively

nobody is more evil and reactionary than those whose entire privileged way of life depends on rent seeking specific government-granted monopolies

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

the "power" in "overpowered", as it's used online, refers to the bestowal of power (by game devs originally, but also as a metaphor more broadly). overpowered means that something was powered (up) too much

ngl I think it makes more sense than overpowering, whose structure is to me inscrutable

even if there's some good reason your murderbot should walk rather than flying or using treads, I struggle to imagine why a bipedal design would be better than a quadrupedal one

I think if you're gonna use snails you should be using snail-hours as your unit

I feel like there's some specific common phobia everyone in the replies has and I just don't cause ngl I would pay to do this it seems cool as fuck

George Lucas racking up W after W like tickets spitting out after a perfect skiball game

based and rental-pilled

bsky.app/profile/dalm...

this is also extremely funny to me as someone who moved from the west coast to the east coast because New Milford is literally 60 miles from NYC

that doesn't mean LLMs are doing this, because you can get very close with much less sophisticated machinery. but in principle i don't see why chasing prediction wouldn't be a good way to try to get something to do that

yeah the thing is if you want to predict my next thought perfectly accurately, it essentially requires you to have some emulation of what I consider to be consciousness! otherwise you lack one of the key inputs

an honest question for "LLMs are definitely not intelligent people": if we made first contact with aliens, by what process would you establish whether those aliens were or were not intelligent?

intelligence, like most things, is really hard to pin down. but if you had asked me 10 years ago to write down a list of tasks that I would think absolutely require intelligence, an LLM would almost certainly be able to do 95% of them. it's crazy to me to suggest that isn't meaningful!

but like more broadly what is the distinction here supposed to be? LLMs are "just predictive" as opposed to what? it seems like everyone on this site reads this sentence and somehow understands what the implied alternative is here and i just flat-out don't

on another level though, I really struggle to understand what people are trying to say when they say that something is "just predictive". prediction is really hard! that LLMs work at all on problems outside of their training data proves that prediction requires some generalized problem-sovling

and ngl, if someone is saying neuroplasticity is their line for intelligence, i really feel like they wouldn't have had that line 5 years ago

i can't prove what's in other people's heads but this whole discussion reeks of insane goalpost-moving, to me

basically the only part i could see people quibbling over is the capacity for learning? but also LLMs very much do learn within the confines of a given conversation so unless your definition hinges specifically on neuroplasticity then idk how you're drawing this distinction

i am deeply skeptical that an LLM could ever reach sentience, but these systems are pretty obviously already intelligent by like, almost any reasonable definition i could think of

i am deeply curious what definition of intelligence these people have that *definitionally* excludes LLMs

there's just a lot of abbreviations where that's the f; wtf, stfu, lmfao