She’s a keeper.

Especially if she says this kinda unprompted.

It’s easy to forget how bad it can get.

One day I wandered into /r/kotakuinaction over some linked comment on the Tomb Raider animation, and the Fallout TV series, and… yeah. I remembered.

And that’s a pretty mild example.

There’s another trolley coming, and she’s trying to stop it from running over people again by crashing the first trolley into it.

Sounds like it’d be nice if you had real control over the car’s software, and you could roll it back.

This… also makes me a little more weary driving around Teslas in traffic.

Honestly, they should fight fire with fire? Another vision model (like Qwen VL) would catch this

You can ask it “does this image seem fake?” and it would look at it, reason something out and conclude it’s fake, instead of… I dunno, looking for smaller patters or whatever their internal model does?

Especially since it means there could be more.

Ants too.

I’ve learned to love bees. They can ride in my car. Maybe even some spiders.

Hornets, though? Big fat nope.

I agree.

But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation tool. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable. They’d get naive, hype driven upvotes if left alone. And I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.

The localllama people are feeling quite mixed about this, as they’re still charging through the nose for more RAM. Like, orders of magnitude more than the bigger ICs actually cost.

It’s kinda poetic. Apple wants to go all in on self-hosted AI now, yet their incredible RAM stinginess over the years is derailing that.

I remember when SBF news was peaking right around the time Stable Diffusion 1.5 came out, and thinking of how fundamentally gutted the entire premise of an NFT was in like a month.

Evangelists of the stuff will tell you that you can own your own digital corner of the information highway (Second Life came out in 2003, and most MMOs have housing), or that you can trade rare items with your fellow players (TF2 and Counter-Strike have been doing this forever). Then there’s this idea that you “own the item” in question more than you would otherwise (you don’t, you own a certificate that’s associated with it, and the item will vanish if the infrastructure does). Then there’s the whole “you could use a sword from one game in another game!” nonsense, which I think we can all agree was cooked up by people who don’t understand how game design works on even a fundamental level.

This is so on point for the web3 space, and parts of the AI space too.

Evangelists waltz in and berate you for not understanding how gloriously awesome their system is… without even making a cursory effort to check if it already exists, much less accumulate a deep understanding and appreciation like they expect you to do.

Sure, here you go: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7329

One of many such bills.

Take a look at the sponsors. I’ll give you 1 guess at which party would vote it down, because it would hurt them in elections.

It’s the same reason Puerto Rico will never be a state.

Presumably you will advance along with humanity though, or failing that, just figure out the transcendence thing yourself with so much time?

I don’t think anyone would choose to stay ‘meatbag human’ for trillions of years.

There is a breaking point, eventually. YouTube’s trajectory is gonna make next quarter’s revenue great, but eventually something else will pick up user’s attention instead.

I don’t even look at the algo anymore, I just go out and search for content externally.

Maybe I am just out of touch, but I smell another bubble bursting when I look at how enshittified all major web services are simultaneously becoming.

It feels like something has to give, right?

We have YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, and more just racing to enshittify like I can’t even believe, Google Search is racing to destroy the internet, yet they’re also at the ‘critical mass’ of ‘too big to fail’ and shoved out all their major competitors already (other than Discord I guess).

There are already open source/self hosted alternatives, like Perplexica.

CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it. they keep generating sign-ups and selling ads… till next quarter, at least.

Soldered is better! It’s sometimes faster, definitely faster if it happens to be lpddr.

But TBH the only thing that really matters his “how much VRAM do you have,” and Qwen 32B slots in at 24GB, or maybe 16GB if the GPU is totally empty and you tune your quantization carefully. And the cheapest way to that (until 2025) is a used MI60, P40 or 3090.