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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.The Conversation
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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.The Conversation
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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.The Conversation
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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.The Conversation
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I went from Ryzen 1000 to intel 12000 since I need single threaded performance above all else (CAD). Plus it was a steal of a deal.
If Intel ever sorts out their drivers or it gets cheap enough I might for at 14000 chip but no further.
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What if it hits around 90°C during Vulkan shader processing? 😅 Otherwise like 42–52 idle. How's that? I'm wondering if my cooling is sufficient.
This is an AMD 9950X3D + 9070 XT setup, for reference.
Any way to do Vulkan shader processing on the GPU perhaps, to speed it up?
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What does it mean to "process shaders in real-time"? Wouldn't it be objectively faster to process them ahead-of-time? Even if it's only slightly faster while running the game?
I mean processing takes like a minute or so, so it's no big deal. I'm just curious for the fun of it, if I can compile it on the GPU. Not sure it's even possible.
What does it mean to "process shaders in real-time"?
Processing them as they're loaded, quickly enough that there's no noticeable frame drop. Usual LLVM based shader compilers aren't fast enough for that but ACO is specifically written to compile shaders for AMD GPUs and makes this feasible.
Pre-compilation would in theory always yield higher 1% lows yes, but it's not really worth the time hit anymore especially for games that constantly require a new cache to be built or have really long compilation times.
I think the one additional thing Steam does in that step is transcoding videos so they can be played back with Proton's codec set but using something like Proton-GE, Proton-cachyos or Proton-EM solves this too.
Disclaimer: I don't know how the deeply technical stuff of this works so this might not be exact.
Huh.
Well like I said it only takes like a minute with half of my 32 threads utilized at 100 % (so all of my cores I guess?). Might as well keep doing it I suppose.
That's not the case. 100% for new CPUs, but also for old ones too.
My father's old CPU cooler did not make good contact, got lose in one corner some how, and the system would throttle (fan at 100% making noise and PC run slow). After i fixed it, in one of my visits, CPU was working fine for years.
System throttles or even shuts down before any thermal damage occures (at least when temperatures rise normally).
The article (or one of the linked ones) says the max design temperature is 105°C, so it doesn't throttle until it hits that.
Which makes me think it should be able to sustain operating at that temperature. If not, Intel fucked up by speccing them too high.
I’d expect it to throttle before reaching max operating temperature
Again, you misunderstand. The max operating temperature is where Intel has stated that the CPU can safely operate for extended periods of time, including accounting for situations like thermal runaway (though ideally they engineer the chip that that doesn't happen in the first place).
If that situation does occur, the chip attempts to throttle at 105, and if that fails then it presumable halts at whatever the protection threshold is before it hits the actual damage point, as I said.
Yes.
Whether Intel fucked up by saying "oh yeah works great up to 105" if that isn't actually true is another question, as I mentioned.
It's not really that different, the exact temperatures are slightly higher but most intel processors will boost up to 105C, then start throttling to maintain that 105C as a maximum, and if that's not possible they'll halt at 110C.
AMD does the same, just the temps are (for the one specific CPU I remember them for) 80-85C for starting dialing down the boost, 90C for throttling below the normal freq, and 95C for TjMax which either halts the system or just drops the power usage so low it doesn't matter - I'm not about to take a heatgun to my CPU to see what it does as it wasn't capable of hitting that on its own.
But it shouldn't be possible to break your CPU from over temperature, no matter what those temps are, because they should be capable of protecting themselves, even if that means dropping to 386 speeds when you are running them in the Death Valley with not cooler whatsoever.
The 7000 series had the Intel behavior of just clocking up until like 95C and staying there indefinitely
That's why people thought the 9000 series was disappointment - AMD went back to balancing power efficiency and performance
Why? It’s designed to run up to 105c.
I think it was when AMDs 7000 series CPUs were running at 95c and everyone freaked out that AMD came out and said that the CPUs are built to handle this load 24/7 365 for years on end.
And it’s not like this is new to Intel. Intel laptop CPUs have been doing this for a decade now.
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105c is the max operating temperature. It's not going to run away the second it hits 106.
Your CPU starts throttling at 104c so that way it almost never hits at 105c for long If it can't maintain clocks then it drops them until 104c can mostly be maintained.
laughs in 8700k
When I overclock this old chip (which it was built for) it can hit over 100 with proper cooling. Some chips are hot as fuck. I think this one shuts off at 105.
Somehow I figured out Intel was shit early on. Been AMD for like 15-20 years. I think it was a combo of childhood shit computers running Intel, and a lot of advice pointing out what garbage it was and not worth the cost for PC builds.
Similar reasons I hate Hitachi and Western Digital hard drives. They always fucking fail.
I was in team AMD in the 2000s for two reasons: price and competition to Intel. Intel had a massive anti-trust loss to AMD around that time, and I wanted AMD to succeed. I stuck with them until Zen was actually competitive and stayed with them ever since because they actually had better products. Intel was the king in both performance and power efficiency until that Zen release, so I really don't know where that advice would've come from.
As for Hitachi and Western Digital, WTF? Hitachi hasn't been a thing for well over a decade since they sold their HDD business to WD, and WD is generally as reliable or better than its competition. It sounds like you were impacted by a couple failures (probably older drives?) and made a decision based on that. If you look at Backblaze stats, there's not a huge difference between manufacturers, just a few models that do way worse than the rest.
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2025
Read the latest failure rates from the Backblaze drive fleet in the Q1 2025 Drive Stats Report.Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Similar reasons I hate Hitachi and Western Digital hard drives. They always fucking fail.
You misspelled Seagate.
My WD drives have been great, but my Seagates failed multiple times, causing data loss because I wasn't properly protecting myself.
How likely is it that I got 4 to 5 bad batches over the space of as many years?
Raid and offline backups these days, I eventually learned my lesson. One of which is stay away from Seagate.
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CPUs don’t die very often without something being very wrong with your system.
Could be the PSU or motherboard
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"Do you need to transcode video?
Then leave Intel the fuck alone."
Been my rule for 20 years, and it's worked good so far.
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It’s odd, their GPUs are doing fine, a market they are young in, but their well established CPU market is cratering
Business majors suck.
Their GPU situation is weird. The gaming GPUs are good value, but I can't imagine Intel makes much money from them due to the relatively low volume yet relatively large die size compared to competitors (B580 has a die nearly the size of a 4070 despite being competing with the 4060). Plus they don't have a major foothold in the professional or compute markets.
I do hope they keep pushing in this area still, since some serious competition for NVIDIA would be great.
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I'd probably just warranty the CPU and assume it was a defect instead of blame the entire company.
But yeah amd is the better choice for everything atm except x86 power efficiency laptop chips.
care to explain that last part?
for example if I want to by a new laptop right now, do I buy intel?
because it has better power usage?
is that only idle and/or lower usage power?
what about if I just plus the laptop to power socket always (like a simple desktop), then amd is better with respect to performance per watt?
Intel has its core ultra line up which improved its power usage a lot. This isnt great for intensive workloads because there is more efficeny cores and less preformance cores but its great for general everyday use on battery.
When you're plugged in power usage no longer matters so having an Intel CPU sucks because yoy are getting less preformance for your dollar.
Also amd is more price to preformance and still has good battery life so you really do get the most value.
I get the intel lower power when not doing stuff (wish amd had high/low config for cores too) but what I mean was, in laptop cpus that are not on battery (just connected to power) does amd do more with the same power usage?
if the comparation can not be done with the same gen cpus from two companies, then maybe a similar power usage cpu from amd and one from intel (laptop of course), do they for example have similar geekbench benchmark results? (for lack of better tool)
so what I am asking is I dont care that is the same gen amd and intel laptop cpu with both connected to socket power, if amd is better. I want to know if for the same power usage (not idling but working) amd is better or not.
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Google shuting down sideoading name of security
Google is shutting down Android sideloading in the name of security
All apps need to come from verified developers now.Alex Perry (Mashable)
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Israeli Arms Maker Shuts Site After Sustained Anti-Genocide Protests
Israeli arms producer Elbit Systems closed its site in Bristol, UK, after years of protests by Palestine Action, The Guardian reported on 6 September.
Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action
Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK Bristol site was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribedHaroon Siddique (The Guardian)
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Probably just started another without attention on them. Labour is such a shit show, fascist nhilists they believe in nothing.
Any symbolic moves are to placate those with consciouses, giving them another 6 weeks to wrap up the starvation phase of their final solution for gaza or they will do something thay changes nothing, while making protesting de facto illegal and locking down the internet connecting all ip's to faces and id's in a database political leadership could access without warrant or nat sec assent.
that’ll still slow them down, at least
we need sustained efforts to beat them long term
KDE Linux entra in fase alpha
KDE Linux la distribuzione immutabile entra in fase alpha
KDE ha rilasciato la prima alpha della sua distribuzione Linux immutabile: KDE Linux, basata su Arch, con aggiornamenti atomici, supporto Flatpak e SnapFerramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)
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Genocide by remote control: Israel's explosive robots devastate Gaza
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Israeli forces deploy explosive robots at 'unprecedented pace', obliterating homes and displacing families
Genocide by remote control: Israel's explosive robots devastate Gaza
Hamza Shabaan woke up mid-air. A massive blast had hurled him off his mattress, leaving him disoriented and shocked.Mohammed al-Hajjar (Middle East Eye)
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Errori UZL 11
Salve,
ho provato a recuperare la password del forum di UZL ma non ricevo niente via email.
Gli aggiornamenti di UZL 11 funzionano eccetto che per il firmware linux dove ottengo l'errore :
W: Errore nello scaricare archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool…
Connessione non riuscita [IP: 91.189.91.81 80]
oppure da terminale:
E: Impossibile recuperare security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo… 500 Internal Server Error [IP: 185.125.190.39 80]
Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"
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"I had a case involving a 15-year-old girl recruited to shoot someone in the head," Stockholm prosecutor Ida Arnell told AFP. "She was able to choose the type of mission she wanted, in other words, to aim at the guy's door or his head. She chose the head."
Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"
Some 280 girls aged between 15 and 17 were charged with murder, manslaughter or other violent crimes last year in Sweden.CBS News
‘Unhinged and Anti-American’: Critics Erupt Over Trump‘s AI-Generated Threat
‘Unhinged and Anti-American’: Critics Erupt Over Trump‘s AI-Generated Threat
Donald Trump critics blasted the president's Truth Social post that featured an AI re-imagining of the war movie Apocalypse Now.Jennifer Bowers Bahney (Mediaite)
L’illimitato potenziale artistico del frassino nell’arte intrecciata dei Wabanaki
L'illimitato potenziale artistico del frassino nell'arte intrecciata dei Wabanaki - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Un’arte nobile può accedere ai confini della coscienza collettiva per una serie di ragioni qualche volta distinte: l’idea che tutto nasca da una serie di appropriate circostanze, essendo lo specifico prodotto di un momento storico, una fase culturale…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
How to Blow Up a Planet
For liberal supporters of the “abundance” movement, deregulation is crucial to solving climate and economic crises. Their critics argue something more confrontational is needed.
How to Blow Up a Planet
What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a sharedTrevor Jackson (The New York Review of Books)
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TF = (what) the fuck
Sometimes people drop the "what" part
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I was hoping that it's some kind of piratey alternative to Netflix.
I've stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and "buying" content is getting worse and worse.
Now I'm just downloading older movies from YouTube and similar services or look it up on archive.org.
Pirating was quite simple in the olden donkey / emule / kazaar etc times. BitTorrent was simple at the beginning as well. Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.
IRC seemed complicated as well and I can't bring myself to ever look into usenet because to me it was my first "social media" and it breaks my heart to see what it turned into.
Also it's super weird because it's not meant for this purpose. It's like using twitter to share base64 encoded warez. It kinda works but it's not meant for it.
Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.
This isn't really true. Maybe you have that impression because piracy communities tend to be filled with snobs who constantly humble brag about all their private trackers and paid services. You can still find good quality versions of almost everything through public trackers.
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You can still download an entire blockbuster from piratebay.
Arr software and Jellyfin make it easier and accessing it convenient, but at the backend, we're all still doing the same shit.
VPN yo ass up and download some movies, choom.
VPN yo ass up and download some movies, choom.
A Shadowrun reference in the wild?
Cyberpunk 2077 grabbed 'choom' and threw it into their lexicon so it has a whole new group of choomies enjoying it.
We're self-actualizing a real cyberpunk dystopia.
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Google's AI Ambitions An ‘Existential Crisis’ For News Online
Google's AI Ambitions An ‘Existential Crisis’ For News Online
Critics warn that this shift risks creating “echo chambers” filled with sensationalism and clickbait, at the expense of thorough, investigative journalism.Riley Gutiérrez McDermid (Gizmodo)
U.S. says it will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini because he fears deportation to Uganda
Attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Friday letter that they intend to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the African nation of Eswatini after he expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda.
The letter from ICE to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys was earlier reported by Fox News. It states that his fear of persecution or torture in Uganda is “hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries. ...Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini.”
Eswatini’s government spokesperson told The Associated Press on Saturday that it had no received no communication regarding Abrego Garcia’s transfer there.
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They killed over 16.000 people in 10 months in the XVIII century France. Most victims (over 80%) were commoners too.
Adding executions numbers range from over 25k to 50k. Again, in 10 months, that's worth having a name. For the noble rule there are several times but the broader one is Absolute Monarchy / Absolutism.
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Loads of countries have royal families. I said many times that it's not a stupid model and latest events in Poland only confirm this.
Long story short: Polish president has mostly decorative role but current far-right guy is now illegally usurping powers that are constitutionally not his and conspiring with Trump behind the government's back.
In monarchies the King/Queen have pretty much the same role but their position is so weak that they simply smile and follow the orders. They have a lot to lose and nothing to gain.
It is extremely polarized but it's not about elections. Couple examples of what the president is doing now:
- the constitution is clear that the government (so the Prime Minister and his staff) is responsible for foreign policy. When the president goes abroad he should get his instructions from the government and be accompanied by someone from the government. President ignored this before meeting Trump. He's basically trying to run parallel foreign policy which is crazy dangerous and damaging
- new judges have to be swear in before the president. it's just a ceremony but the president decided he will not swear in judges he doesn't like
- same with ambassadors. according to the constitution those are nominated by the gov but the president decided he will only swear in those he approves
He's basically using weak points of the constitution (which admittedly is simply badly written) to derail the government and is trying to rule in parallel where possible even though his post was designed as a purely ceremonial one.
Who cares about this?
Did you know that China forcibly disappeared a 6 year old back in 1995 and they're still holding him captive to this day?
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I don't think "disappear" is a transitive verb. You can't "disappear someone", as far as I know. I'm getting grammar squiggles for that already while typing this comment.
Edit: I guess I'm wrong, but it sure sounds stupid. Sounds like one of those TikTok censor words you put in place of the real word.
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He may be the last if he is unable to produce a son.
If they won't allow women to be emperor, I wonder if sex-selective IVF will be the answer.
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It was about six hundred years before we had a queen in England too. I'm sure they'll just go "fuck it, guess we're doing empresses now"
It's not like they actually run anything. It could honestly be a fucking cat and be more popular.
I mean, unless this 19 year old dude stated that he will not have kids, period, I don't see how "he may be the last".
The fundamental question is not whether to allow male or female succession line but how to save the monarchy
The answer is "don't". Monarchies' only use nowadays are as living relics of worse types of government and social structure.
New content moderation rules harm Arabic sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) advocacy online
New content moderation rules harm Arabic SRHR advocacy online - SMEX
The New Rules of the GameIn early 2025, Instagram and TikTok flagged several Arabic-language sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR)...Nourhane Kazak (SMEX)
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'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'
‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — ‘that is the capitalist system’
"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."Jason Ma (Fortune)
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Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content Against Palestinians During Genocide in Gaza
Hamleh - New 7amleh Report: Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content Against Palestinians During Genocide in Gaza
New 7amleh Report: Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content Against Palestinians During Genocide in Gaza7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement
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West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’
In addition to his storied acting career, Hanks served as national spokesperson for the World War II Memorial in Washington DC and supported the late Republican senator Bob Dole’s fundraiser to create the Dwight D Eisenhower Memorial, according to the alumni association’s original announcement.
It’s not clear how honoring Hanks conflicts with “preparing cadets”, but the actor has donated to Democrats; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama; and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Since taking office a second time, Donald Trump has taken a litany of actions against his perceived enemies. For example, he has revoked the security clearances and details of some people in the Biden administration and of people who served in his first administration whom he deemed “bad” or “disloyal”; blocked some news organizations from the Pentagon workspace and White House press pool; and revoked security clearances of – and investigated – law firms that were “very, very dishonest”.
West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’
Little known about decision, although Hanks, who has advocated for military memorials, also voted for BidenEric Berger (The Guardian)
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.Nieman Lab
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Put down your phone and engage in boredom – how philosophy can help with digital overload
Put down your phone and engage in boredom – how philosophy can help with digital overload
Avoiding boredom means we are denying ourselves access to our whole selves.The Conversation
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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.The Conversation
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Trump’s Crypto Dealings Now Have the Perfect Cover
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The Trumps have never been known for their subtlety: They like to do things fast, big, and loud. This is especially so in the context of cryptocurrency, a noisy and chaotic industry by nature. Remember our president’s collection of NFTs? Among the depictions on these digital trading cards is a portrait of Donald Trump in an Iron Man–inspired suit, accompanied by the caption “SUPERTRUMP.” Or how about the $TRUMP meme coin and accompanying gamified gala dinner for its biggest investors
The Trump Crypto Empire Is Growing Up
In recent weeks, the family has dressed up its business dealings in the veneer of legitimacy.Will Gottsegen (The Atlantic)
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I honestly wonder if the "AI" data centers were always just meant to be used for crypto mining.
Like that was the true reason they had to build so much hype around AI, knowing we were nowhere near the point of actually achieving AGI.
Like I'm sure they will still be spying on everyone and dumping their data into these places to try to eventually reach it, but that was always secondary to having $10B data mining factories the size of Manhattan in places like Louisiana.
They're finally admitting "Ok yeah we goofed on the whole AI thing lol, our bad" but we're still going ahead with the data centers for some reason. Also, that $10B Meta data center has suddenly increased to a $50B "investment" from the U.S. tax payers within days of Fuckerburg announcing he's freezing his own company's spending spree on AI due to his fears of a bubble??
But nobody really noticed because this is literally being built in one of the poorest states in the U.S.
Meta puts the brakes on its massive AI talent spending spree
Meta Platforms has paused hiring for its AI division, ending a spending spree that saw the company acquire a wave of high-priced AI researchers and engineers.Dylan Butts (CNBC)
People who complain that crypto is a "pyramid scheme" or whatever are correct, but they fail to realize that capitalism is a pyramid scheme at best. I mean the biggest stock last year was a fascist surveillance company... And stuff like this is exactly why crypto will continue to succeed under capitalism.
It's a casino economy. Our lives have already been sold for chips. The branding of the chips doesn't actually matter but improved chip technology does. Casinos aren't actually using the same chips from the 1800s but the state is.
'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'
‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — ‘that is the capitalist system’
"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."Jason Ma (Fortune)
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For a time, until aggregate demand craters and the economy enters a depression.
It's nice to see that Hinton isn't playing apolitical.
All of these doomers are talking about the consequences of true AGI.
On the one hand, we don't have true AGI, and probably won't for a while yet.
On the other hand, we are so behind with regulating tech that if we do develop AGI we will certainly be completely unprepared for the consequences despite all these doomers telling everybody exactly what could go wrong. And they will be right.
Fingers crossed it doesn't happen in our lifetimes.
Yes we’ve known this about capitalism and automation for centuries. My point (that you’re ignoring) is that LLMs will not give us any kind of automation worthy of discussion in that context.
Except perhaps for shitty SEO recipe website automation.
He's very clearly saying it's the problem with the system by assigning fault:
“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” Hinton said. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system.”
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in reply to Pro • • •Science is already well perverted by trade groups hiring organizations to commission studies to start backwards from it is safe to put out flawed conclusions lobbyists get policy makers to accept as valid and allow big money their practices.
Worse though it will become the system has been fundamentally broken since before most of us were born. Pfas, atrazine, roundup, a million other poisons are dumped and used systematically with the science of these cynical researchers to wave around.
It is all getting worse already. Watersheds are near all sullied to some degree at this point, many of which are on centuries long water cycles, there is no unpoisoning many, just as water is becoming scarcer and overused more by monied interests.
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in reply to hector • • •I only made it one paragraph deep.
You have got to find your missing words
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in reply to hector • • •You are missing words in your post and it is hard to read because of it.
Rereading what I wrote, I can see that I probably came off like an asshole, not my intention.
You've got missing parts
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