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It's often said that technology progresses exponentially.

So I'm wondering, is anyone measuring the performance of AI in some way that allows us to check if it's an exponential curve?
isn't Bing chat just some version of chatGPT4 with some extra moderation?
Quite a few. I try to listen to what everyone is saying. It always makes me nervous when the media seem to march in lockstep.

Looks into what David Sacks has been saying. He got into it on the ALL-in podcast a couple of weeks ago, but you can find him on Twitter. He says the corruption in Ukraine right now is off the charts. Higher than anything in any corrupt Latin American country. Its difficult to decipher what is going on in Ukraine right now, because there's so much propaganda from all sides.
The iPhone itself outshines the Apollo guidance computer. The tool to repair a tool may require sophisticated tooling. Apple doesn't need to design tools for part time installers. Apple already has one that works well and was forged on the front lines. For a reasonable fee Apple will let you borrow it and Apple expects you to be happy with your results.

If there is such a big market for the supply of these sophisticated but in-expensive tools it will be exploited by someone.
There's value in stability, though.

Maybe it's not dead. Maybe it's just finished. Does everything need to keep changing? Change isn't always improvement, and even if it is, if you have to maintain backwards compatibility, sometimes the conceptual load of having to keep the old ways and the new ways in your head all the time isn't worth it.

Maybe we should start letting things just be finished.
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There's a lot of processed food that uses eggs. Most of it tastes like sawdust and sugar anyway. I highly doubt the eggs and milk are necessary. Perhaps they would be cheaper if we stopped using them for stuff that doesn't need them.

But then again, I don't even remember the last time I bought eggs so I'm not exactly the best informed.
25 MB?? Holy schnikes..
Rightfully so. If you want people to get hyped about a thing, explaining what the thing can do for them should be an obvious necessity. But I guess that's an outdated mode of thinking, modern advertising campaigns rely more on emotional manipulation than a rational exposition of product features and benefits. Instead of promoting electricity by showing people light bulbs and electric appliances, I expect a modern advertiser would instead tell you that popular people all like electricity and that if you like electricity too, you might also become popular. Instead of showing people electric lights, you could just show some young attractive models having a picnicking in a lush city park with a narrator saying something about 'trailblazers and innovators', maybe referencing famous popular figures like Gandhi for no apparent reason.
Apple got strong-armed into making this available.

As to why they didn't create a hobbyist-grade tool for the self-repair program - all it would take is a couple of $900 phones damaged (followed by the outrage social media posts) by non-technical end-users to negate any savings. Better to make it bullet-proof.
I know it has been, but Windows Hello doesn't seem to be available for my 7700k after explicitly enabling the fTPM. I think it requires TPM 2.0 support, which hasn't been supported for all that long.
> Maybe this should even be required by law?

Why would we require tyranny just to solve this issue?
Even then random forest is the wrong choice for this type of data. It should be the thing you do in your first hour of having it before choosing something more appropriate
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Not sure if you were looking for response to your proposals, but…

I think one of the real problems in implementing this sort of policy, i.e. ensuring that, as a society, individuals (particularly the young) are taught correctly about physical reality is that from a western mindset any measures taken will appear authoritarian. The history of ‘western’ thought, in the tradition of the enlightenment and what followed, is inherently tied to Judeo-Christian ethics and morals. Further, there is a huge pattern of individualism that runs through the core of that same philosophical lineage. It is this basis that allows for the dual positions you allude to in your comment. Traditional ‘western’ thought would enforce the rightness of the society impinging on an individual when it is motivated by Judie-Christian (or at least some interpretation thereof) ideals/morals/precepts. Whereas, impinging on an individual with ‘mere’ facts about the physical world is intolerable because the physical world is clearly an unholy/flawed/unknowable place that only exists to further the goals of a deity in being more deific.

All that to say, unfortunately, given the conditioning of culture that has occurred for the last 500 years in the ‘west’ it seems unlikely to me that any societal commitment to correct physical intuition (and the subsequent marking of non-real things as non-realistic/fantasy/imaginary) will never happen. I honk this also answers the question of why protect children from sexual content, but not from unrealistic scifi. To force those labels would be argued to be authoritarian, and it would probably be supported with slippery slope arguments pointing toward the ‘authority’s’ eventual labeling of religious content as well.
While I think that much of what crypto bros did is quite the waste of time and money, I believe that it has potential to be revolutionary.

If something really different has to start these days, centralized services are an easy target for the powers that be. The only way to circumvent them are truly decentralised systems.
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Apple claimed “Unix” because Mach shipped with BSD tools for testing and research purposes.
Now even Windows has a Linux compatibility layer now too and everyone but RTOS all run containers and VMS.

Funny story: even Apple switched to Linux in the Data Center. They doubled down on Appliances (which happen to run an OS).

Are people pressed that an appliance won’t fit hacker workstation/embedded needs!?
It's a choice on the user to weaken the encryption. I don't use Bitwarden, but if they communicate that properly to the user, it's a valid compromise for convenience-versus-security.
I had to get it out of the way because crypto bros rarely miss a chance of interjecting their fad into any conversation.

I realize the irony of my comment.

I embrace that irony.
I’ve had this argument a lot with people. The goal of technology should be to adapt to humans and free up time. I feel like instead we keep asking people to further adapt to the needs of the system/machine. Keyboards are a great example. We should just write as people have done for thousands of years. Machines would then read what we write and understand it and then use that digitized info.

The problem is that it’s quite difficult, and machines decades ago simply couldn’t do that, so now we all type on keyboards all day (digital or physical). It’s reached the point where my children no longer have to learn cursive handwriting in school, because what is the point since everything goes into the computer via a keyboard? This strikes me as incredibly short sighted and backwards. I think it’s hurting us long term.
I just looked it up and found this DEA report published in 2018 - https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/BUL-039-18.p...

> Forensic chemists discovered fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances including acetyl fentanyl, carfentanil, Furanylfentanyl, and p- fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl in over 180 cocaine exhibits.
What relevance is the Pi 3B in 2023? This is like invoking a 2016 Android phone against the latest Pixel.
How do I fully disable picture-in-picture? I don't want websites to show me a mini player on firefox!
GPT3 onwards feels more of a discontinuity from the end user point of view, exponential doesn't cover it, though experts may not see it that way.

Copilot then ChatGPT shocked people with the uncanny competence of GPT3.

From the outside looking in it's something new, not merely an advance - exponential or otherwise - on existing tools.
So I don't buy new electronic stuff every other year. Is the problem fixed yet?
You get 10+ points from me for being able to try it out without the hassle of creating an account and logging in.
> That’s essentially human society.

That doesn't make it OK. The degenerate groupists in human society are the ones responsible for oppression and mass slaughter(war) whereas individual free thinking people are not.
If you are smart, and Assange isn't an idiot, then you should not allow yourself to become a tool of a foreign government. Having an open pro-information stance is all well and good, but when it is obvious that the people sending you information are doing so according to their own timetable, you have to take a higher stance. This is where journalistic ethics come into play. You must ask your source, why today? If you had this why did you not give it to me months ago? A good journalist isn't a mouthpiece for one government as it attacks another.
minutes and hours still cancel out, you just have to do a little bit more arithmetic in the process.
I'm aware, I'm just curious what the OP specifically finds "evil" in these or other actions. Most journalists preferred Hillary, Assange likely did not, and his journalism hindered her campaign. OK, where is the "evil" specifically?
I kinda wonder if it would not be so bad, if a company asked chatGPT “prompt the engineers for status updates occasionally, then take their responses and produce high-level summaries for department heads” or whatever.

On their side, the engineers might even ask it “summarize my tickets and come up with an optimistic, business-friendly high level storyline.”
I've been using Windows Hello and Microsoft accounts for login on devices for a few years. Its worked for offline for me literally many thousands of times across several devices.
There is no reason to expect robotic technology to halt. Look at what things like Tesla or Boston Dynamics robots can do. Eventually we will see very well articulated and high strength to weight ratio robots integrated with advanced AI systems. It is definitely not going to take 25 years.

If you look at what's happening today, in 25 years it seems plausible that fully autonomous superintelligent androids with much more dexterity than humans will be fully in control of the planet.
I'm sure the person promoting electricity had financial interest in it. You know there is much nuance here yet you still had to make this simplistic comment.

Put your real name and email address in your profile and respond with your full identity exposed. I want to see how history plays out. Then I can go back on these old threads to see who was actually wrong.

Who were the idiots against the reality of global warming? The people who so fervently used every excuse to deny the reality of an impending catastrophe?

There is no difference between those people and the people who consistently attempt to use every avenue available to attack the abilities of AI. These aren't rational people. They are people with an agenda that pushes them to modify their perception of reality around them to fit that agenda. That agenda is fear. Fear that a machine can surpass us and replace the software craft we have spent years honing.

My advice to you is to open up your mind a bit.

Heck I put my full identity and contact info in my profile. I stand by my views without hiding behind a throwaway account. If history proves me wrong the record is here for everyone to see.
Security enthusiasts will scream bloody murder, but fact of the matter is nothing beats a simple password for balancing security and practicality.
> What's that got to do with the government's reaction and pursuit since, based on what was released?

Nothing - but that moral judgment has a lot to do with some people deciding the cause is not worth supporting after realizing what the cause truly is about.
IMO if this gets better, it can be useful with the expanded GPT context window:
Imagine you can automatically create a sort of "wizard" to guide decisions based on the content of any document.
> The value proposition for experienced linux users who don't do that sort of thing in the first place is next to nil. The only applications that might benefit from such sandboxing are applications like browsers, which have large attack surfaces and might be compromised while browsing the net. But even this is mostly theoretical, not a realistic day-to-day concern for typical linux desktop users.

You are jumping to conclusions here. RCEs are probably more common than you think, and I'd prefer anything that interacts with the Internet to be sandboxed.

Flatpak allows me to easily sandbox Steam games. It provides an easy target to tell user to test against to eliminate distro-specific issues. It allows to run glibc-only software on distributions such as Alpine. It allows me to have multiple versions of a program installed concurrently. It prevents programs from cluttering my home directory, and sandboxing gives me extra peace of mind. As a non-root user, I can also install flatpaks. Ostree also usually makes updates more efficient.

If you use a couple flatpak apps, they are available regardless of your distribution. That helps when working on multiple different distributions.

Use an old-ish debian but need a feature from the latest unstable software ABC? Install ABC as a flatpak, and do not compromise the stability of the base system by enabling all sorts of external, unstable sources.
The impact Assange and Wikileaks have had in exposing nefarious government secrets shouldn’t be forgotten. But, the damage that they’ve suffered to their reputation is entirely deserved. I don’t believe for a second that they didn’t know what they were doing when they partnered with Russia in 2016 to help draw as much attention as possible to the DNC emails—that is, engaging in an asymmetric political operation. That’s confirmed by the way they released the information—spaced out for maximum effect right up until the election. At that point, any claim they had on being simply a force for transparency was given up.
I'm more concerned AI will spew garbage we end up getting stuck spending time cleaning then actually replace me.

The software developer trades in abstractions, fundamentally, and not code. So if I could get an AI that actually helped me build and evaluate those abstractions, that would be fantastic. I don't think our current AI approaches are anywhere close yet, because it's all just fancy code generation, which isn't that useful, once you're in an ecosystem with good abstractions.

But, the world I fear might happen are pseudo-technical managers using AI generators to spit out "something cool" that has very poor definition, breaks all the time, and then just wants people to "make it robust". And then any change you recommend has to have some kind of business justification. This is the AI hellscape I fear.
I think your general point to look at who is doing the work now is good.

However, as Carmack says, many developers lack product skills, it’s not just the managerial class that lacks them.

So I think the correct advice is not “engineers don’t need to worry at all”, it’s “make sure you are learning how to build a product not just write code”. For many that’s trivial advice, but not for all.
Your casualty figures don't seem to line up with most other sources. Any citations?
Any statement that begins with "It's all just..." is false before it ends.

Why are you on this thread? Is Reddit down?
This doesn't answer the question. Why is there a choice to encrypt something when it's completely unnecessary (according to their threat model)? No point in building unnecessary complexity into software, especially software meant for security.
It's in System Preferences somewhere (good luck).

It's the option to allow software updates while your machine is asleep.
... and the OS is supposed to determine your intent how?
I feel privileged to watch this. I live in north Africa and I feel like taking a flight to California to go visit him, inquire about his health, tell him about my children progress at school, show him how much I love him and how much I'm grateful.
I felt really stupid and angry after the collapse of FTX as you know, and truthfully, I could probably have used some professional therapy at the time. But at this point, I'm trying to look forward instead, and to me that is likely having an equally good (and positive) effect on my mental health as therapy would have had. Hopefully you can do the same as you search for the next chapter. Best of luck.
Nope, not a "wind up", this really happened! If interested for any reason, see the link I posted for full details. :)
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Hasn't happened a lot since the privatisation movement in the 90s but it's not unprecedented. Most recent example is however South America (Argentina, railways) I guess.
I personally Hope and Enjoy machines taking over jobs. I am forever thankful the day shall pass that us humans can live out our creative freedoms rather than concern our daily life with tender.

Money is evil. Praise the lord as we are delivered from the evils of this land.
I forgot for a moment where I was going with this, but now back on track: if they wanted to make the two values comparable, Edison's plant should also produce 770 MWh every minute.
Well, you could make the argument that the base state of business is that your profits are taxed but your losses are your own. There are exceptions (plenty of them!) to this rule, but it is the base dynamic.
I assume that the tricuits were cooked by a fairly conventional electric oven, not like panko, which was cooked by putting electrodes into the dough.
25 megabytes per second is 209,715,200bps. That's over twice as fast as my cable ISP's present downstream connection. Is that what they really meant?
What bugs me about it personally is that he reduces the entire CS field to something that's there for building "products". Why the fuck does it have to all be inherently capitalistic?

But if you know who he is and what he does these days, it makes sense I suppose. Can't be in that business environment day after day without going slightly nuts eventually.
Last time I checked, the govt taxed basically all economic transactions, so the govt does get paid when things go right.

Meanwhile if CS blows up and the country enters a recession, tax dollars will be lost.

Intervening may be cheaper than the alternative.
Like some other things the news pushes, drugs are always on the rise.

>While the report said the markets in Africa and Asia were "still limited

Maybe because they put you to death for importation in South East Asia.
FydeOS is Chromium OS. Works on Pi.
Release the information when you get it and say, “do with this what you will.” Not at all what they did. They released in batches, for maximum effect, right up until the election. They knew exactly what they were doing.
That's the thing though, it's not absence at all. He's alluding to consent-based morality - a moral system that is both disastrous and unlivable in practice.

You can't have an absence of notions when it comes to morality. At some point each person acts in the real world, and all actions are knowingly or unknowingly directed by a moral framework
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I meant stuck as "it can't make the move" and would timeout the game if playing online.
Having been a software engineer and gone on to do a MBA, none of what was taught for the degree reflected the attitude that you're describing. At no time did anyone tell us to ignore our prior experience - rather we were told that that our prior experience plus a business education would be valuable to future employers (which it is).

There was no expectation of being "air dropped" into an industry, and in fact, industry recruiters looked for candidates who already had prior experience when picking students for interviews and hiring. The students who had no relevant experience for the industry they were recruiting for (e.g. ex-Peace Corps or mgmt consultant looking to transition to tech or industry in general) were the ones who struggled to find roles. Your assumptions about what an MBA education entails are incredibly far off the mark.
Yes, that I recall reading about, there were even competing DC grids and AC grids. I think Edison's was DC.
Usually electric generation facilities or devices are described as what they can handle at their peak. I feel as if this vulgarization of units really makes it harder to understand the intangibility not of electrical demand which is also ephemeral by nature.

Most of the time we see “watts” it really means “watt hours” which measures work. We’re used flattening rate-measurements by measuring instantaneous points like the speedometer on your car, e.g. if you are going 60 miles-per-hour, you can expect to travel 60 miles in on hour if you maintain that rate. However, A 60 watt appliance will consume that 60 watts over 1 hour of use, which is like saying we are going “60 miles” in the example above.
>> "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a New Deal agency established in 1934, estimates that today a quarter of rural Americans and a third on tribal lands do not have access to broadband internet, defined as download speeds of at least 25 megabytes a second. Fewer than 2 percent of urban dwellers have this same problem."

The current FCC broadband speed is 25 megabits/second, not bytes.
>>If growth stagnates, there's no guarantee for job replacement.

No guarantees, but no hard rules euther.

PCs are the ultimate clerical and administrative machines. You don't need secretaries or typists. Don't need memos and mailrooms. Stuff gets filed automatically.

We put one on every desk. Typists and secretaries went away, but administration went on a growth spurt. Whether it's school admin, corporate HR or hospital billing..
Administrative work became much more plentiful once PCs proliferated.

We write, more letters, file more forms, sign more agreements. Maybe that stuff is valuable, and since we can do more of it with computers, we do. Maybe it has nothing to do with efficiency or value.

Whatever the case, it demonstrates that the "progress Vs luddites" debate can't be solved with a simple model.

Absurdity assume a reasonable world. Sometimes the world is weird.
Existential crisis averted by another existential crisis... :D
Do you talk to chatbots yourself?
There's still a lot of work to be done on Asahi, so as a daily-driver, perhaps not yet.
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I remember some of the piracy tools activated windows by generating these phone codes.
And did you actually select GPT-4? It is shown at the top of the conversation page.

I'm asking because I noticed that the default setting for each new conversation is currently still GPT-3.5, even if you are a subscriber and even if you have selected GPT-4 for your previous conversation(s).
"was"? Has something changed that they do not use this process anymore?
And even stronger we institutionalize it and enforce it with violence. Enforcing cultural norms is the whole basis of our legal system.
The failure of WL is that rather than focus on doing journalistic work, it became the Julian Assange show with Julian Assange about Julian Assange. And then it becomes much more questionable that WL was only publishing information that might harm the Clinton's campaign while he was simultaneously in talks with her opponent's campaign about obtaining a pardon from Trump.

When you start operating like that, you lose any and all credibility and protection you might have some sort of journalistic organisation. At best, WL can be described as activists, at worst as useful idiots.