I’m not trained in formal computer science, so I’m unable to evaluate the quality of this paper’s argument, but there’s a preprint out that claims to prove that current computing architectures will never be able to advance to AGI, and that rather than accelerating, improvements are only going to slow down due to the exponential increase in resources necessary for any incremental advancements (because it’s an NP-hard problem). That doesn’t prove LLMs are end of the line, but it does suggest that additional improvements are likely to be marginal.

Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science

The one colleague using AI at my company produced (CUDA) code with lots of memory leaks that required two expert developers to fix. LLMs produce code based on vibes instead of following language syntax and proper coding practices. Maybe that would be ok in a more forgiving high level language, but I don’t trust them at all for low level languages.

Who’s said bye to DVDs?

without compromising on visual fidelity

But it does compromise. Netflix has the worst banding issues in low-light scenes of any of the streaming services I’ve tried. It’s hard not to notice and it’s very annoying.

Yeah Startpage and Ecosia too

That is the neutral answer. It’s objectively and demonstrably correct.

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“We’re trying to have those conversations with Elon to establish what the sensors would need to do,” Baglino added. “And they were really difficult conversations, because he kept coming back to the fact that people have just two eyes and they can drive the car.”

But people have human brains, unlike Teslas or their CEO. Conversely, goldfish have two eyes, yet cannot drive a car.

Tailscale (which is open source) can host an entry point for a home VPN for you. Better security would be to host it yourself, which they also have instructions on how to set up, but even having them host is a security upgrade from using standard cloud cameras.

You’d need to pay for an external server and domain name, but that’s generally cheaper than paying cloud subscriptions. You can also use Tailscale, which can host the VPN entry infrastructure without being able to see your traffic (depending on how much you trust them).

Best way would be to set up a VPN that lets you connect to your home network remotely, and set up cameras that are only connected to your LAN

Stop using cloud-connected cameras!!!

It’s not that shocking; I read a positive profile on Musk almost 10 years ago where he nevertheless fired an employee on the spot for not immediately knowing the answer to some random question Musk had for him.

That’s pretty silly; moaning on the Internet is a good way to raise awareness and support. No one can do anything about these structural issues as individuals

Because they already have a real job, and now they’re being screwed by their employer, just like a real job

Of course there’s an X in the name

Do you mean nothing as in your feed has barely any posts? Or nothing as is there’s no one interesting to follow?

Tech workers have no right to be angry. Unionize or shut up. (Excluding all the supportive tech workers, including those in the comments.) Source: am a tech worker

Boosting liberally on Mastodon is encouraged bc that’s the only way posts get exposure without an algorithm. I boost every post I see as long as it isn’t offensive or low quality.

To get a good feed on Mastodon, you have to set it up yourself. The best way to do this, as others have mentioned, is to choose a few hashtags of interest and follow them. This will show posts from accounts talking about those things, at which point you should start following accounts liberally (you can always unfollow later). Those accounts, in turn, will “boost” posts from people they follow, which is how you get exposed to the conversations happening there.

It’s this process for populating your feed with content that’s interesting to you that many people find intimidating. The down side is that you don’t automatically get fed content like on Twitter; the up side is that you have a lot more control over what content you see.