2.3 percentage points of growth is not all that small when talking about steam’s user base I think. and his point about acceleration is interesting, we might still be in the early phases of an s-curve.

personally though, as a 20-year Linux user I’m already gobsmacked by the number of new users and mainstream discussion around linux. if we never crack 5% that will already be more users than I ever thought Linux would get

my only complaint with it is the same complaint I have with all kpop: it’s autotuned to hell and back. I suppose many people like how it sounds, but it’s not for me

Duitse drop mag ook hoor. Persoonlijk ben ik meer van de salmiakdrop, maar krakelingen zijn ook lekker

ik zou eerder ‘krakelingen zijn mijn nummer 1’ zeggen, maar ik spreek niet veel Nederlands meer tegenwoordig, dus misschien is dat een anglicisme

wat voor drop? zoethout? salmiak? dubbel zout?

not true at all! I play Magic, not D&D

I don’t see the options, are they the same in the EU?

here I am storing my movies in well compressed 1080p av1 and considering it an upgrade over streaming. to think there are people using 80GB per movie. I suppose if you have a great screen and eyesight it might be worth it, but for me I don’t think I’d really notice the difference even if I bought a better tv

i believe you, you can’t even afford letters, let alone netflix

America has concentrated far too much power in the presidency if this is something trump can just decide to do

… if they treat you the way you want to be treated.

on the contrary, why do so many old apps waste all the space in the title bar just for the title and 3 buttons? it makes no sense.

I mean, refried comes from spanish refrito which just means ‘fried well’. a dish that is called refrito doesn’t necessarily involve cooking ingredients twice. although in this case you do boil the beans first and then fry them, the name doesn’t actually mean you fry the beans twice as it sounds like it does

you know, the AI answer is not that bad, but I have to wonder why you didn’t think about it. the peoples who would later become the Dutch and Germans used to refer to themselves using a similar term that meant ‘of the people’ because they saw themselves, collectively, as broadly similar peoples. OP is not wrong that English people use the word Dutch (rather than something like netherlandish) because there wasn’t much distinction made between German and Dutch at the time. That is, when a broader grouping than city or town was thought of at all.

3 students share an apartment and 2 of them study a lot but the third spends most his nights partying. The 2 studious housemates decide to pull a prank on him, and one night when he comes home they are waiting for him next to the bedroom door wearing white sheets. One of the friends says ‘welcome friend, I am Peter!’. The other says ‘welcome friend, I am Paul’. The drunk house mate looks at them and says ‘Colleagues! would you mind stepping aside? I am Lazarus!’

yeah, that doesn’t translate… in Dutch, the names refer to St peter and St Paul and both end in -us as well: Petrus and Paulus. Also, ‘being Lazarus’ means being very drunk.

I’m not arguing that AI won’t get better, I’m arguing that the exponential improvements in AI that op was expecting are mostly wishful thinking.

they could stick to old data only, but then how do you keep growing the dataset by the amounts that have been done recently? that is where a lot of the (diminishing) improvements the last years have come from.

and it is not at all clear how to apply reinforcement learning for more generic tasks like chatbots, without a clear scoring system like both chess and StarCraft have.

the problem is that ai’s are trained on programs that humans have written. At best the llm architectures it creates will be similar to the state of the art that humans have created at that point.

however, even more important than the architecture of an ai model is the training data that it is trained on. If we start including ai-generated programs in this data, we will quickly observe model collapse: performance of models tend to get worse as more ai-generated data is included in the training data.

rather than AIs generating ever smarter new AIs, the more likely result is that we can’t scrape new quality datasets as they’ve all been contaminated with llm-generated data that will only reduce model performance

why is it very likely to do that? we have no evidence to believe this is true at all and several decades of slow, plodding ai research that suggests real improvement comes incrementally like in other research areas.

to me, your suggestion sounds like the result of the logical leaps made by yudkovsky and the people on his forums

if you’re aware there are countries where the options you’re talking about dont exist, maybe you also get why some people are so hung up on these banking apps?

kiwis? what do New Zealanders have to do with it? I feel like something is flying very far over my head

happens to me all the time, and sometimes trying to select the original audio track does nothing, especially in shorts