It seems there may be cause for hope that Trump is fucking up so bad he is losing the moderate Republican vote.

Fecal forensics*

Aged like milk.

I vote for the “die trying” bit.

The Monarch Formerly Known as Prince

I feel bad for writing that, like I just insulted Prince simply by association.

Part of a properly functioning LLM is absolutely it understanding implicit instructions. That’s a huge aspect of data annotation work in helping LLMs become better tools, is grading them on either understanding or lack of understanding of implicit instructions. I would say more than half of the work I have done in that arena has focused on training them to more clearly understand implicit instructions.

So sure, if you explain it like the LLM is a five year old human, you’ll get a better response, but the whole point is if we’re dumping so much money, resources, destroying the environment, and consumer electronics market for these tools, you shouldn’t have to explain it like it’s five.

Seriously what is the point of trashing the planet for this shit if you have to talk to it like it’s the most oblivious person alive and practically hold it’s hand for it to understand implicit concepts?

I mean, I’ve been saying this since LLMs were released.

We finally built a computer that is as unreliable and irrational as humans… which shouldn’t be considered a good thing.

I’m under no illusion that LLMs are “thinking” in the same way that humans do, but god damn if they aren’t almost exactly as erratic and irrational as the hairless apes whose thoughts they’re trained on.

Ha, nice. I’ll have to try to find the full copy to go along with my copy of Wizard People, Dear Reader.

Weirder than responding to someone who obviously understands the issue to stop buying them?

Weirder than ignoring the entire original point which is that they won’t have the ability to make new ones because of parts shortages, and to keep making them they’ll have to resort to making models that don’t include those features?

Yeah, OK.

I haven’t bought a new TV since 2010 and it wasn’t a smart TV.

Since then I have only bought monitors.

My car was built in 1999 because I am poor. I try to ride my bike or walk as much as possible to put fewer miles on my old shitbox car plus for the environment and less traffic yadda yadda.

Fuck me go be a contrarian jerk elsewhere please. I’m obviously not part of the problem here.

So if you’re asleep at 6am, how do you know it’s happening at 6am as opposed to 5am or 630am?

I feel like he’s just making an excuse for shitting his pants even though he’s wide awake.

Linux in general is the wise choice, no matter the distribution.

Of course. My point is that we might see a return of these kind of devices to the consumer market if they can’t afford to build smart-televisions to drop on the consumer market.

Our tax dollars is what is making us vulnerable.

Abso-lutely. Western governments like USA and the UK learned the wrong lessons from the end of World War II and have practiced security through obscurity for decades since cracking the enigma machines codes and keeping that a secret during and long after the war. They sit on vulnerable exploits under the false notion that they’ll be the only ones to ever find the exploits and use them. Instead of taking security seriously by reporting exploits when found, they use them in stupid fucking hacking wargames that make the whole world more vulnerable. Security through obscurity always works right up until it doesn’t.

That’s because they want to be the ones doing the surveilling. There’s loads of disgusting threads you can find online about them discussing ways to disable or hide that their devices are recording so they can surreptitiously record others while claiming they’re not. Most often filming vulnerable women.

Thanks, I just may.

“For instance, how am I gonna stop some big mean motherhubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun.”

I hope I’m right, too. We need at least some positives to come out the AI shitshow.

While the AI arms race is an unmitigated disaster for the personal computer and consumer electronics sphere (and the environment no less), on the small plus side, we might see fallout resulting in less digitization of vehicles and a return to some computer electronics such as televisions back to “dumb” models with no extra features other than being a television due to the shortage of memory and storage. They can’t just dip on producing things like TVs and cars forever (they’re already planning on short-term production reductions) while waiting for RAM and storage to become freely available again.

Just for you, here’s an Australian source, too.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/wikileaks-vault-7-dump-reignites-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-death-of-michael-hastings/news-story/0df1d06403d0223ce1cfc286a1e75325

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