Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

Because they tried leaving it to the private sector and people got unhealthy from eating cheap refined carbs?

I think there’s a really important distinction between “getting the same result” when that outcome is guaranteed and when it isn’t. Using a brick instead of a hammer to squash something will get you the same result every time. But with an LLM there’s no guarantee you’re going to get any specific outcome - will it hallucinate this time or not? - and so even if it gives you what you wanted this time, you have to account for the probability that existed it would not have done (and that you wouldn’t have known it let you down)

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

“Prolly”

Freedom*

*To work really hard so that you can hand it all straight to banks

Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it’s an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment

If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance

They are the goodest space dogs

Great thread from Ed Zitron with some thoughts on this, and extracts from the suit

It’s one thing to push for car dependency, and to push for oil profits. But what boils my blood is the people who dress it up as being about equity.

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can’t see a version of computer “intelligence” that’s any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I loved this game! I’ll never forget the time I came back from certain defeat when we suddenly passed a pub in northern England called something like “The Batley Marching Band”

Outside peak hours, by very slow-moving delivery vehicles. This is a solved problem all over Europe

I’m guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the “human” dots

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonormativity

They don’t make inflated profits for US companies. That’s what this is about

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Nothing more capitalist than expecting vast amounts of free infrastructure from the government