Oliver

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
99% chance I'm smarter than you.

[Oliver @1730]

@McJuggerNuggets If more would do this the human race would have a chance.
However it looks like we develop backwards, comments here proof it.

[Oliver @1730]

@CarlisleBai No one invests in AGI, there's currently no known path towards it.

[Oliver @1730]

@UlrikaSundlerLy @FourSMgolds Could Sweden be more left wing than it is?

[Oliver @1730]

@denbvk @james_clark Only because there are so many shitty developers.

[Mikael Sollenberg @MikaelSM15]

Åker tåg mellan Stockholm och Linköping. En kvinna frågar regelbundet omgivningen om vi stannat i Norrköping. Det är första stopp och annonseras i högtalarna 5 minuter innan men hon förstår inte var hon är. I Norrköping kliver en man på och ställer sig förvirrad i gången. Han tittar sig runt och på biljetten men gör ingenting. Till slut förklarar en dam att han har plats i vagn 7, detta är vagn 5, och han lommar iväg.

Både kvinnan och mannen är migranter från MENA och jag ställer samma retoriska frågor som Markus Allard; ”Var i det svenska samhällssystemet ska dessa personer in?”, ”Hur blir de produktiva element i den svenska ekonomin?”. Svaret är att de aldrig varit, är inte och kommer aldrig att bli kompatibla med västerlandet. Ändå, av någon pervers, fullständigt sinnessjuk orsak ska dom komma hit och hela diskussionen om vårt samhälle handlar aldrig om den etniska ursprungsbefolkningen och välfärden för denna utan dessa personer.
Suicidal empati de lux.

[Aaron Austin @megamapmaker]

@Spyk3O Zipper doesn't cause traffic, merging before the merge does.

[Oliver @1730]

@megamapmaker What's that wedge technique?

[Oliver @1730]

Each tech hype reaches deeper. I think it can't go deeper in the next round when we reached homeschooling housewives (not disrespect).
Blockchain (not Crypto) wasn't something that fazed you back then. Now no one talks about it, but it's there in crypto currencies.
Similar will happen with AI.

[Oliver @1730]

@ogschrammi Großstädte sind das Problem.

[Oliver @1730]

Yet you'll probably produce more boilerplate because it's easier.
You simplify less as our doesn't matter.
You avoid less duplication as refactoring is simpler.
You commit faster as it's less effort.
You think less as you can generate faster.
Hard to say if it's a real win long term.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

Imagine you are a dental hygienist and live in Sweden..

You are employed to help “migrant children” with their dental issues.

As part of your job you examine the wisdom teeth development of the kids and you notice that 80% of those “kids” have fully formed wisdom teeth, implying they are not kids at all but adults older than the age of 18.

You tell the Swedish Migration Agency and they advise you to put it in writing.

When you send exact details, with examples of specific patients you are suspended, investigated and fired for disclosing private information relating to patients.

This happened to Bernt Herlitz in 2017.

When he appealed the unfair dismissal he ultimately lost and was fined about $50,000.

He and his family faced financial hardship and almost lost their home, until some generous benefactors raised money for him. Bernt remains unemployed today, despite staff shortages for dentists in his area in Gotland.

At the time, Sweden scoffed at the tests and claimed they were “discriminatory” but since then they have quietly brought in mass dental testing, for those whose age is in doubt, by the National Board of Forensic Medicine.

Bernt deserves a medal. Not vilification and unemployment.

[Oliver @1730]

@signulll Complexity and bloat.

[Oliver @1730]

@MeghanEMurphy It's sad for the women, too.
Having sex is being close. Why don't they want that?
This hurts the relationship.

[Oliver @1730]

@gra7987 @JohanForssell No one makes them move to Sweden.

[Oliver @1730]

@mkowa1 Nur Dumme verstehen das nicht.
Leider ist es weiterhin legal dumm zu sein.

[Oliver @1730]

@memeticsisyphus The more road that is used the better. Wasted road benefits no one, eventually there always just one lane.

[Oliver @1730]

@Xaccctli @memeticsisyphus @DToecutter Nonsense, the other way round.

[Oliver @1730]

@yaftu @LIZA47645527 Behinderte können warten, sind ja eh langsamer als andere.

[Oliver @1730]

@Chrisgpt AI ain't curing anything.
It's humans using it.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence.

It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust.

The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them.

The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting.

“Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve.

In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life.

The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us.

It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans.

Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books.

So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.