bear

come on

[bear @caveposter]

walking on sunshine (ow oww ouch ouch ow my feet)

[bear @caveposter]

@ProgrammerDude @Ben_M5rtin thanks to you and all of the nixpkgs contributors, i've had a great time running nixos on my main desktop for a few years now! :)

[まるお2号🇯🇵（羊の皮を被った猫） @maruon22]

かなりむぎゅー

[Daniel Rosiak @DanRosiak]

No, but listen, you know this "put the fries in the bag, Terence Tao"'--*sniff, sniff*--already the usual replies concede too much. "If Tao is serving fries, YOU will be in the lithium mines." My God! This is our defense of human dignity? Don’t worry, the correct people will get the terrible jobs!

*Pulls at shirt* You see, everything is up for radical transformation, human intelligence, consciousness, and so on and so on--except that somebody must still have a shitty afternoon so I can enjoy my lunch.

But to say "these people are envious", this is too easy. It allows us, "the educated ones," our own little fantasy: we are disliked only because we are so wonderful.

You know, the more interesting thing is this *sniff* peculiar identification with the machine. When the mathematician discovers something, apparently this was HIS achievement, his privilege, his little secret. When the machine discovers something, suddenly it's "Look what WE can do!" The achievement has become collective precisely at the moment when no human being can claim credit.

See how this "we" functions. For the achievement, I identify with the machine. For the consequences, I identify YOU with the human. "We have surpassed you." Who are we? Well, myself and the thing that has also surpassed me.

There is something almost touching here, really. To escape the humiliation of somebody absorbed in something opaque to you, you appeal to something which knows incomparably more than either of you. And this is supposed to settle the matter in YOUR favor.

You know the old example of canned laughter. Here we have a similar arrangement. The machine achieves something on my behalf. The mathematician suffers the loss of human significance on my behalf. Somebody to be brilliant for me and somebody to be obsolete for me, without me having to be either, so I can remain as I was.

But *pulls on shirt* there is this little difficulty that hides the essential thing: you still need a response from Tao! A correct proof, this Lean slop and so on, is not enough. You need him to certify his own defeat. You need him to say "By god, this is extraordinary! Yes, this is correct, but also this is interesting." Which means--and here comes Hegel--the person you are reducing to an obedient instrument must remain more than an obedient instrument. You need recognition from someone whose authority you are abolishing.

"Your so-called expertise is worthless. Now tell me, in your expert opinion, that I, qua machine representative, was right."

*Touches nose* But I would go a step further. What does this math person actually do to provoke you? In the fantasy, I mean. He need not insult you. He can be generous, mild-mannered, whatever. Something remains irritating: there is something over there which occupies him, which matters to him, and your opinion does not settle what it is worth. Perhaps he is not even looking down on you. This is the really intolerable possibility.

This, you see, is closer to the Lacanian problem of the Other's desire. Not simply "What does he have that I don't?" but "What the hell is going on with him?" Perhaps the answer is: he is thinking about something else.

The fries solve this beautifully. Now you know what you are for him. He needs the money. Your presence creates an obligation.

And this, at last, also explains why the machine can be less threatening than the mathematician. The machine's intelligence may exceed yours unimaginably, but you imagine it arrives in response to your prompt. You can complain about the tone. You have the privileges of an angry customer and so on and so on. The human has this irritating possibility of being interested in something you did not request and cannot order. And please, this includes the person already serving the fries!

*Pulls at shirt* I am almost tempted to say: the dream of unlimited intelligence conceals just this: a the wish that nobody should be doing anything you cannot immediately understand as a service.

[bear @caveposter]

@DanRosiak really good post but he sniffs more than that

[bear @caveposter]

@luciascarlet i got a 17 pro and i'll probably stick with it for the next 5 years

[bear @caveposter]

@Broncaccio1 @amphichrome_ https://t.co/G4UB7aMkU4

[The Hill @thehill]

White House says it’s not preparing to ban diesel exports

https://t.co/ugJnkUgbYP

[bear @caveposter]

@JesseStojan cute

[bear @caveposter]

@noemiemakesmaps is Ted gif the method

[bear @caveposter]

@sorryloveyabye @astrrals the joke is that he’s like 7 and doomposting about mild misbehaving that kids all grow out of

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Avery The Poke Kid’s family shared his final Pokémon pack opening following the 12-year-old creator's death

He pulled a Jirachi SIR with "last pack magic" before signing off with "See you next time, trainers"

[bear @caveposter]

@DBA_CatJesus @LottoLabs Pointless to go from 9700X to 9900X for AI, all your inference should be on the tenstorrent cards

[bear @caveposter]

@TheGadgetFreakk @JDSports_UK @mil000 the quality really suffers when you compare netflix/prime video 4k to blu-ray 4k, it was worth it for me to buy a blu ray instead. Apple TV is a bit better with bitrates than the other two streaming services I use, but still it’s no contest

[bear @caveposter]

@zlatka420lmao @TheGadgetFreakk @JDSports_UK @mil000 the file isn’t getting converted, just the container. no quality is lost, its bit-for-bit the same as on the bluray

[bear @caveposter]

@zlatka420lmao @TheGadgetFreakk @JDSports_UK @mil000 blu-rays are just h264 videos (or hevc if you're using 4k blurays) and have a bitrate 5-10x higher than what streaming services like netflix have (5-12mbps for netflix compared to 40-80mbps for bluray). so if you want to watch a movie at the highest quality, just buy the bluray

[bear @caveposter]

@TheGadgetFreakk @JDSports_UK @mil000 you just use makemkv to turn the blurays into the highest quality digital version of any movie

[bear @caveposter]

@DamionPoitier Cute

[bear @caveposter]

@ArchSenex @Alibaba_Qwen you can't copyright outputs regardless (in the us at least)

[bear @caveposter]

@mizorewww impressive, very cool work. will play with this on my macbook later. Thank you