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They managed to code in text files instead of text files, the devils !

Thank God Texas generates power from unlimited resources. In my place, the more we generate and consume, the less we have left for the future. In Texas, the plants have to generate as much as possible for some reason !

BS, nobody has to listen to your imaginative process. Imagine away, build something that conforms with the data, then show it !

For now, we dont know any other way to explain than to say it expands, except maybe imaginative fantasies from amateurs on Hackernews, but does it count ?

Yeah agreed, it s not garbage garbage it's just silly and useless, and all I can think is "meh". I really find it incredible they call those token generators "AI"

Tbh, it sounds like every group of humans...

Im in China, fun fact, it is also illegal ! Now is it enforced, probably only a little bit more than in California !

But how do you allocate more capital to more successful people so that you drive effort towards what people need / enjoy the most ? If there's no incentive to do popular music, then we could all do shitty music ?

But there is no greater pleasure than to finish something, deliver it, get users in front of it, and get feedback you never expected from either grumpy or happy users. I think it's way more rewarding to try to work for profit, because while money is nice, profit also means it's so useful someone is ready to give you credit for future work (money) for what you did.

Middlemen are people who spent time specialising in a market and you pay them as guides. You never have to go through them, but you'll get your ass raped.

There s nothing wrong about them, they work hard and are not rent seekers (a commission on successful deal is the exact opposite of a rent).

Every countries has them (Im French, live in Hong Kong) and what you bemoaned is mundane in my experience.

Well you are in a way, what is a simulation ? It's just a set of rules you follow that are simpler than the more complex environment that it runs in: I suppose if we could "see" "outside" the "universe", we'd understand that maybe our reality is very simple and limited compared to the "reality" outside. Maybe this would be true infinitely, or maybe the outside reality would be much more logical than ours, and we'd accept it's finite.

But since we have a beginning, and a flow of time, we probably also have a birth, a mother, and maybe even a purpose... but that's a very human way to think, might all just be random soup.

But imagine there's a self-aware agent in a simulation we create, he starts thinking the same thoughts, everyone mock him "we're all just random, there is no God, no design, how could so much energy be spent on such a useless giant block of empty space for any reason", he would have to sort of agree, but he would be sort of wrong. And discovering us, would bring him no solace: we can't tell him of our own designers ourselves. Discovering them, would bring us no solace either, for the same reason. That's why the concept of God is stupid: God has a God too, so what do we do now, solved no problem to accept His existence.

Diaspora gives me shivers just thinking about it. Permutation City is fun, but not as inspiring as Diaspora.

What are the other languages you speak fluently ? You're right of course, the diversity of English knowledge (and entertainment, sometimes as important) is dizzying and that's why I even learned it in the first place.

But there's something strange with English knowledge: it's never quite deep. I find French materials are always a bit deeper, a bit more complex, we don't try to explain to 5 yo all the time, we don't always insist so much on the high level introductory stuff - we have a way to explain extremely complex concepts to more people I find. Just a feeling: when I want to explore I use English but when I want to dig I find more interesting stuff in French.

It's very frustrating because I live abroad now, in Hong Kong, and only use English with my friends, partners etc. And sometimes I want to explain to them, give them something to read, but it's only in French because no English speaker ever tried to think to dig deeper, to give more perspective, to ask the right questions etc :D

Yes, I live in Hong Kong now and I know the Chinese languages have ridiculously simple formal grammar (that doesn't mean their brain doesn't have to do complex inference - is it better not to say what you meant or simpler to just write it ?).

The ridiculous writing system is indeed my problem with it - and the ridiculous variations in tones too but they swear it's easy if you're born in it... which is ofc the problem: a lingua franca works if adult merchants can learn it.

Sure maybe, but French, my native language btw, is inherently more complex, less rich in vocabulary, idiosyncratic in its habit to follow latin in writing but deviating from it in spoken form, it's just not as good as English so we're quite lucky at least.

I feel it's hard for me to make spelling mistakes in English, which is not my native tongue, but VERY EASY to make them in French, that I studied and used for decades: there is an inherent beauty to English, in its simplicity, we should not dismiss. (yes I'm re-reading three times to make sure I didn't spell anything wrong lol)

I meant Europeans, you know, we start seeing ourselves as a whole now, I'm not just French in my mind - the US was a "European" colony, with Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and the UK completely transforming the land. Without Europe, there would be no states to unite, right ?

But ofc at the time it was very different, Europeans didn't exist per se, each country saw itself as completely different from the others.

What I meant is accusing the US to cause a problem in Europe is a tautology: we made the US in a way, so if the US come back to cause issues, well, it's ALSO our own fault. Every problem in Europe is "self" (that "self" changed with time) inflicted, it's not the Asians or the Africans causing conflicts, there is no external factor to blame, we MUST fix them our"selves".

Ironically, lots of problems in Africa or Asia were also inflicted by Europeans, they can claim an external factor, them. We really messed up a lot of the world, for reasons that are now beyond comprehension since we're raised by the people who stopped it, and it's a sin I have trouble to carry sometimes. Gladly, most alive today seem to have forgotten, forgiven or benefitted from it, doesn't make me forget those not alive today :(

Hum but English has simpler features that make it easier to learn than most languages. Sure, the phonetic is hard and I'll always have an accent and people will always just guess my country at the first sentence I utter, but:

- nouns have no gender !!!!

- conjugation is extremely simple (only one variation for 3rd person singular for most verbs!!)

- tenses are limited !

- vocabulary is 40% French-Latin and 60% Germanic, most of Europe and America can use the subset they prefer

- the writing is latin, simple to learn, complete enough to describe well the sounds

- the native community is immense, with a large interesting cultural body of work, making it interesting to learn

- it's easy to start communicating but it can be extremely rich in higher levels of language: you start talking quickly and then can move to beautiful structures later: there is a quick reward and a long term reward

There is nothing unfortunate it became default, there is simply no better lingua franca today. We could try Japanese or Chinese, Hindi or Spanish, but they all have way more quirks and way less qualities !

I strongly reject people saying that English became default by historical chance, it could have stayed French, moved to German or Spanish, it SHOULD be Chinese, but all of them are too hard for adults to learn as quickly as English and never as rewarding. Just think of the time it takes to learn an ideogram-based writing system, all that to end up able to read only communist propaganda or very old poetry for instance...

Still as a French, I think we could have done better much earlier. Much much earlier. The US isnt the cause of our problems, we are. We are even the cause of the US in the first place, you know, eradicating the natives, enslaving the africans, colonizing the land.

It's ALL self-inflicted. But there was no sense of self at the time, what's new today is that Europe is starting, slowly and shakily, to see itself as a whole. At least I cannot imagine today ever wanting to murder a German more than a French. Ever.

It s prob not gonna work well: he fixes demo of the api of Claude with Claude. You didnt think of asking the AI, so you need more work on your own inference abilities first

And hum, what incredible problem are you solving at your AI company? Must be the forefront of human innovation ! I hope it's porn.

Ed Zitron maybe ? Writes on crypto, AI, musk the same way.

But if everyone does this, companies have no client and only shareholders. Like GME.

Have you tried AI porn ? There's something in the fact it's fake uncanny characters that makes it non-exciting. Like, jerking off to a toaster basically, and I assume it'd be the same for a social network with no human ?

I still havent spend a dollar on any of it...

Gnehehehe

Yeah mine is a Youtube addict, with almost no control and we kept it like that because while it probably kills her attention, it made her English insane (we re both non native, Im French and my wife Chinese, our daughter speaks like an american while we live in Hong Kong), she knows things we couldnt possibly have taught her, and at 6yo she seems to be genuinely benefitting from it.

Ofc the most annoying is her addiction to toys marketed there, but when I was a kid it was the same with tv, you just need one colorful commercial to be a poisonnous little shit for months until "okay fine yes" is uttered at xmas or someth.

You are in charge. Congress is your employee.

Guess

So a large cluster of nvidia cards cannot predict the future, generate correct http links, rotate around objects with only a picture at source with the right lighting or program a million lines of code from 3 lines of prompt ?

Color me surprised. Maybe we should ask Mira Murati to step aside from her inspiring essays about the future of poetry and help us figure out why the world spent trillions on nvidia equity and how to unwind this pending disaster...

Be angry more. I work in China but Im French, so people assume (and I nudge them to think), that it's a culture thing for me to express anger publicly at injustice or idiocy.

But it's liberating to be angry at bullshit (and God knows China is the bullshit Mecca), and AI is the top bullshit these days. We're not anti innovation because we say chatgpt is not gonna maintain our trading systems or whatever you work on. It's a funny silly statistical text generator that uses hundreds of thousands of video cards to output dead http links.

We're far from anything intelligent but it's at least indeed very artificial.

It's tiny compared to 10 years ago when it was all the rage and DBs were dead...