That is exactly how I read it in my head, yes.

This sounds real Nazi adjacent. Not far from Russia’s more conservative swing, either.

…I will acknowledge this is a issue. Since we’re apparently going to blow up immigration (which skews young), the US now has real “aging population” problem like South Korea and Japan are facing, and that are coming for China and Russia soon.

In other words, it’s not all made up.

I’m speaking as a guy, so my perspective isn’t the most relevant, but… to me, everything in that document sounds like a great way to turn off women that aren’t already steeped in this nuclear family culture anyway. Like, I have a couple in the family that’s literally the exact target of this campaign, and they won’t like that one bit.

This is an option.

The problem is, while faster on paper, its not really any faster than my 3090, especially in spots where I need its performance most. It’d be a downgrade.

I could get a second 3090, I guess, and have some redundancy in case one fails. But I’m on an ITX board with 1 slot.

I’d be WAY more interested in a roughly equivalent 9000 series or Battlemage card, but alas, there is none.

Oh, I know. I bought my previous GPUs in the peak of cypto busts.

But I need 24GB… My plan was to eventually buy a used 4090 when they get cheaper, or 24GB Intel/AMD card. But it doesn’t feel like AMD/Intel are interested in big GPUs anymore, and the 4090 just keeps going up in price.

So I FOMO bought an SSD and SD card when all this started.

Not regretting it.

…But now I’m considering hoarding a spare GPU. Is that nuts? I don’t need it, I don’t want to hoard, but If my old Ampere card suddenly dies, is it gonna take $2000 to replace?

I mean, it wouldn’t be a shooting war. Probably?

What it would be is the greatest diplomatic incident of the century. The United Stakes would steadily become the next Best Korea, like Russia did.

And maaany more.

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I am late to this argument, but data center imagegen is typically batched so that many images are made in parallel. And (from the providers that aren’t idiots), the models likely use more sparsity or “tricks” to reduce compute.

Task energy per image is waaay less than a desktop GPU. We probably burnt more energy in this thread than in an image, or a few.

And this is getting exponentially more efficient with time, in spite of what morons like Sam Altman preach.

There’s about a billion reasons image slop is awful, but the “energy use” one is way overblown.

Valve’s margins are almost criminal as-is. They make cash hand over fist, and they’re basically a monopoly already.

…So not much might actually change, at least at first?

But this why they don’t need to go public. They have plenty of cash. And it’d just shrink the slice of profit Valve’s owners get.

Still, even private, I’m afraid of what Steam might look like if big competitors like EGS and Microsoft footgun themselves out of the market, and GoG fades away due to their DRM-free policy.

Oh, sweet summer child.

You just wait.

It’s especially bizzare when git repos for “open source corporate alternative” type software uses it over their own repo’s issue trackers and forums.

WTF

They want the social media engagement, I guess. But still. It’s ridiculous how much of a blind spot folks have for it.

It also makes giving or getting any kind of support a hellish time sink, but that’s almost besides the point…

I mean… I think it’s worrying that the norm is “who cares if it’s AI? It’ll fool plenty of people, spread it!” If that’s what you mean.

Social media is going to kill us all well before AI does.

It would depends on how much infrastructure they can pass to receive them.

Ideally it would be “unlimited.”

Immigration is just good for the US economy because they tend to skew young and (to be blunt) low wage when they get here, and just look at how far immigrants go here. In most countries, it’s supposed to be a cornerstone of US culture, and the country is freaking huge.

Integration? America was originally a hodgepodge of homesteads; that’s the idea.

The limiting factor is housing, schooling, occupation, just having somewhere for them to go and live.

TL;DR: As many as possible as long as they aren’t forced into poverty.

…Hence, I find it incredible that we, as a country, collectively decided to squander that massive strategic advantage for… what?

It just doesn’t make any sense, even if you set morality aside. Or truly believe in the propaganda that they’re responsible for most crime, which is nonsense.

Who were they going to get? A kid? Or better yet, a teacher? A coach, a school janitor or bus driver?

Perhaps the public should re-examine the premise of why they hate “criminal” immigrants so much…

Beating climate change is (mostly) a mind game. Societal changes needed aren’t too dramatic, but that’d make a few uber-wealthy less rich right this second, so here we are.

So what this comic really implies is “we beat corporate propaganda! We spread a scientific message to the masses!”

Now that would be something.

It’s not so much about English as it is about writing patterns. Like others said, it has a “stilted college essay prompt” feel because that’s what instruct-finetuned LLMs are trained to do.

Another quirk of LLMs is that they overuse specific phrases, which stems from technical issues (training on their output, training on other LLM’s output, training on human SEO junk, artifacts of whole-word tokenization, inheriting style from its own previous output as it writes the prompt, just to start).

“Slop” is an overused term, but this is precisely what people in the LLM tinkerer/self hosting community mean by it. It’s also what the “temperature” setting you may see in some UIs is supposed to combat, though that crude an ineffective if you ask me.

Anyway, if you stare at these LLMs long enough, you learn to see a lot of individual model’s signatures. Some of it is… hard to convey in words. But “Embodies” “landmark achievement” and such just set off alarm bells in my head, specifically for ChatGPT/Claude. If you ask an LLM to write a story, “shivers down the spine” is another phrase so common its a meme, as are specific names they tend to choose for characters.

If you ask an LLM to write in your native language, you’d run into similar issues, though the translation should soften them some. Hence when I use Chinese open weights models, I get them to “think” in Chinese and answer in English, and get a MUCH better result.

All this is quantifiable, by the way. Check out EQBench’s slop profiles for individual models:

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing_longform.html

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html

And it’s best guess at inbreeding “family trees” for models:

Did y’all read the email?

embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that

another landmark achievement

showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design

That is one sloppy email. Man, Claude has gotten worse at writing.

I’m not sure Rob even realizes this, but the email is from some kind of automated agent: https://agentvillage.org/

So it’s not even an actual thank you from a human, I think. It’s random spam.

That’s kind of a blessing in disguise; otherwise basically all web traffic would be Chrome.

Apparenty this is softening some: https://www.techspot.com/news/108965-japan-gives-apple-december-deadline-drop-ios-browser.html

And Safari is quite performant on iOS.

Maybe I’m too cynical, but I wouldn’t mind if that continues, just so there’s some chunk of traffic that isn’t Chrome and that web development doesn’t turn into a complete monoculture. A smidge of Firefox and Safari alone isn’t enough for that.

(EDIT: My assumption is that if Apple allows Chrome on iOS, you can bet they are going to funnel basically everyone into it).