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  1. On 3/2/2024 at 8:58 PM, Captainant said:

    You should use a coding specific tool like GitHub copilot or AWS codewhisperer, those LLMs are fine tuned for code and usually give better results than a generalist foundational model

    yep.  have copilot at work. i still often find the chatgpt engagement a bit better edit: for random tasks.  for sure copilot when i have code in flight is quite a bit more direct.  however i enjoy sometimes 'engaging' with chatgpt for more of the 'why.'

     

  2. 1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:



    Think about this. A person is smart, but people are dumb.

    Now think about facebook as just one example.

    Now, do you think people are bright enough to not be fooled by fake shit?

     

    Really could be a problem in the wrong hands. And it’s already there. I don’t think the tech itself is the scary part, but if people believe the falsehoods created. 

    I agree with that of course.  But the topic also easily crosses into the 'enshittification' topic.  The article mentions the amounts of AI generated crap that is just going to clog up the internet:

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    Google search? They often lead with fake AI-generated images amid the real things. Post on Twitter? Get replies from bots selling porn. But that’s just the obvious stuff. Look closely at the replies to any trending tweet and you’ll find dozens of AI-written summaries in response, cheery Wikipedia-style repeats of the original post, all just to farm engagement. AI models on Instagram accumulate hundreds of thousands of subscribers and people openly shill their services for creating them. AI musicians fill up YouTube and Spotify. Scientific papers are being AI-generated. AI images mix into historical research

     


    I quote that as someone who uses ChatGPT from time to time.  Mainly to help format code or find an answer that I don't have to read through various Stack Oveflow answers on now.  It also handily comes w/o the derision and arguing that can be present on Stack Overflow.  Doesn't always get things right, but it is usually close.  I also know when I do this I'm helping to train it.  Ah well.

    But yeah, I think there is going to be more and more trust issues with electronic data of any type.  Not sure what the answers will be. 

     

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  3. Also, very unrelated subject but I saw a YouTuber posit that the message from Elon and Twitter is that you can fire 75% of your staff and still run your company.  Sadly, I think that  is definitely the message tech CEO's took from it, regardless of the quality ( or lack) on the platform itself.

  4. 12 hours ago, Chopper said:

    I was too busy chortling to read gsoda's words as closely as I'm sure they deserve. A bit of punctuation and capitalization on his end would have helped. However, Judge McCormick's ruling forcing Mosk to return his $85B bonus was clear in logic and seemingly addressed all aspects of law.

    This being the US, Elmo has the opportunity to appeal McCormick's ruling to a higher court.  Bear in mind, McCormick is the very same judge who stepped in when Elmo tried to renege on his offer to purchase twitter, and she forcefully kicked his ass all over the place. I'm sure we'll get to see how he does in a rematch!

     

    I regret to inform you that Musk doesn't have much of a point. He filed a lawsuit basically alleging breach of contract. Here's a pdf of Musk's complaint where you can read it all for yourself. https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rYCUmwA4Xxpw/v0

    If you do read it I suggest you immediately search for a contract between Altman and Musk, or OpenAI and Musk, or indeed Musk and anyone pertaining to OpenAI.

    Can't find a contract? Oh, that's right...interestingly, there isn't one. The burden he'll have to meet to prove contractual breach is very high and for a person with his resources and experience to not have a contract at the inception of a business or charitable enterprise will be extremely difficult to overcome when he's suing over an alleged breach. He attempts to assert some sort of informal agreement but his claims border on ludicrous.

     

     

    Thanks, I had not dug into deep.  Guess I was more into the idea of non-profits and tax breaks and knee jerked a bit.

    The non-profit issue  apparently is why he went the contractual route:

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    Does Musk even have standing to sue? “One of the differences with nonprofits compared to other companies is that, generally, no one other than the state attorney general has standing to sue for the kind of stuff that he’s complaining about, like not following your mission,“ Peter Molk, a professor of law at the University of Florida, said of Musk’s lawsuit. That’s most likely why Musk’s lawyers are presenting the case as a breach of contract instead of attacking the company’s nonprofit status.


    But as you noted:

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    Was there actually a contract to breach? The lawsuit puts forth a sprawling agreement that is made up of conversations and documents, and that makes it harder to show whether there was a binding contract — and what it might have involved.

    And again, as you note, the whole thing probably isn't going to work out for Musk.

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    What was required of OpenAI? Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School who advised the A.I. company Anthropic on its corporate governance structure, said the contract Musk claims OpenAI and Altman breached contains “a hole you can drive a truck through.” OpenAI’s certificate of incorporation, which Musk’s lawyers claim is part of the deal, says the A.I. maker will seek to open its work to the public for its benefit “when applicable” — and OpenAI can easily argue that it is adhering to this term, which is vague.


    This all from an NYT summary.  And I know I make an assumption that I can trust that summary or even fully understand it all.  As a side note, your archive link didn't load for me. But truthfully I'm not going to read a 35 page document.  I have no sympathies or rooting interests for any billionaires.  But from the same NYT summary this was more what piqued my interest:
     

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    Will this case help catch the attention of the California attorney general? OpenAI’s new board was appointed after the previous board briefly removed Altman as the company’s chief executive. The short-lived mutiny raised questions over whether the company’s corporate structure allowed OpenAI’s for-profit arm to creep away from the parent company’s nonprofit obligation to focus on civic duties over shareholders. The progressive consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen has already petitioned California’s attorney general, seeking OpenAI’s dissolution for failing to “carry out its nonprofit purposes.”

    “That petition and Musk’s lawsuit have a more than trivial overlap,” said Joseph Grundfest, a corporate governance expert at Stanford Law School and a former S.E.C. commissioner.

     

  5. 5 minutes ago, NoName said:

     

    the demands are really and truly incredible, even based on the dumb lawsuits Elon has fired off lately.

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    I don't know about the demands, but in this particular instance, Musk may have a salient point.  It would seem having startups begin as non-profits for tax purposes and then "re-launch" as a profit seeking venture seems wrong.  Not sure what can be done, but yeah.

  6. 6 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I like watching your efforts to explain and defend how you could be lumped in with Incredulity while absolutely not insisting you're a duped pawn, only to turn around and dismiss everyone who disagrees with your viewpoints as idiot pawns in a "center-right jerkoff." You're super comfortbale doing what you insist is being done to you. 

    I'm not going to bother defending myself as something other than what you think I am, becuase convincing you is a waste of time and serves no purpose, and I'm pretty comfortable with who I am, my actions, and general behavior as a human being at this point. But you and incredulity can get together and boycott a Target or something. 

    holy fuck  did you just write something with that amount of idiocy in only two paragraphs?   I can't even.  Esp the hypocrisy on labelling and what started this exchange in the first place.

    And now I'm a racist protesting Targets.  Holy fuck.  There's not really much of an effort on my part to explain or defend because your criticism (well, your attempts at trying to lump me in with those you view as stupid) just doesn't land.   And you aren't fucking worth it.  But on thing you're 100% right--the exchange has no purpose.  I might as well just say why don't you go find some brown people to bomb and label them anti-Semitic and call it a day.

  7. 4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Yeah, that’s sort of the definition of horseshoe theory. Maybe you remember reading it in an earlier post of mine. 
     

    oh, but your sources! I can hear anti-vax shit from a Trump rally or a healing crystal exchange party in Westlake, but the message is the message. And yours is the same one as right-wingers.
     

    You were being defended by a poster you have on ignore because they’re too right wing for your taste. But you read left wing sources!

    sure, substantial criticism.  "sometimes people on the opposite ends of the spectrum agree on points!  therefore they're duped pawns!  especially if fucking facts (like number of homeless, rent prices, e.t.c) don't line up with my feelings!  they are not not great intelligent, non-swayed independent thinkers like the rest of us!"  lulz.  and the great center right circle jerk continues.

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  8. 30 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    You should take him off ignore. Maybe seeing when you two are posting the same exact shit would be a wake up call for you. But I guess living in ignorance  is easier than thinking?  
     

    but yes, parroting far right talking points isn’t in any way being a right wing pawn. 

    the fact that you think I'm parroting far right talking points when the only facts I quoted were decidedly not from a far right publication is something.  i'm a far right pawn?  and you think the blue maga stuff is just uncalled for, eh?

    ok.

     

  9. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

     

    Yup. Check out the poster accusing @wildcat09 of being a blue MAGA as they agree in lockstep with one of the most vocal, far right, racist posters on this website. Look at that horseshoe theory go! 

    Yeah, for sure dude.  I have that guy on ignore btw.  I like how pointing how anything in the 'not good' section of the economy for folks is somehow the equivalent of being a republican tool, which is what your super normal wildcat friend came in with right away at me.   Or pointing out any other of Biden's faults is the same thing.  Sure, Chicken and I are on the same page and worthy of the same derision.  It is easier then thinking.  Horseshoe indeed.

     

     

  10. 19 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Biden has implemented a shitload of progressive economic and labor policies that have resulted in a greater share of economic benefits going to working class Americans than any other administration in at least 50 years. Progressives should be fucking championing the successes their policies have had, not shitting all over them because they don't like Biden. Stop being a fucking Republican tool.  

    Fuck off, bootlicking blue maga.  Pointing out what isn't great isn't being a Republican tool.   Since you're not progressive you don't actually get to tell them how to think either. Is issuing more drilling permits than Trump progressive?   Interfering with the railroad union progressive?  Has the immigration policy actually changed since Trump's time?  No more kids in cages?  And oh yeah, Palestinian genocide.  Very, very progressive.  The best progressives! 

  11. 15 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Motherfucker we've had this conversation here a dozen times. More of the economic growth under Biden has gone to the working class than under any other President in fucking generations. Stop this bullshit.

    Fucking generations? How are those fucking generations doing tough guy?
     

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    The data bears this out. According to the US Department of Agriculture’s most recent report on household food security, covering 2022, nearly 13 percent, or seventeen million, of US households were food insecure that year, adding around 3.5 million households to their ranks since the year before. In fact, 2022 saw the first rise in food insecurity in a little more than a decade, having been gently declining in all the years since 2011. That meant forty-four million people were living in households where they struggled to get the food they needed because they lacked money and other resources, including thirteen million kids.

    Meanwhile, after having declined markedly between 2019 and 2021 thanks to pandemic-era welfare spending, homelessness has now reached a record high. With federal money drying up and housing getting pricier, the number of homeless people in the United States soared 12 percent last year to more than 653,000 people. That’s both the highest number and the largest increase on record; before that, excluding the pandemic, the biggest spike in homelessness had been 2.7 percent in 2019.

    Unsurprisingly, this rise in homelessness has come alongside persistently high eviction rates. According to data gathered by the Eviction Lab, which tracks in ten states and thirty-four cities, monthly evictions may be down from early 2023, but they’re still way, way up on what was recorded through much of 2020–21. California, Chicago, Massachusetts, and Oregon are just a few of the places where, in recent months, both filings and actual evictions have returned to prepandemic levels or exceeded them, a trend that had started being recorded earlier last year. Once again, this has gone hand in hand with the expiration of pandemic-era renter protection programs and the disappearance of federal money.

    It’s also gone hand in hand with the ongoing housing affordability crisis. The most recent figure recorded by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) for how many renters are cost burdened (spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities) is 22.4 million as of 2022, an all-time high. Just over twelve million of those were “severely” burdened, or spending more than half their income on housing costs, also an all-time high.

    This has been made worse by the Fed’s interest rate hikes, which the JCHS says has helped put monthly homeowner payments at more than $2,000 in most metro areas — whereas in 2020, they were less than that figure in most US metros. While US median rents are down from the highs they hit in 2023, they’re still up 22 percent from the prepandemic period. This rise in the cost of housing is reflected in the sentiment recorded by survey results we already covered earlier.

     

     

    And if you're capable of reading comprehension, which I believe you are, you'll note where I didn't blame all of that on Biden.   But telling people the 'economy is great therefore vote fo me' is bullshit.

  12. On 2/4/2024 at 7:26 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

     The economy is the best talking point, and when they counter with inflation, mention how wage growth is outpacing inflation. If they say their wages haven’t grown as much, well then that’s their problem.

     

    This board is a bubble.  Is that wage growth CEO wage growth or the average worker's wages?  Did their wages keep up with the cost of goods?  How many millennials can afford a house now? What is the average age of a millennial?  The middle class and below are getting squeezed terribly whether this place wants to admit or not.  Grocery bills eat up more than they used to eat up.  Then there is everything else.  Use cards cost more now than they used to cost.  Home repairs, medical bills, whatever.  It all costs more.  Do you see the amount of tech layoffs going on lately?  Oh sure we created more jobs--at what pay level? 

    None of that is to blame Biden, per se. But when people hurt*  telling them "the economy is great its your fault for being deceived" imo isn't awesome messaging. I'm pretty convinced Biden needs Trump.  Because "I'm not Trump" is his main winning line.

     

    * https://jacobin.com/2024/02/us-economy-opinion-polls-cost-of-living

  13. 17 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

    Great performance.  This was in Berlin, but same crew.  Alan Dawson steals it.

    Completely agreed on the album I linked.    Was blown away by it.

  14. 2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    oh yeah, definitely in my rotation. I like their first album better. the second album was way too bass guitar-forward for me and at time sounds more like acid jazz than metal. but I still dig those guys and have seen them play twice

     

    Yeah, the techy (acid jazzy?) parts are I think kind of what hooked me and apparently lots of other metal writers out there.  Found it on a lot of best of 2023 lists.

    Will check out the muddy slam. 

    In the meantime, some 'blackened thrash' found on a bandcamp list:

     

     

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