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2 hours ago, Anastasis said:
Agree, have always existed.
Do you think the prevalence among boys in the birth cohorts we are talking about has changed and is much higher than in prior gens? Or is that a perception change among us based on other factors? Certainly the ecosystems you mention are one huge aspect that "communitize" these maladapteds. I think it's some stew of all of the factors discussed in the thread above, but if there is one common thread to these factors that is acting as a societal promoter/accelerator it would seem to be the online orientation.
I mean, there's been a concerted effort by the presidents chief strategist to mobilize their grievances into action. Steve Bannon has been bragging about steering GamerGate for a literal decade now. Much of the poison that flows in the veins of the incels at discussion here originates from those campaigns and strategies
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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:
I mostly agree with this but for the incels and weirdos who go to Slutcon I think it still won’t work and they’ll need training wheels. Church is for sure a place where a slightly inexperienced, or dorky awkward guy can meet women with a support network of people cheering for them. Works well for our generation. I don’t think we appreciate how nuked this generation of weirdos are. They are not going to be able to:
- Politely feign interest in the sermon or Bible study she wants to talk or ask about
- Spend a few minutes jawboning with the dads there about a game or camping or how business is going
- Slap on a pair of khakis and a button-down and get a haircut that looks like the married men there (signaling that they are in the mix for that future).
- Get acquainted with a church girl, accept that this particular church girl isn’t interested, and then show up next Sunday and be polite and genuinely friendly, and demonstrate that maybe you’re OK for some other church girl even if the first didn’t work out.- Making friends with a church girl THEY are not interested in or even—gasp— with another man there so they can practice doing things like “talking to people” or “compromising on an activity” or “grabbing a burger just to hang out.
These guys are FRIED man. They can’t interact with women without either explicitly trying to fuck them, getting angry that they don’t want to fuck, or treating them like non-entities because they aren’t fuckable. They don’t make friends, they just look for other dudes who validate their women hate. They don’t have normal or non-off putting interests and can’t pretend they do.
A lot of these skills they can’t or don’t want to learn and they didn’t learn them in youth group or wherever. My folks are in leadership in a church and have talked to me about 1-2 burnouts— 18-20 with no job or prospects— who actually where part of the church with their families. They failed to develop and they’ve had to be talked to (and their parents) about how church is for everyone, and that means these dudes can’t creep on girls and act wounded when girls don’t reciprocate.
IMO the problem is that there is no place for kids to just be kids, outside of maybe church. And even then, church isn't normal social interaction.
Has social media made that problem worse? Absolutely. But at the root, you take away cell phones and porn, what difference do you expect to see? It's loitering to hang out somewhere. Kids walking to the park get CPS called after their parents. You can't really exist anywhere without a meter running and running up a bill.
There's no jobs for them to get and build those skills either - it's just a foundational undermining of the social fabric.
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1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:
What are you offended by here exactly? That there is a *gasp* positive aspect to something that you want to mortally hate? I’m not an AI bull at all, but it IS interesting and there is a silver lining of a cool application for AI as Waymo absolutely uses LLMs and Google’s entire deep mind/brain/gemini gen AI expertise to train and run their models that power self driving. Waymo (and fully self driving generally) is 100% an AI use case.
Show your work. How is Waymo using genAI and large language models to do sensor fusion and conduct a closed loop self driving entity? It's comparing apples and oranges - LLM's are trained on unstructured datasets and produce a multimedia output. The PID control loop that drives your car ain't that.
I'm annoyed because you're equivocating LLM's with machine learning and closed control loop robotics like self driving cars. I'm annoyed because you're making the bull argument and saying you aren't. Self driving cars don't require hundreds of billions of dollars and gigawatts of power, because they're solving a much smaller problem.
I get it, you want to be optimistic about the freight train of debt coming down the track. It's not gonna be pretty, no matter how much sunshine you pump about how useful it can be. Yes there's uses for genAI, but that's not what hundreds of billions of debt have been raised for and are chasing
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https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf
This file contains an allegation that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein raped a pregnant 14 year old girl on a boat in Lake Michigan in 1984. The girl allegedly gave birth while they were assaulting her, and her uncle allegedly killed the baby in front of her before throwing the body overboard. This is hosted on justice.gov and released by the Trump administration.
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1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:
For all the fun we have about how there aren’t any real or good applications of AI and it’s all fugazi, I was listening to something that startled me.
self-driving à la Waymo is a slam dunk grand slam AI story from every angle you look. Self driving only took off after all the neural AI discoveries and advancements of LiDAR and sensors to feed data for foundational models to process. Most of us are familiar because we live or spend significant time in Austin (or SF), but as it starts to roll out nationally and globally the world will appreciate it.
- CDC statistics cite over 40k deaths in USA a year or 120 a day due to vehicle crashes operated by people.
- adjusted for city street driving, apples to apples, Waymo is 91% safer then people driving . You can understand why if you’ve driven the last 10 years with the advent of the smartphone and the epidemic of distracted driving. Heck someone on one of the AI threads posted while driving on CarPlay.- and this isnt just a small data set. Waymo has millions of miles driven.
- 91% reduction in accidents is a massive cash savings. CDC put out a report on Medical costs and cost estimates of lives lost is $470bn a year (2022). 91% reduction and reducing crashes 10x is $420bn a year. That is nuts.
- It was relatively cheap for an AI investment too. 15bn investment to get this to this point. $15bn is a fraction of what foundational AGI models have burned. $15bn is 1 year of Ubers profits. It’s 1 month of Google profits.
You're hand waving and conflating generative AI with self driving cars, calling them all """""AI"""""
No. Traditional machine learning isn't generative AI. GenAI isn't a closed loop PID control for a couple thousand pounds of steel and batteries, and the underlying technologies and datasets are pretty wildly different.
Fucks sake, you keep claiming you're not a genAI apologist and you're making the same fallacious and overly general arguments they do
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17 minutes ago, bolverk said:
That contingent mostly stopped posting by the end of July, when it became clear that the White House was actively covering it up.
They also self-immolated in the Charlie Kirk thread
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:
So he was driving way too fast, lost control, hit a barrier. Killed a passenger. Crash is on YouTube.
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1 hour ago, Red Five said:
I'm no political strategist, but perhaps child rape should have been made a campaign issue in some of those presidential elections.
It literally was, but the fear was of trans people existing and that somehow translating to child abuse. But ya know, voting for a serial child abuser and rapist like Donald Trump is just not something that seemed to bother very fine people.
As ever, every accusation is a confession with these fucking fucks
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Jesus fucking Christ that letter to Larry Nassar is gross as fuck. We've known about its existence since 2023, but we just now found out about its contents.
Boy howdy, Donald Trump sure seems to vibe awfully good with pedophiles and grabbing underage "snatch"
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48 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
DOJ spent 30 days trying to create the messiest and biggest fuck you release possible with the Epstein Files. So much so that real reporters are tweeting out misinformation as they dig to find anything worthwhile. What a mockery of justice.
it lines right up with trump's normal tactics. Instead of addressing the matter at hand, he muddies the waters further by counfounding the issue with more errors. It's a firehose of falsehoods. It's extremely effective at getting people to just check out and be nihilistic because both sides are doing it, ya know?
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This game sucks ass and is boring. Aggy could at least have the decency to lose
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What the fuck I was curious so I pulled up my last PC build, each 16GB stick of DDR5 was $41 back in April. The exact same SKU is on sale now for $175, with a normal price of $400 per stick. What the absolute fuck lmao
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3 hours ago, immamac said:
I really honestly think there should be a law or a consitutional amendment that if you publicly deny the holocaust like this you should be stripped of any and all protections against lethal or other force of assault.
You have the freedom to deny the holocaust, but then afterwards anyone can beat you to death. Seems fair.
3 hours ago, wildcat09 said:I like it. Imma for President.
he could make it part of the bull-moose platform. Deny the holocaust? You get a face off with a bull and a moose. Good luck.
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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:
How the fuck can anyone fall asleep listening to RFK’s voice?! Like nails on a chalkboard.
I was gonna say like a fork in the garbage disposal, or my dog choking on some bullshit he found on the ground. I can't imagine how anyone is able to fucking work with that walking brainworm
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1 hour ago, scramblyn said:
btw they do not have to make a profit right this minute. If AI is a game changer, the entire battle is over which massive company ends up with the most market share of consumer users. Amazon didn't make a profit for what, two decades? these companies can invest billions to capture users through habit and preference formation - copilot vs chatgpt vs gemini - etc. and play that game for the better part of a decade before they need to see it turn right side up for profit.
now the chip makers have a lot less leeway for long term plays, they need to make profit now. the real estate plays in AI are even more so, sink a billion dollars into a state of the art massive AI data center campus and you for damn sure better start collecting premium rents as soon as it's complete. both of these groups are doing just fine.
The majority of the cost of the AI data centers is the chips, not the surrounding infrastructure. Those chips will be EOL in 3 to 5 years, which means year one being negative revenue is really putting them behind the eight ball for offsetting that capex depreciation
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I wonder if invading Venezuela for their oil will help or hurt oil markets
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21 minutes ago, scramblyn said:
where did you get your 60% number? buildings, power capacity, other infrastructure like tenant fit out for data centers, software development is all capex too. Yes NVIDA and AMD chips are expensive, but I have a very hard time buying it's 60% of the total capex spend. I'm also not convinced there is a true asset bubble. equities over-inflated possibly, but a systemic risk to the economy I'm not so sure. I could definitely see a glut or soft market for a few years if things are overbuilt but I'm not sure we are there yet, there's no available space in the high end data centers and serious power and water constraints in many cases which act as a brake to some extent.
Which company is the far and away most valuable in the world right now? It's Nvidia. That's all just AI chip sales, all going into those data centers. The 60% number is from articles like this one
Where "short term assets like AI cpus and gpus" are getting 50% of gross capex spend, and most big tech CFO's are reporting in earnings calls that the "vast majority" of capex is going towards AI chips.
So there's hundreds of billions of investments just this year that have to return a profit within three years, and are currently losing money every time they conduct a LLM transaction with a customer
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Good news! Fossil fuels no longer contribute to climate change!
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40 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:
Is that going to use desktop parts or laptop parts? Haven’t seen specs on it yet, but not really in the market.
GamersNexus has some coverage on it, it's using a Zen4 6C/12T desktop part and a RX7600 equivalent card (around an RTX 3060). It's not designed to be the most powerful thing, but it'll play pretty much everything at 1080p and you can use FSR (deep learning upscaling) to play at 4K and have it look reasonably good.
But the benefit is that it's a standard hardware spec, fully supported by Valve and with the weight of their troubleshooting and community behind keeping it working well. The SteamDeck has come a long way since its launch and all that development effort is going into the Steam Machine.
It's not building your own, but it looks like it's gonna be a compelling option if you just want a PC gaming box that works
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12 minutes ago, Goredho said:
If instead an app had been built to give a musician-specific interface into ChatGPT being a music theory tutor at learnmusictheory.com, it would get a lot more use in this regard. Like an onscreen keyboard to "play" with a mouse to exercise what is being discussed, maybe midi integration to check what notes you played on a synth and give feedback, maybe a Spotify integration to pull up a song at a specific point that illustrates a point of theory, maybe some "learning paths" within theory as starting points to seed the AI discussion for the complete neophyte. Domain specificity with prescriptive workflows. Most people won't even think of ways it can help them because they just see a chat bar.
TBH DeepComposer with AWS was a pretty good implementation of that idea - it converted a .midi file into a "piano roll" which is basically a visual format of a midi file, and they would apply custom transformer models to the piano roll to change the style. Stuff like "make this melody jazzy" or "add accompany parts to this song". I think it's been since deprecated, but it was a really interesting swing at the idea. And it was before LLM's were really a thing, but still using the Transformer architecture.
The github is still up with Jupyter notebooks that explain the methodology though, both for setting up the GAN architecture to train a new producer, and for actually augmenting a song.
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-deepcomposer-samples/blob/master/ar-cnn/AutoRegressiveCNN.ipynb
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-deepcomposer-samples/blob/master/gan/GAN.ipynbI think this stuff is fascinating since it's blurring the line on input modality and communicating ideas between parties
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wowser, when I think of "Trump's America" I really think Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan has some incredible boots on the ground stuff
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22 hours ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:
Imma getting the F off on a comp thread was not on my bingo card today. But that aside, I’m starting to have the PC curiosity v console. Yeah, the itch has started. Someone help push me over the edge-it’s really that much better? What’s really drawing me is access to more games.
You should really consider the Steam Machine when it launches early next year. It's an actual computer running a Steam operating system that makes it extremely similar to a console experience. Except it's a full-on PC so you can mod your games and load in whatever software or emulators or media you want. Because it's YOUR computer, not a locked down console.
You can use it like a PC with a mouse and keyboard and normal desktop experience (it's Linux, but honestly very similar to a baseline Windows experience), or use it just with a controller like you would with a console under your living room TV.
I'm really strongly considering one myself since my wife wants her PC back and not to be our living room gaming PC
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
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Given how scaling works, they don't need to take out all the nodes to negatively impact the network. Take out 10 or 20% of the nodes, and you'll likely realize a greater than 10 to 20% degredation of the networks throughput and usability.
Plus, if Russia decides they don't care about Kessler Syndrome they could just shoot a few canisters of ball bearings into similar orbital inclinations and that'll do the same thing