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Captainant

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  1. Also, lmfao at imma seriously arguing that the Internet has no impact in real world life. Steven Bannon and his masterful weaponization of gamergate hope you keep evangelizing this mindset. Qanon and January 6th were fueled by the Internet whipping a bunch of chuds into a froth with disinformation and hate and trolling. People tried to assassinate AND HAVE ASSASINATED multiple elected officials because of the insanity that's been pumped by MAGA online conspiracy theories.
  2. The general crypto markets thread? The one that keeps getting bumped by the permabanned Russian troll? Lol you'd be mad about someone posting mean things in an Enron thread too I bed
  3. Sounds like a troll. Strange how the moderation team differentially moderates trolls depending on if y'all like them or not The mods only care if it's progressive or thoughtful. Hateful disinformation ala pronghorn and trolling by shitposting ala stassney are always allowed, as is known. It's only "being an idiot" if chuds aren't calling you WOKE(!!!!). Otherwise, blacklab gives you a timeout for """shitposting"""
  4. Lulz just like how they stopped testing and publishing numbers during the start of COVID. At least they're consistent with strategy
  5. My wife and I are trying to figure out if our family is going to be (1) or (2). We both have deep family history in Texas, and love what this state could be but hate what it chooses to be. It's only gotten worse in this state for my entire life: education, roads, public services, on and on its all worse due to neglect. It's frustrating to be in this position of just wanting to be able to focus on being the best dad I can be for my daughter and best husband for my wife, while watching their rights be actively stripmined. I don't know what I can do to fix this - voting hasn't done shit, nor has engaging with my elected representatives. What would our Dear Leader immamac suggest instead? Upping my burnt ends donation and drinking till I forget about it all?
  6. Historically speaking, failure to prosecute a fascist insurrection attempt all but guarantees that they'll return and gain power and never let it go again until many many people have died. I've been posting about it for the better part of five years now and people have finally stopped telling me I'm being alarmist or that I'm suffering from """TDS""". The craziest thing is that this is just the president following through with what he said he was going to do. "Freedom cities" is from 2023! Project 2025 has been pretty much pitch-perfect execution so far.
  7. Fully one third of the market is AI and AI vibe trades. It's wild. The music is gonna stop at some point, and then that economic calamity will be the impetus for the fascist crackdown. Like it's been speculated around here, trump the innovator is DIY'ing his economic collapse that most fascist movements pivot upon
  8. I'm curious, how much of Manafort and Yanukovich is in the book? Or does it end before Euromaidan?
  9. Much of the weeping and gnashing of teeth over bail is because we haven't expanded courts at all in Texas for decades despite the population doubling. Because of the right to a speedy trial, if they can't indict a person and bring them to trial then they kind of have no other choice. But nobody wants to pay for judicial benches and courts - just abandoned sections of border wall and vouchers for Christian schools
  10. I don't think users can delete their own posts, I think it's mods memory holing the bad behavior quietly and hoping they'll stop. However unfortunately, being an idiot is not against the rules.
  11. I bet he's got some good statistics that track "native born" wages against "foreign born" wages like chickensandwich was posting past week
  12. Fuck outta here, pronghorn! You've got a grainy unsourced screenshot that validates your biases? That never happens!
  13. If it turns out your hardware can do 5x the work you planned it to do, it's just a matter of finding customers to consume your available capacity. If there's a better LLM they'll just run that one instead, there's not a lot of architectural lock in. But still thats not the problem - there's simply not enough customers willing to actually pay to cover the costs of development and deployment. Companies have been playing accounting games to hide that unsustainable net revenue and trumpet their gross numbers instead
  14. The boogaloo bois are at it again!
  15. Agree on datacenter overbuilding - most businesses are horrible at predicting how much they'll need and rarely plan for scalable (up and down) operations. However, if they build a $5B datacenter and it turns out a $1B build could have done the same work that's not the end of the world - they just adjust their capitalization schedule for the asset and adjust their revenue model. The big problem is that they just don't have enough customers lining up to actually pay cash money for AI services. ChatGPT pro users paying $200/mo are a LOSS LEADER for open AI! They are lighting money on fire just to acquire customers and drive revenue for Azure, who in turn launders that as "AI revenue growth!!!" and never EVER talks about bottom line numbers. Crypto-only datacenters are just wild to me. They're literally just financializing entropy at that point, they are using energy and denying the use anywhere else which is what underlies the actual fundamental value of what crypto is being mined. There is not an end user, nor a business model, nor a real revenue stream aside from speculatively selling to a greater fool at a future date. Worse, the hardware is ultra-specialized ASIC chips that are unsuitable and non-ideal for any other type of computational workload
  16. With the correction of "stock market" for "economy" I don't think that's a claim, so much as an objective reality. Nvidia has basically single-handedly been keeping the SP500 green. But for their chips and the hype cycles they fuel, the stock market would be tanking and people wouldn't be so apt to pump sunshine. I made the distinction of "real" vs "speculative" growth because basically all of the earnings and financial reporting indicates there's no money being made. The majority of Azure's cloud revenue is credits that they gave to openAI, AWS is the same story but with Anthropic and their partners. It doesn't matter that they're hemmoraging money, they're growing so that's good enough for financial models to continue to make speculative bets and keep the music going
  17. using the dotcom bubble is an interesting guide because I feel like there's very similar forces at play: unbridled and uninformed enthusiasm about an emerging new technology the underlying technology is sound, just being overspeculated on the technology and computer science underlying it all will continue to be foundational to future economic growth Because as bad as the dotcom bubble was, it wasn't wrong in terms of direction, only magnitude. E-commerce and online interaction is basically the main way people buy things and communicate now - but it's a protocol and technology, not a directly financializable product. Much the same, I suspect LLM technology and what we colloqially call "AI" will be what unlocks and enables future opportunities and real (not speculative mark-to-market) economic growth
  18. because he's a nobody who got elevated to high office because he's a political hack. Lots of fascist goons look like complete goofballs - simply because that's what they are.
  19. Careful, you're liable to catch a ban around these parts for saying such unkind facts. You could upset a very fine member of the community with such toxic behavior
  20. got any .pdf's of the rules? I can PM you step-by-step instructions (or just post here) how to set it up. If you've got an m-series macbook you should be able to run at least a 4b models, and if you have a pro or m4 macbook with more memory you've got a pretty capable machine. this is all accurate, and I think I would also add to your points: genAI ultimately produces an "average" of everything it's read and ingested. It definitionally is not going to be creative or groundbreaking, but it certainly can do a lot of heavy lifting and sifting of unstructured information. What I'm interested in technologically is for LLM's to be applied to more than just lingustic information. What happens when you develop a neural network that has a foundational and didactically unique understanding of traffic flow engineering, or chip design, or any variety of fields that involve more data than we raw meatbags are capable of processing at scale. None of that is big and sexy, but it is extremely powerful when applied to the right problem set. Once we get to a point of being able to train narrow field expert models, and then scalably orchestrate them together into a larger mixture of experts model (similar to the DeepSeek architecture) that would really be one hell of a powerhouse model. .... It would probably take a dyson sphere level of energy to produce such a generally capable model though. At least at the current (known) levels of computational power and solutions available
  21. Lulz I can't wait to see chickensandwich whipsaw into a full throated support of state capitalism and revenue skimming
  22. Sweatergod, it's like the summer of 2020 when the chuds only response was "ANTIFA!!!" to anything and everything that was happening. Police teakettling and pummeling peaceful protesters with rubber bullets and flashbands? Must have been antifa nearby riling them up. Just a complete and willful lack of critical thinking to go along and get along with the fascism their lying eyes keeps seeing
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