It’s 6 months old.

Reported on by some major news outlets.

AfD has form for doing exactly this kind of ambiguous gesture.

Sorry chief you might have embarrassed yourself a little here. No big thing. We’ve all done it (especially me).

Check out huggingface.

There’s heaps of models you can run locally. Some are hundreds of Gb in size but can be run on desktop level hardware without issue.

I have no idea about how LLMs work really so this is supposition, but suppose they need to review a gargantuan amount of text in order to compile a statistical model that can look up the likelihood of whatever word appearing next in a sentence.

So if you read the sentence “a b c d” 12 times you don’t need to store it 12 times to know that “d” is the most likely word to follow “a b c”.

I suspect I might regret engaging in this supposition because I’m probably about to be inundated with techbro’s telling me how wrong I am. Whatever. Have at me edge lords.

See, this really bugs me.

Kiwi, pomegranate, honey, jojoba, macadamia and strawberries, are not good for your hair. They’re just things that reference groups responded positively to.

It’s just bonkers that it’s so hard to find soap with no fruity-na-na bullshit.

He’s mocking us.

Office 365 too

For sure there are plenty of people that don’t produce any real value in their work, but that’s been the case since forever and they’re hard to weed out because in some ways their full time job is to ensure their ongoing employment.

As in most things, it’s a question of extent.

The most accurate statement you can make is that AI will make “most” office employees “more” efficient.

The thing is, this has been happening with every technological advance for hundreds of years.

There’s no evidence that “more advanced AI” is going to emerge in the next few years.

Sorry this is just plain wrong and there’s no evidence of this at all.

People have been saying this since the invention of the comptometer.

Anyone who’s job can be replaced by an LLM isnt producing any value.

For the rest of us it’s an incremental improvement at best.

Yes that’s me.

No one said you used the video to estimate, I just assumed that no one would be stupid enough to think that a weather website can tell you the windspeed of that particular gust at that particular location.

The pilot was experiencing the weather because he was physically there in person, not watching a video.

I’m genuinely curious to know why do you think the pilot was filming?

I genuinely don’t know if you’re trying to be sarcastic.

The linked article mentions the wind.

You can’t estimate wind speed from this video.

None of the passengers mentioned mechanical problems.

It’s reasonable to conclude that the guy was filming the landing because the weather was particularly inclement.

I think you’re probably right.

Tricky landing in shitty weather. Just filming to share in group chat as in “look at this shitty weather we have to take off in”. Something like that.

It would be better to subsidise owners rather than manufacturers.

Sadly I think you’ve missed my point.

I can’t believe I have to say this but, us poor people need to elect representatives that will regulate the fuck out of billionaires. This might surprise you but plenty of poor people vote for representatives that will be mean to other poor people, rather than those who will regulate billionaires.

How can we tell billionaires about climate change? By voting. Poor people vote.

This is a well established climate-change-laggard argument. It’s the whataboutism logical fallacy.

Why should I take action, at great personal cost, when someone else is not taking action and will in fact benefit from my burden?

The Australian (and other) governments hide behind this same excuse. “Australia is just a small country, why should we take action when our CO2 production is just a small portion of that of other countries like China?”.

I mean it’s a good point, billionaires are worthy of great criticism, and Australia should be putting pressure on other countries, but at the same time we as individuals really do need to be taking action.

I do agree that polluting corporations use this narrative and I also find it infuriating. It’s particularly palpable with plastic producers, as in plastic pollution is not their fault, but the fault of consumers failing to recycle. It’s not the fault of consumers, it’s the fault of regulators, who are elected by voters who are also consumers.

In summary, the whole thing is fucked and everyone sucks, but you still have to tidy up your own shit.

Is climate change an extinction level threat? I’ve never heard that.

I think we’re firmly in “catastrophic disasters and famine that eradicates vast majority of the population” territory.

It’s a question, as you said, of how severe the disasters and famine will be.

I’m deep in phase 2, just building up to phase 3 I think.

ADHD memes do seem to resonate with me, but I’m not sure I experience the deleterious effects to a severe enough extent to really have diagnosable ADHD.

Even if I am, I’m not sure stimulants would be the right way to go, and I’m already doing my best with ADHD style interventions to support productivity et cetera.

Honestly these micro-dick edge lords renaming things has been a pleasant diversion over the last few weeks.